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Cannon
1971 - 1976 6.5 (35 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Drama Action & Adventure
Networks
CBS
Created By
Edward Hume

Cannon

L.A.'s biggest crime fighter!

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Adrian Samish, Harold Gast

Top Cast

William Conrad
William Conrad

Frank Cannon

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1971)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Salinas Jackpot
1971-09-14

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 min
Episode 2: Death Chain
1971-09-21

If 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 min
Episode 3: Call Unicorn
1971-09-28

Unexpected overhead in the trucking business as costly loads are hijacked, and private detectives murdered.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Country Blues
1971-10-05

A wry tale with a twang and a twist: was the country singer's plane crash accidental or not?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Scream of Silence
1971-10-12

The son of a gubernatorial candidate is kidnapped.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Fool's Gold
1971-10-19

A deceptive premise: small town citizens harbor a thief on the promise of a cut.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Girl in the Electric Coffin
1971-10-26

The latest thing is a runaway on the lam.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Dead Pigeon
1971-11-09

A perfect frame for a cop.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: A Lonely Place to Die
1971-11-16

A murder is witnessed, but the body disappears.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: No Pockets in a Shroud
1971-11-23

A 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 min
Episode 11: Stone Cold Dead
1971-11-30

A closed case gets reopened and leads to further consequences.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Death Is a Double Cross
1971-12-07

A bridegroom's father-in-law suspects him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Nowhere Man
1971-12-14

Should the weapons manufacturer be judged by its bookeeper?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Flight Plan
1971-12-28

Cannon helps a supposed political refugee.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Devil's Playground
1972-01-04

A policeman injured in a payroll robbery asks Cannon for help.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Treasure of San Ignacio
1972-01-11

A bad day at the track leaves a race car driver with a taste for vengeance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Blood On the Vine
1972-01-18

Mike 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 min
Episode 18: To Kill a Guinea Pig
1972-02-01

Prison doctor and experimental pressures.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Island Caper
1972-02-08

An ex-con is blackmailed into crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: A Deadly Quiet Town
1972-02-15

Larry Bolinger, a charismatic young man, cons the youth of a quiet town into his cult.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: A Flight of Hawks
1972-02-22

A pilot's apparent suicide leads to plans for a military putsch by a predatory flock.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Torch
1972-02-29

Heat 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 min
Episode 23: Cain's Mark
1972-03-07

Murder will out; an under-the-counter arms merchant is unmasked.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Murder By Moonlight
1972-03-14

A young prisoner is forced to do the bidding of a gang boss.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1972)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bad Cats and Sudden Death
1972-09-13

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 min
Episode 2: Sky Above, Death Below
1972-09-20

Keeping your double chin up. A draft dodger winesses a murder on his way to the Yukon.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Bitter Legion
1972-09-27

Cannon goes undercover to find a missing man in a gang. ""Why did the barmaid champagne?""

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: That Was No Lady
1972-10-04

That was my wife? A lady lawyer gets threatened with death for defending punks who robbed a charity.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Stakeout
1972-10-11

Served with a good Victor Hugo sauce, preferably. A girl wounded in a holdup mysteriously refuses to identify the crook.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Predators
1972-10-18

Alien-smuggling.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: A Long Way Down
1972-10-25

A doctor is accused of drug-dealing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Rip-Off
1972-11-01

There'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 min
Episode 9: Child of Fear
1972-11-15

A farmer is missing and guards have replaced the hands.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Shadow Man
1972-11-22

A corpse missing with valuable bonds.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Hear No Evil
1972-11-29

Dale 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 min
Episode 12: The Endangered Species
1972-12-13

A murder suspect has a dubious counsel.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Nobody Beats the House
1972-12-20

Toby 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 min
Episode 14: Hard Rock Roller Coaster
1973-01-03

A diamond smuggler is drugged to reveal his contraband.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Dead Samaritan
1973-01-10

A fellow who intervenes in a fight gets made the fall guy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Death of a Stone Seahorse
1973-01-17

A drug dealer's infirm sister takes the rap for a murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Moving Target
1973-01-31

The co-author of an industrialist's unauthorized biography is murdered.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Murder for Murder
1973-02-07

A case of revenge for a daughter's death at a swinging affair.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: To Ride a Tiger
1973-02-14

A kidnapping case involving the funds of a halfway house and a diabetic lawyer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Prisoners
1973-02-21

A young man is persuaded to extort $50,000 from his father, who turns out to be bankrupt.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Seventh Grave
1973-02-28

One 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 min
Episode 22: Catch Me If You Can
1973-03-07

A serial killer dogs Cannon to put him out of his misery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Press Pass to the Slammer
1973-03-14

A columnist faces contempt charges; Cannon takes the case.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Deadly Heritage
1973-03-21

A terrorized woman asks Cannon to find her husband's illegitimate son.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1973)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: He Who Digs a Grave (1)
1973-09-12

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 min
Episode 2: He Who Digs a Grave (2)
1973-09-12

Cannon begins to see a doubtful situation. ""The houses he makes last till doomsday.""

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Memo From a Dead Man
1973-09-19

Cannon's latest client is a dead man via a will.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Hounds of Hell
1973-09-26

Former soliders in Vietnam come fearfully to Cannon.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Target in the Mirror
1973-10-03

A former syndicate henchman has information wanted by the police and the underworld.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Murder by Proxy
1973-10-10

A prima facie murder case involving a lady journalist.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Night Flight to Murder
1973-10-17

On behalf of an insurance company, Cannon investigates an airplane full of securities.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Come Watch Me Die
1973-10-24

Cannon's engaged to protect a gang boss from the innocent man he sent up the river.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Perfect Alibi
1973-10-31

A payroll robbery has one main suspect who happens to be in prison.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Dead Lady's Tears
1973-11-07

A young model's death leads to many suspects.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Limping Man
1973-11-14

A cop feels guilty over a man he injured.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Trial by Terror
1973-11-21

A mob boss on trial has the judge's daughter kidnapped.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Murder by the Numbers
1973-11-28

A blackmailer's murder brings his Swiss wife to America, and Cannon discovers still more dealings.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Valley of the Damned
1973-12-05

Airport drug smugglers frame a worker for murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: A Well Remembered Terror
1973-12-12

An ex-stewardess is haunted by a hijacking.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Arena of Fear
1973-12-19

A boxer is blackmailed into throwing a fight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Photo Finish
1974-01-02

A former general hires former policeman Cannon to investigate his brother's murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Duel in the Desert
1974-01-16

Cannon suffers amnesia after a ransom drop goes afoul.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Where's Jennifer?
1974-01-23

A recluse asks Cannon to clear up the presumed death of her sister in a boating accident five years before.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Blood Money
1974-02-06

A doctor is accused of helping a prisoner escape.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Death of a Hunter
1974-02-13

A big game hunter is killed by a lion supposedly tranquilized.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Cure That Kills
1974-02-20

A con man of God.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Bobby Loved Me
1974-02-27

The murder of a con man.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Triangle of Terror
1974-03-13

A banker's daughter finds his suicide in the Caribbean incredible.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Stalker
1974-03-20

One of Cannon's old busts is a mass murderer, who comes after him on a fishing trip.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Endangered Species

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1974)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Kelly's Song
1974-09-11

A former hooker goes back on the hoof to catch a big wheel.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Hit Man
1974-09-18

Not a vocation, more like a calling. Cannon is mistaken for a bishop's assassin.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Voice From the Grave
1974-09-25

Cannon reopens the case of an old shooting.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Lady in Red
1974-10-02

Cannon bodyguards a securities courier.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Deadly Trail
1974-10-16

A general wants Cannon to find the daughter he put up for adoption years before, but there is opposition to the search.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Exchange
1974-10-23

A Cuban exile wants revenge for his brother's death at the hands of police.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Avenger
1974-10-30

A missing person case leads to a cop's death and the pursuit of vengeance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: A Killing in the Family
1974-11-06

Cannon deals with an insurance company in a suspicious auto accident.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Flashpoint
1974-11-13

A psychiatric patient falls in with bad company and is accused of rape and murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Man Who Couldn't Forget
1974-11-20

A Dutch Nazi-hunter is on the trail of an SS man.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Sounds of Silence
1974-12-04

Cannon reluctantly takes the case of a disappearing bridegroom, but it's more than it appears.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Prisoner
1974-12-11

An ex-POW is in danger from a cowardly officer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Daddy's Little Girl
1974-12-18

A football player doesn't know his father-in-law is a mob boss.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Conspirators
1975-01-01

A girl's suspicious death brings Cannon to Texas.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Coffin Corner
1975-01-15

A torpedo plays dead to testify, but the mob sniffs him out.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Perfect Fit for a Frame
1975-01-22

Cannon gets set up for a murder charge.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Killer On the Hill
1975-01-29

A contractor refuses to pay bribes, and is accused of plotting a political asassination.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Missing at FL307
1975-02-05

A released prisoner disappears en route.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Set Up
1975-02-12

A case of mistaken identity: Cannon is greeted by a stranger, and later almost killed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Investigator
1975-02-26

A case of police corruption and the death of a reporter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Lady On the Run
1975-03-05

The wife of an industrialist is missing, and the search is a difficult one.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Vengeance
1975-03-12

Cannon's help is sought by a man who went to jail without reason.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Tomorrow Ends at Noon
1975-03-19

Palestinian terroists kidnap an Italian industrialist's daughter to free a jailed comrade.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Search and Destroy
1975-04-02

Cannon searches for a missing girl who's on the lam after witnessing a murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1975)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Nightmare
1975-09-10

History of a Daedalus.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Deadly Conspiracy (I)
1975-09-17

Cannon 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 min
Episode 3: The Wrong Medicine
1975-09-24

Not what the doctor ordered. He's accused of administering in error, and claims his innocence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Iceman
1975-10-01

He 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 min
Episode 5: The Victim
1975-10-08

He who pays the bills. Cannon looks into the curious disappearance of a pop singer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Man Who Died Twice
1975-10-15

A case of mistaken identity. Eight years dead, a crooked cop re-emerges.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: A Touch of Venom
1975-10-22

A little bit goes a long way; Cannon is poisoned with 72 hours to find the antidote.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Man in the Middle
1975-10-29

Cannon 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 min
Episode 9: Fall Guy
1975-11-05

Down for the count, an oil company VP turns to Cannon to prove his innocence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Melted Man
1975-11-12

A desert heiress is terrified by the sight of a snowman with an ominous axe in its noggin.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Wedding March
1975-11-19

Down the primrose path, a judge is compromised by his wife.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Hero
1975-11-26

A figure of fame, the son of a general is thought to have killed a gang leader.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: To Still the Voice
1975-12-03

Dead men tell no tales out of school. A leader of the black community is murdered on the verge of uncovering a wrong.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Star (1)
1975-12-10

A film star's son is missing, or is he?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Star (2)
1975-12-10

Snapshots reveal a dubious link between policy and high crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Games Children Play
1975-12-17

Who will believe a child who has seen an Arabian heir made off with?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Reformer
1976-01-07

A publisher is accused of murder, for various reasons.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: House of Cards
1976-01-14

An embezzler has disappeared, but there's more than meets the eye.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Revenge
1976-01-21

Cannon is menaced by memories of his service in Korea.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Cry Wolf
1976-01-28

A bad speculation leads to an apparent abduction.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Quasar Kill
1976-02-04

A suspicious death in a space lab.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Snap Shot
1976-02-11

Deporting an old gangster proves fraught with peril.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Point After Death
1976-02-18

A case of vengeance. The girlfriend of a pro ballplayer is murdered.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Blood Lines
1976-02-25

A well-to-do young man's death in Acapulco is ruled an accident, but his family hires Cannon to investigate.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Mad Man
1976-03-03

An Army researcher goes berserk; his wife pleads with Cannon to intervene.

Runtime: 60 min

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