Episode 1: Net Loss
1977-09-2360 min
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22 episodes · first aired 1977-09-23
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Episode 2: Downshift
1977-09-3060 min
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Episode 3: Legend of the Macunas (1)
1977-10-1460 min
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Episode 4: Legend of the Macunas (2)
1977-10-2160 min
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Episode 5: Fade Out
1977-11-0460 min
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Episode 6: Dancer
1977-12-0560 min
Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.
Episode 7: Go for Broke
1977-12-1260 min
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Episode 8: Lady of the Deep
1977-12-1960 min
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Episode 9: Thirty Thousand Witnesses
1977-12-2660 min
Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).
Episode 10: Dangerous Curves
1978-01-0260 min
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Episode 11: The Tong
1978-01-0960 min
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Episode 12: Who Killed Lila Craig?
1978-01-1660 min
Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.
Episode 13: Three Blond Mice
1978-01-3060 min
Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.
Episode 14: Coranodo Circle
1978-02-0760 min
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Episode 15: Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
1978-03-2860 min
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Episode 16: Formula for Murder
1978-04-2860 min
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Episode 17: Blue Crusaders Reunion
1978-05-0560 min
Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.
Episode 18: Mexican Standoff
1978-05-1260 min
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Episode 19: Play-off
1978-06-1860 min
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
Episode 20: The Cage
1978-06-2560 min
The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.
Episode 21: Photo Finish
1978-07-0260 min
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Episode 22: The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
1978-07-0960 min
The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).
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