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Harry O Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
Anatomy of a Frame
Thu, Sep 11, 197560 mins
Lt. Trench is the victim of a frame up. An informant of his is murdered and the circumstances make him appear guilty. It doesn't help his case any when the Captain in charge doesn't like Trench because of his swift promotion over more seasoned officers. Trench reluctantly hires Harry to find the truth and clear his name. Harry's investigation leads him to a ring of heroin dealers.
Episode 2
One for the Road
Thu, Sep 18, 197560 mins
Following a high-society dinner, a young woman is run down and left for dead on a lonely highway. High profile attorney and alcoholic, Jennifer Roth, leaves the dinner intoxicated and can't remember driving home. When she learns about the hit-and-run victim the next morning, she hires Harry to find out if she was the driver, and he discovers that her car was used to run down the girl. Orwell investigates a number of other suspects who also left the same dinner, and uncovers an eye-witness to the accident who then disappears before he can identify the driver. Harry is shot at in his own home when it appears he is getting too close to discovering the identity of the hit-and-run driver.
Episode 3
Lester Two
Thu, Sep 25, 1975
Lester Hodges is back, much to Harry's chagrin. Harry's next door neighbor and stewardess girlfriend, Sue Ingham, returns from a flight to Paris. Unbeknownst to her, she has stolen diamonds in a bottle of perfume in her suitcase. Her house is ransacked as the thieves search for the diamonds, and not finding them they kidnap Sue and hold her for ransom. Learning the gems never left France in the first place, Harry and Lester fly to Paris to retrieve the diamonds. Using James Bond type gadgets supplied by Lester, they attempt to free Sue and catch the thieves.
Episode 4
Shades
Thu, Oct 2, 1975
A black woman is arrested for murder when she is found in the dead man's apartment with a gun in her purse. When the police arrive, she was in the middle of searching the room. She confesses to the murder. Her employer, a well-to-do white woman, hires Harry (on Sergeant Roberts' recommendation) to find the real killer.
Episode 5
Portrait of a Murder
Thu, Nov 20, 197560 mins
A mentally challenged young man sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to go to a carnival. When a young woman is found strangled the next morning, his parents hire Harry to find out where their son went during the night. All the young man can say is that he saw a lion under the pier, but two other women had previously been strangled in the area, and when a fourth victim turns up, all evidence points to the young man as the killer. Harry investigates and discovers a multitude of possible suspects.
Episode 6
The Acolyte
Thu, Oct 16, 1975
Harry is hired to find a young woman who will soon turn 25, making her eligible to inherit her family fortune. His investigation leads him to believe she is in the Institute of Religious Psychology. When he manages to sneak into her room and talk to her, he discovers she is being brainwashed, drugged and indoctrinated. She is hiding out there because she believes she murdered someone, and in her befuddled state she is about to donate her fortune to the Institute. Harry must help her.
Episode 7
Mayday
Thu, Oct 23, 1975
Ward Nevins is a pilot whom Harry knew when they served in Korea. He is flying Senator John Elton when their private plane suddenly falters and begins to fall. Nevins radios for help while Elton dons a parachute, but Nevins suddenly passes out and the plane crashes, killing Nevins and injuring Senator Elton. Harry attends the funeral and Nevin's widow Ellen tells him of strange behavior and phone calls by Ward before the fatal flight, and when they arrive at her house it has been ransacked. Harry flies to Fresno and learns that a valve on the plane jammed, but they can't explain why; he also learns the Senator's chute was defective. Harry later learns that Elton is a swing vote on a highway bill that may benefit Northwest Engineering, whose president Hal Follet hates Senator Elton. Harry then learns from Lt. Trench that fingerprints from Ellen's house belong to hit-man Rod Stoner. Another enemy of the Senator is union boss Jake Muller, who has employed Stoner in the past, and Harry realizes the plane was sabotaged, a suspicion confirmed first by an attempt on his life by Stoner, then when he and Ellen discover a safe deposit box owned by Ward that contains over $50,000, and finally when Harry has Ward's body exhumed for a new autopsy and learns from the wrecked plane that Ward had deliberately had the fatal valve frozen to make a crash, and the oxygen tank used by Ward was replaced with a nitrogen tank. Harry tracks down and confronts the mechanic responsible, but their lives at in danger when they are cornered and attacked by Stoner and several accomplices.
Episode 8
Tender Killing Care
Thu, Oct 30, 1975
Spence, Harry's auto mechanic, fears his father is being mistreated at the 'old folks home'. When Spence's father dies, he hires Harry to investigate the Doctor at the home.
Episode 9
APB Harry Orwell
Thu, Nov 6, 1975
While Harry Orwell meets with a potential client out on the pier near his beach house, a man impersonating Harry is at his house. The impersonator kills a man in Harry's house then using Harry's car dumps the body about a mile from Harry's house. Lt. Trench and Sgt. Roberts know it's a frame but they have to arrest him based on the evidence. Harry is arrested, charged, and bound for trial but Trench continues to investigate. Harry breaks out of jail to find the woman who met him on the pier and figure out who she was working with to frame him. Trench, Roberts, and Harry's friend/neighbor Sue all try to help Harry in different ways. It all ties back to a case that Harry worked on when he was working for the San Diego police force, one which, ironically, he barely remembers and doesn't even recognize the perp's name.
Episode 10
Group Terror
Thu, Nov 13, 1975
When members of a therapy group turn up murdered, the group psychiatrist suspects one of the members and hires Harry to investigate.
Episode 11
Reflections
Thu, Oct 9, 1975
A friend of Harry's calls him, saying her husband hasn't been home all night. Her husband is Harry's former partner on the police force, now a P.I., and a known womanizer. When Harry discovers him in a motel, he has been murdered by a blackmailer. Investigating further, Orwell finds he was working for his own ex-wife, Elizabeth, who is now married to a judge. Harry and Elizabeth still have deep feelings for each other, as he tries to protect her and her husband while catching the blackmailer.
Episode 12
Exercise in Fatality
Thu, Dec 4, 197560 mins
Police Sgt. Frank Brannen is distraught over his runaway daughter, and tracks down her pusher/boyfriend, threatening to kill him for getting his daughter addicted to drugs. Sgt. Brannen's daughter walks into the apartment, and it's obvious she is pregnant. After she runs away, Sgt. Brannen is knocked out from behind, and when he wakes up his daughter's boyfriend is found shot with Brannen's own gun. Arrested for murder, he hires Orwell to find the real killer and locate his runaway daughter. The ensuing investigation leads to the murder of a good friend of Harry's, and more drug-addled suspects and witnesses.
Episode 13
The Madonna Legacy
Thu, Dec 11, 1975
A man calls Harry Orwell while Harry is asleep, but when the half-awake Harry answers, there is nothing, so Harry hangs up. The next day Harry learns that Frank McDonald, an old friend from his days with the San Diego PD, has been found dead. The death is ruled a suicide but Harry is skeptical, and after learning that McDonald was the man who called him that night, Harry begins backtracking those who most recently knew McDonald. He meets a woman McDonald knew from attending AA meetings, a woman who was married to wealthy businessman Walter Nesbitt. Harry then begins piecing together information on a murder case McDonald was involved in years earlier involving the death of Walter Nesbitt's secretary, Angela Thomas. Several attempts on the lives of Harry, Nesbitt's estranged son-in-law, and Nesbitt's mentally disturbed son lead Harry and Lt. Trench back to the man convicted of Angela Thomas' murder, a man named Bill Henderson, a violent man who was recently paroled but who Harry learns was not the real killer.
Episode 14
Mister Five and Dime
Thu, Jan 8, 1976
Lester Hodges is back, much to Orwell's annoyance. Gayle shares a class with Lester, and when she is arrested for passing counterfeit money, she calls on Lester for help, who in turn goes to Harry. Gayle got the money from her grandfather, but when he is kidnapped Harry and Lester discover printing equipment in his attic. He is a gifted counterfeiter who has been at it for years. He is being forced to print bogus money for a group of thieves who need a large sum of cash to purchase a shipment of heroin entering the country. The case takes many twists and turns, involving the secret service, FBI and the Mexican secret service.
Episode 15
Book of Changes
Thu, Jan 15, 1976
Kate owns and runs a gambling nightclub, and one night she surprises a thief in her office, and is shot and killed. A young girl who works for Kate named Jamie, witnesses the murder and flees the scene. Jamie had orders from Kate to contact Harry in the case of her death, taking to him a note revealing that she kept a notebook with the names of important people, which she used for her own protection. This leads Harry down a trail of investigation that involves the blackmail of several important people whose names are in the little black book, resulting in the murder of several individuals and an attempt on Orwell's life.
Episode 16
Past Imperfect
Thu, Jan 22, 197660 mins
Carl Dawes has been in prison for murder, but has been paroled and he goes to see his former girlfriend Sara Webber. Dawes and Webber played confidence games, cheating business types out of their money, but Sara has gone straight. When Carl asks about a suitcase they had kept, Sara tells him it is still at the San Diego apartment of her friend Kate Roberti, which drives Carl into a rage, as he claims the suitcase contains $300,000 from a Syndicate courier he killed years earlier. He smacks Sara, then stabs a bystander who tries to stop him, and flees. Sara is reluctant to implicate Carl, but Lt. Trench tells Sara to hire Harry Orwell else he'll have to arrest her for aiding a fleeing criminal. She hires Harry to find her suitcase in San Diego, but when Harry meets Kate he learns she gave the suitcase to another friend in LA. Harry drives to LA but find Kate's friend dead in her apartment, the suitcase hidden; Harry is also unaware that Granville Coleman and Roy Garvey, two Mob hit men, have assaulted Kate to learn the whereabouts of this same suitcase. When Harry and Trench have Sara search the suitcase, she finds nothing but old clothes and a stack of stamped letters. She nonetheless agrees to stay at Harry's beach house for awhile, but the next day she and Harry are taken at gunpoint by Carl, who tells Harry to get the suitcase from the police and return it to him else he'll kill Sara outside the city. Harry gets the suitcase but when he finds Carl Dawes, the man is dead, shot by Coleman and Garvey. Sara finally tells Harry who owns the suitcase and Harry must reluctantly take Garvey to a millionaire in San Diego while Coleman holds Sara hostage.
Episode 17
Hostage
Thu, Feb 19, 197660 mins
A burglar is after $10,000 that he thinks is in a liquor store safe, but because the delivery of cash was late, the money isn't there. The store owner presses a silent alarm, which brings two patrolmen to the scene. One is shot inside the store while the other policeman calls for backup. Soon, a significant police presence is summoned, with Lieutenant Trench leading the way. The burglar - now holding three customers, the store owner, and the wounded policeman hostage - makes his demands known. Harry Orwell is called in to help find the burglar's girlfriend.
Episode 18
Forbidden City
Thu, Feb 26, 1976
Harry's old friend and fellow P.I., George Dillard, calls Orwell asking for his help. Harry goes to a meeting place and learns that George has been murdered. He begins investigating his friend's death, and discovers he was working for a woman named Lisa Soong, who is concerned her father is in danger. The case leads Orwell to a U.S. Marine sergeant who smuggled valuable pieces of art out of Vietnam before it fell, and is now attempting to get it into the country.
Episode 19
Victim
Thu, Mar 4, 1976
When Mary Casado returns home one night, she is brutally raped. She reports it to the police and identifies the perpetrator as a man who works with her, even though he was wearing a mask. The case is dropped due to lack of evidence, so she hires Orwell to prove she isn't lying. Harry's investigation sets off a chain of events in which the rapist threatens Mary, and she fires Orwell. He presses on in an attempt to disprove the rapist's alibi.
Episode 20
Ruby
Thu, Mar 11, 1976
An old friend of Harry's named Ruby Lawrence hires him to help her nephew, who was arrested for stealing a car and killing a police officer. Orwell's investigation leads him to believe someone else stole the car, as he uncovers a large car theft ring and drug dealing operation. The case takes many twists and turns as Harry goes undercover as a car thief.
Episode 21
The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
Thu, Mar 18, 1976
The fourth "Lester" episode is a pilot for what would have been a spin off "Fong and Hodges" series. (Sadly, the episode's relatively low ratings may have been the tipping point in ABC deciding to cancel "Harry O." Harry receives a note from Simon Applequist, asking Harry to come to a meeting at Applequist's palatial mansion. Applequist is a fabulously successful businessman who made more enemies than even he could count. Applequist greats Harry and introduces him to his various relatives -- one of whom is Lester Hodges. Then he fixes a baleful glare on the group and announces someone has sent him a threatening audiotape. Applequist puts the tape on and sits back as a whispered death threat plays. As the voice hisses: "Wait to die! Wait to die!" that's what Applequist does. Officially he suffered a heart attack, but Lester and his oft-mentioned mentor, Dr. Creighton Fong find that Applequist was poisoned by a venom found in the skin of an Amazon River basin alligator. At the reading of the will, Applequist's attorney reveals that Applequist has left almost everything to his brother-in-law Edward Tabor. Lester pokes around and gets everyone to whisper the same word to him, which he records. Dr. Fong finds that the word was uttered by Tabor. Lester goes to Tabor and confronts him, seeing his lab of various exotic poisons. Sure enough, Tabor has a nearly-empty vial of caimanol, the poison, in his collection. But the moment Lester points this out to Tabor, who is sipping a drink, Tabor drops dead in his tracks -- the caimanol was planted in the drink. As Harry (who is off screen for most of this episode) leaves to check out the backgrounds of the suspects, one heir after another gets a lethal dose of caimanol in various fashions, until only two suspects are left. And Lester is one of them.
Episode 22
Death Certificate
Thu, Apr 29, 1976
A young widow has a malpractice suit against the doctor who was treating her deceased husband, but after she is threatened by two men to drop the suit, her mother hires Harry to look into the Dr.'s past. Dead bodies begin piling up around Orwell, including Spence, his auto mechanic. The investigation leads Harry into the world of organized crime, hit-men and the safe-deposit box of the deceased husband.
