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- Investigating a murder at an aircraft company, Sam confers with an old acquaintance, suave Martin Lynch, who has been hired as the firm's security chief. Lynch is behind the industrial espionage that is plaguing the company.
- Sgt. Lufton, a Korean War vet, breaks out of the mental hospital where he is confined. Sam, who's a vet himself, leads the search for the deluded war hero, determined to bring him back safely. He learns that Lufton is out to keep a date he made in 1950 with a USO girl and that he believes a nearby housewife is that same girl.
- Armed robber Kenny Norton is shot and killed by Jim. His father kidnaps Jim's father Dan in revenge.
- Top fashion model Bobo pulls designer T.J. Gaynor away from his party for a private discussion. She tells him she's pregnant and that he's the father and that he'd better be ready to pay her a lot of money. Gaynor strikes her, causing her to fall and fatally strike her head. He drags the body to his balcony and throws her off, making it appear to be a suicide. Arriving on the scene, Sam immediately is skeptical that her death was a suicide. Gaynor immediately turns his attention to aspiring model Lynne, thinking her to be a possible witness. Can Sam and Jim save her from possibly being another casualty?
- A British inspector is coming to work with Stone and Briggs on a case that has ties to one he is working on. They go to the airport to pick him up but as soon as the man gets off the plane, someone pulls a gun on him takes him away and then assumes the man's identity. The case involves some gems that were stolen in England and the man who stole them is in the US trying to fence them. Stone and Briggs have the cooperation of known fence. When the body of the inspector is found, Stone and Briggs go to the airport to check it out. The man then makes the fence tell the man to meet him at a place of his choosing. Stone and Briggs learn that the dead man is inspector and the one pretending to be him is the partner of the man they are looking for.
- Edgar and Marlee are on a crime spree involving passing of bad checks and murder. After Sam and another cop are critically wounded in a shootout with Edgar, Jim is left.standing to face him.
- The clock is ticking down for death-row inmate Joe Caslin. After he hears about a robbery and murder similar to what he was condemned for, he pleads with Sam and Jim to look into the recent crime in the hopes that it will clear him. Even after the suspects in the newer case are caught, will it make a difference in Caslin's case?
- Mob boss Joe Stangl is being extradited back to the United States with Sam and Jim drawing the assignment. After arriving in an unnamed South America they find assassins trying to prevent Joe's return because he's to testify.
- Jim and Sam get mobster Joe Stangl beck into the states to testify. But his ex-confederates have one more way to stop it. They kidnap Joe's seriously ill daughter and Jim 's father.
- Charles DeClose receives a call at his office from someone telling him that his wife is having an affair with her young tennis instructor. He grabs a gun from his desk and goes to confront them near the tennis courts. The instructor manages to disarm Mr. DeClose, but a fight ensues, and while the younger man has him on the ground in a choke hold, DeClose manages to grab a nearby rock and fatally strike him. Sam andJim pursue him as he goes on a rampage involving kidnappkidnapping, assassault and car theft.
- Sam's been trying to nail fanatic Charles Roland Flagg and his paramilitary operation for quite some time. His latest attempt fails due to former member Ben Tyler, who wants revenge on Flagg for kicking him out of the group. Sam tries to convince Tyler that by working together, they can both get what they want.
- Blind Marine Sergeant Tim Craig and his wife are eating at a diner when they're harassed by two thugs, Dixie Ralt and Mark Common. Mrs. Craig is struck in the face, causing her to fall and strike her head. Samand Jim ininvestigate the assault, but she dies during surgery, making it a murder case. The members of Sgt. Craig's unit are willing to seek vengeance on his behalf, as does the Sergeant himself, meaning that Sam and Jim must find the killers first.
- Syndicate leader Blaisie is captured and taken to the precinct. His men take Dan hostage in an attempt to free him.
- The wife of powerful publisher Nicky Porter is killed in what appears to be a botched burglary, but.Sam isn't buying it.
- Porter and his assistant Gwynn are willing to do anything possible to throw Sam off the case, including framing the cop for assault.
- An accountant is fatally gunned down in a parking lot. Sam and Jim visit Reardon, the dead man's boss, and Jim discovers that his college sweetheart, Linda Jo Benson, also works for the same company. Evidence points to her either being the killer or covering for the killer. Either way, Jim has to arrest her.
- Two murderous muggers attack an innocent man walking his dog in the park, then seemingly disappear. Sam soon discovers that they've forced Albie, a top police snitch, to hide them in his apartment.
- Sam and Jim are investigating a murder. The victim's secretary says that he had a visitor before he died. She says she doesn't know who he is. They take her to the station and when she sees Dan she says he's the one. Sam and Jim don't believe it. But they find more evidence that points to Dan. And another witness says he saw Dan in the vicinity. And Dan is very defensive.
- Sam and Jim respond to an alarm. They arrive and see the robber making his way out. He shoots at them and they return fire. They hit him but they also discover a boy who was shot. And Sam wonders if it was his bullet that hit him. While waiting for ballistics to determine that, he and Jim think that the robber may have had a partner so they talk to the girlfriend of the one they caught who says she knows nothing. And Sam is confronted by the boy's father who says he killed his son.
- Sam and Jim drop by a coffee house he likes. After they leave two men come in and kill the owner whom Sam knows. They leave a note telling Sam they're after him. Sam takes it hard. Later one of them calls Sam on the pretext of being able to give him info on who killed the owner. When they get there, they to kill him but miss. Sam is later told to stay off the streets. On info they give Dan, he thinks he knows who's after Sam.
- Sam and Jim respond to an alarm. Jim sees a man and follows him.The man goes down a man hole and Jim follows him. Sam loses sight of Jim. While in the sewer, the man shoots Jim and leaves him there. The man hole they went in is sealed. He later goes out through another man hole. The police see him and arrest him. Sam learns he has ties to the place that was robbed, so he has him arrested. Sam and Dan think he knows where Jim is but the man wants his lawyer. And his lawyer advises him not to say anything. They hold him while Jim is languishing in the sewer.
- Arnie and Bracy are a couple of punks who first get on the cops' radar screen after the senseless murder of a counterman at an all-night diner. When they next attempt to extort money from a young housewife, Sam and Jim pick up their trail, leading to a frantic and deadly chase.
- A man confesses to Sam and Jim that he's guilty in a hit and run accident. But there is no victim yet something makes the detectives decide to investigate further.
- Jim escorts a woman who is testifying against a criminal he and Sam pursued. When in court the man's girlfriend gives him a gun and he then takes the woman testifying against him hostage and shoots Jim. He then takes the woman and runs. Sam arrives and while Jim is being treated, he tries to find the man. Sam is told the building's been sealed so he can't get out. But Sam knows the man didn't just decide to do this, he planned it so he must have some kind of escape plan. He figures out what it is and catches his accomplices but the man shows up and goes back into the building. He then calls Sam that unless he let's him go, he won't be responsible for what happens to the woman. Sam decides to do what he says but Sam thinks the man has something up his sleeve.
- Stone and Briggs are investigating the death of a man who fell out of the sky. They suspect that the man fell out of a plane. They talk to his wife who says he went to work but Stone thinks she wants to tell them something but is afraid to. They learn that the man her husband works, Virgil Haney has a private plane. They talk to him and denies that he was in the area where the man fell. Stone thinks he's lying. He talks to the pilot who says what Haney said but Stone senses he's lying. He talks to a Senator whom Haney has dealings with. The Senator on Haney's instructions accuses Stone of inappropriate behavior. Stone is suspended. He knows Haney is behind it to stop Stone from investigating him. He tries to talk to the man's wife to help him.
- Four teenagers, three boys and a girl, break into a house under construction in order to get high. A bit of horseplay ensues, during which the girl falls through a plate glass door and is badly injured. One of the boys drops the girl off at a hospital emergency room and flees, and before she goes fully unconscious, she tells the attending nurse that 'Joe Jack' was the name of the boy who dropped her off. Sam recognizes Joe Jack as Johnny Taylor, the son of a friend of his, lawyer Royce Taylor. He goes to see them, but doesn't get much help from Johnny, as Royce has advised him not to talk. The girl dies from her injuries, making it a murder case. Sam and Jim manage to bring in the other two boys, but get two different stories of what happened. Dan suggests talking to Johnny again, certain that his version of events is probably closer to the truth. Sam, Jim and Royce head up to a fishing cabin where Johnny is staying, but the boy picks up a hunting rifle and fires on them.
- Jim's girlfriend Cloris, a stewardess in town on layover, receives an unwanted visit from Wade, her ex-con ex-husband, who initially tries to shake her down for money to get out of town. Paulie, a thug, blames him for his brother's death and is out to get him. Wade changes his plans upon meeting Jim and learning that he's a cop...he steals Jim's gun and badge and pays Paulie a deadly visit.
- Detectives Sam and Jim work to create an airtight case against mobster Gus Mills so he can be extradited. But Mills is intent on disrupting their effort by sending his gang to make the evidence disappear.
- Aggie Sloan, an heiress, seduces Art, a much older gas station owner, and brings him back to her family's mansion, where things start to get weird. Her brother Tony accuses Art via loudspeaker of seducing his sister, and the older man tries to escape the mansion but is unable to. Sam and Jim are assigned to investigate Art's disappearance. Meanwhile, Tony pulls the same thing with a waitress named Mary, and Aggie's menacing voice is heard over the loudspeaker. Now there are two mysterious disappearances connected to the bored rich kids. Jim sets himself up as a third victim to find out what happened to the other people.
- An entire hospital winds up under siege when an assassin who wounds a visiting dignitary plans to finish the job. Sam and Jim must find him before he blows up the entire hospital.
- A cop whom Sam knows is shot. Jim tries to find out what he was working on. Sam learns that a man who saved his life in Korea was brought in for being drunk. Sam gets him released and brings him home. The man upon going home sees two men there it seems that the man is a pilot and they want him to fly them to bring something but he refuses. But when his son whom he wasn't expecting for a few more days shows up he goes with them. Jim tells Dan that the case the cop who was shot involves smuggling and that the smugglers use a helicopter to bring them in and the pilot the cop went to see is Sam's friend. San goes to see him but he's gone, his son who thinks his dad is a loser tells Sam that he left with two men. So they try to find them.
- A mild mannered man "Bug", is a paid arsonist but fails to complete an assignment. Detectives Sam and Jim are confident he will try again and must find a way to stop him.
- Two strangling deaths are connected to a computer dating service. Sam and Jim must race to prevent a third girl from being killed.
- Sam manages to get the abused girlfriend of extortionist Gorley to help put him away.
- An innocent game of hide-and-seek between a young nurse and her son soon turns into a terror-filled ordeal for her when she's kidnapped by a deranged wannabe country singer. He wants the nurse to treat his wife, who was critically wounded during the commission of an armed robbery.
- A hit man is killed by a car bomb which he planted to kill Jim. As this was the third such attempt on his life in recent days, the young cop is ordered to go into hiding while Sam tries to figure out who's after him. Determining that Mob boss Cal Wolff is behind the threats, Sam deduces that Jim saw something, possibly Wolff being in the company of a girl who washed up dead on the beach.
- Ex-cop Charlie Murdock asks Sam and Jim to pay a visit to his boat. They're horrified to see the boat explode with Charlie aboard. A subsequent investigation reveals that he was doing some snooping on behalf of an old friend, Tillery Gage, who was being blackmailed. When no body washes up and Gage receives another blackmail threat, the two cops begin to suspect that their old buddy played them for suckers.
- An armed robber forces a department store manager to let him into the store so he can rob the safe. Sam and Jim arrive on the scene, and a shootout ensues where the robber is killed. The manager informs the two cops that the robber's accomplices are holding his wife and son at gunpoint. Sam and Jim now need to get the two hostages out safely.
- Sam and Jim try to unfold a bizarre mystery when a young man claims to have received death threats and also claims to have witnessed the murder of his brother's gardener. The gardener is very much alive, and no evidence of any threats can be found. Is the young man disturbed?
- Upon learning that a gang of crooks plans to rob the payroll office at the baseball stadium, Jim goes undercover as an employee.
- Sam and Jim provide protection for deposed Syndicate leader Majeski, who's offered to turn evidence against his successor Durant, but they're ambushed and Majeski disappears.
- Pharmaceutical salesman Merritt and his buddy George break into chemical company and steal an experimental drug. During the theft, a security guard is killed when Merritt shoots him with a tranquilizer dart.and he falls.from a ladder. Sam and Jim are certain that these two are the culprits, but they can't seem to pin the theft and murder charges on them. Jim goes undercover at the swingers apartment complex where Merritt lives and almost gets killed when he's shot with a tranquilizer dart while swimming.
- A cop comes across a robbery. He shoots at them, and they shoot at him. He hits one of them and the other gets way, The one he shot was holding the bag and when it fell all the money inside came out. Later the owner informs Captain Nye that there's still some money missing. Nye then calls Sam and tells him what the owner said. Which means either one of two things, the one that got away has it or the cop took it. Nye also tells him that the cop is in a financial crisis and tells Sam to check it out. San tries to find the second guy and when the cop learns that they suspect him, he also goes out to look for the man.
- A thug is killed in a shootout with police. Sam goes undercover and takes his place to bring down a ring of counterfeiters.
- Reformed safecracker Jonah Clifton is being transported by Sam and another cop to testify in a trial when they're ambushed by three punks. Sam and the other cop are critically wounded, Clifton is taken hostage,and Jim and Dan are on their trail.They plan to use Clifton in a burglary they're planning to commit.
- Betty Joyce Foster is babysitting when she looks into the window of the neighbors and witnesses the man of the house in an argument with a much younger man. She sees the older man strike the younger man from behind, possibly killing him. Sam and Jim investigate the neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.AAnderson, after Betty Joyce calls them, but no evidence of foul play is found and the girl is found to have a very active imagination. Shortly thereafter, the body of another young girl is fished out of the ocean, and her boyfriend, who's wanted for questioning, is missing, followed by the disappearance of Betty Joyce. As it turns out, all three incidents are connected, and Sam and Jim arrive at the conclusion that the nice older couple, the Andersons, really aren't that nice after all.
- Ex-con Terry is now drug free but holds a grudge against the dealer who started him using. He goes to Detective Stone to get help to track the man down but after three years the trail has gone cold.
- Two minor criminals are murdered, and all the evidence points to Lt. Mike Reineck, who was Sam's former partner.
- A man who just arrived from out of town gets in a cab and gets into an accident; one of his bags contains a lot of money. Sam and Jim investigate by first talking to the man's wife, who says she knows nothing. Later, someone attacks her but Sam and Jim save her. Sam assumes that her husband owes money to some people and they offered to forget the debt if he delivers the money to them. They call the wife and tell her to bring the money, and because they know who she is, they can't put a policewoman in her place so they must let her go and figure out a way to protect her.
- A pair of burglars threatens to kill their victims, a rich couple, if they talk to the cops. They wind up going after the couple's young daughter instead.
- George 'Lucky' Collins escapes from prison, where he was serving a sentence for manslaughter. He picks up his adorable young daughter as she's walking home from school. Sam and Jim pursue them as they make their way to a boat, where Lucky plans to flee, following a trail of violence.
- Dan was on his way to the station with a woman when suddenly they both collapse. They're brought to the hospital. Sam and Jim show up and learn that they were poisoned and that unless they know what they were poisoned with, they don't have much time. They learn that the woman went to the station and was saying that her life was being threatened and wouldn't say anything else. Dan brought her home and somehow convinced her to file a report. He was bringing her when they collapsed. Sam and Jim go to her apartment and see that they had coffee. So they take everything to be analyzed but there was no trace left. So they go to where she works and they learn that she spends time at a beach house. They go there and find a boy breaking in. They question him and he says that his father leased the house and that he and the woman are having a thing. They question the man and they learn he's a chemist and he could have access to the poison but he denies poisoning her. Sam comes up with a plan to make the perpetrator reveal the poison.
- Miller, a building contractor, makes a.frantic call to Sam before being killed in an explosion. Subsequent investigation reveals that Mob boss Kester is trying to force his way into the construction business, with the help of Maitland, a building inspector he bribed.
- The manager of popular singer Julie Browne is found dead on the beach. Sam and Jim follow the trail to creepy music publisher Ollie Olds, who's out to get her contract by any means possible.
- Jim escapes death in a burning car, intensifying his efforts to nail Olds, who's got Julie under the influence of LSD and planning to marry her.
- Sam and Jim arrive at the scene of a warehouse robbery and murder. The dead man is the co-owner of the warehouse, and his partner blames Sam for the death. He convinced the warehouse owner to take a chance and hire ex-con Joe Morales, whom the co-owner insists is the killer. As they search for the young fugitive, Sam can't help but be convinced that he was framed.
- Captain Nye is shot. Briggs and Stone try to find the shooter. The only lead they have is that the man is particular about his appearance especially about his clothes because he was seen trying to wash a stain off it. They get word to all the dry cleaners and sure enough, the one he went to calls them. They go there but he's gone. The dry cleaner says he saw a plane ticket in his coat. They head to the airport to get him but when they reach the plane, the learn that the man left. They discover that he saw the newspaper and it said the Captain is still alive. So they assume he is going to finish the job.
- Roy Madden, the owner of a football team who thinks his wealth and position makes him superior to everyone. He's having an affair with the wife of one of his players. When the man comes looking for his wife, Madden gets her out but the guy knows she was with him, so he tells Madden to leave his wife alone and starts to assault Madden when Bull, a former player who works for Madden as a bodyguard throws him out. But he sneaks back in and again tries to assault Madden but Madden strikes him with something killing him. He then calls Bull, and tells him that he came back and collapsed. He tells Bull that it was probably because something he did to him. But Bull says he didn't do anything to him. He tells Bull to get away. When Stone, who knows Madden investigates, Madden tries to pin the whole thing on Bull but Stone doesn't believe him.
- Myra Delaney is killed when she's chased into the path of a truck. Sam and Jim visit the brokerage firm where she worked, and it's revealed that large sums of money have been embezzled, possibly by someone working for the firm. As it turns out, Myra and her co-worker Sherry Martin have been aiding criminal Jack Heath in the thefts. Sherry is hiding out at a luxury hotel waiting to hear from Heath. Herbie, a nerdy bellboy, falls for her and runs interference for her when the cops show up at the hotel lookingfor
- Sam and Jim arrive at an unusual crime scene-- an African national named Marcel Nburu has a fund-raising expert, Charlie Bannerman, hanging upside down from a tree. They initially arrest Nburu on an attempted murder charge, for.which noted defense attorney Clinton Judd arrives to defend him. Sam's position with regards to Nburu changes to one of sympathy after they investigate Bannerman and discover him to be a con artist who fleeced Nburu out of money entrusted to him by his country. Sam finds himself changing his position once again when they go to arrest Bannerman, but find him dead and Nburu standing over the body. A scuffle ensues where Sam causes Nburu to fall down a flight of stairs and become seriously injured (The episode concluded later that evening on Judd for the Defense).
- Con artist Tycer (sic) Edwards has beautiful young heiress Susan Douglas convinced that he wants to marry her, but he's really a kidnapper out to get a ransom from her rich father. Sam and Jim try to convince Mr. Douglas to let them handle the situation, but he refuses and sends his tough-guy chauffeur to deliver the money, resulting in the chauffeur being shot and killed.
- When a woman is found dead in the pool of Adam Langtry, a wealthy man, the police are called in. Sam talks to one of Langtry's people who tells him that it was an accident. But Sam says he wants to investigate and that includes talking to Langtry. His people tell Sam he needs to make an appointment but Sam says he'll see him now. So he goes to his office but the guard stops him. Sam then gets a call from the Captain telling him to come to the station. He tells Sam to talk to the dead woman's sister. Sam talks to her and she tells Sam that her sister was Langtry's mistress, and she knows that Langtry mistreated her. Sam finally talks to Langtry who insists that he doesn't know the woman. That's when Sam discovers just how ego maniacal he is. Sam tells him that he will get him. He uses his influence to get Jim transferred to another precinct. Sam refuses to back down.
- A millionaire is suspected of murder and Detective Stone lays a trap to prove his case. The wealthy Langtry hires a hit man to take out his nemesis before any proof of his involvement is found.
- As Sam and Jim begin their investigation into a fatal armed robbery, they welcome a new detective to the squad, a young black man named Cliff Sims. From the description of the killer, Cliff is able to identify him as Jesse Hawkins, a guy he knows from the neighborhood and whose brother happens to be a leading black militant. He manages to get Rex, Jesse's brother, to try and persuade him to turn himself in, but his efforts fail, leading Cliff to question whether or not he wants to continue being a cop, despite encouragement from his fellow officers.
- Sam tries to persuade young black detective Cliff Sims to remain on the force, to no avail. The robbery and murder suspect he tried to help, Jesse Hawkins, is now threatening Cliff and his family, adding to his burden.
- High stakes poker takes a deadly turn after a player bets his life. The three surviving gamblers take flight with Sam and Jim in pursuit.
- Mason, a thug who works on the docks, steals a.pistol from a shipment and attacks a guard who caught him in the act. Sam and Jim go to the neighborhood near the docks in search of Mason, only to discover that no one in the neighborhood will help them, aside from Dr. Greene. The residents are either too frightened to get involved or they're comrades of Mason's and are.protecting him.
- Phil Calder, who was arrested several years before for the attempted murder of a woman, is the prime suspect in a similar case, but Sam doesn't buy it.
- 1966–196930m7.7 (22)TV EpisodeStone and Briggs are on the scene when a fight breaks out between a valet and high-powered attorney Leslie Gorman. The lawyer tries to foist money onto Jim to make him overlook everything, but the young cop arrests him instead for attempted bribery. Gorman files a report at the station stating that Jim roughed him updduring the arrest. Sam knows that Gorman is lying and when he tries to prove it, he almost gets nailed for a similar brutality charge. tries to nail the older cop with a similar complaint.
- Jim is the star witness against drug pusher Peel. His underlings frame the young cop for murder in an effort to discredit him.
- Ellen Vincent is the star witness in the murder trial of racket boss Arnie Kale, and Sam and Jim are assigned by D.A. Fisher to protect her. When she mysteriously disappears, Sam suspects that someone close to both her and Kale is involved.
- Ellen Willis pays a frantic visit to the Squad, claiming that her boyfriend, Eddie Costa, was murdered for real in a death scene from an underground film by hippie producer Benjy Panozian. Sam and Jim drop in on the filmmaker, but all they get from Panozian is that Eddie is alive and doesn't want anything to do with the 'square' Ellen. They really can't do much of anything else, but when Eddie is found dead for certain from a stab wound, they visit Benjy again and get even more of a runaround.
- Paula, a photographer, is found brutally bludgeoned to death, and some of her expensive jewelry is missing as well. Sam notices a picture in Paula's developing tray and recognizes it as that of Joey Cahill. He was romantically involved with Joey's older sister Vicki years before and gave Joey a break on an assault rap. Paying a visit to Vicki, Sam discovers that she knows that Joey has issues controlling his violent nature and that she blames herself, thinking that she caused him to fall and suffer a severe head injury as a child. Sam is convinced that Joey is naturally a bad person and that he will hurt others, which he does when he attacks a female fence who refuses to handle the stolen jewels, and he also hits his own sister as well.