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Season 11968

Season 1

September 20, 1968
26
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26 episodes
Season 1
Fear of High Places

Fear of High Places

Sep 20, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: William A. Graham

Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.

7 guest stars
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The Witness

The Witness

Sep 27, 19681h 13m0 votes
Director: Lamont Johnson

When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight years earlier.

10 guest stars
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The Taker

The Taker

Oct 4, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Harvey Hart

Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits over the takeover of his publishing empire.

10 guest stars
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Collector's Edition

Collector's Edition

Oct 11, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Leslie Stevens

Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accused of murder, and he's counting on Dillon's help in clearing his name.

9 guest stars
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Nightmare

Nightmare

Oct 18, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Alvin Ganzer

Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.

15 guest stars
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Incident in Berlin

Incident in Berlin

Oct 25, 19681h 14m0 votes
Director: Seymour Robbie

Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.

7 guest stars
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Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Nov 1, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Leslie Stevens

A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.

8 guest stars
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Lola in Lipstick

Lola in Lipstick

Nov 8, 19681h 14m0 votes
Director: Don Taylor

While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.

8 guest stars
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The Protector

The Protector

Nov 15, 19681h 14m0 votes
Director: Richard Irving

Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.

10 guest stars
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Ordeal

Ordeal

Nov 22, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Ralph Senensky

A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.

15 guest stars
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The White Birch

The White Birch

Nov 29, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Lamont Johnson

Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.

11 guest stars
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High On A Rainbow

High On A Rainbow

Dec 6, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Richard A. Colla

When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.

13 guest stars
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The Black Answer

The Black Answer

Dec 13, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Leslie Stevens

Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief suspect is Joe X. Lee, a leading black militant.

9 guest stars
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Pineapple Rose

Pineapple Rose

Dec 20, 19681h 13m0 votes
Director: Nicholas Colasanto

Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.

12 guest stars
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The Revolutionary

The Revolutionary

Dec 27, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Seymour Robbie

Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.

7 guest stars
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Swinger's Only

Swinger's Only

Jan 10, 19691h 13m0 votes
Director: Barry Shear

Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mistress of one of Farrell's editors. The wife of the victim who despite her despair over her husband's pecadilloes urges Farrell to find the guilty party.

7 guest stars
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The Inquiry

The Inquiry

Jan 17, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Sutton Roley

Howard (GB) is called before a Senate committee to answer charges that he stole a fortune in U.S. Army funds while serving with the OSS in Italy during World War II.

10 guest stars
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The Incomparable Connie Walker

The Incomparable Connie Walker

Jan 24, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Abner Biberman

Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrows of racism, Walker is the target of accusations that he has been accepting kickbacks. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates when a city accountant is murdered.

7 guest stars
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Love-In At Ground Zero

Love-In At Ground Zero

Jan 31, 19681h 15m0 votes
Director: Richard Irving

Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the army's testing of chemical warfare weapons.

10 guest stars
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The Suntan Mob

The Suntan Mob

Feb 7, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Alexander Singer

Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.

4 guest stars
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Keep the Doctor Away

Keep the Doctor Away

Feb 14, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Barry Shear

Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.

9 guest stars
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The Bobby Currier Story

The Bobby Currier Story

Feb 21, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Lamont Johnson

Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and goes on a murder spree. Dan Farrell (RS) tries to unearth the circumstances that turned the hapless Currier into a murderer.

9 guest stars
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A Wrath of Angels

A Wrath of Angels

Feb 28, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Alvin Ganzer

Dan Farrell (RS) investigates as a man and a priest try to clean up the slums and end up having a showdown with a powerful Mafioso.

10 guest stars
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The Third Choice

The Third Choice

Mar 7, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Seymour Robbie

Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.

11 guest stars
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Breakout To A Fast Buck

Breakout To A Fast Buck

Mar 14, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: Michael Caffey

Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contractor, who didn't want to join his fellow cons in their breakout. Farrell suspects that the contractor is being sprung in order to help break into one of the buildings that he designed.

11 guest stars
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An Agent of the Plaintiff

An Agent of the Plaintiff

Mar 21, 19691h 15m0 votes
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.

11 guest stars
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