Dan August
Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. While working cases with his partner Sgt. Wilentz, August frequently comes into contact with people he has known for many years. George Untermeyer is the Santa Luisa Chief of Police, Sgt. Rivera another detective, and Katy is the police dispatcher in this Quinn Martin production.
- 1970-1971
- 1 season
- ABC
- Suspense, Drama
Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. While working cases with his partner Sgt. Wilentz, August frequently comes into contact with people he has known for many years. George Untermeyer is the Santa Luisa Chief of Police, Sgt. Rivera another detective, and Katy is the police dispatcher in this Quinn Martin production.
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
Murder by Proxy
Wed, Sep 23, 1970 60 mins
A well-known race car driver is driving recklessly, and at a very high speed. When a police car gives chase, Gabe Redfern loses control and drives into the lake. The first officer on the scene finds that the driver is naked, and that he has been shot. Dan August knew the race car driver personally. He suspects that the killer is someone close to Gabe, but everyone has an alibi.
Episode 2
The Murder of a Small Town
Wed, Sep 30, 1970 60 mins
A sabotaged school bus is involved in an accident that kills Rivera's niece. Dan wonders if a migrant worker's strike is connected and must find the killer before violence breaks out.
Episode 3
Love Is a Nickel Bag
Wed, Oct 7, 1970 60 mins
A teenage boy fatally overdoses at a wild party. In order to find the drug supplier, Dan 'sweats out' the heroin-addicted host of the party in an attempt to gain information.
Episode 4
The King Is Dead
Wed, Oct 14, 1970 60 mins
The philanthropist who put Dan through college is found shot to death, and Dan doesn't buy the 'scared burglar' theory.
Episode 5
In the Eyes of God
Wed, Oct 21, 1970 60 mins
Dan and the department must investigate a murder at a church, and a former priest is the prime suspect because he refuses to reveal everything he knows about what happened.
Episode 6
The Color of Fury
Wed, Oct 28, 1970 60 mins
Dan tries to help a black activist accused of the murder of a councilman's sister.
Episode 7
Invitation to Murder
Wed, Nov 4, 1970 60 mins
The spoiled daughter of a famous newspaper columnist is found dead on the beach. Dan's investigation is complicated by the columnist, who uses his forum to virtually convict the girl's hippie boyfriend.
Episode 8
The Union Forever
Wed, Nov 11, 1970 60 mins
A union leader is assassinated, and his rival, who has a police record, is suspected of setting him up to be killed.
Episode 9
Epitaph for a Swinger
Wed, Nov 18, 1970 60 mins
Dan checks out the residents of a swinger's apartment complex after a gigolo is murdered.
Episode 10
When the Shouting Dies
Wed, Nov 25, 1970 60 mins
A beautiful blackmailer dies in a fall from an apartment balcony, and the prime suspect is Dan's old friend, Heap Canfield.
Episode 11
The Soldier
Wed, Dec 2, 1970 60 mins
Dan's attempt to clear an AWOL soldier of an MP's murder is hampered by the suspect's uncooperative friends.
Episode 12
Quadrangle for Death
Wed, Dec 16, 1970 60 mins
College President, who has just fired a controversial professor, is run down in a campus parking lot. The professor preaches resisting authority in the classroom, and tells August he'll not cooperate with the investigation, and any attempt to harass him will result in campus violence.
Episode 13
Passing Fair
Wed, Dec 30, 1970 60 mins
A missing file from a murdered psychiatrist's office is the key to solving both the doctor's murder and a blackmail plot.
Episode 14
The Titan
Thu, Jan 7, 1971 60 mins
Dan deals with a millionaire, his wife and his right-hand man, all suspects in the murder of a low-level drug pusher.
Episode 15
Death Chain
Thu, Jan 21, 1971 60 mins
One murder leads to more killing...Dan's initial investigation is the rape and murder of a young, recently divorced socialite, but as he looks into the case, a mysterious sniper is picking off the suspects, all young men she was last seen with. Dan must now not only search for the sniper, but whomever it was that tipped him off.
Episode 16
Dead Witness to a Killing
Thu, Jan 28, 1971 60 mins
An Assistant D.A. refuses to cooperate with Dan, who's looking into the murder of the lawyer's wife.
Episode 17
The Law
Thu, Feb 4, 1971 60 mins
Retired Judge Anderson lives with his daughter and son-in-law. The judge, who may be suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease, is increasingly paranoid and tormented. One day, the daughter asks the son-in-law to take the judge for a drive. Both agree. As the son-in-law drives through open country with the judge in the back seat, they notice a car behind them getting ready to pass. The son-in-law slows down. As the car comes alongside, the judge suddenly whips out a revolver and fires three times point-blank through the window. The other car careens wildly into a field, tearing up grass and small trees before it comes to rest against the stump of a huge ancient tree struck by lightning years earlier. The incredulous son-in-law drives to the nearest town and calls for help. Dan August and his crew come out and find the driver of the other car dead from the judge's bullets. The judge admits to sneaking the gun because he was sure he was going to get "whacked," and firing at the other car in self-defense. But the dead driver is unarmed and there is no gun in his car or on the ground nearby. Almost everyone assumes that the judge has completely lost his mind and will spend the rest of his life in an institution for the criminally insane. He doesn't get that far, dying by hanging at the end of Act Three. But August realizes someone DID have something to gain by the judge's death, and launches a new search for the gun. When he finds it in the dead tree, he realizes the judge was murdered after all and starts hunting for the killer.
Episode 18
The Worst Crime
Thu, Feb 11, 1971 60 mins
After a young waitress is brutally raped and killed in a city park, Dan orders a round-up of all known sex offenders in the area. When a second body is found nearby, that of a young housewife who apparently died in a car accident, he wonders whether the waitress saw something she shouldn't have seen.
Episode 19
Circle of Lies
Thu, Feb 18, 1971 60 mins
A hot-tempered automobile designer is accused of killing his boss after being fired.
Episode 20
Trackdown
Thu, Feb 25, 1971 60 mins
Dan pursues a gang of race track robbers after a patrolman friend of his is gunned down.
Episode 21
Bullet for a Hero
Thu, Mar 4, 1971 60 mins
Dan wonders if the murder of a soldier who recently returned from Vietnam has anything to do with his marriage to a Vietnamese girl.
Episode 22
The Manufactured Man
Thu, Mar 11, 1971 60 mins
The political arena forms the background for Dan's investigation into the brutal murder of a young campaign worker. Among the suspects are the candidate, his son, a reporter and a couple of the candidate's aides.
Episode 23
The Meal Ticket
Thu, Mar 18, 1971 60 mins
A young boxer suddenly drops dead in the third round. The autopsy shows an overdose of methamphetamine. Dan August is determined to find the person who drugged out the Boxer.
Episode 24
Days of Rage
Thu, Mar 25, 1971 60 mins
Dan catches up to a radical wanted for killing a cop, but the man is killed by a sniper before Dan can make the arrest. The question is, was it someone else in his radical group who fired the fatal shot, or was it the millionaire husband of the dead man's lover, or could it have been someone totally unexpected?
Episode 25
Prognosis: Homicide
Thu, Apr 1, 1971 60 mins
A surgeon receives a gift of a bottle of whiskey, which he doesn't need, so he passes it on to a couple of nearby winos, who die from drinking the poisoned spirits inside the bottle. The question is, who is out to kill the surgeon, and Dan gets no help from the uncooperative doctor.
Episode 26
The Assassin
Thu, Apr 8, 1971 60 mins
A sniper fires upon Chief Untermeyer and a friend of his whom he'd been visiting, wounding him and killing her. Dan is led to a couple of suspects, an embezzling employee of her company, who is quickly dismissed as a suspect; her grandson, whose only concern seems to be inheriting the old lady's money; and her mysterious boarder, who harbors a deadly secret that he may be willing to kill to keep quiet.