The Man and the City
Thomas Acala is the longtime mayor of a rapidly growing city in Southwest United States. He handles the constant challenges with the help of his chief aide Andy Hays and secretary Marian Crane.
- 1971-1972
- 1 season
- ABC
- Drama
Thomas Acala is the longtime mayor of a rapidly growing city in Southwest United States. He handles the constant challenges with the help of his chief aide Andy Hays and secretary Marian Crane.
Season 1 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
Hands of Love
Wed, Sep 15, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 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, 1971 60 mins
Mayor Alcala tries to help a city hall janitor who suffered brain damage in childhood, but is eyed with suspicion by the man's father.
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, 1971 60 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, 1972 60 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.