The Man and the City Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Hands of Love

First aired: Sep/15/1971
Writer: Bess Boyle
Director: Daniel Petrie
Guest star: Pat Dorrance (Pat), Lou Fant (Richard Larrabee), June Lockhart (Ellen Lewis), Walter Brooke (Judge), Lee Hartcourt Montgomery (Tommy), Audree Norton (Ann Larrabee)

A deaf couple wants to adopt an orphan. The Mayor avails the procedure but the couple is rejected on the grounds of their incapacity.

2 :01x02 - 100 Blank Pages

First aired: Sep/22/1971
Guest star: Janice Rule (Jill Stafford), William Schallert (Borden), Julian Rivero (Mateo)

Mayor Alcala is given a chance to react as a man first, and a politician second, in this love story with an inevitable unhappy ending. Janice Rule is cast as a strong-willed member of the city council who opposes Mayor Alcala's proposed plans for a new water system. The two vivid personalities clash and fall in love — but there's a hitch — Miss Rule is a dying woman.

3 :01x03 - I Should Have Let Him Die

First aired: Sep/29/1971
Guest star: Steven Benson (O.D. Patient), Douglass Watson (Dean Townsend), Christopher Connelly (Peter Marley), William Traylor (Canfield), Henry Jones (Harry Niles), Fay Spain (Lois Niles), Severn Darden (Geller)

Christopher Connelly plays a young medical student and part-time city worker who comes to Mayor Alcala seeking help. The boy has performed an emergency tracheotomy on the victim of a car crash, saved the man's life, but now is being sued. Severn Darden plays the big lawyer handling the case. Henry Jones is the victim and Fay Spain plays his wife.

4 :01x04 - A Very Special Girl

First aired: Oct/06/1971
Guest star: Ed Nelson (unknown), Laurie Prange (unknown)

Ed Nelson guest stars with Laurie Prange. — We learn tonight that Mayor Alcala (Anthony Quinn) plays the saxophone and gets his relaxation and enjoyment playing with the school orchestra. As a result, the mayor and the school's principal develop a close friendship. Mayor Alcala's school for gifted young artists is threatened when a harpist accuses the principal of causing her pregnancy.

5 :01x05 - Reprisal

First aired: Oct/13/1971

6 :01x06 - Disaster on Turner Street

First aired: Oct/20/1971

7 :01x07 - The Handwriting on the Door

First aired: Oct/27/1971

8 :01x08 - Running Scared

First aired: Nov/03/1971

9 :01x09 - The Deadly Fountain

First aired: Nov/10/1971

10 :01x10 - Run for Daylight

First aired: Nov/17/1971
Director: Lee Philips

11 :01x11 - Cross-Country Man

First aired: Dec/01/1971

12 :01x12 - Pipe Me a Loving Tune

First aired: Dec/08/1971

14 :01x14 - Jennifer

First aired: Dec/29/1971
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Guest star: Patrecia Wynand (Rachel)

15 :01x15 - The Girls in Truck 7

First aired: Dec/15/1971

The Mayor tackles the problem of illegal, cheap labor from Mexico, including a pregnant Oriental seeking a Vietnam veteran, the father of her expected child.