The Mod Squad
Young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her San Francisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counter culture and exposing badguys who prey on other kids.
- 1968-1973
- 5 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her San Francisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counter culture and exposing badguys who prey on other kids.
Season 5 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
The Connection
Thu, Sep 14, 1972 120 mins
The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.
Episode 2
The Thundermakers
Thu, Sep 21, 1972 60 mins
A youth joins a motorcycle gang that plans to pull off a robbery of his father's company.
Episode 3
Yesterday's Ashes
Thu, Sep 28, 1972
The trio believes that plastic surgery may be the best way to rehabilitate a disfigured girl caught shoplifting.
Episode 4
A Gift for Jenny
Thu, Oct 5, 1972
A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.
Episode 5
Taps, Play It Louder
Thu, Oct 12, 1972 60 mins
The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.
Episode 6
Eyes of the Beholder
Thu, Oct 19, 1972
A killer stalks Pete as he helps a formerly blind girl.
Episode 7
Good Times Are Just Memories
Thu, Oct 26, 1972
A dirty cop frames Pete for the murder of a confederate in crime.
Episode 8
Corbey
Thu, Nov 2, 1972
A drug kingpin frames Greer by planting heroin and phony evidence that he's on the take. The trio tries to clear his name, but Greer seems to have secrets he doesn't want to share even with them, particularly regarding a disabled boy he's been giving gifts to.
Episode 9
Can You Hear Me Out There?
Thu, Nov 9, 1972 60 mins
A rash of car thefts appear to be connected to a particular radio station and a puzzling code. Pete becomes friends with the car thief while Julie and Linc check out the station.
Episode 10
Another Final Game
Thu, Nov 16, 1972 60 mins
Pete and Julie pose as a newlywed couple to outsmart a master con artist.
Episode 11
Crime Club
Thu, Nov 23, 1972
Students with high IQs commit crimes just for kicks.
Episode 12
The Twain
Thu, Nov 30, 1972 60 mins
A Korean girl finds trouble in her search for her American father. Pete accidentally hits her with his car after she runs from the scene of a murder she witnessed, and the killers are still after her.
Episode 13
Belinda, End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
Thu, Dec 7, 1972 60 mins
The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.
Episode 14
Kristie
Thu, Dec 14, 1972
A little girl's father gets in trouble with jewel thieves just before Christmas. He leaves his daughter with Pete, an old friend, but then doesn't return for her as promised, and the trio tries to find him.
Episode 15
Sanctuary
Thu, Dec 21, 1972 60 mins
Julie is hit by a truck after collecting evidence against a mobster. Though her injuries are not serious, she is kept in the hospital for her protection. But she is still in danger from people working for the syndicate who want to keep her from testifying.
Episode 16
Run, Lincoln, Run
Thu, Jan 4, 1973 60 mins
Linc tries to save his cabby friend from loan sharks.
Episode 17
Don't Kill My Child
Thu, Jan 18, 1973
Don't Kill My Child - This is an episode that covers the horrible crime of child abuse while implying the crime of sexual abuse, a taboo topic in the early 70s, is the underlying cause. The child abuse angle is obvious. However, the sexual abuse topic takes a little insight or intuition. Three points make it clear though. Early on, the grandmother complained to Julie that the abuser's father used to take her to work all the time. First thought today is the not uncommon practice of "take your child to work" days that early 21st century viewers are likely familiar. The practice by the abuser's late father becomes clear when she tells her son that her father brought her to the same "place" when she was a kid, a hotel room. Finally, the grandmother tells the Squad the abuser said she figured out that she belongs where she's always belonged, with her father. The taboo nature of child sexual abuse is clear by the overt circumlocution around the issue. This episode could be valuable in a study of both the practice and its standing in the early 70s.
Episode 18
Death in High Places
Thu, Jan 25, 1973 60 mins
The trio's investigation of a cover-up in a construction-site murder leads them to a pair of bad heavies.
Episode 19
Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
Thu, Feb 1, 1973
Greer has the squad investigate drugs being stolen from a hospital. He sends Pete and Julie undercover. During the investigation the husband of one of the patient skills his wife. He claims his wife was in so much pain that he felt he had no choice. But the hospital claims his wife was being given sufficient morphine for the pain. Julie talking to the daughter doesn't think the man killed her for nothing more than end his wife's suffering but an investigation he could have done it for the insurance. So Pete decides to look into it more and he suspects the nurse who gives her her medication may have tampered with it.
Episode 20
Scion of Death
Thu, Feb 8, 1973
The parents of a kidnapped young man give the trio a hard time with their silence.
Episode 21
The Night Holds Terror
Thu, Feb 15, 1973
Julie is trapped in a strange house with an escaped lunatic.
Episode 22
Cry Uncle
Thu, Feb 22, 1973
The visit of Captain Greer's eccentric Uncle Max, a Greek painter, coincides with a series of art thefts. The robberies are baffling police as the guards can recall no one entering or leaving the galleries.
Episode 23
And Once for My Baby
Thu, Mar 1, 1973 60 mins
An imaginative thief plots a spectacular heist. The trio hopes to stop it before it happens, but they learn of another urgency.