Most Wanted Episode Guide

Most Wanted

First aired: Mar/21/1976
Writer: Laurence Heath
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Fred Sadoff (Goldberg), Percy Rodriguez (Mayor Stoddard), Roger Perry (Harkness), Jack Kehoe (Phil Benedict), Tom Selleck (Officer Tom Roybo), Stephen McNally (Reverend Benson), Sheree North (Melissa Dawson), Marj Dusay (Jean Evers), Leslie Charleson (Officer Lee Herrick), Daniel Selby (Boy on Playground), Kitty Winn (Sister Beth)

A rapist turned killer is preying on nuns and L.A. Mayor Stoddard is compelled to create a new police force group to deal with this kind of cases. Detective Lincoln ("Linc") Evers is appointed to head this group and nab the crook before he strikes once again.

1 :01x01 - The Skykiller (aka The Sky Killer)

First aired: Oct/16/1976
Writer: Guerdon Trueblood
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Jerry Ayres (Mattie), Carl Weathers (Holt), Allan Miller (Anthony Celli), Burke Byrnes (SWAT leader), Robert Mandan (Unknown), Laurette Spang (Stewardess), Harris Yulin (Billy Wilcox)

Linc and the Most Wanted Unit goes up against skyjackers who demand that a U.S. congressman be turned over to them.
Billy Wilcox, a skyjacker, conducts an airborne "trial" of the congressman Celli who was responsible for his conviction, using twelve hostage-passengers as the jury

2 :01x02 - The Slaver

First aired: Oct/23/1976
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Jenny Sherman (Grace), Joseph V. Perry (Pierce), John Zaremba (Martinson University president), Linda Kelsey (Elizabeth Gordon), Ken Lynch (Barr), Kaz Garas (Unknown), Ian McShane (Professor Colin Wyatt), Sam Chew, Jr. (Pete Fenner)

Six college coeds are abducted by a white slavery ring directed by a faculty member.

3 :01x03 - The Corrupter

First aired: Oct/30/1976
Writer: Harold Gast, Robert W. Lenski
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Michael Burns (Bobby), Walter Mathews (Harry Fownes), Dennis Oliveri (Alfred Hemming), Frank Maxwell (Arnold), Clint Young (Markham), Don McGovern (Lt. Urey), Peter Balmer (Benz), Mariette Hartley (Lt. Ruth Massey), Robert F. Hoy (Unknown), Pat Renella (Russeau)

A computer expert plans to hijack a convoy of plutonium and hold it for ransom.

4 :01x04 - The Two Dollar Kidnappers

First aired: Nov/06/1976
Writer: Jerry Ziegman
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Phillip Richard Allen (Warren), Art Metrano (Unknown), Bill Catching (Unknown), Thalmus Rasulala (Fort), Harlee McBride (Unknown), Paul Cavonis (Unknown), E. J. Peaker (Meg Warren), Clu Gulager (Shelby)

A gang specializing in a high volume of kidnappings charges "discount" ransoms.

5 :01x05 - The Wolf Pack

First aired: Nov/20/1976
Writer: Lou Morheim
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Peggy McCay (Sylvia Markle), Phillip Richard Allen (Unknown), Kristoffer Tabori (William Conley), Rickie Sorensen (Jeff), Robert Sampson (Mr. Markle), Les Lannom (Donald Markle), Aubri Martin (Wilma), Harlee McBride (Unknown)

Revolutionaries determined to free imprisoned cohorts employ guerrilla tactics.

6 :01x06 - The Heisman Killer

First aired: Nov/27/1976
Writer: Guerdon Trueblood
Director: William Wiard
Guest star: Richard Bull (Nye), William Wintersole (Darrell Townes), Ed Nelson (Moïse Watson), Robert Hays (Bruce Collins), Lew Brown (Captain Coonz), John Morgan Evans (Froggie), George D. Wallace (Coach Kramer), Eugene Clark (Jones), Art Hindle (Eddie Harris)

An assassin has announced he plans to kill a Heisman Trophy winner during the Rose Bowl game.

7 :01x07 - The Torch

First aired: Dec/18/1976
Writer: Del Reisman
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Carl Franklin (Tannehill), Helen Funai (Miko), Alan Bergmann (Jim Clendennon), Aldine King (Marie), James Gammon (Joe Carter), Michael McGuire (Westra)

An extortionist-firebomber tries to frame a man struggling to overcome his pyromania. A ruthless con man devises a payoff scheme in which he eliminates a businessman's competitor. The Most Wanted unit is called in following a series of bombings.

8 :01x08 - The Ten-Percenter

First aired: Dec/25/1976
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Lynda Day George (Laurie Chandler), Len Birman (Gil Slade), Joan Pringle (Bonnie Jacks), Carl Weintraub (Dave Thomas), Edward Power (Joe Blake)

The unit goes after a gang of burglars led by an attorney who handpicks her personnel and targets.

9 :01x09 - The White Collar Killer

First aired: Jan/01/1977
Writer: Elroy Schwartz
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: John Karlen (Red Murphy), George DiCenzo (Blaine), Joe E. Tata (Toller), Katherine Cannon (Eileen Carson), Lloyd Bochner (Dr. Simmons), Ric Mancini (Unknown), Stewart Moss (Unknown)

Posing as prison inmates, Linc and his colleagues try to collar convicted government officials' assassins. Linc, Charlie and Kate pose as inmates in a minimum-security prison in an effort to collar assassins spacializing in the murder of convicted government officials.

10 :01x10 - Ms. Murder

First aired: Jan/08/1977
Writer: Norman Jolley, Hesper Anderson
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest star: William Smithers (Demrey), James Luisi (Moore), Paul Jenkins (Lavers), Fred Stuthman (Edgar Herron), Gary Collins (Mr. Bishop), Susan Howard (Anne Carroll), Murray Hamilton (Kelly), Marianne McAndrew (Victoria Bishop)

An illegal-guns dealer searches for the secret arms caches of a vigilante who died in the explosion of one his arsenals.

11 :01x11 - The Pirate

First aired: Jan/15/1977
Writer: Larry Alexander, Guerdon Trueblood
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Jay Varela (Diaz), William Prince (Barnes), Chris Robinson (Steve), Christine Belford (Jennifer Haron), Kenneth Tobey (Harbormaster)

The unit trails a gang that hijacks yachts and kills their owners and crews.

12 :01x12 - The Hit Man

First aired: Feb/05/1977
Writer: Robert Janes
Director: Richard Lang
Guest star: Than Wyenn (Le Beau), Janet MacLachlan (Loretta Stoddard), Eric Braeden (Cain), Carl Betz (Warren Hill), Ford Rainey (Dr. Farrell)

The Most Wanted Unit hunts an assassin hired by a vengeful financier to kill Mayor Stoddard.

13 :01x13 - The Ritual Killer

First aired: Feb/12/1977
Writer: Paul King, Stephen Kandel, Jack V. Fogarty
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Ned Romero (Fox), David Hinton (Spencer), Robert Dowdell (Dr. Andrews), James Olson (Ryerson), Devon Ericson (Julia)

Link and the Most Wanted Unit goes on the hunt for a rapist-killer.

14 :01x14 - The Tunnel Killer

First aired: Feb/19/1977
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff
Director: Harvey Laidman
Guest star: Hal Williams (Rashad), Robert Yuro (Frank Nelson), Stuart Whitman (Jacques Tyler), Arlene Golonka (Sheila), Norman Alden (Rick Barone)

A bank robber needs a quick $2 million to finance his debut as a gunrunner.

15 :01x15 - The Parasite

First aired: Feb/26/1977
Writer: Robert I. Holt
Guest star: Dan Ferrone (Unknown), Renne Jarrett (Kathy Franklin), Richard Bakalyan (Unknown), Phillip Pine (Julius Portugal), Jennifer Warren (Angela), Jim McMullan (Paul Franklin)

Fearing underworld retaliation, a labor leader who killed a syndicate chief's son tries to cover up the deed.

16 :01x16 - The Spellbinder

First aired: Mar/07/1977
Writer: Robert Janes
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: William Swan (Leonard), Trish Stewart (Leslie Hall), Robert Patten (Allen), John Calvin (Reed), John Saxon (Mason), James Nolan (Father Byrnes), Jason Evers (Taylor)

A stockbroker using a get-rich quick scam on businessmen covers his tracks with murder. The murder of a young woman in Capt Link Evers' past resurfaces to draw into a desperate duel with a mind-bending sect.

17 :01x17 - The Driver

First aired: Mar/14/1977
Writer: Guerdon Trueblood
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: Paul Lambert (Burger), Tiffany Hunter (Sandra Morgan), Marlyn Mason (Barbara Morgan), Pernell Roberts (Bailey), Eugene Patterson (Unknown), Anthony Geary (Chops)

The Most Wanted Unit goes after an extortionist preying on city officials. A dedicated woman official receives a bribe from an unscrupulous real estate developer, then is confronted by a desperate dilemma when an extortionist demands $100.000 under threat of death.

18 :01x18 - The Insider

First aired: Mar/21/1977
Writer: Robert Janes
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Kathleen Beller (Gina Wallace), Nick Holden (Artie), Scott Hylands (Nick Bonner), Marc Vahanian (Johnny Gray), Claude Jones (Nightspot owner), Nora Marlowe (Gina's mother), Damon Douglas (Twist)

An ex-con working a protection racket against independent truckers uses teenagers as henchmen.

19 :01x19 - The People Mover

First aired: Apr/25/1977
Writer: William Froug
Guest star: Eldon Quick (Miles Hopkins), Edward Mulhare (Barris), Charles Siebert (Hank Clayton), Ed Griffith (Willie Butler), Joby Baker (Pete Kerman), Katherine Justice (Jennie Lawrence)

Link and the Most Wanted Unit hunt a master criminal who specializes in providing fugitives with sophisticated new identities.

20 :01x20 - The Death Dealer

First aired: Aug/13/1977
Writer: Anthony Terpiloff
Director: Michael Preece
Guest star: Don Billett (Joe Shavin), Stuart Nisbet (Fred), Joanna Miles (Andrea Garner), Mitchell Ryan (Keith Garner), Herb Armstrong (George Lyman)

An unconvicted murderer threatens Linc with death unless he retracts his accusations.

21 :01x21 - The Dutchman

First aired: Aug/20/1977
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Belinda Montgomery (Ann Del Amo), Jason Bernard (Washburn), Fred Holliday (Peter Kovacs), Paul Koslo (Jimmy Sargent), Jack Knight (Clements), Vernon Weddle (Crill), Rip Torn (Christian Van Wyck), Ben Frank (Blake), Burr deBenning (Jay Gorman)

A rifle capable of firing 30 rounds a second with pinpoint accuracy is the target of a theft.