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Harry O Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1973 - 1975
Episode 0
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Sun, Mar 11, 197373 mins
Harry Orwell is a LA cop who is retired due to a bullet in his back. Now a Private Detective, Harry O. is hired by the man who shot him to find the other man who was involved in the shooting. Scheerer is trying to kill Garrison and also keep his heroin business alive. Harry O. wants to bring both to justice.
Episode 1
Gertrude
Thu, Sep 12, 197460 mins
Harry is hired by a beautiful but wacky woman. She wants him to find her brother, who went AWOL from the navy and sent her his left shoe. Orwell's investigation uncovers a gang of smugglers.
Episode 2
The Admiral's Lady
Thu, Sep 19, 197452 mins
Harry is hired by a retired Navy Admiral to find his missing wife, Andrea. The police think she drowned when her boat broke up and sank but the Admiral does not believe this. Harry begins his investigation by questioning members of the exclusive yacht club that the Admiral and his wife belong to. When the police pull a woman's body from the ocean Harry is surprised when it doesn't turn out to be the Admiral's wife but a friend of hers...and it turns out she was murdered and not a drowning victim. Harry now believes that Andrea Tannehill is alive and in danger somewhere and continues searching with renewed interest.
Episode 3
Guardian at the Gates
Thu, Sep 26, 197452 mins
Harry is hired by his beautiful neighbor to find out who is trying to kill her curmudgeon father. Paul Sawyer is an eccentric, arrogant architect, considered to be a genius, but the list of his enemies is quite long.
Episode 4
Mortal Sin
Thu, Oct 3, 197452 mins
Father Paul Vecchio goes to Harry for help after hearing a penitent confess to murder. He can't identify the murderer or go to the police because to do so would be breaking the seal of the confessional. He does, however, reveal a clue - the murderer had recited a verse of poem. Harry figures out from the clue where the crime might have taken place and he's right. Soon, there's a second body. Harry's investigation uncovers who the killer is, why he's killing, and culminates in the resolution of Father Paul's crisis of faith as well as the takedown of the murderer.
Episode 5
Coinage of the Realm
Thu, Oct 10, 197452 mins
When Harry was on the police force, he spent six months looking for Don Yorkfield, who was a hit and run suspect. The victim was a member of the mob. At the time, Yorkfield's wife did not want to help Harry find her husband. Now, the tables are turned and she goes to Harry for help. Her daughter Shelly needs a kidney transplant and Dad's blood type is the same as hers. Harry goes back through his old case file, gets new clues from the now cooperative wife, and wins over young Shelly, all the while dodging two mob hit men. Harry eventually finds Yorkfield, but that's not the end of the drama.
Episode 6
Eyewitness
Thu, Oct 17, 197460 mins
Harry's former nurse needs his help. Her son has been arrested for murder. James is a troubled kid, but no murderer. Harry goes to the police station, where his friend and former colleague Lt. Quinlan seems awfully uptight about his asking questions. When Harry goes to the scene of the crime to look around, he discovers an observant blind kid who's the brother of a prostitute that Harry knows from his old police force days. The blind kid heard the shots and many other sounds. He's convinced that James wasn't the shooter. Harry thinks he knows who committed the murder, but he can't prove it. And the police can't touch him without proof. The police's hands are tied. Are Harry's?
Episode 7
Shadows at Noon
Thu, Oct 24, 197452 mins
When Harry suspects a young woman is being held against her will in a mental asylum, he investigates and discovers a murder. He pretends to be a patient and goes undercover.
Episode 8
Ballinger's Choice
Thu, Oct 31, 197452 mins
A woman hires Harry to locate her missing husband. What Orwell discovers during his investigation is a complex web of lies and deceit--even murder--resulting in his being being shot while working the case.
Episode 9
Second Sight
Thu, Nov 7, 197460 mins
When a psychiatrist's office is ransacked and he is missing, the police find Harry's name in his appointment book. After being questioned, Orwell tries to help the police find him, as a blind psychic offers her services as well. When her predictions begin coming true and dead bodies begin turning up, Orwell wonders if she is indeed the real deal. The investigation takes many twists and turns before Harry finds the answers he is seeking.
Episode 10
Material Witness
Thu, Nov 14, 1974
When Dr. Kira witnesses a crime boss commit murder, she becomes his next potential target. Since the police captain isn't sure he can trust his own department, he enlists Harry's help. Harry takes on the role of bodyguard reluctantly. Meanwhile. Dr. Kira is none too happy about having her life disrupted. At first, she is resentful of being cooped up with Harry in seclusion. After an attempt is made on their lives, she is more understanding of and thankful for Harry's expertise.
Episode 11
Forty Reasons to Kill: Part 1
Thu, Dec 5, 197452 mins
Harry's friend George Makita is found murdered with a large amount of cocaine in his possession. The police believe he was drug dealer, but his girlfriend hires Harry to look into his death. Discovering evidence that George was framed, Harry travels to Vadero County and meets with a very pretty, very wealthy woman named Glenna Nielson, who owns a large ranch there. Glenna had sold forty acres to George just prior to his death, and Harry suspects this is connected to the murder. When a prominent businessman (Glenna's uncle) is killed, Harry is arrested for his murder.
Episode 12
Forty Reasons to Kill: Part 2
Thu, Dec 12, 197460 mins
Lt. Manny Quinlan travels to Vedero County to help prove Harry's innocence and solve the murder of George Makita. Glenna Nielsen develops feelings for Orwell.
Episode 13
Accounts Balanced
Thu, Dec 26, 197452 mins
Anne Virdon is an old friend of Orwell's, and she hires Harry to check on her husband, fearing he is seeing another woman. The truth is something very different, as someone fires a shot at Orwell.
Episode 14
The Last Heir
Thu, Jan 9, 197552 mins
Letty owns a gold mine in the desert. Letty's two sisters, a brother, and a grand-nephew and his wife come for their annual visit. Trapped in the house in the middle of the desert, they start getting killed off, one by one.
Episode 15
For the Love of Money
Thu, Jan 16, 1975
Emily and her boyfriend steal $25,000 in bonds from her boss's safe. She has a change of heart and wants to return the bonds, but her boyfriend and the bonds are gone. Harry is hired to find the missing boyfriend.
Episode 16
The Confetti People
Thu, Jan 23, 1975
A young man, who has been in a mental institution, is tricked into shooting his brother -- an artist and a mean drunk given to assaulting those he's close to. Harry realizes it is a scam by the artist's wife to inherit a large trust fund.
Episode 17
Sound of Trumpets
Thu, Jan 30, 197552 mins
Harry is attending a seaside jazz club when he hears a trumpeter playing in tune outside. Suddenly the trumpeter falls into the water - pushed in by a hit man unnoticed by anyone else. Harry, thinking the trumpeter passed out from being drunk, takes him to his beach house to sober up, and the next morning leaves to buy groceries. When Harry returns he finds a bottle of scotch broken and his car gone, stolen by the trumpeter. He also finds a young singer, Ruthie Daniels, waiting for him; Ruthie knows who the trumpeter is - her father, Arthur "Art Sully" Daniels. Daniels went to prison in 1963 for stabbing to death a mobster named Reisman and is now on parole; Daniels was gypped by his record company, led by Sid Hacktel, out of royalties, and is being pursued. Harry smokes out the hit man seeking Daniels and identifies him as Manny "Smitty" Schmicht, a former bouncer for one of Hacktel's nightclubs - and who is left-handed. When Sid Hacktel is found shot to death, Harry's car with Daniel's hat and trumpet are found abandoned in the driveway, but Harry recognizes it to be a setup since he had the hat and horn at his house that morning. Lt. Trench is stuck, since the only hard evidence he has is against Daniels even though he recognizes Daniels is being set up, since Hacktel's company is under FBI investigation for pirating recordings of jazz concerts and festivals, and an FBI agent involved in the investigation was found stabbed to death six weeks earlier. But both Harry and Trench encounter more than they bargained for when a family friend of the Daniels' is found stabbed to death and Ruthie Daniels is taken hostage by Smitty.
Episode 18
Silent Kill
Thu, Feb 6, 197560 mins
Harry comes to the aid of a deaf mute man accused of setting fire to a building after he was fired from his job as the building's janitor.
Episode 19
Double Jeopardy
Thu, Feb 13, 197552 mins
Carl Milland is a legitimate, successful businessman who used to be a big-time gangster. Harry witnesses Mr. Milland's daughter being murdered on the beach, and sees a young man in the vicinity moments later. The police arrest the young man, who is an aspiring actor named Todd Conway, but release him for lack of evidence. Todd then hires Harry the next day after an attempt on his life. Orwell suspects Carl Milland has put a 'hit' on Todd, and strikes a deal with Milland to give him 24 hours to find the real killer of his daughter.
Episode 20
Lester
Thu, Feb 20, 1975
A young woman is murdered on a college campus, and the police suspect an eccentric young man named Lester Hodges as the killer. Harry is hired by Lester's father to prove his son's innocence. Lester is intensely interested in criminology and begins to idolize Orwell, even dressing like him and imitating his actions. When Harry discovers another girl was previously murdered with the same M.O., Orwell begins to wonder if Lester is innocent or not.
Episode 21
Elegy for a Cop
Thu, Feb 27, 1975
Lt. Manny Quinlan goes to Los Angeles to rescue his drug addicted niece. He finds her in a seedy rooming house; high on drugs and uncooperative. She shows her Uncle an envelope filled with money lying on the table; Manny puts it into his coat pocket. But it's a set up by her pusher. Manny is shot and left to die. He writes Harry Orwell's name on the envelope and drags himself down the stairs. His final act is getting that envelope in a mailbox. Manny is outside of his jurisdiction; he had an envelope full of money. It appears that he is a dirty, bribed cop. Harry Orwell knows that isn't true; he sets out to clear the name and reputation of his murdered friend Manny.
Episode 22
Street Games
Sun, Mar 2, 197552 mins
When a drug addicted street waif witnesses a murder, she is forced to flee for her life. Harry is hired by her mother to find her before the killers do.
