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1 :01x01 - Automan
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest star: Robert Dunlap (Chuck Wilson), Steve Franken (P. J. Hawkins), Robert Hogan (Peterson), Don Galloway (Martin Wills), Steven Keats (Collins), Patrick Macnee (Hamilton), Carol Bogel (Joanne Wills), James Antonio, Jr. (Cramer)
Utilizing Automan's computer resources he and Walter discover that the kidnappers operate under the guise of a respected security organization called Global Guard and make their gain by employing the specialized talents of the young scientists and engineers they capture and bring to a luxurious resort-like prison camp in the Swiss Alps.
2 :01x02 - Staying Alive While Running a High Flashdance Fever
Writer: Glen A. Larson
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Jack Perkins (Drunk), Jorge Cervera, Jr (Jackson), Mary Crosby (Ellen Fowler), William Windom (Alexander Farnsworth), Robert F. Lyons (Jason), Don Gordon (Leonard Martin), Angela Aames (Bartender)
Underworld gambling czar, Leonard Martin, is behind a plot to discredit Judge Alexander Farnsworth in a phony frame-up designed to link the judge to the syndicate. It's all part of Martin's plan to keep Judge Farnsworth, who is feared by the mob, from presiding over Martin's upcoming trial over his gambling activities.
3 :01x03 - The Great Pretender
Writer: Sam Egan
Director: Kim Manners
Guest star: Todd Martin (Gritch), Marc Vahanian (Carty), Ed Griffith (Seymour Laird), K. C. Winkler (Blonde), William Long, Jr. (Russo), Cliff Emmich (Zack), James Andronica (Parsons), Clu Gulager (Rudolph Brock), Richard Derr (Robinson), Barry Burman (Tate), Andrea Howard (Lauren Robinson)
Walter and Automan go undercover as a couple of big time underworld operators to capture a powerful syndicate counterfeiter named Rudolph Brock who is behind the hijacking of a government truck carrying a load of paper used to print U.S. currency, and, the killing of its driver.
4 :01x04 - Ships in the Night
Writer: Parke Perine
Director: Bob Claver
Guest star: Frank Aletter (James Dowling), Bridget Sienna (Croupier), Scott Marlowe (Robert Sawyer), Steve Hanks (Woody), Javier Grajeda (Desk Clerk), Abraham Alvarez (Police Sergeant), Cesare Danova (Captain Romano), Melanie Vincz (Beautiful Girl), Rick Garcia (Bank Guard), Branscombe Richmond (Johnson), France Nuyen (Liang Lew)
On the Caribbean island of San Christobal, Robert Sawyer has a profitable scam going. He lures near-bankrupt businessmen into drug deals, then double-crosses them, taking their money and dumping them into the ocean from his private jet. James Dowling is his latest victim. Boyd puts Jack on the case, sending he and Roxanne to the island, with Walter providing a computerized history as cover. Automan discovers six businessmen have disappeared there; at least one died. Automan and Walter take off in the Autoplane to warn Jack and Roxanne.
5 :01x05 - Unreasonable Facsimile
Writer: Sam Egan
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Lina Raymond (Christine Powers), Dennis Scott Harper (Reedy), Walter Brooke (Theodore Behrens), David Sheiner (Norman), Gerald Gordon (Edward M. Scanlin), Ruth Warshawsky (Hortense Behrens), Glenn Corbett (Jarrett Powers), Robert Sampson (Henry Innis), Delta Burke (Rachel Innis), Conroy A. Gedeon (Bartender)
A police helicopter crashes when a faulty rotor supplied by Powers-Innis Aeronautics fails, killing five. Henry Innis sees a news report and implores his partner Jarrett Powers to test the remaining surplus parts they have been selling. Powers, not wanting to blow a pending deal to sell the company, arranges for Innis to meet with mobster Ed Scanlin, whose connections got the company a big loan. As a precaution, Innis mails out a computer disc containing incriminating evidence. He and Scanlin meet at Club Dionysius that night, where Scanlin murders Innis.
6 :01x06 - Flashes and Ashes
Writer: Douglas Heyes, Jr.
Director: Kim Manners
Guest star: Michael Horsley (Jeff Coe), Hari Rhodes (Rollie Dumont), James Emery (Dean Springer), Danil Torppe (Sam Lymon), Anita Dangler (Madame Russo), Jeff Pomerantz (Malcolm Whittaker)
It's late night at the Police armory and rogue cops Sam Lymon, Dean Springer and Jeff Coe are stealing rifles and ammunition. When honest cop Frank Cooney gets the drop on them, Lymon dives for a rifle and kills him. Spring then chloroforms Coe and Lymon, setting up Cooney as the fall guy.
7 :01x07 - The Biggest Game in Town
Writer: Larry Brody
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Felton Perry (Bart Johnson), Bobby Griffin (First Bomb Squad Man), Lee Garlington (Doctor), Rick Lenz (Ronald Tilson), Kristen Meadows (Ellie Harmon), Paul Savior (Flood Control Engineer), Timothy Blake (Sam Maroni)
Three computer game wizards create a terror-filled computer game which threatens the entire city of Los Angeles with chaos, death and destruction if their ransom demand is not met. It's all the creation of Ronald Tilson, a revenge-seeking former computer expert for the city, who was fired for embezzlement after he helped set up much of the city's computer system. The others are Ellie Harmon and Bart Johnston, two very successful computer game creators.
8 :01x08 - Renegade Run
Writer: Larry Brody, Douglas Heyes, Jr.
Director: Allan Burns
Guest star: Billy Drago (Chico Fuentes), Caroline Webster (Miss Lucy), Richard Lynch (Sheriff Clay Horton), Gina Gallego (Teresa Fuentes), Richard Anderson (Carl Donovan), Michael MacRae (J.P. Crazy), Damon Douglas (Travis), Greta Blackburn (Gretchen Lewis), Terry Kiser (Stone)
Biker Chico Fuentes is on the run from Sheriff Clay Horton. Horton wants Chico to sign over his half of his ancestral land so Horton can use it to run illegal aliens across the border, where he sells them fake green cards and puts them to work on illegal road gangs, bilking the state out of thousands of dollars. He corners Chico and puts him on the road gang, after forcing the signature out of him.
9 :01x09 - Murder MTV
Writer: Douglas Heyes, Jr.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Guest star: Michael McGuire (Sid Cole), Christie Claridge (Josie), Paul Haber (Delivery Boy), Zitto Kazann (Carlo Cane), Miguel Nunez, Jr. (Valet Parking Attendant), Laura Branigan (Monica Cole), Ola Ray (Joanne), Sandor Johnson (Sam Clementine), Albert Paulsen (Frank Ladrone), Gerald Berns (Leo Shane), Michael Gregory (Tony Lupus)
Sweet Kicks is a band on the rise. Sid Cole is manager and lead singer Monica's dad. At the shooting of the group's music video, an explosion rocks the stage. Jack Curtis is on the case to find the bomber. Walter gives Automan a look at the charred explosive device. He determines it was activated by the music.
10 :01x10 - Murder, Take One
Writer: Sam Egan
Director: Kim Manners
Guest star: Bart Braverman (Frank Loren), Mark Wheeler (Roland Creen), Ed Lauter (Michael Hagedorn), Greg Mullavy (Philip Eames), Jonathan Gochberg (Guard), Winnie Gardner (Kitty Hopkins), Tim Rossovich (Oscar Selby), Floyd Levine (Seymour Grodkin), Michelle Phillips (Veronica Everly), Hilary Thompson (Sheila Dunham), Peter Marshall (Ray Gillette)
Gossip columnist Ray Gilette gets into an argument with former star Veronica Everly outside a Hollywood hotspot. She threatens him and he returns home to be murdered. Next day, Gilette's assistant Sheila Dunham reveals the threat her boss received to Jack, who questions Veronica. Meanwhile, Automan has discovered Gillette’s notes showing producer Michael Hagedorn financing a movie with drug profits, providing a motive for murder. Automan is a big fan of Veronica’s, and receives an invitation to visit her at the studio when he asks for an autograph.
11 :01x11 - Zippers
Writer: David Garber
Director: Alan Crosland
Guest star: James Morrison (Gary Baxley), Tom Everett (Stanley), James T. Callahan (Dennis Stanton), Billy Ray Sharkey (Buck), John Vernon (Carlos), Jill Andre (Mrs . Stanton), Erik Stern (Victor)
A burglar, Gary Baxley, hits the upper middle class home of Dennis Stanton and eludes a police chase, returning to Zippers, a male exotic dance club, where he dances as the "Cat Burglar." His partner is Stanley, the parking attendant. They make wax impressions of the patrons' house keys, and then hit the houses when the owners are out.
12 :01x12 - Death By Design
Writer: Sam Egan
Director: Gil Bettman
Guest star: Edward Mallory (Nate Hester), David Spielberg (Tom Sholes), J. D. Hall (Noah Jeffries), John Ericson (Woodrow "Woody" Oster), Luke Askew (Eric LeBlanc), Lance LeGault (Simon Rafferty), Anne Lockhart (Tracy Morgan), Danny Dayton (Bookie), Eric Server (Gill), K. C. Winkler (Model), Johnny Crear (Joseph Sylvana)
Jack and old colleague Nate Hester are tracking professional killer Erik LeBlanc. Nate follows LeBlanc into a building, where he kills fashion mogul Joseph Sylvana, then shoots Nate on the way out and escapes. Walter and Roxanne are kissing on his couch when Automan interrupts after watching a Nasty Eddie picture.
13 :01x13 - Club Ten
Writer: Michael S. Baser, Kim Weiskopf
Director: Kim Manners
Guest star: Robin Eisenman (Laura Ferguson), Barbara Horan (Geri), John Alderson (Rummy), Brett Halsey (Felipe), Dennis Cole (Crandall), Marshall Teague (Ted), Bruce Bauer (Randy)
The Club Ten resort is a center of diamond smuggling. One of the gang, Felipe, has double-crossed his cohorts and they are after him. Golf pro Ted and henchman Randy catch him, and when he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of the diamonds he stole, they capture his companion, Laura Ferguson, in the act of making a call for help.