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Sarge Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

15 Episodes 1971 - 1972

Episode 0

The Badge or the Cross

Mon, Feb 22, 1971120 mins

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife--and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead.

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Episode 1

A Terminal Case of Vengeance

Tue, Sep 21, 197160 mins

Sarge attempts to prevent a murder when Henry, one of his parishioners, upon learning he has only months to live, decides to exact revenge upon a mobster.

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Episode 2

Ring Out, Ring In

Tue, Sep 28, 197160 mins

Asked to perform a marriage ceremony, Sarge recognizes Dan Cooper, the prospective bridegroom, as a murder suspect in an unsolved case of years ago.

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Episode 3

Psst! Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture?

Tue, Oct 5, 197160 mins

Sarge manages to get into the pornography business when guilt-ridden Bates comes to the church and drops over $13,000 in the collection basket.

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Episode 4

Identity Crisis

Tue, Oct 12, 197160 mins

Sarge is ministering to the spiritual needs of mental patients when he becomes intrigued by a Jane Doe, who insists she is dead, a wealthy socialite who was the victim of drowning.

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Episode 5

A Push Over the Edge

Tue, Oct 26, 197160 mins

Sarge is only peripherally involved in a strange story of a maniac murderer who steals his victims' left shoes, and Lt. Edmonds, the overworked cop who has had one case too many.

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Episode 6

John Michael O'Flaherty Presents the Eleven O'Clock War

Tue, Nov 2, 197160 mins

Flahery is an overly ambitious newsman who lands Sarge in trouble with a sensational documentary about the priest's labor in the ghetto.

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Episode 7

The Silent Target

Tue, Nov 9, 197160 mins

In trouble on a bad-check charge, longshoreman Joe Drake is approached by the police to square the account by serving as a paid informant in a waterfront investigation

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Episode 8

Quicksilver

Tue, Nov 16, 197160 mins

A Japanese man has committed hara-kari. Only the man was a Catholic and Sarge believes he would not have committed a ritualistic suicide. The priest finds the killing that has something to do with a sunken World War II ship.

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Episode 9

A Bad Case of Monogamy

Tue, Nov 23, 197160 mins

Tom Flynn is an ex-convict who, upon his release from prison, is determined to renew life with his former wife, who has since remarried.

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Episode 10

The Combatants

Tue, Nov 30, 197160 mins

An acting chaplain of a military base, Sarge takes a hand in what he considers the undue harassment of recruit Coopersmith.

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Episode 11

A Company of Victims

Tue, Dec 7, 197160 mins

A series of attempts on the life of Sarge has Chief of Detectives Barney Verick working around the clock in a a desperate attempt to capture an elusive would-be killer.

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Episode 12

A Party to the Crime

Tue, Dec 28, 197160 mins

A man fresh out of prison, makes threats against Sarge, the patrolman who arrested him. So Sarge starts investigating the old case and the trail befuddles him.

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Episode 13

An Accident Waiting to Happen

Tue, Jan 4, 197260 mins

Father Burke, a young priest, is accused of hit and run murder while under the influence of alcohol. Sarge begins to suspect the "accident" was arranged.

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Episode 14

Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop

Tue, Jan 11, 197260 mins

Bitter over his failure to meet the police department's physical requirements, Michael Grear, a young man, flaunts the law and ends up accused of murder.

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