S5E1 - Target of Interest
Case: Michael Weil, Sandra Davis, Eugene Moody, et al - Espionage.
Sept. 14, 1969, midnight
S5E2 - Nightmare Road
Case: Gerald Wilson, Lawrence ""Jack"" Collins, Carolyn Paul - Killing a Federal Officer, Unlawful Flight, Murder.
Sept. 21, 1969, midnight
S5E3 - The Swindler
Case: Robert Charles Pollard, William Fremont Quine, George J. Hoyer - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder.
Sept. 28, 1969, midnight
S5E4 - Boomerang
Case: Extortion - Kidnapping. Terry Shelton, Melinda Collier, Harvey George Windsor, Robert David Fleming.
Oct. 5, 1969, midnight
S5E5 - Silent Partners
Case: Victor Berris, Carl Torrance, Steven Harber - Jury Tampering.
Inspector Lew Erskine duels with a hitman who bribed a juror in the trial of a mob kingpin.
Oct. 12, 1969, midnight
S5E6 - Gamble With Death
Case: Harry L. Springer - Extortion.
Oct. 19, 1969, midnight
S5E7 - Flight
Case: Walter Everett Hazlett - Crime Aboard Aircraft, Piracy, Attempted Murder.
Inspector Lew Erskine urges the Hijacker of a Cuban-bound plane to land immediately to save the life of a wounded passenger.
Oct. 26, 1969, midnight
S5E8 - The Challenge
Case: Paul Winters, Andrei Vallone - Espionage.
Nov. 2, 1969, midnight
S5E9 - Blood Tie
Case: Richard Arthur Kriton, Maximilian Kerry, Francis Wanderman - Theft from Interstate Shipment, Attempted Murder.
Nov. 9, 1969, midnight
S5E10 - The Sanctuary
Case: Nate Phelps, John Carl Winslow - Bank Robbery, Murder.
Nov. 16, 1969, midnight
S5E11 - Scapegoat
Case: Harley Earl Garnett - Crime on a Government Reservation - Murder.
Nov. 23, 1969, midnight
S5E12 - The Inside Man
Case:Harold H. Casey, Frank V. Sawyer-Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder.
Inpector Erskine and Agent Colby uncovers the ""Inside Man"" in a series of jewelery heists from New York City's Diamond District.
Nov. 30, 1969, midnight
S5E13 - The Prey
Case: Carl S. Beaumont, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives - Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.
Dec. 7, 1969, midnight
S5E14 - Journey Into Night
Case: David Mark Starret - Escaped Federal Prisoner - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. The escaped federal prisoner, David Starret, kidnaps his own son from the son's foster parents in Albany NY. The father and son travel to Texas where the good inspector finally captures him.
Dec. 14, 1969, midnight
S5E15 - The Doll Courier
Case: John DeBecker,Eric Linler, et al-Espionage,murder.
The FBI goes after communist agents in which the head of a porcelain doll is used to transport top secret microfilm.
Dec. 21, 1969, midnight
S5E16 - Tug-of-War
Case: Aaron Taylor, Milo Pike - Organized Crime, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft, Murder.
Dec. 28, 1969, midnight
S5E17 - Fatal Impostor
Case: Victor Kiley, Rick Davis - Unlawful Flight, Murder.
Jan. 4, 1970, midnight
S5E18 - Conspiracy of Corruption
Case: Peter Freeman Griffith - Victim, Civil Rights Violation.
Jan. 11, 1970, midnight
S5E19 - The Diamond Millstone
Case: Victor Amazeen, Billy Jack Lyle, James Tate - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property.
The bad guys rip off a 31 carat diamond pendant with the aid of the owner's maid.
Jan. 18, 1970, midnight
S5E20 - Deadly Reunion
Case: Matthew Bernhardt, David Hermann, John Stone, et al. - Espionage.
Agents from the ""Eastern Sector"" (East Berlin) allow the wife of a US based spy to ""escape"" the eastern sector. She is to then assassinate her husband, who is about to defect. The good inspector goes undercover to transport the wife from Berlin to the US and eventually prevent the assassination.
Jan. 25, 1970, midnight
S5E21 - Pressure Point
Case: Martin Rawll, Jack Lee Lutcher, Scott Rogers - Interstate Transportation of Gambling Devices, Attempted Murder.
Feb. 1, 1970, midnight
S5E22 - Summer Terror
Case: Alex Drake, Beau Thomas Manley - Extortion, Kidnapping.
Feb. 8, 1970, midnight
S5E23 - Return to Power
Case: Peter Joseph Tenny, Frank DiMirjian - Organized Crime, Assault of a Federal Officer.
Inspector Lew Erskine Capitalizes on a blood feud to lead him to secret mafia financial records.
Feb. 15, 1970, midnight
S5E24 - The Dealer
Case: Bernard Simms, Frank Brokaw, Norman Whitehead, David Osborne, et al-Theft From Interstate Shipments, Attempted Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine goes undercover by driving big rigs to obtain evidence against an Interstate Hijacking Ring. Colby also goes undercover as a shipping clerk to uncover the smuggling ring. He is injured in the line of duty when an ex-con reveals that Colby was not a convict!
Feb. 22, 1970, midnight
S5E25 - Deadfall
Case: Ronald Brimlow, Frank Morris Moonan, Shelly Brimlow, Arthur Cody - Kidnapping, Bank Robbery, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive.
March 1, 1970, midnight
S5E26 - The Quest
Case: Walter Graham Carr - Crime on a Government Reservation.
March 8, 1970, midnight