The F.B.I.

The F.B.I.

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.

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Seasons

The Monster

1. The Monster

Air Date: 1965-09-19

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

2. Image in a Cracked Mirror

Air Date: 1965-09-26

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

3. A Mouthful of Dust

Air Date: 1965-10-03

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

4. Slow March Up a Steep Hill

Air Date: 1965-10-10

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

5. The Insolents

Air Date: 1965-10-17

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

6. To Free My Enemy

Air Date: 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.

7. The Problem of the Honorable Wife

Air Date: 1965-10-31

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

8. Courage of a Conviction

Air Date: 1965-11-07

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

9. The Exiles

Air Date: 1965-11-14

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

10. The Giant Killer

Air Date: 1965-11-21

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

All the Streets Are Silent

11. All the Streets Are Silent

Air Date: 1965-11-28

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

12. An Elephant is Like a Rope

Air Date: 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.

How to Murder an Iron Horse

13. How to Murder an Iron Horse

Air Date: 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.

14. Pound of Flesh

Air Date: 1965-12-19

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

15. The Hijackers

Air Date: 1965-12-26

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

16. The Forests of the Night

Air Date: 1966-01-02

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

The Chameleon

17. The Chameleon

Air Date: 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

The Sacrifice

18. The Sacrifice

Air Date: 1966-01-16

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

19. Special Delivery

Air Date: 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.

20. Quantico

Air Date: 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.

The Spy Master

21. The Spy Master

Air Date: 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.

22. The Baby Sitter

Air Date: 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.

Flight to Harbin

23. Flight to Harbin

Air Date: 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.

24. The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake

Air Date: 1966-03-06

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

25. The Divided Man

Air Date: 1966-03-20

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

26. The Defector (1)

Air Date: 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.

27. The Defector (2)

Air Date: 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.

28. The Tormentors

Air Date: 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.

29. The Animal

Air Date: 1966-04-17

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

30. The Plunderers

Air Date: 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.

31. The Bomb That Walked Like a Man

Air Date: 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.

32. The Hiding Place

Air Date: 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.

1. The Gold Card

Air Date: 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."

2. Counter-Stroke

Air Date: 1967-09-24

3. Blood Verdict

Air Date: 1967-10-08

4. Traitor

Air Date: 1967-10-15

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

5. By Force and Violence (1)

Air Date: 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.

6. By Force and Violence (2)

Air Date: 1967-10-29

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

7. A Sleeper Wakes

Air Date: 1967-11-05

8. Overload

Air Date: 1967-11-12

9. Line of Fire

Air Date: 1967-11-26

10. Blueprint for Betrayal

Air Date: 1967-12-03

11. False Witness

Air Date: 1967-12-10

12. The Legend of John Rim

Air Date: 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.

13. The Dynasty

Air Date: 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.

14. The Daughter

Air Date: 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.

15. Act of Violence

Air Date: 1968-01-21

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

16. Crisis Ground

Air Date: 1968-01-28

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

Ring of Steel

17. Ring of Steel

Air Date: 1968-02-04

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

18. The Homecoming

Air Date: 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.

19. The Phone Call

Air Date: 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.

20. Region of Peril

Air Date: 1968-02-25

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

21. Southwind

Air Date: 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.

22. The Messenger

Air Date: 1968-03-17

23. The Ninth Man

Air Date: 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.

24. The Mechanized Accomplice

Air Date: 1968-03-31

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

25. The Predators

Air Date: 1968-04-07

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

26. The Tunnel

Air Date: 1968-04-21

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

27. The Mercenary

Air Date: 1968-04-28

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

1. Wind It Up and It Betrays You

Air Date: 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.

2. Out of Control

Air Date: 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.

3. The Quarry

Air Date: 1968-10-06

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

4. The Runaways

Air Date: 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.

5. Death of a Fixer

Air Date: 1968-10-20

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

6. The Enemies

Air Date: 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.

7. The Nightmare

Air Date: 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.

8. Breakthrough

Air Date: 1968-11-17

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

9. The Harvest

Air Date: 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.

10. The Intermediary

Air Date: 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.

11. The Butcher

Air Date: 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.

12. The Flaw

Air Date: 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.

13. The Hero

Air Date: 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.

14. The Widow

Air Date: 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.

15. Eye of the Storm

Air Date: 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.

16. The Fraud

Air Date: 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.

17. A Life in the Balance

Air Date: 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.

18. Caesar's Wife

Air Date: 1969-01-26

Case: Danielle Chabrol - Espionage.

19. The Patriot

Air Date: 1969-02-02

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

20. The Maze

Air Date: 1969-02-09

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

21. The Attorney

Air Date: 1969-02-16

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

22. The Catalyst

Air Date: 1969-02-23

Case: Miguel Torres - Destruction of Aircraft, Kidnapping.

23. Conspiracy of Silence

Air Date: 1969-03-02

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

24. The Young Warriors

Air Date: 1969-03-09

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

25. The Cober List

Air Date: 1969-03-23

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

26. Moment of Truth

Air Date: 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"".

1. Target of Interest

Air Date: 1969-09-14

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

2. Nightmare Road

Air Date: 1969-09-21

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

3. The Swindler

Air Date: 1969-09-28

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

4. Boomerang

Air Date: 1969-10-05

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

5. Silent Partners

Air Date: 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.

6. Gamble With Death

Air Date: 1969-10-19

Case: Harry L. Springer - Extortion.

7. Flight

Air Date: 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.

8. The Challenge

Air Date: 1969-11-02

Case: Paul Winters, Andrei Vallone - Espionage.

9. Blood Tie

Air Date: 1969-11-09

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

10. The Sanctuary

Air Date: 1969-11-16

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

11. Scapegoat

Air Date: 1969-11-23

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

12. The Inside Man

Air Date: 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.

13. The Prey

Air Date: 1969-12-07

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

14. Journey Into Night

Air Date: 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.

15. The Doll Courier

Air Date: 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.

16. Tug-of-War

Air Date: 1969-12-28

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

17. Fatal Impostor

Air Date: 1970-01-04

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

18. Conspiracy of Corruption

Air Date: 1970-01-11

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

19. The Diamond Millstone

Air Date: 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.

20. Deadly Reunion

Air Date: 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.

21. Pressure Point

Air Date: 1970-02-01

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

22. Summer Terror

Air Date: 1970-02-08

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

23. Return to Power

Air Date: 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.

24. The Dealer

Air Date: 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!

25. Deadfall

Air Date: 1970-03-01

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

26. The Quest

Air Date: 1970-03-08

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

1. The Condemned

Air Date: 1970-09-20

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

2. The Traitor

Air Date: 1970-09-27

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

3. Escape to Terror

Air Date: 1970-10-04

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

4. The Architect

Air Date: 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.

5. The Savage Wilderness

Air Date: 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.

6. Time Bomb

Air Date: 1970-10-25

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

7. The Innocents

Air Date: 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.

8. The Deadly Pact

Air Date: 1970-11-08

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

9. The Impersonator

Air Date: 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.

10. Antennae of Death

Air Date: 1970-11-29

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

11. The Target

Air Date: 1970-12-06

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

12. The Witness

Air Date: 1970-12-13

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

13. Incident in the Desert

Air Date: 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.

14. The Inheritors

Air Date: 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.

15. The Unknown Victim

Air Date: 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.

16. The Stalking Horse

Air Date: 1971-01-10

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

17. Center of Peril

Air Date: 1971-01-17

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

18. The Eye of the Needle

Air Date: 1971-01-24

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

19. The Fatal Connection

Air Date: 1971-01-31

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

20. The Replacement

Air Date: 1971-02-07

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

21. Death Watch

Air Date: 1971-02-14

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

22. Downfall

Air Date: 1971-02-21

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

23. The Hitchhiker

Air Date: 1971-02-28

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

24. Turnabout

Air Date: 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.

25. The Natural

Air Date: 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.

26. Three-Way Split

Air Date: 1971-03-21

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

1. The Runner

Air Date: 1972-09-17

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

2. The Edge of Desperation

Air Date: 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.

3. The Fatal Showdown

Air Date: 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.

4. The Franklin Papers

Air Date: 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.

5. The Gopher

Air Date: 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.

End of a Nightmare

6. End of a Nightmare

Air Date: 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.

7. The Engineer

Air Date: 1972-10-29

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

8. A Game of Chess

Air Date: 1972-11-05

9. The Wizard

Air Date: 1972-11-12

10. The Loner

Air Date: 1972-11-19

11. Canyon Of No Return

Air Date: 1972-11-26

12. Holiday With Terror

Air Date: 1972-12-03

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

13. The Jug Marker

Air Date: 1972-12-10

14. The Outcast

Air Date: 1972-12-17

15. Dark Christmas

Air Date: 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.

16. The Rap Taker

Air Date: 1973-01-07

17. A Gathering Of Sharks

Air Date: 1973-01-14

18. The Disinherited

Air Date: 1973-01-21

19. Desperate Journey

Air Date: 1973-01-28

20. The Double Play

Air Date: 1973-02-04

21. The Wedding Gift

Air Date: 1973-02-11

22. The Detonator

Air Date: 1973-02-25

23. Sweet Evil

Air Date: 1973-03-04

24. Memory of a Legend

Air Date: 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.

25. Night of the Long Knives

Air Date: 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.

26. The Loper Gambit

Air Date: 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.

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Rating

5.5/10

Release Date

1965-09-19

Episodes

241 (9 seasons)

Status

Ended

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