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The Rookies Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Concrete Valley, Neon Sky

First aired: Sep/11/1972
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Hilly Hicks (Benny), Reid Cruickshanks (Officer), Shelly Novack (Cody), Daniel Spelling (Frank), William Elliott (Truck), Damu King (Moose), David Roya (Ace), Ian Sander (Eric the Red)

A new program meant to improve the police image is created by The South California Police Department. The idea is to make the police work more popular and unconventional. But for Willie, a rookie cop, the plan is not so easy when he is sent on his first assignment to one the toughest quarters in the city.


2 :01x02 - Dead, Like a Lost Dream

First aired: Sep/18/1972
Writer: Larry Brody
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Dane Clark (Lieutenant Monroe), Tom Tully (Joe Richardson), Gerald York (Sgt. Christopher), William Mims (Bartender), Michael Jackson (Bevins), Mark Slade (Don Richardson), Roy Engel (Menzies), Sam Edwards (Kurt)

The internal affairs workers at the station are getting word of police shakedowns. They order an investigation to take place, with Lieutenant Ryker's rookies, Danko, Webster, and Gillis, under suspicion as suspects.


3 :01x03 - The Informant

First aired: Sep/25/1972
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: James Nolan (Watchman), Sara Seegar (Judge), Joe Kapp (Big John), James Sikking (Defense Attorney), Ian Wolfe (Calvin Elliott), Kaz Garas (Twofer), Margaret Avery (Marly Walker), Henry V. Brown Jr. (Jimmy Carter)

Terry and WiIlie, while doing routine spot checks, uncover a petty thief involved in a larger fur scandal. He agrees to give information against the two criminals who orchestrated the plan. However, due to a technicality, their trial is dismissed and they set their eyes on revenge. After several attempts to drag him back into their world of crime, Webster puts an end to the two felons criminal actions .


4 :01x04 - Commitment

First aired: Oct/02/1972
Writer: Hoke Howell, Rance Howard
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Bo Svenson (Bud Reeves), Arlene Golonka (Store Clerk), Vic Tayback (Caldwell), Virginia Capers (Mrs. Gibson), Darleen Carr (Nancy Leigh), Dal Jenkins (Vester Benson)

Willie, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is struck by a bullet in the leg by a criminal wearing a monster mask. He is left paralyzed temporarily. Further investigation reveals a criminal's passion for horror films. As the case becomes more complex, Terry and Willie track the small-time crooks down to an auction, where they foolishly try to escape the law.


5 :01x05 - Covenant with Death

First aired: Oct/09/1972
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Hoke Howell (Bailey), Alan Weeks (Craig), Terry Lumley (Joni), John Randolph (Howard Price), Joan Shawlee (Josie), Louis Gossett, Jr. (Toby Jones)


6 :01x06 - Time is the Fire

First aired: Oct/16/1972
Writer: William Blinn, Mark Weingart
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Lynne Marta (Andrea Sloan), John Kerr (Price), Kitty Lester (Tina), Joe Maross (Gleason), Craig Stevens (Howard Sloan), William Windom (Frank Queenlin), Peggy McCay (Mrs. Sloan)


7 :01x07 - The Bear That Didn't Get Up

First aired: Oct/23/1972
Writer: Ron Bishop, William Blinn
Director: Jud Taylor
Guest star: Simon Scott (Palmer), Walter Woolf King (Abe Douglas), Jeanne Bates (Mrs. Palmer), David Huddleston (Watchman), Pamela Susan Shoop (Patty Lewis), Ken Swofford (Mr. Felker), Kenneth Tobey (Officer Rankin), Jim Antonio (Asst. D.A. Blair), Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Felker), Warren J. Kemmerling (Andrew Levitt)


8 :01x08 - Dirge for Sunday

First aired: Oct/30/1972
Writer: William Blinn, Jaron Summers
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Lew Brown (Photographer), Pat Patterson (Jailer), Tom Troupe (Parks), Roddy McDowall (Fenner), Vincent Gardenia (Saul)


9 :01x09 - The Good Die Young

First aired: Nov/13/1972
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Michael Fox (Dr. Parkman), Cal Bellini (Stan Ames), Julie Cobb (Carol), Cheryl Ladd (Girl), James Olson (Walter Bolton), Gwenn Mitchell (Peg Conway), Hoke Howell (Hoffman), Leslie Charleson (Annie Dawson)


10 :01x10 - To Taste of Terror

First aired: Nov/20/1972
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Lee Farr (Dave Borden), Amzie Strickland (Mrs. Simmons), Tom Palmer (District Attorney), S. John Launer (Defense Counsel), Linda Kelsey (Lisa), Frank Maxwell (Unknown), Robert Golden (Bailiff), Kathy Sims (Marty), Andrew J. Robinson (Lee Borden)


11 :01x11 - A Deadly Velocity

First aired: Nov/27/1972
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Jerry Jameson
Guest star: Burr deBenning (Jerry Turner), Ron Stokes (Officer Marlow), George Sawaya (Security Guard), Don Porter (General Brooker), Alan Vint (Robert Alpert), Connie Sawyer (Mrs. Alpert), Hank Brandt (First Reporter), Belinda Montgomery (Laurie)


12 :01x12 - Bloody Shade of Blue

First aired: Dec/11/1972
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Zack Taylor (Karl Miller), Patricia Stich (Shirley), Hank Brandt (Reporter), Stanley Kamel (Lou), Jared Martin (Buzz), Brooke Bundy (Lynn)


13 :01x13 - A Very Special Piece of Ground

First aired: Dec/18/1972
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Earl Holliman (Easy Wyatt), Charles H. Gray (Barnes), Pippa Scott (Claudia Wyatt), Paul Bryar (Charlie)


14 :01x14 - Rabbits on the Runway

First aired: Dec/25/1972
Writer: William Blinn
Director: Jerry Jameson
Guest star: Sheila Bromley (Mrs. Astor), Michael Pataki (Boone), Charles Aidman (Sanders), Robert Cleaves (Clerk), James Luisi (Kendall), Andy Romano (Scuba Instructor), Jason Wingreen (Lunch Room Owner), Susan Sennett (Christi)


15 :01x15 - Tarnished Idol

First aired: Jan/08/1973
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Gene Nelson
Guest star: Norman Alden (Davey Ryan), Radames Pera (Mickey), Frank Puglia (Uncle Sal), Lou Antonio (Jay Warfield), Carmen Zapata (Unknown), Jerry Guardino (Joe)


16 :01x16 - Crossfire

First aired: Jan/15/1973
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Kai Hernandez (Cindy), Eric Laneuville (Mark), Woodrow Parfrey (Maxwell), Wayne Maunder (Don Pierce), Clint Howard (Dennis), Percy Rodriguez (Officer R. C. Taylor), Mitzi Hoag (Mrs. Reynolds), Brioni Farrell (Kathy), Virginia Capers (Mrs. Culpepper)


17 :01x17 - Snow Job

First aired: Jan/29/1973
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Adrienne Marden (Old Woman), Ron Soble (Floyd), Martin Sheen (Country), Don Dubbins (Photographer), Suzanne Charney (Boat Owner)


18 :01x18 - Point of Impact

First aired: Feb/05/1973
Writer: William Douglas Lansford
Director: Gene Nelson
Guest star: Ron Stokes (Ron Ellis), Stella Garcia (Eva Santos), Renata Vanni (Mrs. Ramirez), Ford Rainey (Ellis), Rafael Campos (Danny Santos), Tina Cole (Janice Stewart), Victor Campos (Frank Ramirez)


19 :01x19 - Three Hours to Kill

First aired: Feb/12/1973
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Connie Mason (Susan Berling), William Kerwin (Robert Berling), Paul Carr (Arnie Samples), Jacqueline Scott (Rita King), William Bryant (Claude Samples), Bill Williams (Captain Fin Whitfield), Beverly Garland (Pat Whitfield)


20 :01x20 - Wheel of Death

First aired: Feb/19/1973
Writer: Mark Weingart
Director: Michael Caffey
Guest star: Taylor Lacher (Collins), Cheryl Ladd (Bank Manager), Corinne Camacho (Liz Sanders), James Almanzar (Unknown), Ross Hagen (Pike), Michael-James Wixted (Jimmy), Bill Campbell (Gordan), Ken Lynch (Evans), Mike Farrell (Frank Essex)


21 :01x21 - Life Robbery

First aired: Feb/26/1973
Writer: Donald Stewart
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: John Gruber (Jerry Bivans), Dick Van Patten (Fullmer), Pat Hingle (Al Harris), Mark Lenard (Fred Lox), John Davey (Jenks)


22 :01x22 - A Farewell Tree from Marly

First aired: Mar/05/1973
Writer: William Blinn
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Logan Ramsey (Cain), Dennis Patrick (Bennett), Kirk Mee (Ryan), Tyne Daly (Marly), Paul Stevens (Dr. Castle), Jean Allison (Mrs. Samuels), Phil Proctor (Chad)


23 :01x23 - Easy Money

First aired: Mar/19/1973
Writer: Robert Harland, Hoke Howell
Director: Lou Antonio
Guest star: Hilly Hicks (Cal Davis), Curt Conway (Fisher), Jonathan Lippe (J.J.), J. Kenneth Campbell (Dude), Teresa Graves (Susan Davis), Lonny Chapman (Crater)


24 :02x01 - Cauldron

First aired: Sep/10/1973
Writer: William Blinn, Webb Morris
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Vince Howard (Photographer), James Sikking (Captain Gentry), Michael Baseleon (Tate), Vern Rowe (Bartender), John Saxon (Fancy)


25 :02x02 - Margin for Error

First aired: Sep/17/1973
Writer: Robert Harland, Hoke Howell
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Claude Akins (Buck Sanbom), Jean Allison (Mrs. Simmons), Robert Walden (Joey), Tom Falk (Herm Watson), Charles H. Gray (Andy Simmons), Parke Perine (Smitty), Eric Server (Doctor), Sidney Clute (Seymour)


26 :02x03 - Deadly Cage

First aired: Sep/24/1973
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: William Watson (Sergeant Dunson), Richard Yniguez (Freddy), Robert Phillips (Crane), Victor French (Crazy Marvin), Robert Karnes (Sergeant Older), Ford Rainey (Warden Mason), Robert Hooks (Barney Miller), Thom Carney (Sandler)


27 :02x04 - Frozen Smoke

First aired: Oct/01/1973
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Annette O'Toole (Pregnant Woman), Scott Jacoby (Tim Halley), Kristen Gipson (Saundra Potter), Charles Shull (John Skidmore), Sally Carter-Ihnat (Mrs. Potter), Judy Farrell (Ruth Skidmore), Walter Brooke (Karl Halley), John Travolta (Eddie Halley), William Kirby Cullen (Wally Skidmore)

A teen-ager beats up another kid over a bike-stealing incident, and rookies Webster and Gillis are witnesses to the altercation. The fight ends in tragedy, with the sad overtones of kids raised by their widower-father.


28 :02x05 - Get Ryker

First aired: Oct/08/1973
Writer: William Douglas Lansford
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Joseph Campanella (Joseph Mannley), Robert Donner (Ned Collins), Sid McCoy (Sergeant Carter), Thalmus Rasulala (Tony Ross), Bill Williams (Capt. Whitfield)


29 :02x06 - Cry Wolf

First aired: Oct/15/1973
Writer: William Blinn
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Felker), Ken Swofford (Felker), Joan Blondell (Mrs. Darrin), Bill Quinn (The Workman), Pat Harrington, Jr. (Arnold Winkler), Anthony Eisley (Ben Kendall), Sheila Rogers (Mrs. Winkler)


30 :02x07 - A Matter of Justice (a.k.a.) Justice for Jill Danko

First aired: Oct/22/1973
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Judson Pratt (Allen Mayson), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Mayson), Robert Harland (Unknown), Richard Bull (Maitre d'), Bill Ewing (Ricky), James Olson (Steve Wainz), Francis DeSales (Dr. Mauer), Joseph Bernard (Roy Barbour), Willard Sage (Woodard)


31 :02x08 - Blood Brother

First aired: Oct/29/1973
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Mitzi Hoag (Miss Hopkins), Glynn Turman (Jimmy), Laird Stuart (Armored Car Guard), Herbert Jefferson, Jr. (Walker), Dennis Redfield (Roger Bridge)


32 :02x09 - Code 261

First aired: Nov/05/1973
Writer: Robert Heverly, Hal Sitowitz
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Mark Slade (Bernard Amazeen), John Dennis (Bartender), Kim Hamilton (Duty Nurse), Tannis G. Montgomery (Bobby), Jan Shepard (Claire Amazeen), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Powerful Man), Terry Lumley (Linda)


33 :02x10 - Prayers Unanswered, Prayers Unheard

First aired: Nov/12/1973
Writer: William Blinn
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Johnny Brown (Huggy Bear), Wayne Heffley (Father Channing), Ben Frank (Furniture Man), Sammy Jackson (Bookstore Owner), Gwynne Gilford (Sister Veronica), Florida Friebus (Sister Elizabeth), Patti Cohoon (Martha Young), Wende Wagner (Gay), Jennifer Leak (Sister Anne), Larry Golden (Howard Talbott)


34 :02x11 - Down Home Boy

First aired: Nov/19/1973
Writer: Paul Savage
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest star: Tom Tully (Daddy Curlew), Billy Green Bush (Rogers), Michele Nichols (Young Fan), Dabbs Greer (Billy Levinson), Jim Nabors (Corley Curley), Marty Ingels (Emcee), David Canary (T.J. Curlew), Lincoln Demyan (Guard), Jason Wingreen (Station Attendant)

Corley Curley is a frightened would-be assassin of a famous western singer whom he holds responsible for the death of his kid sister.


35 :02x12 - Lots of Trees and a Running Stream

First aired: Dec/03/1973
Writer: Don Balluck
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest star: Sam Edwards (Second Clerk), Annette O'Toole (Bank Teller), Olive Sturgess (Nurse), Olan Soule (First Clerk), Richard Hatch (Cleve Andrews)


36 :02x13 - Another Beginning for Ben Fuller

First aired: Dec/10/1973
Writer: Sandor Stern
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Lee Paul (Tim Duvall), Bob Gibbons (Second Man), Les Lannom (Gifford), Charles Lane (Dealer), Leif Erickson (Ben Fuller), Bill Walker (First Man), Michael Christian (Frank Pinder), Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Gleason), Barbara Bostock (Secretary), Ned Glass (Harry Chester)


37 :02x14 - Sound of Silence

First aired: Dec/17/1973
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Richard Newton
Guest star: Jason Evers (Ben Tabnor), Ann Noland (Angie), Jean Byron (Mrs. Mann), Sissy Spacek (Barbara Tabnor), Joe Di Reda (Driver), Ted Eccles (Keith Briggs), Joseph V. Perry (Joe Mifune), Jared Martin (John Jordan), Bettye Ackerman (Ellen Tabnor)


38 :02x15 - Trial by Doubt

First aired: Jan/07/1974
Writer: James Basler
Director: Richard Newton
Guest star: Barry Cahill (Austin), Rayford Barnes (Knebel), Howard Platt (Genty), Malcolm Atterbury (Red McPherson), Fionnula Flanagan (Judy Karcher), Scott Walker (Peterson), Antony Carbone (Muren), Hank Brandt (Fave Karcher), John Davis Chandler (Prisoner)


39 :02x16 - The Authentic Death of Billy Stomper

First aired: Jan/14/1974
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Gene Nelson
Guest star: Troy Melton (Hacket), Ester Anderson (Pamela Hines), Frank Marth (Unknown), Rex Holman (Junior), Joe Maross (Sergeant Ray Saltonstaff), Keith Walker (Doctor), Steve Sandor (Billy Stomper)

Terry Webster becomes romantically involved with a frightened Jamaican girl who has witnessed the execution of a notorious drug pusher.


40 :02x17 - The Late Mr. Brent

First aired: Jan/28/1974
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: Gene Nelson
Guest star: Darleen Carr (Pip Brent), Frank Whiteman (Howard Brent), Olive Sturgess (Nurse), Matt Clark (Joey Hughes), William Smithers (Pete Martin)

Mike Danko becomes involved with the young , friendless widow of an innocent man he apparently shot durng a police attempt to capture two escaped convicts.


41 :02x18 - The Teacher

First aired: Feb/04/1974
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Gene Nelson
Guest star: Ron Stokes (Patrolman), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Tippy), Paul Sorenson (Bank Guard), Damon Douglas (Ed), Nick Nolte (Tommy), Strother Martin (Teacher), Don Johnson (Al Devering), Ann Doran (Mrs. Coleman)


42 :02x19 - Eyewitness

First aired: Feb/11/1974
Writer: Frank Telford
Director: Barry Shear
Guest star: Robert Harland (Sgt Older), Dick Crockett (Officer Foley), Wendell Burton (Larry West), Frank Arno (unknown), Lurene Tuttle (Aunt Lou), Don 'Red' Barry (Officer Kellogg)


43 :02x20 - Something Less Than a Man

First aired: Feb/18/1974
Writer: Irving Pearlberg
Director: Philip Leacock
Guest star: Bill Williams (Capt. Johnson), Paul Pepper (Mahoney), Don Gordon (Caras), Abe Vigoda (Michael Lance), Johnny Seven (Smitty), Dane Clark (Joe Daley)


44 :02x21 - Rolling Thunder

First aired: Feb/25/1974
Writer: William Blinn, James Basler
Director: Edward M. Abroms
Guest star: Robert Harland (Sgt Older), James Luisi (Del Bonner), Jim Poyner (The Boy), Lorraine Gary (Lynn), Andrew Parks (Eric)


45 :02x22 - Time Lock

First aired: Mar/04/1974
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Lee Philips
Guest star: Tyne Daly (Lucille Baker), James Carroll Jordan (Roy Macklin), Robert Walden (Mark Haines), Sari Price (Ruth Simpson), Lee De Broux (Woody), Wanda Bailey (Yvonne Grant)


46 :02x23 - Death Watch

First aired: Mar/18/1974
Writer: Alvin Boretz, Hal Sitowitz
Director: Philip Leacock
Guest star: Keith Atkinson (Dr. Miller), Paul Jenkins (Towers), Anthony Zerbe (Ralph Sneed), Bridget Hanley (Arlene Talbot), Mary Jackson (Woman), Hal Sitowitz (Boy), Victoria Carroll (Dr. Ramsey), Paul Smith (Lou Talbot)


46 :03x01 - An Ugly Way to Die

First aired: Sep/09/1974
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Jesse Vint (Pete 'Wolf' Gray), Larry Pennell (Henry Glass), Stephen Manley (Unknown), Lou Antonio (Jack Lembo), Kim Hamilton (Irene), Claire Brennen (Bella)


47 :03x02 - Key Witness

First aired: Sep/23/1974
Writer: James Schmerer
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Trish Stewart (Kathy), William Lucking (Ed Kelch), Sally Carter-Ihnat (Mrs. Stafford), Jon Cypher (Dr. Stafford), Jared Martin (Tom Kelch), Steve Franken (Alvin Conrad)


48 :03x03 - Legacy of Death

First aired: Sep/30/1974
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: James Keach (Stoney Putnam), Jeremy Slate (Andy Page), Alex Rocco (Earl Fisher), Robin Strasser (Laura Page), Michael Christian (Tom Harper)


49 :03x04 - Death at 6 A.M.

First aired: Oct/07/1974
Writer: Don Balluck
Director: Harry Falk
Guest star: Janis Hansen (Mrs. Harrison), Christina Hart (Lorna Marsh), Charles Martin Smith (Bobby Lewis), Kenneth Tobey (Officer Corbett), Herbert Anderson (Foster), John Zaremba (Dr. Hawkins), Bo Hopkins (Wayne Shipley)


50 :03x05 - Walk a Tightrope

First aired: Oct/21/1974
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Guest star: James Carroll Jordan (Ned Weston), Kristoffer Tabori (Corey Banning), Mary Jackson (Mrs. Callender), Paul Nuckles (Unknown), Francis DeSales (Professor Parmel), Robert Harland (Unknown)


51 :03x06 - Judgment

First aired: Oct/28/1974
Writer: Parke Perine
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Eduard Franz (Caldwell), Nancy Bell (Janice), Branscombe Richmond (Unknown), Elliott Street (Lou Falvey), Stefanie Powers (Edie Falvey)


52 :03x07 - Johnny Lost His Gun

First aired: Nov/04/1974
Writer: Irving Pearlberg
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Emily Yancy (Francie), Gerald Hiken (Thaler), David White (Storey), Antony Carbone (Gosa), Robert Ellenstein (Professor), Fred Williamson (Johnny Barrows), Frank Farmer (Hamil)


53 :03x08 - Prelude to Vengeance

First aired: Nov/11/1974
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Titos Vandis (Nick), Gerrit Graham (Eric), Andrew J. Robinson (Billy Kempson), Bernard Barrow (Scott), Penny Stanton (Theresa), Ronne Troup (Laurie Scott)


54 :03x09 - Vendetta

First aired: Nov/18/1974
Writer: Sean Baine
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Sharon Smith (Unknown), Arlene Martel (Rita), Laurence Luckinbill (Pete McCall), Jerry Douglas (Red Tivoli), Darwin Joston (Ducas), Fuddle Bagley (Robbie), Megan Landis (Records Clerk), Paul Pepper (Sidney)


55 :03x10 - The Old Neighborhood

First aired: Nov/25/1974
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Luke Andreas (Joe), John Davey (Roy), Arthur Franz (Vic Phillips), Lance Taylor, Sr. (Sam), William Katt (Jimmy Phillips), Katherine Helmond (Molly Phillips), Ned Glass (Stein), Steven Keats (Mac Corlan)


56 :03x11 - A Test of Courage

First aired: Dec/02/1974
Writer: Rick Husky
Director: William Crain
Guest star: David Canary (Espositos), Peter Carew (Dr. Davidson), David Huddleston (Kavanaugh), Arthur Adams (Sonny West), David Soul (Johnny Dane), Victor Mohica (Schilling), Laurie Burton (Lisa Dane)

Terry is determined to find the thieves responsible for causing a crash.


57 :03x12 - The Assassin

First aired: Dec/09/1974
Writer: Frank Telford
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Frank Baxter (Captain Martin), Clint Young (Sergeant Wilson), Eric Braeden (Jurzyck), Frank Lugo (Sergeant Pilar), Darleen Carr (Jobina), Harlan Warde (Hummel)


58 :03x13 - Blue Christmas

First aired: Dec/16/1974
Writer: Aaron Spelling
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Lockett), Elinor Donahue (Amanda), Bert Remsen (Unknown), John Kerry (Murderer of priest), Charles Lampkin (Sam Reese), Barbara Nichols (Marie Antionette), Lou Krugman (Ben Rabin)


59 :03x14 - Take Over

First aired: Dec/30/1974
Writer: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Vincent Baggetta (Dr. Marco), Barbara Baxley (Clara), Joseph Bernard (Ellis), Harold Stone (Al Steinman), Vic Tayback (Brakow), Sandy Kenyon (Unknown), Ray Walston (Melrose)


60 :03x15 - The Saturday Night Special

First aired: Jan/13/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Don Stroud (George), Rose Gregorio (Millie), Eric Laneuville (Billy), Ty Henderson (Meade), Lenka Peterson (Phyllis Wirl), John Carter (John Wirl)


61 :03x16 - The Hunting Ground

First aired: Jan/20/1975
Writer: Don Balluck
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Chris Holter (Marisa), William Shatner (Luke Harris), Maurice Sherbanee (Shackner), Michael Lembeck (Maury), Richard O'Brien (Stark), Stack Pierce (Sammy), Linda Foster (Helen), Anthony James (Massler), Bob Hechtman (Marks)


62 :03x17 - Solomon's Dilemma

First aired: Jan/27/1975
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Peter Coffield (Paul Stocker), Shelley Fabares (Ann McNeal), Edward Andrews (Jerome Lyles), John S. Ragin (Bryan McNeal), Bettye Ackerman (Judge), Kathleen Lloyd (Jenny Stocker)


63 :03x18 - Angel

First aired: Feb/03/1975
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Dack Rambo (Tommy Locke), Suzanne Charney (Linda), Susan Dey (Angel), Charles Drake (Bailey), David Morick (Thurston), Maria Grimm (Consuela), Len Ross (Doctor), Betty Macik (Sharon), Terry Lumley (Secretary), Raymond O'Keefe (Harry), Woodrow Parfrey (Colby)


64 :03x19 - The Sheild

First aired: Feb/10/1975
Writer: Richard Danus
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: Ralph Meeker (Officer Menteer), Montana Smoyer (Tarot Card Fortune Teller), Parke Perine (Artie), Robert Shayne (Man on Stretcher), Frank Lugo (Sgt. Pilar), Barbara Rucker (Sharon Carpenter), Jonathan Lippe (Como / Walter), Michael Ashe (Carl Carpenter), Don 'Red' Barry (Sgt. Logan)

Six witnesses make positive identification of a suspected slayer of a policeman, but Terry is the lone dissenter, a position which puts him on the opposite side of his police buddies.


65 :03x20 - S.W.A.T. (1)

First aired: Feb/17/1975
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Donna Mills (Gwen DeWitt), Lloyd Bochner (Giraud), Dick Van Patten (Waldon), Leslie Nielsen (Larry Neal), Jaime Lyn Bauer (Susan), Steve Forrest (Hondo), Robert Walden (Kevin), Arte Johnson (Justin)


66 :03x21 - S.W.A.T. (2)

First aired: Feb/17/1975
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: E. W. Swackhamer
Guest star: Steve Forrest (Hondo), Lloyd Bochner (Giraud), Arte Johnson (Justin), Donna Mills (Gwen DeWitt), Dick Van Patten (Waldon), Leslie Nielsen (Larry Neal), Jaime Lyn Bauer (Susan), Robert Walden (Kevin)


67 :03x22 - A Deadly Image

First aired: Feb/24/1975
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Richard Hatch (Vic Dorsey), George D. Wallace (Floyd Conroy), Karen Anders (Matron), Anthony Eisley (John Cortney), Jane Actman (Laurie Phillips), Frank Lugo (Sergeant Pilar)


68 :03x23 - Cliffy

First aired: Mar/03/1975
Writer: Mark Slade
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Guest star: Paul Cavonis (Louis), Alan Fudge (Erie), Bill Erwin (Cook), Lonny Chapman (Arnie Brody), Mark Slade (Cliffy), Tyne Daly (Mary), Norman Alden (Dennis Brody), Glynnis O'Connor (Ellen)


69 :03x24 - Nightmare

First aired: Mar/17/1975
Writer: Rick Husky
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: William Mims (Dr. Perry), Alan Hunt (Young Man), Edward Albert (Edward Milland), Rance Howard (Truck Driver)


70 :04x01 - Lamb to the Slaughter

First aired: Sep/09/1975
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: William Crain
Guest star: Matthew Laborteaux (Jody Gifford), David Nash (P.G. Larken), Karl Held (Dean Raines), Virginia Kiser (Paula), Tom Atkins (Brad Gifford), Jim Gruzalski (Det. Stone), Jeff David (Augie)


71 :04x02 - Reading Writing and Angel Dust

First aired: Sep/16/1975
Writer: Sean Baine
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Mitzi Hoag (Marge Johnson), Ray Underwood (Ralph), Amy Irving (Cindy Mullins), Richard Balin (Doctor), Sherry Hursey (Shirley), Scott Jacoby (Frankie), Ty Henderson (Andy), Peter Elbling (Doc Merton), Dennis Kort (Unknown), Jean Byron (Mrs. Mullins), Beth Howland (Mrs. Ross), Dennis Erdman (Damon)

The Rookies are still mired in teen-age drug rackets which seemed to be the case for most of the last season. When a youth leaps to his death, the enlist the aid of another kid to trace the drug source.


72 :04x03 - One-Way Street to Nowhere

First aired: Sep/23/1975
Writer: Mathias Reitz
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Guest star: Michael Parks (Crilen), Damu King (Jericho), Ayn Ruymen (Sarah), Steven Keats (Comstock), Lawrence Cook (Danner)

Mike is severely wounded and Terry is taken hostage by members of a gun stealing ring trying to gain freedom from their captured leader.


73 :04x04 - Someone Who Cares

First aired: Sep/30/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Ivan Dixon
Guest star: Robert Emhardt (Tandy), Michael Cristofer (Charlie Phillips), Brit Lind (Karen Austin), Bill Zuckert (Killy), Jacquelyn Hyde (Cissy Austin), Len Ross (Sgt. Morelli), Kario Salem (Aldon Phillips), Bryan Englund (Mickey)

Deeply moved by a young girl's plea for help shortly before dying, Terry takes vigorous action to learn the girl's identity and to uncover events that led to her mysterious death. The trail leads to a pusher and two brothers who apparently drugged the girl, then tried to assault her. She was fatally injured by a car running from them.


74 :04x05 - Ladies Day (a.k.a.) Ladies Kill, Too

First aired: Oct/07/1975
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: Dorothy Tristan (Maxine), Laurie Walters (Callie), Steve Tanner (Kid in the Fight), Fran Ryan (Ma Burker), Della Reese (Landers), Richard O'Brien (Loud), Barbara Stuart (Superintendent), René Enríquez (Dr. Martinez), Marki Bey (Leslie), Annie O'Donnell (Louella)


75 :04x06 - Reign of Terror

First aired: Oct/14/1975
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: Ric Mancini (Barton), Margaret Avery (Stacy Brooks), Milt Kogan (Unknown), Martin Garner (Fred), Jared Martin (Slavens), Dorothy Meyer (Nadine Brooks), Raymond St. Jacques (Hank Brooks)


76 :04x07 - Death Lady

First aired: Oct/21/1975
Writer: Don Balluck
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Joseph Hindy (Miles Becker), Ray Stewart (Simpkins), Pepper Martin (Dan Stokley), Paul Koslo (Unknown), Susanne Benton (Nancy Franklin), Dave Shelley (Unknown), Katherine Helmond (Joyce Lanson), Alan Feinstein (Steve Granger)

An attractive young policewoman becomes the victim of bitter resentment with the department when her protective male partner loses his life in a shootout.


77 :04x08 - Measure of Mercy

First aired: Oct/28/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Anne Bloom (Midge Warren), Martin Kove (Jimmy Jay), Thad Geer (Tad Warren), Joseph DiSante (Doctor), Fritzi Burr (Landlady), George D. Wallace (Bracken), Claude Earl Jones (Bartender), Cleavon Little (Cully Ames), Didi Conn (Young Woman), Harold Gould (Dr. Asmos)


78 :04x09 - A Time to Mourn

First aired: Nov/04/1975
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Guest star: Season Hubley (Kim Owens), Timothy Brown (Byron Stockwood), James Woods (Ted Ayres), Bill Quinn (Percy Higgins), Anthony Charnota (Russ Morgan), Sarah Cunningham (Mother Superior), Philip Bruns (Baxter), Richard Stahl (Quinlan)


79 :04x10 - The Torch Man

First aired: Nov/11/1975
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Guest star: Richard Foronjy (Hank), Charles Napier (Phil), Jack DeLeon (Cliffy), Arthur Adams (Randy), Doug McGrath (Cal), Jon Korkes (Satch), Pepe Serna (Ralph), Victor Brandt (Lawson), George Loros (Benny), Nora Heflin (Gloria)


80 :04x11 - Invitation to a Rumble

First aired: Nov/18/1975
Writer: Hal Sitowitz
Director: George McCowan
Guest star: Ester Anderson (Pamela), Bill Elliot (Truck), Eric Kilpatrick (Lee Kirby), John Calvin (Wally), Ian Sander (Unknown), Richard Beauchamp (Stuch)


81 :04x12 - Reluctant Hero

First aired: Nov/25/1975
Writer: Jock MacKelvie
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: Frank Geraci (Milo), Jack Colvin (Wolfe Burdett), Wayne Grace (Morrison), Tom Lacy (Vaughn), John Ritter (Hap Dawson), San De Fazio (Barnes), Chuck Hayward (Malone), Bert Remsen (Lucas Dawson)


82 :04x13 - Dead Heat (a.k.a. Death at Midnight)

First aired: Dec/02/1975
Writer: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: W. K. Stratton (Phil), Michael MacRae (Dodd), Jerome Guardino (Officer Louden), Roger E. Mosley (Rawlins), Michael Lembeck (Gene), Reni Santoni (Martinez), Barry Brooks (Unknown)

Three murdering robbers trap Terry Webster and Chris Owens in a department store when the cops come across them during a routine check. Their police car is stolen, and the telephone wires are cut inside the store as the cops face a shootout with desperate men.


83 :04x14 - The Voice of Thunder

First aired: Dec/09/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: John Zaremba (Dr. Scott), Rene Auberjonois (Ron Kelly), Gail Strickland (Beverly Shore), Henry Brandon (Doug Shore), Michael Thomas (Poole), John Carradine (The Voice), Adrienne Marden (Edna Shore), Millie Slavin (Meg Poynter)


84 :04x15 - The Code Five Affair

First aired: Dec/16/1975
Writer: Don Balluck
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Jaclyn Smith (Judy March), Tony Young (Bolt), Anthony Eisley (Martin St. John), Gilbert Green (Bromm)


85 :04x16 - Shadow of a Man

First aired: Dec/23/1975
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: John Aprea (Phil Richards), Linda Thompson (Young Woman), Patsy Garrett (Unknown), Ned Beatty (Frank Forest), Linda Marsh (Millie Forest)


86 :04x17 - Eye for an Eye

First aired: Dec/30/1975
Writer: Irving Pearlberg
Director: William Crain
Guest star: Joe LaDue (Avery), Robert Lansing (Dave Banner), Cliff Osmond (Unknown), Inga Swenson (Barbara Paige), Titos Vandis (Pete Lupo), Antony Carbone (Frank Larabee), Bert Freed (Captain Milt Hirshman)

Former Vietnam helicoptor pilot Mike Danko is kidnapped by a POW who is focused on revenge.


87 :04x18 - Sudden Death (a.k.a.) Return from the Past

First aired: Jan/06/1976
Writer: Jack V. Fogarty
Director: Phil Bondelli
Guest star: Thom Christopher (Peter Johnston), Charles Woolf (Broker), Jerome Guardino (Sgt. Louden), Ned Wilson (Thomas Tyson), Jarrod Johnson (Boy), Sally Carter-Ihnat (Audrey Tyson)


88 :04x19 - From Out of the Darkness

First aired: Jan/20/1976
Writer: Rick Husky
Director: Randal Kleiser
Guest star: Keenan Wynn (Dan Kennedy), Fernando Casanova (Santos), Craig Richard Nelson (Vinton), Sally Kirkland (Carol Brenner), Michael Forest (Novak), Tyne Daly (Amy Kennedy)


89 :04x20 - The Mugging

First aired: Jan/27/1976
Writer: Jack V. Fogarty
Director: Richard Benedict
Guest star: Jack Bernardi (Max Weisman), Stephen Davies (David Parker), Peg Shirley (Anna Komansky), Betty Cole (Mrs. Mellon), André Pavon (Sal Molina), David Sabin (Gunshop Proprietor), John Rubinstein (Dr. Richard Komansky), Mary Ann Chin (Linda Reese)

The mother of a doctor who works in the same hospital as Jill is mugged and dies and the doctor takes it upon himself to get revenge.


90 :04x21 - Blue Movie, Blue Death

First aired: Feb/24/1976
Writer: Sean Baine
Director: Leon Carrere
Guest star: Richard Benedict (Jeffers), Ed Walsh (Ferrand), James Hong (Matsumoto), Joseph R. Sicari (Frankie), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Nancy Sloan), George Skaff (Armond Gallo), Red West (Wallace), Raymond Guth (Krueger), William Boyett (Dempsey), Kevan Dignam (Ann Morgan), Jerry Schilling (Trinko)


91 :04x22 - Deliver Me From Innocence

First aired: Mar/02/1976
Writer: Sean Baine
Director: Richard Benedict
Guest star: Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Clements), Mario Roccuzzo (Earl 'Roach' Simmons), Joseph Mell (Leo Morris), Kevin Hooks (Lonnie Clements), Henry Brown (Ralph Denker), Phillip Pine (Judge), Victor Brandt (Harry Townsend), Marlene Clark (Teresa Clements)


92 :04x23 - Journey to Oblivion

First aired: Mar/30/1976
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Guest star: Sylvia Soares (Unknown), Marc Lawrence (Roger Marsten), Biff McGuire (Rex Winfield), Marc Singer (Blair Winfield), Geoffrey Lewis (Ritchie)