The Mod Squad (1968)
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Episode 1 - The Teeth of the Barracuda
Release Date: 1968-09-24The daughter of a California governorial candidate is caught with drugs and is blackmailed.
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Episode 2 - Bad Man on Campus
Release Date: 1968-10-01Pete, Linc and Julie work undercover in a high school to break up a juvenile car theft ring.
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Episode 3 - My, What a Pretty Bus
Release Date: 1968-10-08 -
Episode 4 - When Smitty Comes Marching Home
Release Date: 1968-10-22A Vietnam veteran awakens on the beach beside the body of his Army nemesis. Linc helps his old friend figure things out.
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Episode 5 - You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer
Release Date: 1968-10-29A computer dating agency sets up to find very wealthy women and send out a young stud to rip them off.
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Episode 6 - A Time to Love -- A Time to Cry
Release Date: 1968-11-12After an LSD trip, photographer Robbie Larson wakes up beside the dead body of one of his models.
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Episode 7 - Find Tara Chapman!
Release Date: 1968-11-19Unaware she has contagious meningitis, a singer who witnessed a mob murder flees the hospital.
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Episode 8 - The Price of Terror
Release Date: 1968-11-26The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.
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Episode 9 - A Quiet Weekend in the Country
Release Date: 1968-12-03An ex-convict tells Greer that drug pushers will be meeting at a rural trailer camp.
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Episode 10 - Love
Release Date: 1968-12-10Pete's cousin Karen turns to kidnapping to gain her parents attention after they are distracted by the new baby.
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Episode 11 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet
Release Date: 1968-12-17This episode is one of the creepiest Mod Squad shows! The trio is planted in an acting community to find out who is killing the young starlet wannabes. Julie is staying at the same small apartment house where all the starlets are. Mrs. Petree who runs the place, and her very creepy son Norman (ugh very very disturbing portrayal). Norman has a habit of walking into the starlets rooms and sniffing their stockings and other unmentionables! The TV Host who is a perv and cant keep his clammy paws off of the starlets, and the abusive actor wannabe Timmy who thinks he is a Brando/Dean all are suspect, but dont count out the other characters.
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Episode 12 - The Guru
Release Date: 1968-12-31Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.
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Episode 13 - The Sunday Drivers
Release Date: 1969-01-07Linc is convinced that the death of his friend, Tommy Salido, a stunt-driver was not accidental. The trio investigates and uncover a drug smuggling operation.
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Episode 14 - Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
Release Date: 1969-01-14 -
Episode 15 - Flight Five Doesn't Answer
Release Date: 1969-01-21Mob assassins force a plane to crash, stranding Greer, Linc, and Pete and a government witness in the desert. All in search of five million dollars of missing mob money.
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Episode 16 - Shell Game
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Episode 17 - Fear Is the Bucking Horse
Release Date: 1969-02-04Far West Acres is Western Rodeo where the squad is sent to protect former TV Cowboy star Billy Kilgore from a series of bizarre attacks against his life.
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Episode 18 - A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light
Release Date: 1969-02-11Blind author Jenny Wills is viciously attacked on the beach by an unknown assailant, who makes repeated attempts on her life. Unbeknowst to her, he thinks she saw him commit a crime.
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Episode 19 - The Uptight Town
Release Date: 1969-02-18A racist town tries to pin a murder on a black man who had nothing to do with it.
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Episode 20 - A Reign of Guns
Release Date: 1969-02-25 -
Episode 21 - A Run for the Money
Release Date: 1969-03-11Pete falls for Ginny, who believes her jailed father is innocent of robbery.
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Episode 22 - Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
Release Date: 1969-03-18Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.
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Episode 23 - Keep the Faith, Baby
Release Date: 1969-03-25A murderer stalks the suspended priest who heard his confession.
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Episode 24 - Captain Greer, Call Surgery
Release Date: 1969-04-01Greer thinks a series of hospital drug robberies are inside jobs. The trio poses as hospital staff to solve this case.
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Episode 25 - Peace Now -- Arly Blau
Release Date: 1969-04-08Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger, whose father is a General in the Vietnam War.
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Episode 26 - A Seat by the Window
Release Date: 1969-04-15The trio splits up onto three tour buses to find the killer of a man found at a bus station.