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Barnaby Jones Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1977 - 1978
Episode 1
Death Beat
Thu, Sep 15, 197760 mins
A TV reporter who will stop at nothing to get a big scoop -- up to and including inventing the story outright. He hires a professional stunt man to fake his own suicide by diving off a bridge while the reporter is there and the cameras roll. Just as the stunt man makes his leap, a priest who has been trying to talk the "suicide" out of jumping makes a last-ditch grab at the stunt man's clothing. As a result, both take a tumble into Los Angeles Harbor, and the priest is killed on impact. When the stunt man, who survived and is now hiding out, calls out the reporter on the inadvertent murder of an innocent man, the reporter throws HIM off a roof and kills him. Barnaby, Betty and J.R. set up a scheme where the reporter will "cover" still another phony story and implicate himself in the murder. When the reporter pulls a gun and tries to escape, J.R. tackles him. Lt. Biddle comes onto the scene and arrests the reporter for murder; the reporter then asks Biddle to let the reporter videotape his own capture. He gets his wish.
Episode 2
The Mercenaries
Thu, Sep 22, 197760 mins
One of the men that J.R. served with in Vietnam has come up missing after he joined a mercenary group. At the request of his Vietnam buddies wife, J.R. and Barnaby investigate the group in hopes of finding him.
Episode 3
The Wife Beater
Thu, Sep 29, 197760 mins
One of Betty's friends comes to her when her alcoholic husband goes off the deep end and becomes physically abusive. Barnaby and J.R. become involved when he becomes a suspect in the murder of the woman's boss.
Episode 4
Yesterday's Terror
Thu, Oct 13, 197760 mins
A woman trying to hide her sordid past from her well-to-do husband is blackmailed into stealing thousands in bonds from her husbands company. Investigating on behalf of the insurance company Barnaby unearths the details.
Episode 5
The Damocles Gun
Thu, Oct 20, 197760 mins
After a man is injured in a hit-and-run accident, his sister runs for help. But when she comes back a few minutes later, he's vanished without a trace. She then hires Barnaby and J.R. to find him, and they discover that the brother has been involved with some very bad people.
Episode 6
Gang War
Thu, Oct 27, 197760 mins
A gang leader sends two of his men to bring Barnaby to him but he's not around so they get J.R. and bring him to him. He tells J.R. that his friend and lieutenant was shot and killed. Most of his gang are inclined to believe that someone from a rival gang may have been the one who killed him and would like to start a war. But the leader doesn't think so. So he wants J.R. to find who it is before a war breaks out. Barnaby upon learning of what happened to J.R. and what he is doing is doing some digging of his own.
Episode 7
Daughter of Evil
Thu, Nov 3, 197760 mins
After a security guard is murdered during the theft of a valuable emerald collection Barnaby and J.R. are hired to investigate. What they unearth is a madam, her low-life boyfriend, and a call girl carrying out her part in a scheme to rip-off unsuspecting men of their valuables.
Episode 8
The Captives
Thu, Nov 10, 197760 mins
Barnaby travels to the small town of Las Mesas looking for a missing woman. He finds her, but he's taken captive along with her and several town residents by a group of men waiting to steal $250,000 from an armored car that is going to come through town. Their only hope to escape lies with J.R.
Episode 9
The Reincarnation
Thu, Nov 17, 197760 mins
Barnaby is investigating the death of a doctor who was killed at a house party. Jones learns that Diane Magnus, the homeowner, thinks her niece's new boyfriend is the reincarnation of her late husband, who was murdered 20 years ago.
Episode 10
Shadow of Fear
Thu, Nov 24, 197760 mins
While spending time at her cabin in a small town in California, Betty comes between a doctor who's hiding his real identity and the three men who want to kill him because of an incident that happened during the Vietnam War.
Episode 11
The Devil's Handmaiden
Thu, Dec 1, 197760 mins
Barnaby investigates the deaths of two people that were predicted by a twelve year old girl. Barnaby discovers that what's behind her premonitions is more sinister than psychic.
Episode 12
Prisoner of Deceit
Thu, Dec 15, 197760 mins
Barnaby and J.R. investigate the murder of a man's brother and discover that the ugly truth behind his death lies in a mentally ill young woman and the delusions that she's held onto since her own fathers death.
Episode 13
Deadly Homecoming
Thu, Dec 22, 197760 mins
Barnaby and J.R. look into the deaths of two brothers who were murdered just days apart. Their investigation leads them to believe that their deaths are somehow tied a local woman's return after being in a sanitarium for three years.
Episode 14
Child of Danger
Thu, Dec 29, 197760 mins
Betty has no choice but to look after the son of an old college friend she hadn't seen in years after he walks out in the middle of a lunch date. What she doesn't immediately realize is that he's involved with two men planning a big heist.
Episode 15
The Scapegoat
Thu, Jan 5, 197860 mins
J.R. enlists the help of Barnaby after a friend of his is being blamed for the murder of his girlfriend, and his friends lawyer mysteriously seems to want to undermine a case for his innocence.
Episode 16
A Ransom in Diamonds
Thu, Jan 12, 197860 mins
A man who works for a diamond retailer hires a seemingly incompetent lawyer and private detective to help get his kidnapped wife back. Barnaby and J.R. get involved after they botch the first ransom attempt and the discover there's more to this kidnapping than meets the eye.
Episode 17
Prime Target
Thu, Jan 19, 197860 mins
Barnaby asks a woman who has just been paroled for information on the man she was involved with so he can recover money he stole. She refuses, so J.R. goes undercover to get the info and discovers her life is in danger by this same man..
Episode 18
Final Judgment: Part 1
Thu, Jan 26, 197860 mins
After a distraught and depressed woman attempts suicide, Barnaby Jones is compelled to re-investigate a case in which he may have helped wrongly convict her ex-husband of kidnapping a little boy four years earlier.
Episode 19
Final Judgment: Part 2
Thu, Jan 26, 197860 mins
Barnaby continues to re-investigate an old kidnapping case in which he firmly believes the wrong man has been put into prison for the crime. But as the investigation deepens, and the murders pile up, Barnaby knows he is close to the truth.
Episode 20
Uninvited Peril
Thu, Feb 2, 197860 mins
Betty gets more than she bargained for when she helps a couple find their deranged son. After finding him she quickly discovers that they're even more deranged than he is-and that they'll kill anyone who gets in their way, including her.
Episode 21
Terror on a Quiet Afternoon
Thu, Feb 9, 197860 mins
A young woman named Amy, portrayed by Dee Wallace, finds herself relentlessly pursued by a wealthy and unstable man named Mitchell Grady II, along with his accomplices Greg and Curt. Mitchell's harassment escalates from eerie nighttime visits to her home to unwanted encounters at her workplace, where he feigns a desire to make a large bank deposit just to get closer to her. Despite Amy's clear rejection of his advances and her multiple reports to the police, she faces a frustrating lack of action due to insufficient evidence. In a bid for safety, she hires J.R. to protect her, but Mitchell's obsession only intensifies, leading to a confrontation where J.R. must defend himself. As they attempt to escape, Mitchell and his friends pursue them, forcing Amy and J.R. to seek refuge in an isolated cabin. Trapped and outnumbered, they must rely on their wits and survival instincts, with the help of Barnaby, who joins the effort to rescue them from their relentless pursuers.
Episode 22
The Coronado Triangle
Thu, Mar 2, 197860 mins
Barnaby and J.R. investigate a string of yacht disappearances in the waters off the coast of California and Mexico. Eyewitness reports say they were taken down by a mysterious whirlpool, but Barnaby suspects a hijacking operation is really behind the mystery.