Buddy Ruskin
Director
The Mod Squad (1968)
Season 5
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Released Sept. 24, 1968
Episode 60 min
10+
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Production Companies: Thomas/Spelling Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - The Connection (1)
The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.
Sept. 14, 1972, midnight
S5E2 - The Connection (2)
The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.
Sept. 14, 1972, midnight
S5E3 - The Thunder Makers
A youth joins a motorcycle gang that plans to pull off a robbery of his father's company.
Sept. 21, 1972, midnight
S5E4 - Yesterday's Ashes
The trio believes that plastic surgery may be the best way to rehabilitate a disfigured girl caught shoplifting.
Sept. 28, 1972, midnight
S5E5 - A Gift for Jenny
A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.
Oct. 5, 1972, midnight
S5E6 - Taps, Play It Louder
The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.
Oct. 12, 1972, midnight
S5E7 - Eyes of the Beholder
A killer stalks Pete as he helps a formerly blind girl.
Oct. 19, 1972, midnight
S5E8 - Good Times Are Just Memories
A dirty cop frames Pete for the murder of a confederate in crime.
Oct. 26, 1972, midnight
S5E9 - Corbey
A policeman attempts to nab a pusher who's able to get off on technicalities.
Nov. 2, 1972, midnight
S5E10 - Can You Hear Me Out There?
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.
Nov. 9, 1972, midnight
S5E11 - Another Final Game
Pete and Julie pose as a newlywed couple to outsmart a master con artist.
Nov. 16, 1972, midnight
S5E12 - Crime Club
Students with high IQs commit crimes just for kicks.
Nov. 23, 1972, midnight
S5E13 - The Twain
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.
Nov. 30, 1972, midnight
S5E14 - Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.
Dec. 7, 1972, midnight
S5E15 - Kristie
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.
Dec. 14, 1972, midnight
S5E16 - Sanctuary
Julie is put in the hospital when she's targeted by syndicate undercover agents.
Dec. 21, 1973, midnight
S5E17 - Run, Lincoln, Run
Linc tries to save his cabby friend from loan sharks.
Jan. 4, 1973, midnight
S5E18 - Don't Kill My Child
A father is suspected of beating his own son.
Jan. 18, 1973, midnight
S5E19 - Death in High Places
The trio's investigation of a cover-up in a construction-site murder leads them to a pair of bad heavies.
Jan. 25, 1973, midnight
S5E20 - Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
The trio investigates a euthanasia that may turn out to be murder. The accused man, who killed his terminally ill wife, claims she was in intolerable pain, but doctors say she was receiving too much morphine to be suffering that much.
Feb. 1, 1973, midnight
S5E21 - Scion of Death
The parents of a kidnapped young man give the trio a hard time with their silence.
Feb. 8, 1973, midnight
S5E22 - The Night Holds Terror
Julie is trapped in a strange house with an escaped lunatic.
Feb. 15, 1973, midnight
S5E23 - Cry Uncle
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.
Feb. 22, 1973, midnight
S5E24 - And Once for My Baby
An imaginative thief plots a spectacular heist. The trio hopes to stop it before it happens, but they learn of another urgency.
March 1, 1973, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 7440 min.
Released: Sept. 24, 1968
Last Air Date: Dec. 21, 1973, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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