Sword of Justice
Dack Rambo plays millionaire playboy Jack Cole, who, after the death of his parents, is framed on charges of embezzlement. In prison, Cole learns various tricks of the criminal trade - lockpicking, safe-cracking, electronic surveillance, etc. Upon his release, Cole uses his wealth and his newly learned talents to help others, leaving his calling card, a "sword of justice", at the scene.
- 1978-1979
- 1 season
- NBC
- Action & Adventure
Dack Rambo plays millionaire playboy Jack Cole, who, after the death of his parents, is framed on charges of embezzlement. In prison, Cole learns various tricks of the criminal trade - lockpicking, safe-cracking, electronic surveillance, etc. Upon his release, Cole uses his wealth and his newly learned talents to help others, leaving his calling card, a "sword of justice", at the scene.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1978 - 1979
Episode 0
A Double Life
Sun, Sep 10, 1978 60 mins
A playboy framed for a crime that resulted in the death of his parents is sent to prison where he learns a variety of criminal skills. Upon his release, he is determined to exact revenge on the men who framed him.
Episode 1
Aloha, Julie Lang
Sat, Oct 7, 1978 120 mins
A mob boss awaiting trial has murdered all of the witnesses against him -- except for Julie Lang, who is hiding out in Hawaii. Jack Cole goes there to protect her from a series of hit men -- the last of whom rides his motorcycle off a very high cliff.
Episode 2
The Destructors
Sat, Oct 14, 1978 60 mins
An underworld chieftain is abducted by Asian youths who want the syndicate out of Chinatown.
Episode 3
The Skywayman
Thu, Oct 19, 1978 60 mins
Jack joins an aerial circus on a tip that the drop man for an international drug ring is also a daredevil pilot.
Episode 4
The Gemini Connection
Sat, Oct 21, 1978 60 mins
Jack (Dack Rambo) romances a stewardess who's smuggling money out of the country for a syndicate kingpin.
Episode 5
Girl on the Edge
Sat, Oct 28, 1978 60 mins
Episode 6
Judgement Day
Sun, Dec 17, 1978 60 mins
When a criminal's trial's about to commence. And the judge presiding over it, has reputation of being tough on criminals so everyone expects the criminal to be convicted. But Jack learns that the criminal has hired a fixer who has something on the judge to get him to make the trial work in his favor. So Jack tries to get close to the man to find out what they have on him. Jack tries to put him in compromising situations so he'll be replaced. But the fixer then decides to grab his daughter to make sure the judge does as he is told.
Episode 7
Port of Entry
Sun, Dec 24, 1978 60 mins
Jack's target is a police commissioner who looks the other way when narcotics smugglers use his Lake Michigan town as a port of entry.
Episode 8
Deadly Fashion
Sun, Dec 31, 1978 60 mins
A police lieutenant is involved in a heist that takes the life of Hector's friend.
Episode 9
Blackjack
Wed, Jul 11, 1979 120 mins
Jack Cole learns that the mob has embezzled millions of dollars from a union and invested it in a casino, kidnapping the union's financial manager in the bargain. His friend Woods is heading a Federal task force investigating the union's finances. The mob knows about this and plans to pump the casino's profits back into the union books, at least temporarily. Jack decides to bankrupt the casino and leave its bosses hung out to dry. He goes to a computer company and has it manufacture microchips which say the name and denomination of all 52 cards in a playing deck. Then he goes to the company which manufactures the cards (in huge sheets) and has workers affix the microchips to the backs of all of the cards in the next shipment of decks. Then he obtains a listening device which can be implanted in his eyeglasses (and when the mobsters smash them suspecting him of being a card reader, he switches to contact lenses, with no indication of how he now hears the voice). Then he goes into the casino and plays blackjack hour by hour, systematically winning. The mobsters keep watching him but can never figure out how he does it, although they temporarily distract him with a crooked dealer who can switch cards, and with a hired "escort." Meanwhile Jack sends his own cards to the casino boss, one by one.
