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Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
Producer: Adrian Samish, Harold Gast
Frank Cannon
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24 episodes
Dressed as rodeo clowns, two men rob a rodeo. Cannon is summoned to figure out what's going on, after authorities spend six weeks and come up with nothing.
Runtime: 60 minIf it isn't one thing, it's another: a bank manager's mistress is killed, and Cannon finds that's not the end of it.
Runtime: 60 minUnexpected overhead in the trucking business as costly loads are hijacked, and private detectives murdered.
Runtime: 60 minA wry tale with a twang and a twist: was the country singer's plane crash accidental or not?
Runtime: 60 minThe son of a gubernatorial candidate is kidnapped.
Runtime: 60 minA deceptive premise: small town citizens harbor a thief on the promise of a cut.
Runtime: 60 minThe latest thing is a runaway on the lam.
Runtime: 60 minA perfect frame for a cop.
Runtime: 60 minA murder is witnessed, but the body disappears.
Runtime: 60 minA newly-discovered heir comes home, and finds you can't get blood from a stone, and you can't take it with you.
Runtime: 60 minA closed case gets reopened and leads to further consequences.
Runtime: 60 minA bridegroom's father-in-law suspects him.
Runtime: 60 minShould the weapons manufacturer be judged by its bookeeper?
Runtime: 60 minCannon helps a supposed political refugee.
Runtime: 60 minA policeman injured in a payroll robbery asks Cannon for help.
Runtime: 60 minA bad day at the track leaves a race car driver with a taste for vengeance.
Runtime: 60 minMike Tampa, a vineyard owner in northern California, has been the victim of three murder attempts. After the third attempt, his secretary calls on Cannon, secretly, because Mike has stubbornly refused to do anything.
Runtime: 60 minPrison doctor and experimental pressures.
Runtime: 60 minAn ex-con is blackmailed into crime.
Runtime: 60 minLarry Bolinger, a charismatic young man, cons the youth of a quiet town into his cult.
Runtime: 60 minA pilot's apparent suicide leads to plans for a military putsch by a predatory flock.
Runtime: 60 minHeat and light: a textile manufacturer is suspected of arson and murder in the death of his wife and the destruction of his factory.
Runtime: 60 minMurder will out; an under-the-counter arms merchant is unmasked.
Runtime: 60 minA young prisoner is forced to do the bidding of a gang boss.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
24 episodes
That's about as unlucky as you can get. An assistant DA investigating a car theft ring is framed for his wife's murder.
Runtime: 60 minKeeping your double chin up. A draft dodger winesses a murder on his way to the Yukon.
Runtime: 60 minCannon goes undercover to find a missing man in a gang. ""Why did the barmaid champagne?""
Runtime: 60 minThat was my wife? A lady lawyer gets threatened with death for defending punks who robbed a charity.
Runtime: 60 minServed with a good Victor Hugo sauce, preferably. A girl wounded in a holdup mysteriously refuses to identify the crook.
Runtime: 60 minAlien-smuggling.
Runtime: 60 minA doctor is accused of drug-dealing.
Runtime: 60 minThere's only one way to deal with that: serve equal portions. Freight shipments are stolen by computer, and Cannon's in the middle of a custody fight.
Runtime: 60 minA farmer is missing and guards have replaced the hands.
Runtime: 60 minA corpse missing with valuable bonds.
Runtime: 60 minDale and Laura Corey are a happily married couple who own an electronics store; he does a lot of electronic eavesdropping for clients, she was a cop on the force with Cannon a few years back, and hires him because Dale is being threatened after bugging some hotel rooms for the owner.
Runtime: 60 minA murder suspect has a dubious counsel.
Runtime: 60 minToby Hauser is a compulsive gambler who is $200,000 in debt to Ben Logan (who runs local illegal gaming operations). The bill is due and Hauser has about $5000; they threaten to come after Hauser's wife Cathy if payment isn't made. Cathy, sensing one of them will be hurt, calls in Cannon to help.
Runtime: 60 minA diamond smuggler is drugged to reveal his contraband.
Runtime: 60 minA fellow who intervenes in a fight gets made the fall guy.
Runtime: 60 minA drug dealer's infirm sister takes the rap for a murder.
Runtime: 60 minThe co-author of an industrialist's unauthorized biography is murdered.
Runtime: 60 minA case of revenge for a daughter's death at a swinging affair.
Runtime: 60 minA kidnapping case involving the funds of a halfway house and a diabetic lawyer.
Runtime: 60 minA young man is persuaded to extort $50,000 from his father, who turns out to be bankrupt.
Runtime: 60 minOne step forward, two steps back as Cannon hunts a mass murderer. Helping to cloud the facts: a police lab technician who's altering the evidence as quickly as it is found.
Runtime: 60 minA serial killer dogs Cannon to put him out of his misery.
Runtime: 60 minA columnist faces contempt charges; Cannon takes the case.
Runtime: 60 minA terrorized woman asks Cannon to find her husband's illegitimate son.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
26 episodes
A writer is down for the murder of his wife and her lover, but she's left a contradictory note. ""Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?""
Runtime: 60 minCannon begins to see a doubtful situation. ""The houses he makes last till doomsday.""
Runtime: 60 minCannon's latest client is a dead man via a will.
Runtime: 60 minFormer soliders in Vietnam come fearfully to Cannon.
Runtime: 60 minA former syndicate henchman has information wanted by the police and the underworld.
Runtime: 60 minA prima facie murder case involving a lady journalist.
Runtime: 60 minOn behalf of an insurance company, Cannon investigates an airplane full of securities.
Runtime: 60 minCannon's engaged to protect a gang boss from the innocent man he sent up the river.
Runtime: 60 minA payroll robbery has one main suspect who happens to be in prison.
Runtime: 60 minA young model's death leads to many suspects.
Runtime: 60 minA cop feels guilty over a man he injured.
Runtime: 60 minA mob boss on trial has the judge's daughter kidnapped.
Runtime: 60 minA blackmailer's murder brings his Swiss wife to America, and Cannon discovers still more dealings.
Runtime: 60 minAirport drug smugglers frame a worker for murder.
Runtime: 60 minAn ex-stewardess is haunted by a hijacking.
Runtime: 60 minA boxer is blackmailed into throwing a fight.
Runtime: 60 minA former general hires former policeman Cannon to investigate his brother's murder.
Runtime: 60 minCannon suffers amnesia after a ransom drop goes afoul.
Runtime: 60 minA recluse asks Cannon to clear up the presumed death of her sister in a boating accident five years before.
Runtime: 60 minA doctor is accused of helping a prisoner escape.
Runtime: 60 minA big game hunter is killed by a lion supposedly tranquilized.
Runtime: 60 minA con man of God.
Runtime: 60 minThe murder of a con man.
Runtime: 60 minA banker's daughter finds his suicide in the Caribbean incredible.
Runtime: 60 minOne of Cannon's old busts is a mass murderer, who comes after him on a fishing trip.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
24 episodes
A former hooker goes back on the hoof to catch a big wheel.
Runtime: 60 minNot a vocation, more like a calling. Cannon is mistaken for a bishop's assassin.
Runtime: 60 minCannon reopens the case of an old shooting.
Runtime: 60 minCannon bodyguards a securities courier.
Runtime: 60 minA general wants Cannon to find the daughter he put up for adoption years before, but there is opposition to the search.
Runtime: 60 minA Cuban exile wants revenge for his brother's death at the hands of police.
Runtime: 60 minA missing person case leads to a cop's death and the pursuit of vengeance.
Runtime: 60 minCannon deals with an insurance company in a suspicious auto accident.
Runtime: 60 minA psychiatric patient falls in with bad company and is accused of rape and murder.
Runtime: 60 minA Dutch Nazi-hunter is on the trail of an SS man.
Runtime: 60 minCannon reluctantly takes the case of a disappearing bridegroom, but it's more than it appears.
Runtime: 60 minAn ex-POW is in danger from a cowardly officer.
Runtime: 60 minA football player doesn't know his father-in-law is a mob boss.
Runtime: 60 minA girl's suspicious death brings Cannon to Texas.
Runtime: 60 minA torpedo plays dead to testify, but the mob sniffs him out.
Runtime: 60 minCannon gets set up for a murder charge.
Runtime: 60 minA contractor refuses to pay bribes, and is accused of plotting a political asassination.
Runtime: 60 minA released prisoner disappears en route.
Runtime: 60 minA case of mistaken identity: Cannon is greeted by a stranger, and later almost killed.
Runtime: 60 minA case of police corruption and the death of a reporter.
Runtime: 60 minThe wife of an industrialist is missing, and the search is a difficult one.
Runtime: 60 minCannon's help is sought by a man who went to jail without reason.
Runtime: 60 minPalestinian terroists kidnap an Italian industrialist's daughter to free a jailed comrade.
Runtime: 60 minCannon searches for a missing girl who's on the lam after witnessing a murder.
Runtime: 60 minNo overview available.
25 episodes
History of a Daedalus.
Runtime: 60 minCannon and Barnaby Jones investigate the death of a young woman who was about to expose the illegal activities of the large corporation she was working for. The crossover continues on Barnaby Jones S04E01 The Deadly Conspiracy (II).
Runtime: 60 minNot what the doctor ordered. He's accused of administering in error, and claims his innocence.
Runtime: 60 minHe who cools your vegetables. A man falsely convicted of murder comes under the reluctant eye of Cannon, with more murders and new evidence at his heels.
Runtime: 60 minHe who pays the bills. Cannon looks into the curious disappearance of a pop singer.
Runtime: 60 minA case of mistaken identity. Eight years dead, a crooked cop re-emerges.
Runtime: 60 minA little bit goes a long way; Cannon is poisoned with 72 hours to find the antidote.
Runtime: 60 minCannon to the right... Cannon to the left... an old buddy's last request: go to Mexico and bring back his son's body.
Runtime: 60 minDown for the count, an oil company VP turns to Cannon to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 60 minA desert heiress is terrified by the sight of a snowman with an ominous axe in its noggin.
Runtime: 60 minDown the primrose path, a judge is compromised by his wife.
Runtime: 60 minA figure of fame, the son of a general is thought to have killed a gang leader.
Runtime: 60 minDead men tell no tales out of school. A leader of the black community is murdered on the verge of uncovering a wrong.
Runtime: 60 minA film star's son is missing, or is he?
Runtime: 60 minSnapshots reveal a dubious link between policy and high crime.
Runtime: 60 minWho will believe a child who has seen an Arabian heir made off with?
Runtime: 60 minA publisher is accused of murder, for various reasons.
Runtime: 60 minAn embezzler has disappeared, but there's more than meets the eye.
Runtime: 60 minCannon is menaced by memories of his service in Korea.
Runtime: 60 minA bad speculation leads to an apparent abduction.
Runtime: 60 minA suspicious death in a space lab.
Runtime: 60 minDeporting an old gangster proves fraught with peril.
Runtime: 60 minA case of vengeance. The girlfriend of a pro ballplayer is murdered.
Runtime: 60 minA well-to-do young man's death in Acapulco is ruled an accident, but his family hires Cannon to investigate.
Runtime: 60 minAn Army researcher goes berserk; his wife pleads with Cannon to intervene.
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