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The F.B.I.
1965 - 1974 5.5 (23 votes) 9 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama Mystery
Networks
ABC

The F.B.I.

Overview

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

Key Crew

Producer: Quinn Martin, Charles Larson

Top Cast

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Lewis Erskine

Philip Abbott
Philip Abbott

Arthur Ward

Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller

Narrator (uncredited)

William Reynolds
William Reynolds

Special Agent Tom Colby

Shelly Novack
Shelly Novack

Agente especial Chris Daniels

Stephen Brooks
Stephen Brooks

Agente especial Jim Rhodes

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1965)

No overview available.

32 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Monster
1965-09-19

Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Image in a Cracked Mirror
1965-09-26

Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: A Mouthful of Dust
1965-10-03

Case file #70-68307-C - Joseph Cloud - Crime on Indian Reservation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Slow March Up a Steep Hill
1965-10-10

Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Insolents
1965-10-17

Case file #45-47339-Y - Roger York - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: To Free My Enemy
1965-10-24

The good inspector has the distasteful job of finding a kidnap victim--a pornographer that the good inspector is trying build a case against. In the end, Erskine captures the kidnappers and obtains a warrant for the arrest of the pornographer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Problem of the Honorable Wife
1965-10-31

Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Courage of a Conviction
1965-11-07

Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Exiles
1965-11-14

Case file #2-46675-R - General Romero, et al. - Violation of Neutrality Act.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Giant Killer
1965-11-21

Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: All the Streets Are Silent
1965-11-28

Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: An Elephant is Like a Rope
1965-12-05

Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transsportation of Stolen Property. $500,000 that nobody would claim, and a man who has lost his memory are Inspector Erskine's and Agent Jim Rhodes' only lead to a crime within a crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: How to Murder an Iron Horse
1965-12-12

Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion. Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Pound of Flesh
1965-12-19

The FBI Investigates the murder of an Army Chaplains wife on an U.S. Army base.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Hijackers
1965-12-26

Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Forests of the Night
1966-01-02

Case file #9-26080-X Adam MacDonald, et al., Victims - Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Chameleon
1966-01-09

Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A clever confidence man of a thousand faces plays a deadly game of cat & mouse with a million dollars as the prize

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Sacrifice
1966-01-16

Case file #65-9525-X - The Doriskin Papers - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine infiltrates a spy network and is marked for assassination.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Special Delivery
1966-01-23

Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder. Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Quantico
1966-01-30

Case File #52-7672-S - Willard Smith - Destruction of Government Property. A plot to destroy The Supreme Court Building could cost an F.B.I. agent his job.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Spy Master
1966-02-06

Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Baby Sitter
1966-02-13

Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping. Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Flight to Harbin
1966-02-27

Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder. Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passengers aboard a flying prison of terror.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake
1966-03-06

Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Divided Man
1966-03-20

Case file #98-81829-M - Roger Leroy Mason - Sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Defector (1)
1966-03-27

Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Defector (2)
1966-04-03

Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. plays a deadly game of espionage with foreign assassins who seek the life of an Eastern European defector to the U.S.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: The Tormentors
1966-04-10

Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping. A desperate father jeopardizes the life of his kidnapped son when he defies F.B.I. warnings to keep the story out of the media.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The Animal
1966-04-17

Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: The Plunderers
1966-04-24

Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder. The F.B.I. leads a search for bank robbers who did not take enough money.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: The Bomb That Walked Like a Man
1966-05-01

Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a para-military hate group.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: The Hiding Place
1966-05-08

Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during World War II, serving as a Japanese officer without ever renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The one-time officer also was involved in torture during the war. To find the man, the agents eventually must seek the aid of one of the torture victims from the war.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 (1966)

No overview available.

29 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Price of Death
1966-09-18

Case file #7-23938-C - Arnold George Casey - Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Escape
1966-10-02

Case file #89-14243-D - Edward Warren Drake et al - Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Assassin
1966-10-09

Case file #65-16842-C - Anton Andre Christopher - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Cave-In
1966-10-16

Case file #98-33934-R - Thomas George Rule - Sabotage - Murder. FBI Agent Rhodes is entombed in a mine cave-in along with the suspect wanted for sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Scourge
1966-10-23

Case file #92-5843-A: John V. Albin - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Plague Merchant
1966-10-30

Case file #87-32746-J: The Doomsday Plague Theft - Interstate Transport of Stolen Property, Staph Eleven. The FBI must find the culprit who stole a vial of a deadly bacteria strain.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Ordeal
1966-11-06

Case file #87-78550-L: Graham Lockwood - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Collision Course
1966-11-13

Case file #88-36432-S: Frank Andreas Shroeder - Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Vendetta
1966-11-20

Case File #65-40515-S: Karl Friederich Schindler - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Anatomy of a Prison Break
1966-11-27

Case file #70-16154-L: Richard Hubbard Larken - Crime on a Government Reservation - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Contaminator
1966-12-04

Case file #65-57884-U: Lawrence Turner Underwood - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Camel's Nose
1966-12-11

Case file #164-429-C: Steven Jerome Colton, Michael Arnold Kessler, William Ray Milton - Crime Aboard Aircraft, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: List for a Firing Squad
1966-12-18

Case file #65-64887-N: Captain Istvan Novak - Espionage, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Death Wind
1966-12-25

Case file #45-9844-J: Captain Benjamin Jennerson, Theodore Darrel Hammond - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Raid
1967-01-01

Case file #91-64888-M: Scott Lee Martin - Ralph Daiker - Bank Robbery - Murder. Acting on an informer's tip, Erskine and Rhodes prepare to raid a motel, where four armed fugitives are holding a 10 year old boy hostage. (60 mins)

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Passage Into Fear
1967-01-08

Case file #69-43767-C: Hanna Jolene Crandall - Flight of Material Witness in a Case Involving the National Security.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Courier
1967-01-15

Case file #65-43374-S: Juliet Anne Sinclair - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: A Question of Guilt
1967-01-22

Case file #44-3928-S: Joseph Spooner, Victim: Civil Rights Violation - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Gray Passenger
1967-01-29

Case file #45-82133-A: Carlos Avila et al - Crime on the High Seas - Murder, Privacy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Conspirators
1967-02-05

Case file #100-98451-L: Co'nrad Letterman - John R. Milton, Internal Security, Sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Rope of Gold
1967-02-12

Case file #15-50426-K: Victor Kearney, et al - Theft From Interstate Shipment.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Hostage
1967-02-19

Case file #65-54538-S: Major Damian Sava, Dr. Maria-Luise Karn, Michael Veltran - Espionage - Kidnapping - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Sky on Fire
1967-02-26

Case file #52-36652-B: George Bellamy - Destruction of Government Property - Arson - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Flight Plan
1967-03-05

Case file #87-24533-D: Robert Dewey - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Executioners (1)
1967-03-12

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Executioners (2)
1967-03-19

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Satellite
1967-04-02

Case file #7-8625-H: Jack Donald Hauser, Lorraine Chapman - Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: Force of Nature
1967-04-09

Case file #88-67052-B: Charles Francis Burnett - Unlawful Flight - Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The Extortionist
1967-04-16

Case file #9-3275-C: Tyler Cray - Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 (1967)

No overview available.

27 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Gold Card
1967-09-17

Paul Nichols, a long-time member of the Cosa Nostra, over 30 years organized the mob's illegal gambling network. He kills Denton, a Mafia member who has been skimming off the top. But the killing was done without a vote from the Cosa Nostra's "commission." Complicating the situation: Nichols has taken possession of "the book," a list of codes necessary to the running of the gambling operation. The FBI learns through an informant that Nichols may be participating in a high-stakes poker game. Erskine recruits Doc Cameron, once a successful gambler who was nearly killed by the mob. Cameron also has been invited to the poker game and Erskine goes undercover as Cameron's "silent partner." The Cosa Nostra's commission, meanwhile, decides to hire hit men who will murder everyone at the poker game and make a grab for "the book."

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Counter-Stroke
1967-09-24

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Blood Verdict
1967-10-08

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Traitor
1967-10-15

Inspector Lew Erskine posing as a communist courier, uncovers a plot to steal top secret missle data.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: By Force and Violence (1)
1967-10-22

Inspector Lew Erskine connects the kidnapping of a teenage boy to a multi-million dollar heist planned by his long lost father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: By Force and Violence (2)
1967-10-29

Trailing the kidnappers of a teenage boy, Inspector Erskine uncovers plans for a $3,000,000 robbery by the boys father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: A Sleeper Wakes
1967-11-05

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Overload
1967-11-12

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Line of Fire
1967-11-26

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Blueprint for Betrayal
1967-12-03

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: False Witness
1967-12-10

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Legend of John Rim
1967-12-31

Case: John Rim, Escaped Federal Prisoner, Unlawful Interstate Flight to avoid confinement, murder. Quick sand, an alligator infested swamp, and a viscious backwood's town protect an escaped killer being sought by the F.B.I.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Dynasty
1968-01-07

A millionaire refuses to pay the ransome for his kidnapped brother, focing The F.B.I. to move fast in order to save the victims life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Daughter
1968-01-14

A long-lost daughter helps the F.B.I. unmask a communist spy who has taken the identity of a dead American.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Act of Violence
1968-01-21

Two murders, ten years apart, are linked by Inspector Erskine, giving him clues to solving both.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Crisis Ground
1968-01-28

An unsolved homicide ignites into a riot a town's hatred for a nearby job training camp.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Ring of Steel
1968-02-04

The unexplained death of a race car driverplaces Inspector Erskine on the trail of a stolen car ring.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Homecoming
1968-02-11

A scientist who defected from an Iron Curtain country returns to New York in secret and Assistant Director Arthur Ward personally handles the case.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Phone Call
1968-02-18

The husband, an Army sergeant, had just returned from service in Viet Nam. He found his wife had died under mysterious circumstances the night before his return.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Region of Peril
1968-02-25

Inspector Lew Erskine send a secret radio message to a kidnapped woman to aid her rescue

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Southwind
1968-03-03

The F.B.I and a mob hitman both try to catch up with a bank embezzler who has fled to the caribean.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Messenger
1968-03-17

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Ninth Man
1968-03-24

The F.B.I. hunts down a $2,000,000 treasure and the armoured car robbers who buried their ill-gotten loot.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Mechanized Accomplice
1968-03-31

Inspector Erskine races a time bomb for the life of a kidnapped youth.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Predators
1968-04-07

Inspector Lew Erskine holds off at gun point the crew of a cruise ship.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Tunnel
1968-04-21

The FBI goes after bank robbers who use a tunnel to penetrate the vault.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Mercenary
1968-04-28

Inspector Lew Erskine uncovers a communist spy ring whose pretty wife is the lure in blackmailing top secret information.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 (1968)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Wind It Up and It Betrays You
1968-09-22

Case: Carl Schmidt, Colonel Lorenz Tabor - Espionage, Murder. A dead mans hearing aid containing microfilm has The FBI uncovering an espionage ring.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Out of Control
1968-09-29

Case: Miguel Ramos Valdez-Assaulting a Federal Officer, Murder. Assistant Director Arthur Ward, Inspector Lew Erskine and Agent Tom Colby track down an oil field killer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Quarry
1968-10-06

Case: Michael Vincent Riley, Fugitive - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Runaways
1968-10-13

Case: John Graham Evans - Parole Violator - Murder. A killer picks for his robbery Victims, a happy family of four living on a farm.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Death of a Fixer
1968-10-20

Case: Roy Donald Blake - Fugitive, Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Gambling.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Enemies
1968-11-03

Case: Ralph Gordon Stuart - Espionage, Murder. The FBI follows a trail of blood in the hunt for a deadly Communist spy who's out to steel a top secret rocket fuel.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Nightmare
1968-11-10

Case: Harold Dale Converse - Fugitive, Bank Embezzlement. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine hunts down a bank embezzler and also tries to protect him from criminals helping in his escape.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Breakthrough
1968-11-17

Case: Vincent Preston Gray - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Harvest
1968-11-24

Case: James Reed, George Wilson, Joseph Troy - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A holdup mans love for a woman forces him into a shootout with a crew of FBI agents.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Intermediary
1968-12-01

Case: Thomas Waters a.k.a. Thomas Grant; William MacKenzie; Jack Dale - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Major Theft. Inspector Lew Erskine is the go-between for a jeweler seeking the return of stolen diamonds.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Butcher
1968-12-08

Case: Helmut Probst a.k.a. Paul Seiger - Unlawful Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inspector Erskine hunts down a wartime SS colonel who is still promoting Nazi ideals.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Flaw
1968-12-15

Case: Glen Parmenter et al - Espionage, murder. Inspector Lew Erskine snares a spy ring and in turn trapped by them in a deserted Mountain cabin.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Hero
1968-12-08

The crime is ""Unlawful Wearing of the Uniform"" and (by the way) murder. A con man wears a US Air Force uniform to entice women to marry him. He then murders or otherwise cheats them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Widow
1968-12-29

Case: Joyce Carr - Parole Violator,Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine traps a go-go dancer who conspires to marry military service men and collects their insurance money when her boyfriend murders them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Eye of the Storm
1969-01-05

Case: Edward and Nora Tobin - Kidnapping. Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby search for a kidnapped negro baby who is hiding in a plague infested ghetto.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Fraud
1969-01-12

Case: David Joseph Miles, Frank Stocker - Interstate transportation of Stolen Property, Extortion. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine fights the Mafias entry into selling fake masterpiece paintings.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: A Life in the Balance
1969-01-19

Case: Eugene David Holt, Elaine Donner, Richard Mills - Kidnapping. Blood at the sight of a kidnapping decides FBI Inspector Lew Erskine to act immediately without waiting for the ransom payment.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Caesar's Wife
1969-01-26

Case: Danielle Chabrol - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Patriot
1969-02-02

Case: Richard William Shaefer, alias Marvin Smith - Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Maze
1969-02-09

Case: Frank Dixon Welles - Top Ten Fugitive, Assaulting a Federal Officer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Attorney
1969-02-16

Case: Arnold Grant Toby - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Attempted Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Catalyst
1969-02-23

Case: Miguel Torres - Destruction of Aircraft, Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Conspiracy of Silence
1969-03-02

Case: Leonard King et al - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Young Warriors
1969-03-09

Case: William Rockhill - Crime on a Government Reservation, Arson, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Cober List
1969-03-23

Case: Terence Cober - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Moment of Truth
1969-03-30

Case: Vincent Tobias, John Beeker - Crime on a Government Reservation, Murder. A banker runs a loan sharking ring from his bank. He specializes in ripping off ex servicemen who have been rejected for a normal loan at his bank. The crime on a government reservation was the murder of a serviceman who could not pay the outrageous interest on a ""loan"".

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 (1969)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Target of Interest
1969-09-14

Case: Michael Weil, Sandra Davis, Eugene Moody, et al - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Nightmare Road
1969-09-21

Case: Gerald Wilson, Lawrence ""Jack"" Collins, Carolyn Paul - Killing a Federal Officer, Unlawful Flight, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Swindler
1969-09-28

Case: Robert Charles Pollard, William Fremont Quine, George J. Hoyer - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Boomerang
1969-10-05

Case: Extortion - Kidnapping. Terry Shelton, Melinda Collier, Harvey George Windsor, Robert David Fleming.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Silent Partners
1969-10-12

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Gamble With Death
1969-10-19

Case: Harry L. Springer - Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Flight
1969-10-26

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Challenge
1969-11-02

Case: Paul Winters, Andrei Vallone - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Blood Tie
1969-11-09

Case: Richard Arthur Kriton, Maximilian Kerry, Francis Wanderman - Theft from Interstate Shipment, Attempted Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Sanctuary
1969-11-16

Case: Nate Phelps, John Carl Winslow - Bank Robbery, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Scapegoat
1969-11-23

Case: Harley Earl Garnett - Crime on a Government Reservation - Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Inside Man
1969-11-30

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Prey
1969-12-07

Case: Carl S. Beaumont, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives - Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Journey Into Night
1969-12-14

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Doll Courier
1969-12-21

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Tug-of-War
1969-12-28

Case: Aaron Taylor, Milo Pike - Organized Crime, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Fatal Impostor
1970-01-04

Case: Victor Kiley, Rick Davis - Unlawful Flight, Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Conspiracy of Corruption
1970-01-11

Case: Peter Freeman Griffith - Victim, Civil Rights Violation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Diamond Millstone
1970-01-18

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Deadly Reunion
1970-01-25

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Pressure Point
1970-02-01

Case: Martin Rawll, Jack Lee Lutcher, Scott Rogers - Interstate Transportation of Gambling Devices, Attempted Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Summer Terror
1970-02-08

Case: Alex Drake, Beau Thomas Manley - Extortion, Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Return to Power
1970-02-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Dealer
1970-02-22

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!

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Deadfall
1970-03-01

Case: Ronald Brimlow, Frank Morris Moonan, Shelly Brimlow, Arthur Cody - Kidnapping, Bank Robbery, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Quest
1970-03-08

Case: Walter Graham Carr - Crime on a Government Reservation.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 6 (1970)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Condemned
1970-09-20

Case: Perry Alan Victor, Shepard Buford, et al - Bank Robbery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Traitor
1970-09-27

Case. Donald Willis, Alex Keeler, Bryan Carlson, Neil Stryker, et al - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Escape to Terror
1970-10-04

Case: George C. Breen - Fugitive, Fraud Against the Government, Conspiracy, Bond Default.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Architect
1970-10-11

Case: Arthur McBride, James J. Borden, Howard Lawson Deal - Unlawful Flight To Avoid Confinement - Fugitives. Three bad guys break out of a prison bus and then travel to Miami to knock over a armored car fresh from a horse-race track pickup.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Savage Wilderness
1970-10-18

Case: Walker Oborn - Crime on a Government Reservation. Inspector Lew Erskine and the FBI tracks down the kidnapper of a young girl in the wilderness area of the Sierra Mountains.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Time Bomb
1970-10-25

Case: Eric Stone, Gilbert Manning, Karen Wandermere, Knox Hiller, Alan Hiller - Destruction of Government Property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Innocents
1970-11-01

Case:Frank Raphael Colling,Elizabeth Dulcie Colling - Kidnapping, Extortion. Inspector Erskine and the FBI Captures a man and wife kidnapping team who have abducted a seven-year-old boy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Deadly Pact
1970-11-08

Case: Daniel Ginger Dodds, Ernest Geiger, James Steen, et al - Organized Crime, Extortionate Credits Transactions, Attempted Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Impersonator
1970-11-22

Case: Wesley W. Ziegler - Impersonation, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. Inspector Lew Erskine is on the hunt for a con-man who preys on lonely women.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Antennae of Death
1970-11-29

Case: Arthur Majors, Kirby James Jarret, Paul Willard, Oren Willard - Assaulting Federal Officers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Target
1970-12-06

Case: Nicholas Blok, Howard Denham and Ruth Denham - Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Witness
1970-12-13

Case: John McElroy, Yvonne Demarest - Crime on a Government Reservation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Incident in the Desert
1970-12-20

Case: John H. Elgin, Frank V. Taylor, Harold D. Boggs, Collier M. Sampson - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Major Theft. Inspector Erskine catches up with four jewel thieves in a deserted ghost town.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Inheritors
1970-12-27

Case: Glen Frey, Lester Hunter - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft. Inspector Erskine prevents two con-artists from bilking a wealthy winery owner.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Unknown Victim
1971-01-03

case: Thorn Hazard, Bryan Hazard, Sheila Waters-Extortion, Kidnapping. Inspector Lew Erskine rescues a young girl who was kidnapped through mistaken identity.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Stalking Horse
1971-01-10

Case: Lee Barrington, Marie Roska, Yanos Lobler - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Center of Peril
1971-01-17

Case: Porter Bent, Mark Donald Gaynor, Jay Richard Yarborough - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Eye of the Needle
1971-01-24

Case: Eugene Fordyce, Paul Menard, James Lee Vaughn - Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Fatal Connection
1971-01-31

Case: Albert Rendich, Raymond Bergan, Anthony Sprague - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion, interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Replacement
1971-02-07

Case: Valerie Hendricks, Paul Stoner, Karl Elman, et al - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Death Watch
1971-02-14

Case: Arthur Blaisdell, Timothy Lee Gage - Crime on a Government Reservation, Assault, Theft of Government Property, Conspiracy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Downfall
1971-02-21

Case: Holt Campbell, alias Mike Keller, Martin Ashton - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Hitchhiker
1971-02-28

Case: Jerome Williams - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Attempted Murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Turnabout
1971-03-07

Case: Richard A. Billings-Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. Inspector Lew Erskine apprehends the lone survivor of an amoured car robberyand recovers $500.000 in stolen money.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Natural
1971-03-14

Case: John Nesbitt, Chester Hanzer, Rudy Walen, et al- Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion, Sports Bribery. Inspector Erskine rescues a kidnap victim and stops an attempt to fix a college basketball game.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Three-Way Split
1971-03-21

Case: Eliot Fielding, George R. Whelan, Roy Mills - Bank Robbery.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 7 (1971)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Death on Sunday
1971-09-12

Case: Irwin Lynch, Zach Parker - Extortion. Victim: Paul Talbot.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Recurring Nightmare
1971-09-19

Case: Dale Fisher, Graham Newcomb, Gwendolyn Rankin. Victim: Kidnapping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Last Job
1971-09-26

Case: Michael 'Doc' Lacy, Jerrold Rivers - Unlawful Flight to Avoid Confinement, Armed Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle. The FBI hunts down a criminal mastermind who escapes from prison to pull-off a military payroll robbery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Deadly Gift
1971-10-03

Case: Charles Ridgeway, Julie Rhodes - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Dynasty of Hate
1971-10-10

Case: Lee Everett Chard - Kidnapping; James Faron - Victim.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Mastermind (1)
1971-10-17

Case: Curtis Breer, Howard Douglas Rademaker, Clenard Massey, Lewis Lyle Chernik - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Interstate Transportation of a Stolen Motor Vehicle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Mastermind (2)
1971-10-24

Case: Curtis Breer, Howard Douglas Rademaker, Clenard Massey, Lewis Lyle Chernick-Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle. In part(2) of this episode, After capturing one of the members of a gang of robbers, the F.B.I. learns the identity of two others, but not the phantom leader who double-crossed his partners in-crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Watch-Dog
1971-10-31

Case: Luther Shawn, Damian Hoowards, Ralph Kurland and Kate Waller - Espionage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Game of Terror
1971-11-07

Case: John ""Chill"" Chilton, Bryan Welles - Extortion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: End of a Hero
1971-11-21

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Superstition Rock
1971-11-28

Case: Arlen Parent - Assasult on a Federal Officer. George Harris - Victim.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Minerva Tapes
1971-12-05

Inspector Erskine Infiltrates an espionage ring and is caught in the cross-fire. Louis Jourdan guest stars.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Bitter Harbor
1971-12-12

Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby go undercover to fight mob corruption in the dock workers union.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Recruiter
1971-12-19

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Buyer
1972-01-02

Case: Maynard Gage, Lou Forrester, Connie Sherill et al - Theft from Interstate Shipment.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: A Second Life
1972-01-09

Case: Steve Elliot Chandler - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle, Attempted Murder. A contract killer is being pursued by the mob after botching up a job.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Break-Up
1972-01-16

An ex-convict wanting to go straight is persuaded by his girlfriend to pull one more bank robbery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Judas Goat
1972-01-23

A young singer on his way to stardom has his recording contract taken over by a mob loan shark.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Hunters
1972-01-30

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Arrangement With Terror
1972-02-06

The F.B.I. learns that organized crime is involved in the theft of securities from a brokerage firm.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Set-Up
1972-02-13

While Inspector Erskine and Agent Rhodes pursues Larry Kulhane and his gang for bank robbery, he plans to rob and kill a wealthy aristocrat Adryth Nolan.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Test
1972-02-20

Inspector Lew Erskine attempts to keep Paul Hale under survaillence as he sets out to pay the ransome for his father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Corruptor
1972-02-27

Inspector Lew Erskine pursues Dree Foster, who engages in a cross-country crime spree on his way to a secret destination.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Deadly Species
1972-03-05

Case: Jean Scott, Bank Robbery. Jean Scott pulls one robbery after another to finance finding her eight-year old son and stealing him away from her ex-husband.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Dark Journey
1972-03-12

Case: Jason Peale et al, securities fraud. Con man Jason Peale impersonates a famous ""invisible"" tycoon to sell stock in a bogus company.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Escape to Nowhere
1972-03-19

Case:Mark Drugman, Escaped Federal Prisoner, Unlawful Interstate Flight to avoid confinement. The F.B.I. pursues escaped convict Mike Drugan, learns that crime boss Nelson Wayland has ordered him murdered to prevent him from testifying at an upcoming trial.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 8 (1972)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Runner
1972-09-17

Inspector Erskine trails an Escaped Federal Prisoner who abducted a young girl and vanishes into the Oregon Wilderness.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Edge of Desperation
1972-09-24

A business man masterminds his own kidnapping and flees with the ransom money obtained from his father in-law along with a young woman to New York City.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Fatal Showdown
1972-10-01

Inspector Lew Erskine pursues Ken Meed's gang after the robbery of a valuable statue from a New York City art auction.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Franklin Papers
1972-10-08

While Inspector Lew Erskine investigates a con game that was perpetrated Christine Minton and her boyfriend, The pair set out to sell forged historical documents to an amateur historian.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Gopher
1972-10-15

To crack a loan sharking operation, Inspector Lew Erskine sets out to find the man who stole the organizations book of borrowers' name.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: End of a Nightmare
1972-10-22

The case is to catch an escaped convict before he takes revenge on the persons responsible for the annulment of his marriage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Engineer
1972-10-29

Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby go after an unemployed aerospace engineer who turns to crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: A Game of Chess
1972-11-05

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Wizard
1972-11-12

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Loner
1972-11-19

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Canyon Of No Return
1972-11-26

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Holiday With Terror
1972-12-03

Kidnapping with a twist in ""Holiday with Terror"". The naive victim believes she's on a weekend vacation. (60 mins)

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Jug Marker
1972-12-10

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Outcast
1972-12-17

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Dark Christmas
1972-12-24

Hitman Stuart Tilden seriously wounds a businessman in Chicago while seeking the whereabouts of his intended target. The FBI launches an intense investigation, seeking to prevent him from succeeding, and even Assistant Director Arthur Ward will make an arrest in the field as part of the effort. The target is Richard Ghormley, who formerly worked for a criminal. While he wasn't involved with illegal activities, the criminal fears that he knows too much. He is desperately trying to get home from a business trip to San Francisco on Christmas Eve and Tilden is waiting for him there. Colby and other agents rescue his children while Erskine confronts Tilden.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Rap Taker
1973-01-07

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: A Gathering Of Sharks
1973-01-14

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Disinherited
1973-01-21

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Desperate Journey
1973-01-28

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Double Play
1973-02-04

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Wedding Gift
1973-02-11

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Detonator
1973-02-25

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Sweet Evil
1973-03-04

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Memory of a Legend
1973-03-11

Inspector Lew Erskine & The FBI confront a father and son, The father being a small time burglar glamorized by the son who is trying to follow in his footsteps.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Night of the Long Knives
1973-03-25

Suspecting assassinations in the Mafia are being planned, Inspector Erskine goes undercover as a caterer at the wedding of a mob bosses daughter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Loper Gambit
1973-04-01

Inspector Lew Erskine's attempt to capture the kidnappers of the son of a wealthy land developer without endangering the life of the victim.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 9 (1973)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Big Job
1973-09-16

As carefully planned and perfectly executed as a military maneuver, the robbery of an armored-car firm nets a trio of slick bandits more than $4,000.000.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Confession
1973-09-30

A nasty nightclub entertainer whose selfishness may end her daughter's life. The girl has been kidnapped by her mother's manager, who's out for a special brand of ransom - revenge.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Break-In
1973-10-07

An escaped convict and his family work together on a bank robbery worth millions.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Pay-off
1973-10-14

A syndicate pay off can help start a new life - maybe. A bribed eyewitness doesn't know that the mob has decided he'd be more trustworthy - dead.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Exchange
1973-10-21

The trail of one crime leads to another as the agents try to crack a race track robbery. They catch the inside man red-handed; only to learn he was forced to help or the masterminds would kill his kidnapped wife.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Tower of Terror
1973-10-28

A mouse of a man avenging a lifetime of scorn has forced the Feds into a race with the clock. He said he has planted a bomb in a high-rise office building, but neglected to mention the city it's in.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Fatal Reunion
1973-11-04

A homesick bank robber visits his home town for the first time in 10 years. The townsfolk are not aware of his profession or the fact that the FBI is after him for the job he just pulled.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Rules of the Game
1973-11-18

A mobster's son attempts to murder a government witness.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Fool's Gold
1973-11-25

A reformed ex-con is forced to return to crime by his fugitive former cellmate.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Killing Truth
1973-12-09

A Federal judge is being hunted by the son of a man he sent to prison for treason.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Bought Jury
1973-12-16

A mistrial is arranged by the defendant's would-be killers. His syndicate partners want to silence him permanently before he reaches the security of prison.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Ransom
1973-12-30

A jealous stepdaughter turns her kidnapping to her own spiteful advantage by asking her abductors to increase the ransom.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: A Piece of the Action
1974-01-06

Two brothers who own a trucking firm have discovered a short cut to prosperity. They help the syndicate hijack competitors' trucks in return for a share of the booty.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Selkirk's War
1974-01-27

An embittered ex-Army officer has a secret battle plan for getting revenge on the Army.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Betrayal
1974-02-03

After a lifetime of neglecting his daughter, an escaped convict decides to give her financial security by selling information about the mob.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Animal
1974-02-17

In New Mexico, Erskine and Rhodes track five escaped convicts, one of whom brutally murdered two law officers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Two Million Dollar Hit
1974-02-24

A gang of thieves is double-crossed by a fence when things turn ugly.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Diamond Run
1974-03-10

A blind young mother is the hostage of a fugitive amateur diamond smuggler. He's desperately trying to find a buyer for the gems, while he runs from both the Feds and a deadly private detective.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Deadly Ambition
1974-03-17

An obnoxious young hoodlum is more cocky than usual after pulling the biggest robbery of his life. With the aid of explosives he stole from the National Guard, he and some friends hijacked an armored car.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Lost Man
1974-03-24

A journalist is the quarry of an escaped Federal prisoner who was sentenced for blackmail they both committed. The con was willing to take the rap by himself - until he learned that his partner was squandering their loot.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Vendetta
1974-04-07

A mobster who had fled the country has learned that his girlfriend has betrayed him causing his brother's death. going on revenge, Inspector Erskine hunts him down, hoping to avoid a bloodbath and to convince him to turn state's evidence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Confessions of a Madman
1974-04-14

The agents look for a psychotic killer whose victims are all from of the same college sorority.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Survival
1974-04-28

The capture of an escaped convict in the wilderness is doubly complicated by a critical injury to Erskine's partner.

Runtime: 60 min

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