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Longstreet Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 0
Pilot
Tue, Feb 23, 197190 mins
The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. The story of Michael Longstreet, an insurance investigator recovering from an explosion that killed his wife and took his sight. He decides to remain an investigator and find those responsible for his wife's death and his blindness.
Episode 1
The Way of the Intercepting Fist
Thu, Sep 16, 197148 mins
Mike has been investigating a series of hijackings of high valued goods that have just come off the docks. Mike believes that a man named Arvin is behind the hijackings, but he has no proof yet. But when he is attacked one night by three men telling him to stay off the docks, Mike knows he must be close to nailing Arvin. The only reason why Mike was not more severely beaten is that a third party intervened to save him, namely a Chinese man named Li Tsung. Li was able easily to fend off the three men using a form of martial arts, translated into English called Way of the Intercepting Fist. Li is the only eyewitness who would be able to identify the men. Mike is hoping that Li will be able to do two things, first identify the men so that he can tie them back to Arvin in some manner, and second teach him the Way of the Intercepting Fist. Although Mike believes that learning the martial art form will eventually help him catch the three thugs and thus Arvin, he has ulterior motives in that he wants never to have to feel afraid of the unknown. Even if Mike is able to convince Li to try and teach him, the questions still remain if Mike can learn it with his disability, and whether Li, with his zen-like Asian mentality, will endure a student whose motive seems to be primarily revenge.
Episode 2
A World of Perfect Complicity
Thu, Sep 23, 197149 mins
In the last few months, there have been eleven burglaries at Bel Gardens, an upscale apartment complex, the latest the first where there has been a fatality, the victim Albert Duval, the resident being robbed. Mike figures that the burglars are either led or assisted by someone on the inside, namely a tenant. Duke is not enthralled with Mike's plan if only because of the cost: that he and Nikki go undercover as new residents, husband and wife Edgar and Edna Elliott, they who are to be as ostentatious as possible to be too big a lure for that tenant. A twelfth burglary occurs during the welcome party Mike and Nikki hold for all the tenants of the building, which does not rule out the involvement of anyone who attended the party, or even any of the victims. The party confuses the matter if only because Mike senses that all the tenants individually are hiding something in order to maintain the façade of wealth. Mike figures that another party, that given by Albert's widow, Lydia Duval, will give the burglars ample opportunity to rob their place, which will be watched. The danger for Mike and Nikki is their cover being blown in their continuing association on the case with Duke and Homicide Detective, Lieutenant Hank Broidy, especially if one of Mike's theories on how the inside person may be getting his/her information is correct. Meanwhile, Duke doesn't like the fact that Mike has been practicing shooting at the shooting range.
Episode 3
One in the Reality Column
Thu, Sep 30, 197148 mins
Mike believes the man who has come to get him is the cabbie scheduled to drive him to the Institute for the Blind where he has been requested to make a presentation. In reality, the man is one of three people, two men and a woman, who kidnap him. Drugging him with a hallucinogen, they leave him to die on an abandoned cargo ship in dock. Nikki, Duke and Mrs. Kingston eventually learn that he is missing when the Institute tells them that not only did Mike not show up, but that they never made the request for the presentation. Fifteen hours later, Mike escapes and is able to make his way home. After the drug wears off and he being a little worse for wear, Mike has no idea what happened during those fifteen hours, from when he was drugged almost immediately after entering the cab to when he woke up in bed. Mike, Duke and Nikki go through the painstaking process of reviewing the close to one thousand cases on which Mike has worked or is working for anyone who may have a grudge, tying it back to the few knowns about the current situation, namely the drug used, the voice of the woman who masqueraded as the representative from the Institute, accounts from the cabbie whose vehicle the kidnappers stole, and the few seconds Mike was lucid in the cab before they drugged him. Mike realizes that his livelihood is at stake if he can't piece together the puzzle as it would ruin his credibility for the job.
Episode 4
So, Who's Fred Hornbeck?
Thu, Oct 7, 197148 mins
A penniless man named Fred Hornbeck approaches Mike asking him to find a murderer for him. Just released from prison, Fred served ten years for the murder on October 31, 1959 of Richard Kingman, a sugar baron, he says he did not commit, but which happened outside where he was living at the time with the murder weapon being his gun. He and Richard knew each other their entire lives despite their divergent paths. Fred admits that at the time he was a drunk, a womanizer and a squatter, making his conviction expedient for all concerned except him. Mike initially brushes Fred off, especially as Mike is not a detective, but decides to help Fred when in Mike's presence, someone tries to kill Fred by running him over. Fred also convinces him there is an insurance connection, as someone, probably now wealthy, would have collected on Kingman's life insurance moneys. Mike eventually learns that policy was in the amount of $300,000, Kingman's wife, Louisa, now remarried as society matron, Mrs. Henri De Carie, being the beneficiary. Richard and Louisa's son, who now goes by the name David De Carie instead of his given name of Richard Kingman Jr., is an angry young man who makes no bones about not liking Mike snooping around in their business. Fred also eventually admits that the one person who could provide an alibi for him for that night, Abby Villanueva, he protected by not divulging her involvement with him to the police to retain her good name, she his much younger girlfriend. Her whereabouts are currently unknown. Finding where she is seems to be key to discovering the truth.
Episode 5
Elegy in Brass
Thu, Oct 14, 197148 mins
Entering the deserted offices of the Crescent City Jazz Society looking for its director, Charles Doucette, to discuss an insurance matter, Mike instead finds him dead, and a smashed-in empty display case that housed two valuable instruments previously owned by now deceased jazz greats, Jimbo Rollins and Jojo Miller, valued at over $100,000. Also missing is one of the society's record collections valued at only $200, while more valuable collections remain untouched. Mike has no idea what Doucette specifically wanted to discuss with him, although he is aware that one of the insurance companies he deals with underwrote the missing instruments' policy. The society's assistant director, Ralph Clayton, is promoted to Doucette's vacant position, he more knowledgeable about jazz in general than his predecessor. What Mike wants to find out is why Truman Deckbar, renowned for having a valuable jazz collection of his own, would donate Jimbo Rollins' cornet to the society rather than keep it in his own private collection. Mike asks his similarly blind friend, Danny, a jazz pianist with his own club, to keep his ears open if the instruments surface underground. Danny is facing his own problems with his supportive girlfriend Molly, who feels like he is constantly pushing her away, while Danny's bass playing friend, Gus Pollack, tries to muscle in on her. Mike doesn't want to let his personal feelings cloud what look to be facts, but he may have to delve deeper below the surface to discover the entire truth, which involves two family secrets and ambition.
Episode 6
Spell Legacy Like Death
Thu, Oct 21, 197149 mins
Mike receives a telephone call from an unidentified man demanding $500,000 in two hours. The police believe the man set off a bomb at a power station, the bomb which Mike could hear at the other end of the telephone line. They assume he will set off another bomb in the city if Mike doesn't comply with his demands. Mike also assumes the man is an ex-client holding a grudge against him. In addition to the usual suspects assisting Mike - namely Nikki, Duke and the police - Mike's old martial arts friend, Li Tsung, who was giving Mike another martial arts lesson when the call came through, wants to be of any assistance he can in the matter. Each successive call from the bomber provides the next piece of the puzzle in how Mike is to obtain the money and how Mike alone is to deliver the money. What may be on their side is that everything is being done by telephone, Mike and Li who are trained to listen, one thing they instantly noticing being that the man is in distress beyond the issues of the bomb and moneys. Each piece may also provide a clue as to the man's identity from the long list of Mike's old clients, and where his bomb target will be. But Mike also obtains a crash course in how to disarm a bomb like the one used at the power station if it gets to that point, his ability to do so which would not only save his life but potentially millions of others.
Episode 7
The Shape of Nightmares
Thu, Oct 28, 197148 mins
A young widow asks Mike to look into the apparent suicide of her husband, who died in prison. Mike enters the prison to investigate, and discovers evidence that he was actually murdered. A convict that Mike had sent to jail is now the "Head of the Yard", running the other inmates like a mob-boss from inside the prison walls, intent on getting revenge on Longstreet. Mike must use all his wits to solve the murder and stay alive.
Episode 8
The Girl with the Broom
Thu, Nov 4, 197148 mins
A Rembrandt painting - the Girl with the Broom - is stolen from the home of the wealthy Franklin family, outside the house which a ski mask is found probably belonging to the thief. Duke assigns Mike the case despite the objection of Dr. Kenneth Franklin, the Franklin family patriarch, because of Mike's disability in association with locating something that people enjoy because of how it looks. The painting actually belonged to Mrs. Franklin, an avid art collector who buys and buys and buys but never sells. The individual relationships between the three members of the Franklin family, which includes college student daughter Marianne Franklin, seem to be inharmonious. Marianne, not having the role model of happiness to emulate in her parents' marriage, seems not to know how to love. The first external lead Mike pursues is trying to discover who recently made the offer to buy the painting for almost twice its appraised value. The offer was actually made by a Peter Kellman, whose family previously owned the painting themselves for generations, but sold it in a need for the money. Kellman can't disclose who he made the offer for for privacy reasons. When Mike eventually receives a ransom request, he believes that unhappy Marianne is the key to unlocking the mystery of who stole the painting.
Episode 9
Wednesday's Child
Thu, Nov 11, 197149 mins
With Mike by her side, Nikki purchases a broken antique sewing machine at an auction for $35 that she hopes he will help her refurbish. Almost immediately after they get the machine to Mike's, a man comes and holds Nikki at knife-point, interested in one specific part of the machine - a drawer to its cabinet that Nikki left at the repair shop to get fixed - he holding her hostage until he gets that drawer. Because of the threat to her life, Mike decides not to inform the police, especially as the man seemed rational one minute and totally erratic the next. Mike does however enlist Duke and Li's help. He figures that whatever the drawer contains is worth Nikki's life. They also figure that knowledge is a powerful tool, namely what the man wants with the drawer which may lead to his identity and his and Nikki's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Nikki finds that she has two additional kidnappers, a husband and wife. As she learns more and more about the three, she may decide the best way to help herself is to divide and conquer, especially as she realizes that her original kidnapper has no intention of letting her go even after he gets the drawer.
Episode 10
"I See", Said the Blind Man
Thu, Nov 18, 197149 mins
Walking down an otherwise deserted street at night with Pax, Mike hears a woman being attacked. The woman and Pax, getting away from Mike, are both stabbed by the attacker, the woman fatally, Pax critically. The woman was a cocktail waitress named Mavis Ruston, who was on her way home from work, and was not robbed or otherwise assaulted. Mike is angry at the situation: being present during the stabbings but not being able to do anything about them or being able to provide any concrete evidence, about which the media are having a field day. Mike wants to help solve the murder to prove all his naysayers wrong, who include in this case the media, the police and most importantly the murderer who outright dismissed him as a threat when he saw that Mike is blind. It becomes all the more important when Mike believes the police have the wrong man, when he has audio evidence but evidence that the police don't believe credible especially as Mike can't quite describe it, and when he finds who he thinks actually eye-witnessed the murder but won't come forward for his own personal reasons.
Episode 11
This Little Piggy Went to Marquette
Thu, Dec 2, 197149 mins
Jordan Anderson, a trucking company owner, may make a $500,000 insurance claim for thirty-two missing "pigs", better known as truck trailers, each worth $15,000, unless they can be located, a case Duke has assigned to Mike. Anderson, who is in somewhat ill health with a serious heart condition, is trying not to let that slow him down. For some reason, Mike is disliked by Anderson's much younger artist wife, Kim Anderson, which bothers him. Someone who seems to figure prominently in the case is Ward Blakeman, Anderson's financial controller, who is supposed to be taking the day off, but who could otherwise be missing as a victim if he stumbled upon the reason for the missing pigs. Mike's new best friend at the company is yard supervisor Max Jackowitz, who saved him from being accidentally run over in the yard, and who may be able to answer the questions of how the missing pigs could have made it out of the yard unnoticed, and where they could be transformed no longer to bear any indication that they belong to Anderson. With a little inside information, Mike discovers what is happening to the pigs. But finding out who is the mastermind behind the thefts may be more difficult and may cost Mike his life if the head man knows he's getting close.
Episode 12
There Was a Crooked Man
Thu, Dec 9, 197148 mins
A valuable racehorse is stolen and held for ransom. The kidnappers want Mike to deliver the ransom money, because they figure he won't be able to identify them. After the money is paid and the horse recovered, Mike begins to piece together clues that lead him to the kidnappers' identities. The investigation takes Mike down a winding path of murder, infidelity, family secrets, greed and betrayal.
Episode 13
The Old Team Spirit
Thu, Dec 16, 197148 mins
One of Duke's accounts, Gulf Coast Transport, has suffered losses of $100,000 thus far from hold-ups of their armored trucks. Duke co-assigns the case to Mike, as the man to who Duke initially assigned the case, Harold Kemp, has turned up nothing. Harold is Mike's old friend, colleague and mentor, with who he used to work on cases, so working together will be like old times. While Mike considers Harold one of the best in the business, he also notices that Harold is not as sharp as he used to be. During the most recent hold-up, one of the guards, Frank Glendon, an ex-military man and hero, shoots the hold-up man, ex-con Neal Porter, dead. Based on the shooting, Mike believes Frank purposely killed Neal, there being a personal connection between the two, and thus part of the team behind the hold-ups. Mike assisting Harold however does not prevent another successful ambush on one of the armored trucks. As such, Mike begins to suspect that Harold is involved, the tired old investigator routine just an act to let certain important items go unnoticed. Mike can only find out if Harold is involved with Frank by setting them up, but not without risk to his own life.
Episode 14
The Long Way Home
Thu, Dec 30, 197148 mins
Harper Electronics, an aircraft supply company that has a program to employ people with physical disabilities, has been beset with a series of accidents of late, and two robberies in a month, one which resulted in a hostage, employee Ray Claridge, being killed. Mike decides to go undercover as new employee Mike Long to discover the cause of these incidents. He is taking this approach in large part to prove to himself that he can make it on his own without Nikki and/or Duke's help. This undercover work includes boarding in Ray's old room at the rooming house of Emma Brinkley, who, beyond her own family, solely houses people with physical disabilities, including Harper employees. Mike learns that the disabled employees are concerned for their livelihood as they believe that they are seen as the reason for the problems, which could result in the cancellation of the program. Emma's daughter and husband, Paula Brinkley and Ray Brinkley, both able bodied, also work at Harper, in a supervisory capacity and as a security guard respectively. The Brinkleys' now deceased son was a quadriplegic from an accident when he was a teenager, his disability which he tried not to acknowledge so as not to be seen as "one of them". Mike's life could go the same way as Ray's if the culprits learn Mike's true identity. But some information Mike receives from Nikki may help in identifying at least one of the culprits without their knowledge.
Episode 15
Let the Memories Be Happy Ones
Thu, Jan 6, 197248 mins
Nikki takes Mike to the New Orleans International Airport to pick up his late wife's sister, Hannah, and her husband, Sven Aalborg. While greeting each other in the crowded airport terminal, someone mysteriously shoots Hannah's husband, leaving him in critical condition. While investigating, Mike discovers Sven is with the Swedish State Deptartment, and is currently involved in sensitive discussions with other countries. When Mike discovers the assassin's identity, he turns up dead. Then, Sven dies in the hospital, and Mike suspects someone turned off his oxygen as the mystery deepens.
Episode 16
Survival Times Two
Thu, Jan 13, 197248 mins
With Pax and a Cajun guide named George Fourchet, Mike and Duke are out fishing on the bayou. In reality, they are working on a case. Someone blew up an oil rig which killed a watchman. The oil company is developing the bayou, the reason Mike and Duke suspect that someone in the area may be responsible. They guess that man is Pete Labrienne, who lives off the land in the bayou, and who purchased twenty-five pounds of dynamite three years ago. He may still have enough of the dynamite to have done the job. Fourchet ends up stealing their radio and, taking the boat, abandoning them in the bayou, they suspect he not coming back to get them. As they settle into camp for the evening, Duke is bitten by a water moccasin. Although Mike is able to deal with the bite as best he can, they know that only time will tell if the bite is a fatal one. They have to find a way to make it out of the bayou for Duke to get some real medical attention. Meanwhile, Fourchet was paid by Labrienne to do what he did to Mike and Duke, as Labrienne, who did blow up the rig, wants to become the hunter rather than the hunted.
Episode 17
Eye of the Storm
Thu, Jan 20, 197248 mins
Mike travels to a lonely roadside diner to meet the representative of a gang that stole a valuable jade chess set, in order to pay the ransom for its return. The man he is supposed to meet doesn't show, but a hurricane does blow through, stranding Mike and a group of fellow travelers. When the power goes out, plunging the café into total darkness, one of the customers is murdered with a steak knife. With a restaurant full of suspects, Mike wonders if the dead man is related to his insurance case.
Episode 18
Please Leave the Wreck for Others to Enjoy
Thu, Jan 27, 197248 mins
Nikki is run down by a hit-and-run driver while working on a case with Mike, placing her in the hospital in critical condition. Mike blames himself and begins to question his real motives for being an investigator, as he falls into a deep depression. Duke fears he might give up and never recover, so he calls Mike's initial teacher after his accident, Dr. Dan Stockton. Packing up Mike's belongings, Dr. Stockton takes him to the blind school to help a young man who recently lost his sight and has given up on living, in hopes that Mike will find the desire within himself to keep on fighting.
Episode 19
Anatomy of a Mayday
Thu, Feb 3, 197248 mins
The Coast Guard receives a mayday call from Barry Knox, Mike's friend, from aboard the Ingrid, which Barry and Mike built together, and which is named after Mike's deceased wife so that she would also be with them in spirit. Shortly thereafter, the Coast Guard finds only debris of what they assume used to be the Ingrid, Barry's presumed dead body not located. But the pieces don't fit together for Mike, who believes Barry was murdered, initially due to the mayday call in relation to the fact that Barry and his girlfriend, Connie Gilman, the daughter of his accountant, were supposed to be at Mike's for dinner at the time of the supposed accident. Mike's suspicions are strengthened when he learns Eugene Riles, his construction company business partner, has filed an insurance claim for Barry's death. Mike learns, in turn from Riles, that the company books seem to indicate that $220,000 is missing, Riles suspecting, under the circumstances, that Barry had something to do with those missing moneys. The more Mike gets into the case, the more it seems the boating accident had something to do with Barry's business, and his on-going competition against a rival firm owned by Emory Taggart. The key seems to be the mayday recording, which someone wants to hide very badly.
Episode 20
Sad Songs and Other Conversations
Thu, Feb 10, 197248 mins
In the middle of the night, a fire breaks out in an old wing of a private hospital owned by Daniel Bates, who recently had done some major renovations to other parts of the building. The fire, contained largely to one four-person room and its associated adjacent rooms, claims three of those patients' lives, injures the nurse on duty, Kelly Brandon, and causes $100,000 in damage. The fourth patient, Arnold Zaduck, was not in the room, in his insomnia being in the hospital solarium at the time playing his violin. On the surface, Nurse Brandon appears negligent in her actions, among other things not sounding the alarm or calling first responders about the fire despite discovering it, about which she feels tremendous guilt. A jar of picric acid, which started the blaze, may provide some valuable information of who could have started the fire. Among the other suspects is Andy Woodman, a poor young man the beneficiary of one of the victim's life insurance.
Episode 21
Field of Honor
Thu, Feb 17, 197248 mins
Mike's college roommate and friend, thirty-six year old quarterback Jim Collins, has just led the Jaguars to the league championship with a final second touchdown pass to receiver Ray Eller. The win is despite the Jaguars being outplayed the entire game. At the post-game party, Jim, while alone and slightly intoxicated, gets into an accident crashing through a window, sustaining potentially career-ending injuries in the process, including the possibility that he may never walk again. However, Mike doesn't think the story adds up, he believing that Jim was assaulted. Mike begins to suspect that it may have something to do with the outcome of the game or something about the team, the team owner, John Holt, who admits to Mike that he had long told Jim that his contract renewal was dependent upon his performance at next season's training camp. But before Mike can find out for sure, he has to get Jim to admit to something that he may not be willing to, namely that he was complicit in some wrong-doing of his own.
Episode 22
Through Shattering Glass
Thu, Feb 24, 197248 mins
In the shadows of the darkened warehouse of Globe Airfreight where Mike is to meet with company manager Leonard Ames about airfreight thefts, unseen Mike can hear other men in the building, who he assumes are the killers when he finds Ames dead. Through some investigative work, Mike is able to identify Jim Carlton, one of Ames' long time friends and Los Angeles based business associates, as one of the men in the warehouse that night whose words Mike heard that night were implications of murder. Lieutenant Gifford with LAPD confirms that they have been tailing Carlton for airfreight thefts for quite some time, but have not been able to prove anything until now. However, Carlton has people who provide him with an alibi as to his whereabouts when Ames was killed. As such, Mike, with Nikki by his side, heads to Los Angeles to prove Carlton is the killer, with his own life at risk. Mike's plan includes masquerading as "Mr. Bell", an old business associate of Ames', but it also includes what may be impossible to pull off: showing the world, including Carlton, who has never met Mike, and Carlton's associates that he is sighted and saw what happened that night.
Episode 23
The Sound of Money Talking
Thu, Mar 2, 197248 mins
At a branch of the New Orleans First National Bank after closing, Virgil Willis, two months on the job as janitor, proceeds to rob the bank of approximately $250,000, placing all the bank employees in the vault for his successful getaway. He had no prior criminal record, and has since vanished without a trace. Mike discovers that Virgil was a generally well liked individual who worked hard all his life for little in return, and thus was probably not the mastermind behind the robbery, but just the inside man. Mike figures there are at least two more accomplices: someone who commandeered the getaway vehicle, which they learn was a stolen garbage truck, and another inside person who would have provided much more detailed bank information than Virgil would have access to. They also believe that the robbery may have had something to do with the fact that there was an impending audit of the bank books. Mike suspects the other inside man is Henry Benton, the assistant bank manager, who is living beyond his means. Nikki hopes that the other inside man is not Roy Landers, who she knew five years ago for only three weeks when he was an army captain stationed in Germany, she a magazine writer doing a story on him. She did not know he worked at the bank as a teller until this case as she has not seen or heard from him since their time in Germany. They have rekindled their relationship, both who wished they had the time to discover if it could have been more five years ago. But in getting involved with Roy, Nikki may unwittingly be caught into the web of the case, the robbers who want to protect their interest at all cost.