Sarge
Samuel "Sarge" Cavanaugh is a priest at the St. Aloysius Parish in San Diego, California. He is known as Sarge because of his police background of working for nine years as a homicide detective in the area in which he tries to help out with guidance to his parishioners in their struggle to cope with the problems of a metropolitan environment.
- 1971-1972
- 1 season
- NBC
- Drama
Samuel "Sarge" Cavanaugh is a priest at the St. Aloysius Parish in San Diego, California. He is known as Sarge because of his police background of working for nine years as a homicide detective in the area in which he tries to help out with guidance to his parishioners in their struggle to cope with the problems of a metropolitan environment.
Season 1 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 0
The Badge or the Cross
Mon, Feb 22, 1971 120 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.
Episode 1
A Terminal Case of Vengeance
Tue, Sep 21, 1971 60 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.
Episode 2
Ring Out, Ring In
Tue, Sep 28, 1971 60 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.
Episode 3
Psst! Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture?
Tue, Oct 5, 1971 60 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.
Episode 4
Identity Crisis
Tue, Oct 12, 1971 60 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.
Episode 5
A Push Over the Edge
Tue, Oct 26, 1971 60 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.
Episode 6
John Michael O'Flaherty Presents the Eleven O'Clock War
Tue, Nov 2, 1971 60 mins
Flahery is an overly ambitious newsman who lands Sarge in trouble with a sensational documentary about the priest's labor in the ghetto.
Episode 7
The Silent Target
Tue, Nov 9, 1971 60 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
Episode 8
Quicksilver
Tue, Nov 16, 1971 60 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.
Episode 9
A Bad Case of Monogamy
Tue, Nov 23, 1971 60 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.
Episode 10
The Combatants
Tue, Nov 30, 1971 60 mins
An acting chaplain of a military base, Sarge takes a hand in what he considers the undue harassment of recruit Coopersmith.
Episode 11
A Company of Victims
Tue, Dec 7, 1971 60 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.
Episode 12
A Party to the Crime
Tue, Dec 28, 1971 60 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.
Episode 13
An Accident Waiting to Happen
Tue, Jan 4, 1972 60 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.
Episode 14
Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop
Tue, Jan 11, 1972 60 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.