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23 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 10, 1973
While off duty, Officers Webster and Gillis are taken hostage by two men headed to Mexico in search of an unorthodox medical treatment for one of the men. After they escape the men, the officers must trek through the desert to survive.
Episode 2
Mon, Sep 17, 1973
When Danko misses a criminal hiding in a locker at a burglary, a veteran officer pays the price. His partner plans to make Danko pay for the mistake by partnering with him. The other rookies go above and beyond to find the perpetrator.
Episode 3
Mon, Sep 24, 1973
Recovery sidelines Webster from regular duty and puts him in a police/prison guard exchange program. Believing that the post will teach him little, he instead opts to pose as a prisoner who was held back from transfer at the last minute.
Episode 4
Mon, Oct 1, 1973
Willie draws "juvenile detail" and struggles to deal with its emotional and psychological aspects, and takes it hard when a teen dies after being beaten by other teen boys, and when he isn't sure if his efforts to resuscitate a 6-year-old girl who was trapped in an old refrigerator came in time to save her. But at the end of the day he helps to bring a new life into the world and is able to put things back into focus.
Episode 5
Mon, Oct 8, 1973
Ryker's life is in danger when Joe Mannley is released from prison and wants payback on the officer. He wounds Ryker, which puts him in Jill's care, but Joe is prepared to end her life also to get to him.
Episode 6
Mon, Oct 15, 197360 mins
Gillis and Webster feel personally responsible when Mrs. Darrin is injured after they delayed a call because her history of false alarms. They determinely track down the suspects. Other incidents involve a key swallower and a speeding womanizer.
Episode 7
Mon, Oct 22, 197360 mins
A gunman comes into the restaurant where Mike and Jill are celebrating their wedding anniversary and starts shooting. Jill is seriously injured and loses her baby. Mike apprehends the gunman, but they learn that he has a brain tumor and that they might not be able to prosecute him because of it. Officers Webster and Gillis investigate the possibility that the shooting was planned and wasn't because the shooter had a brain tumor.
Episode 8
Mon, Oct 29, 1973
Terry Webster's cousin Jimmy returns from Vietnam and has trouble finding a job and to adjusting to life back home in general. Despite Terry's help and support, Jimmy is finding the temptation to join a couple of war buddies in their robbery operation hard to resist.
Episode 9
Mon, Nov 5, 1973
Lt. Ryker, Officers Terry Webster, Willie Gillis, and Mike Danko, and Jill Danko, try to help a young nurse get through the emotional trauma that she must endure after she is raped.
Episode 10
Mon, Nov 12, 1973
After the priest of the Catholic church in his neighborhood is murdered, the Monsignor requests that Lt. Ryker heads up the investigation. After another murder and another attack on a nun, Ryker and the rookies are stumped for a motive. Then they receive the autopsy reports on the victims that gives them the break they need.
Episode 11
Mon, Nov 19, 1973
Lt. Ryker assigns Officers Webster and Gillis to watch over a telethon being headlined by a major Country and Western singer. They grudgingly accept their humdrum assignment, then learn that someone is trying to kill the Country and Western star.
Episode 12
Sun, Dec 2, 1973
While Mike is away at a training conference for two weeks, Jill's ex-boyfriend, who has never accepted that their relationship is over, suddenly comes back into her life and deceives her into thinking that he is dying of cancer so that she'll feel sorry for him. Meanwhile, Terry and Willie pursue the perpetrator of a string of liquor-store robberies--who just happens to be Jill's ex-boyfriend.
Episode 13
Mon, Dec 10, 1973
A retired police lieutenant whose best friend dies after being assaulted can't help but involve himself in the investigation. Lt. Ryker gives him permission to tag along with Officers Gillis and Webster, thinking that it will satisfy him, but the retired cop is determined to solve it himself.
Episode 14
Mon, Dec 17, 1973
Officers Gillis and Webster desperately try to track down a diabetic girl in order to get her insulin to her before it's too late.
Episode 15
Mon, Jan 7, 1974
On night patrol, Officer Gillis' partner is shot and killed; after he notifies his estranged wife, she grabs his gun and shoots herself. The traumatic events leave him with plenty of doubt about his future as a cop.
Episode 16
Mon, Jan 14, 1974
Officer Terry Webster falls in love with a girl who witnessed a murder committed by a drug dealer. After she is tracked down and killed for what she knows, Terry uses himself as bait to catch the killer.
Episode 17
Mon, Jan 28, 1974
Officer Danko shoots and kills a man who might have been innocent of any wrongdoing. Jill Danko becomes concerned over her husband's concern for the widow of the man he shot and tensions arise within their marriage.
Episode 18
Mon, Feb 4, 1974
Officers Webster, Gillis, and Danko investigate a robbery ring that is run by an ex-con known as "The Teacher", who is using thrill-seeking teenagers to commit the crimes.
Episode 19
Mon, Feb 11, 197460 mins
Three cops are targeted and shot dead. A young man claims to have seen a suspect and provides a likeness. Ryker likes the young man, but Webster questions whether he's a credible eyewitness. Then Danko's partner is killed by a car bomb.
Episode 20
Mon, Feb 18, 1974
A man who joined the force the same time that Lt. Ryker did but quit because he couldn't handle the violence is framed for murder. Ryker and the Rookies try to help him after years of drinking have turned him into something less than a man.
Episode 21
Mon, Feb 25, 1974
When the precinct adopts a Police Cadet Program, Webster, and Gillis are partnered with a young man whose sister's boyfriend is a fugitive. When another cadet learns of their criminal activity, he's taken hostage with Officer Webster.
Episode 22
Mon, Mar 4, 1974
Officer Webster and three female bank employees are held hostage in a bank vault by a highly-intelligent man who is using them as bargaining chips to get his partner-in-crime released from jail.
Episode 23
Mon, Mar 18, 1974
Officers Danko and Webster must find an escaped convict infected with spinal meningitis before he spreads the disease to the general population, but they must also find his ex-wife because he is bent on killing her.