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22 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 28, 1976120 mins
The series' only two-hour one-part episode centers on the theft of a madam's client list, which will be worth a fortune in the hands of someone unscrupulous enough to blackmail the various Johns on the list. A seedy, elderly private eye (Jack Gilford) is the first to get his hands on the book.

Episode 2
Tue, Oct 5, 197660 mins
When a patrol cop is shot to death just before dawn in a Los Angeles neighborhood which turns out to be a hot-bed for cult activity, and Monica Dunlap - the daughter of a powerful California businessman - is arrested in a nearby safe-house for the P.C.U. (the Peoples' Combat Unit) Pepper poses as a mysterious '60s activist/terrorist on the lam for years who surfaces in order to infiltrate the group.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 12, 197660 mins
When the team investigate a reported burglary and arrest the lookout, a girl, she alleges that Pepper sexually assaulted her.
Episode 4
Tue, Oct 26, 197660 mins
An all-out effort is made to find the killer of Bill Crowley's police officer girlfriend.
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 9, 197660 mins
Pepper's alcoholic academy classmate Loretta Muldare working juvenile welfare is placed in peril by a corrupt lawyer and a narcotics ring when pursuing a child abusing addict.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 16, 197660 mins
Pepper poses as an investigative news reporter to probe the private school where several teenagers have mysteriously died.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 23, 197660 mins
Pepper and Crowley pose as a wealthy couple trying to adopt a child in order to anxious to crack a black market baby ring.
Episode 8
Tue, Nov 30, 197660 mins
While working under cover, Pepper becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro and doesn't realize he's also an undercover cop.
Episode 9
Tue, Dec 7, 197660 mins
Pepper and Bill investigate the rape of a college student.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 14, 197660 mins
Pepper disobeys orders and invades a motel room where militants are holding hostages.
Episode 11
Tue, Dec 21, 197660 mins
Pepper and Bill investigate the kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl whose father is in hock to the mob.
Episode 12
Tue, Jan 4, 197760 mins
Pepper poses as a prostitute to learn why an attempt was made on the life of the new chief of police.
Episode 13
Tue, Jan 11, 197760 mins
Tommy Shaw is a troubled young schizophrenic. His father and sister, Charlene, were killed when he was a young boy and his mother, unable to deal with her daughter's death, dresses her son in dresses in an effort to resurrect her dead daughter. Tommy's mother becomes ill and dies when Tommy is an adult, and to cope with the anger of his mother dying a natural death rather than he being able to kill her, his deceased sister "takes over" his body and begins to murder elderly women by strangulation with a chain. He keeps a secret apartment that his live-in girlfriend does not know about, where he keeps dresses and wigs to prowl the streets at night to find his victims under the disguise of Charlene. To "show" his deceased mother that he has killed "her" again, he collects their credit cards and leaves them on a display for his dead mother to "see". His girlfriend, Evie, becomes weary of where he is spending his nights and weekends when he claims he is working out at the gym or hiking. So he decides to take her on the weekend hike, to "show" her what he has been doing evenings when he was away, It is up to Pepper and the team to stop the strangler.
Episode 14
Tue, Jan 18, 197760 mins
Pepper is on the trail of a gang of female bank robbers.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 25, 197760 mins
Pepper assumes the identity of a woman who was shot during a record-company executive's murder.
Episode 16
Tue, Feb 1, 197760 mins
Styles is suspected of complicity in the killing of his former girlfriend.
Episode 17
Tue, Feb 8, 197760 mins
Frank Converse plays an airline pilot from Pepper's past who comes back to get her just a year or two after his wife's death.
Episode 18
Tue, Feb 15, 197760 mins
A loan-shark operation terrorizes borrowers to collect bad debts.
Episode 19
Tue, Feb 22, 197760 mins
A liquor-store stakeout for two robbers goes bad when one of the two cops is blown away by a shotgun before his partner can take down the two robbers. The crooks escape and wind up in Los Angeles, where the surviving cop joins Pepper's team. The cop goes right up the leader's shotgun barrel to knock him unconscious. While Pepper and Crowley wonder about the visiting cop's stability, they get word that a terrorist is planting bombs. This becomes an issue when they take the crooks to the airport and the crooks escape. Pepper and Crowley learn that one of the bombs is in the airport and might take out innocent people, so they have three people to catch. The visiting officer knows it too, and for undisclosed reasons he seems hell-bent reckless on taking down the bad guys if it's the last thing he does.
Episode 20
Tue, Mar 1, 197760 mins
Pepper poses as a movie star to investigate the slaying of a porno actress.
Episode 21
Tue, Mar 8, 197760 mins
Con men relieve Crowley's gullible uncle of his life's savings.

Episode 22
Tue, Mar 22, 197760 mins
When a reporter is killed by a car bomb, the man's son starts search for his father's killer.