Season 5

Season 5 • 1976

⭐ 2.9 / 5

Episodes

1. The Thrill Killers (1)

Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.

1976-09-30 • 60 min

2. 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.

1976-10-07 • 60 min

3. 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.

1976-10-21 • 60 min

4. The Drop

Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.

1976-10-28 • 60 min

5. No Minor Vices

A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

1976-11-04 • 60 min

6. 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.

1976-11-11 • 60 min

7. 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.

1976-11-18 • 60 min

8. 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.

1976-12-02 • 60 min

9. Hot Dog

Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.

1976-12-09 • 60 min

10. 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...

1976-12-23 • 60 min

11. One Last Trick

A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.

1977-01-06 • 60 min

12. 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.

1977-01-13 • 60 min

13. 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.

1977-01-20 • 60 min

14. 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.

1977-02-03 • 60 min

15. A Good Cop...But

A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.

1977-02-10 • 60 min

16. 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.

1977-02-17 • 60 min

17. Innocent No More

Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.

1977-02-24 • 60 min

18. 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.

1977-03-03 • 60 min

19. Interlude

Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.

1977-04-28 • 60 min

20. Dead Lift

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.

1977-05-05 • 60 min

21. 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.

1977-05-12 • 60 min