Season 5
Episodes
S5 · E1 · 30 Sept 1976 · 60 min
The Thrill Killers (1)
Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.
S5 · E2 · 7 Oct 1976 · 60 min
The Thrill Killers (2)
Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.
S5 · E3 · 21 Oct 1976 · 60 min
Dead or Alive
A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture -- dead or alive -- of the man who raped and murdered his daughter, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.
S5 · E4 · 28 Oct 1976 · 60 min
The Drop
Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.
S5 · E5 · 4 Nov 1976 · 60 min
No Minor Vices
A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.
S5 · E6 · 11 Nov 1976 · 60 min
In Case of Madness
A music producer turns up dead; a popular singer he was producing an album for is convinced that he is going insane and killed the producer, but the truth is stranger.
S5 · E7 · 18 Nov 1976 · 60 min
Till Death Do Us Part
Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife, in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.
S5 · E8 · 2 Dec 1976 · 60 min
Child of Anger
A clothing designer finds herself on the front page after her daughter confesses to the murder of her latest fling. Stone and Robbins realize the girl's really a witness and not a murderer.
S5 · E9 · 9 Dec 1976 · 60 min
Hot Dog
Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.
S5 · E10 · 23 Dec 1976 · 60 min
Castle of Fear
A man who has been tormented by mysterious, threatening phone calls believes that his stalker has entered his property, and shoots him. Unfortunately for the man, his victim was a totally innocent cop...
S5 · E11 · 6 Jan 1977 · 60 min
One Last Trick
A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.
S5 · E12 · 13 Jan 1977 · 60 min
Monkey is Back
As a dare to try to win a spot among a gang of high school thugs in the 1950's, Charley Belasco commits a crime that sends him to prison for 20 years. Upon his release, he goes on a murderous rampage to hunt down the the high school thugs who spurned him.
S5 · E13 · 20 Jan 1977 · 60 min
The Cannibals
A mobster's son steals loot from his father and seeks protection from federal authorities in exchange for being a material witness against his father.
S5 · E14 · 3 Feb 1977 · 60 min
Who Killed Helen French?
An abused wife vanishes after a vicious attack by her drunken husband and all clues point to murder with the husband as the prime suspect, but he can't remember if he did it or not.
S5 · E15 · 10 Feb 1977 · 60 min
A Good Cop...But
A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.
S5 · E16 · 17 Feb 1977 · 60 min
Hang Tough
A narcotics cop who has only four months to go 'til retirement roughs up a drug pusher and plants a knife on him. Meanwhile, an operation begins to uncover the "Tucson connection," a major drug ring operating in San Francisco.
S5 · E17 · 24 Feb 1977 · 60 min
Innocent No More
Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.
S5 · E18 · 3 Mar 1977 · 60 min
Once a Con
When a female college student is killed on campus, suspicion falls on a prison inmate allowed temporary release to work in the college's print-shop.
S5 · E19 · 28 Apr 1977 · 60 min
Interlude
Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.
S5 · E20 · 5 May 1977 · 60 min
Dead Lift
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.
S5 · E21 · 12 May 1977 · 60 min
Breakup
An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con.
S5 · E22 · 19 May 1977 · 60 min
Let's Pretend We're Strangers
A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.
S5 · E23 · 2 Jun 1977 · 60 min
Time Out
A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.
S5 · E24 · 9 Jun 1977 · 60 min
The Canine Collar
Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.
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