The Man and the City Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Hands of Love

Wed, Sep 15, 197160 mins

A case worker implores Mayor Alcala to intercede on behalf of a deaf couple faced with losing their 7-year-old adopted son in court proceedings because they are handicapped.

Episode 2

A Hundred Black Pages

Wed, Sep 22, 1971

Janice Rule plays a member of the city council who opposes Mayor Alcala's proposed plan for a new water system. The two personalities clash and they fall in love, however she reveals she has a fatal hereditary illness.

Episode 3

I Should Have Let Him Die

Wed, Sep 29, 197160 mins

A medical student treats a man who was in an accident. Later he comes forward and the man decides to sue. So Alcala knowing that they don't have the amount he is asking for tries to see if he can settle it. He learns that the man might have other reasons for suing.

Episode 4

A Very Special Girl

Wed, Oct 6, 197160 mins

The future of the mayor's School of Music and Arts is threatened when a young harpist accuses the principal of her pregnancy. Mayor Alcala believes in his friend's innocence and begins an investigation while the girl's father demands the removal of the man.

Episode 5

Reprisal

Wed, Oct 13, 197160 mins

The mayor continues to support his temporary appointee to police chief after the man overreacts to the killing of a policeman.

Episode 6

Disaster on Turner Street

Wed, Oct 20, 197160 mins

When a bridge under construction collapses and kills a worker Mayor Alcala investigates The contractor who Submitted the lowest bid for the project.

Episode 7

The Handwriting on the Door

Wed, Oct 27, 1971

Mayor Alcala upsets militant Chicanos when he supports a police officer's claim that he is innocent of the beating of two suspects during interrogation, one being a Mexican-American.

Episode 8

Running Scared

Wed, Nov 3, 197160 mins

Alcala and his deputy Andy Hayes see a golden opportunity to take down the city's ruthless head mobster when his frightened girlfriend is arrested on a traffic charge.

Episode 9

The Deadly Fountain

Wed, Nov 10, 197160 mins

Alcala's friend, an aging congressman seeking the youth vote, begins rejuvenation treatments that include amphetamine injections.

Episode 10

Run for Daylight

Wed, Nov 17, 1971

Mayor Alcala persuades a black ex-pro football star to head a youth sports program created to fight the city's problem of juvenile delinquency

Episode 11

Cross Country Man

Wed, Dec 1, 1971

A successful manufacturer and friend of Mayor Alcala turns out to be an escaped convict from the east..

Episode 12

Pipe Me a Loving Tune

Wed, Dec 8, 197160 mins

Episode 13

Girls in Truck Seven

Wed, Dec 15, 1971

Mayor Alcala befriends a pregnant Vietnamese girl who is in the country illegally searching for the American veteran father.

Episode 14

Jennifer

Wed, Dec 29, 197160 mins

A widow abducts a baby that was left in the care of Mayor Alcala's secretary fantasizing that the child was her own.

Episode 15

Diagnosis: Corruption

Wed, Jan 5, 197260 mins

Charles Aidman plays a hospital official and friend of Mayor Alcala who offers his resignation after a newspaper prints an expose on drug thefts.