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1. The Monster
First aired: 9/19/1965Erskine's on the trail of an escaped convict whose specialty is extorting money from women.
Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.
Location: Castle City, Wisconsin
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: Paul Sorenson (Captain Herman) , Jonathan Lippe (Boy), Sherri Spillane (Girl), Jeffrey Hunter (Francis Jerome), Estelle Winwood (Grandma Norbert), Dina Merrill (Jean Davis), Bernadette Hale (Parma Houghton), Julie Parrish (Eileen), Peter Hansen (Lee Haynes)
2. Image in a Cracked Mirror
Community Score
| 6.5 Fair |
An attempt to destroy a photo of bank employees prompts the FBI to check the bank's books - which reveal a shortage of over $100,000.
Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.
Location: Evans,Oklahoma
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: Nelson Olmsted (Sully), Hugh Sanders (I) (Pete), Glenn Sipes (McCook), Don Spruance (Murray Davis), Kathleen O'Malley (switchboard operator), Jay Ose (station attendant), Jack Klugman (Charles Gates), Brett Somers (Amelia Gates), Pat Cardi (Billy Gates), Ed Peck (Ben Stone), Amy Fields (Jean), Stephen Coit (Wiley)
3. A Mouthful of Dust
Community Score
| 5.6 Mediocre |
Apache Joe Cloud returns to his reservation home to find a man attacking his wife.
Case file #70-68307-C - Joseph Cloud - Crime on Indian Reservation.
Location: San Lucas, New Mexico
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: June Dayton (Thelma), Michael Harris (VII) (Technician), Noah Keen (Victor Quinlan) , Charles Kuenstle (Jurow), Joseph V. Perry (Carl Pike), Iron Eyes Cody (Medicine Man), Robert Blake (Pete Cloud), Alejandro Rey (Joe Cloud), R.G. Armstrong (Sheriff Crowley), Noam Pitlik (John Dennison)
4. Slow March Up a Steep Hill
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
A lone bandit has held up a bank twice within three days---on the exact dates robberies took place in the same bank 20 years before.
Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.
Location: Exeter, Maryland
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: June Dayton (Thelma), Lew Brown (II) (Firearms Technician), S. John Launer (Werth), Dabney Coleman (Ira Barker), Harold Gould (David Rice), Barbara Baldavin (Mrs. Harron), Lee Meriwether (Joanna Laurens) , Crahan Denton (Wayne Powell, Sr.), Pete Duel (Wayne Everett Powell)
5. The Insolents
Community Score
| 5.8 Mediocre |
The FBI probes a murder aboard a luxury liner. The suspect: the victim's millionaire stepson. Case file #45-47339-Y - Roger York - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Logan Field (Airline Official), Tom Palmer (Dr. Lindsay), Skip Ward (Roger York), Douglas Henderson (S.A.C. Bryan Durant), Lawrence Montaigne (Purser), Charles Knox Robinson (Hewitt Pierce) , Andre Philippe (Brazilian), William Swan (Philip Creighton), Eileen Heckart (Mrs. Creighton), Joan Marshall (Elizabeth Gowan), Ben Wright (Captain Tillman), Oscar Beregi (Dr. Dan Wyck), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Bebe)
6. To Free My Enemy
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
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.
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: John Mayo (Examiner), June Dayton (Thelma), Robert Doyle (I) (Nick Kirby), Robert Hogan (Harry Bisk), Hank Brandt (Calvin) , Jill Haworth (Lynn Anselm), Paul Potash (Max Healy), Stanley Schneider (Leo Meyerson), Billy Halop (Manager), James Gregory (Bert Anselm), Katharine Bard (Flora Anselm), Dean Harens (Alvin Forest)
7. The Problem of the Honorable Wife
Community Score
| 8.5 Great |
The agents probe an attempt to blow up a Government warehouse stocked with supplies bound for Vietnam.
Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.
Location: San Francisco, California
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: James B. Sikking (Hair and Fibers Expert), Peter Mark Richman (Maury Maddock) , Diane Sherry (Tina), Stuart Nisbet (Johnson), Bert Remsen (Spectrographic Examiner), Warren Parker (Doctor), Barbara Dodd (Receptionist), Adam Williams (David Brice), Miiko Taka (Akiko Maddock), Donald Harron (Paul Lawrence), Jason Evers (Allen Bennett), Louise Troy (Doris Mafalda), Harry Millard (Clay Ashland)
8. Courage of a Conviction
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
Working on a tip, Erskine arrests Harry Castle as a passer of bad checks. It's not long before the agent suspects he has the wrong man.
Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.
Location: St.Louis, Missouri
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: John Milford (Harry Castle), Barry Russo (Nightclub Owner), Lee Meriwether (Joanna Laurens) , Don Ross (Janitor), Bill Kane (Doctor), Susan Oliver (Shirley Gregg), Edward Andrews (Ray Lang)
9. The Exiles
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
In Florida, Latin-American exiles plot to invade and liberate their homeland---despite FBI warnings that there's a traitor in their group. Case file #2-46675-R - General Romero, et al. - Violation of Neutrality Act.
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: James Nolan (Cab Driver), Stella Garcia (Lupe), Ken Lynch (Sergeant Merrimon) , Stuart Lancaster (Attendant), John Alvar (Miguel), John Zaremba (Colonel Novin), Marisa Pavan (Maria Blanca), Carlos Montalban (General Romero), Lin McCarthy (Owen Clark), Perry Lopez (Juanito), Jan Shutan (Sgt. Judy Kessler)
10. The Giant Killer
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
Radio messages picked up by the FCC alert the FBI to a plan to destroy a missile being moved from Arizona to a California launch site. Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Robert Gibbons (Motel Manager), Bill Zuckert (General Dean Cameron), Robert Duvall (Joseph Maurice Walker), June Dayton (Thelma), Lee Meriwether (Joanna Laurens), Phil Chambers (the Attendant) , Jack De Mave (Lieutenant), Norma Connolly (Woman), Patricia Smith (Marilee Walker), David Sheiner (Paul Antonelli), John Clarke (Grant Kieler), Robert Brubaker (Harry Meade), Amy Fields (Jean), Paul Comi (Major Slidell)
11. All the Streets Are Silent
Community Score
| 7.8 Good |
Two thugs hijack a U.S. Marine Corps weapons truck, making off with guns and ammunition--and killing one Marine in the process.
Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.
Location: San Diego, California
Director: William A. Graham
Guest star: Garrison True (Corporal Eaton), Robert Hogan (Lt. Richardson), Pilar Seurat (Carolyn Metro) , Jack Betts (Defense Attorney Barker), Wesley Addy (US Attorney Cline), Nancy Jeris (Nurse), Nelson Leigh (Judge Harold Leverette), Don Eitner (Special Agent Bill Converse), Rex Holman (Tiger), Frank Maxwell (Captain Coleman), James Farentino (Frank Metro), Burt Reynolds (Mike Murtaugh), Norman Fell (Ted Cullinan), Joe Maross (Jess Murtaugh)
12. An Elephant is Like a Rope
Community Score
| 6.9 Fair |
$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. Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Larry Gates (Dr. Lovane), James Nolan (Shifter Hogan), Mary Jackson (Mrs. Otto Foshay) , Beau Bridges (Jerry Foley/John Doe), Wright King (Scott Boles), Paul Mantee (Frank Macklin), Ted Knight (Doc Ventura), Sue Randall (FBI Clerk), Bill Quinn (Car Company Official), Vincent Van Lynn (Lucky Sandstone), Vic Perrin (Ray Moberly), Norbert Schiller (Honus Smid), John Newton (Forrest Blaackwell), John McLiam (David Callander), Doreen McLean (Nurse Smedley), Robert P. Lieb (Henry Steelbridge), Jess Kirkpatrick (Officer Rand), Clint Howard (Alan Ellwood), Parley Baer (Jake Mason)
13. How to Murder an Iron Horse
Community Score
| 5.6 Mediocre |
Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage. Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Robert Knapp (First Special Agent), David Macklin (Howdy Collier), Louise Latham (Mrs. Collier), Len Wayland (Vic Roberts), Alex Gerry (Chairman), Noah Keen (Examiner) , Paul Fix (Willard Oberley), Karl Held (Second Special Agent), Claude Akins (Ben Gambriella)
14. Pound of Flesh
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
File# 70-74476-X: Janice Fletcher, Victim.
Crime On A Government Reservation.
Already acquitted of one murder, Pfc. Byron Landy is in the hot seat again when the Army chaplain's wife is killed.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Forrest Compton (Dale Newton) , Herb Voland (Charles Buford), Tyler McVey (General Goddard Chase), Rusty Lane (Mayor), Mary Foskett (Janice Fletcher), Leslie Nielsen (Craig Fletcher), Malcolm Atterbury (Howard Shelly), Bruce Dern (Byron Landy), Lew Gallo (Clinton Fowler), Jenny Maxwell (Vicki Tanner), Connie Gilchrist (Amy), Robert Biheller (PFC Duncan Whitney), Marc Cavell (Private Morgan Weldon)
15. The Hijackers
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
A vengeful driver hijacks one of his company's trucks---unaware that it contains furs worth $500,000.
Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Dabney Coleman (Allen Clarke) , Ted Gehring (Ed Sheldon), Adrienne Marden (Sarah), Arthur O'Connell (Smitty), John McIntire (Max Wood), Cecil Kellaway (uncle Walter), Harry Bellaver (Sam Fuller), Howard Caine (Arnold McTague), Alice Frost (Emily), Susan Davis (Ruth), Ronnie Dapo (Stevie), Seymour Cassel (Irwin), Bernard Fein (Andy Morton), Peg Shirley (Margaret), Connie Sawyer (LaVerne)
16. The Forests of the Night
Community Score
| 4.6 Poor |
Blackmail blends with arson as a bigoted extortionist threatens to burn the settlement of a minority religious sect.
Case file #9-26080-X Adam MacDonald, et al., Victims - Extortion.
Location: Stanton,Oregon
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Ellen Corby (Mrs. Stone), Noah Keen (Victor Quinlan) , John Anderson (I) (Adam MacDonald), Harry Townes (Sheriff Earl Hammond), Michael Burns (Jacob MacDonald), Ruth Packard, Pitt Herbert (Postal Worker), Med Flory (Ranger), Val Avery (Roy Sumner), Ian Wolfe (Elder Stone), Robert Colbert (Martin Bennett)
17. The Chameleon
Community Score
| 9.3 Superb |
A clever confidence man of a thousand faces plays a deadly game of cat & mouse with a million dollars as the prize. Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Noah Keen (Victor Quinlan) , James Daly (Stephen Fitzgerald), Margaret Leighton (Amy Hunter), Lloyd Gough (Harvey C. Scott), June Vincent (Harriet Fitzgerald), Nellie Burt (Miss Lawrence), Russell Thomas (Joseph Goodman), Craig Hill (Daniel Sublette), Dan Frazer (Carter Fox), Amzie Strickland (Deputy Clerk #2), Jason Johnson (2nd Clerk), John Newton (Brian Kemp), Kathryn Givney (Evelyn Raymond)
18. The Sacrifice
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
Erskine and Rhodes take jobs at a missile plant to plug up a security leak---and trap a spy. Case file #65-9525-X - The Doriskin Papers - Espionage.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Douglas Henderson (S.A.C. Bryan Durant), Gregory Gaye (Doriskin), John Graham (Zachary Sage), James McCallion (Harker) , Nancy Wickwire (Annemarie McNider), Albert Paulsen (Nagry), Ed Begley (Mel Olin), Don Dubbins (Joel), Walter Reed (Jack Zander), Richard Brander (Messenger), Emlen Davies (Receptionist), Percy Helton (Bum), Ralph Montgomery (Hotel Clerk)
19. Special Delivery
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring. Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Patterson), Phil Chambers (Burton), Joseph Perry (Dominic) , Barbara Luna (Linda Rodriguez), Earl Holliman (Robert Charles Porter), Donald May (Frederick Brown), William Bramley (Ray Scott), Jack Betts (Woods), Argentina Brunetti (Tia Rodriguez), Lee Krieger (U-Drive Manager), Paul Lukather (Eddie), Glenn Sipes (Burke)
20. Quantico
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
A plot to destroy The Supreme Court Building could cost an F.B.I. agent his job. Case File #52-7672-S - Willard Smith - Destruction of Government Property.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Scott Graham (Arthur Claiborne), Buck Young (Gregory Lucas) , Michael Callan (Charlie Hunter), Rhys Williams (Mr. Ferguson), Robert Walker Jr. (Willard Smith), Virginia Christine (Mrs. Ferguson), Craig Hill (Warner Brown), Hal Lynch (Ozzie Perch), Judee Morton (Gloria), Robert Phillips (Sergeant Matthews), John S. Ragin (Maury Ashwood), Mario Roccuzzo (Dominic), James Seay (Harry Considine), Charles Stewart (Marcus), Lillian Bronson (Librarian), Bert Kramer (Trainee)
21. The Spy Master
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation. Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage.
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Ed Deemer (Davis), Robert Gibbons (Make-Up Man) , Richard Wendley (Maitre D'), Patrick O'Neal (Victor Allen), Kevin McCarthy (Lamont), Marion Thompson (Pamela Hughes), Keye Luke (General How), Whit Bissell (Carter), Nelson Olmsted (Adam Rogers), Lloyd Haynes (1st Special Agent), William Wintersole (2nd Special Agent), Greg Mullavey (3rd Special Agent)
22. The Baby Sitter
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting. Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Peter Hobbs (Giles Berton), Lew Brown (II) (the document examiner) , Carol Allen (First Housewife), Colleen Dewhurst (Amy Doucette), Collin Wilcox (Stella), Geoffrey Horne (Herb Wilcox), Davey Davison (Francine Wilcox), Janet Waldo (Arlene Morgan), Dan Barton (Hewitt Wood), David Armstrong (Jim Morgan), Charles Randall (Dr. Taldi), Ben Bennett (Special Agent), Bill Hickman (State Trooper)
23. Flight to Harbin
Community Score
| 6.5 Fair |
Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passengers aboard a flying prison of terror. Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Arthur Hill (Dr. Charles King), Robert Doyle (I) (Joe Young), Hank Brandt (Graham Carter), Lew Brown (II) (Document Examiner) , Milton Selzer (Miller), Jason Evers (Captain Thomas), Nancy Kovack (Miss Kagle), John Lasell (Captain Reedley), Jessica Walter (Miss Gibbs), Robert F. Lyons (John Brackney), Priscilla Morrill (Ann King), Julie Parrish (Marjorie Young), Art Alisi (Plainclothesman), Richard Schuyler (Co-Pilot), Bert Remsen (Control Tower Supervisor)
24. The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
Scheduled to go on trial for fraud against the Government, Mark Tabor jumps bail and goes into hiding after the crime syndicate makes an attempt on his life to insure he's not testifying. Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Anthony Eisley (Special Agent Kirby Greene), Roy Engel (George Cobell), Simon Scott (John Goddard), Harold Gould (Arnold Bruzzi) , J.D. Cannon (Mark Tabor), Michael Conrad (Paul Hogan), Robert Chapman (Special Agent Combria), Joseph Mell (Hollet), George Tyne (Gus), Johnny Silver (Cab Driver)
25. The Divided Man
Community Score
| 6.2 Fair |
When a chemical plant is blown up, FBI agents investigate the possibility of sabotage, unaware that the explosion was set off by an emotionally disturbed research chemist. Case file #98-81829-M - Roger Leroy Mason - Sabotage.
Director: Don Medford
Guest star: Dabbs Greer (Paul Leonard), Bradford Dillman (Roger Leroy Mason), Douglas Henderson (S.A.C. Bryan Durant), Danny Sue Nolan (Receptionist), Michael Harris (VII) (Fingerprint Expert) , Jacqueline Scott (Karen Mason), Don Eitner (Special Agent Bill Converse), Ross Elliott (Carter Graham), Ron Husmann (Ellis Harmon), William Sargent (Dr. Spinner)
26. The Defector (1)
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States. Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Dana Wynter (Barbara Holman), John Van Dreelen (Alex Yustov), Forrest Compton (Glenn Orland) , George Voskovec (Dr. Gregory Holman), Paul Lukas (Ambassador Korvin), Peter Coe (Resko), James Frawley (Kessler), Carl Benton Reid (Claude Townsend), Olan Soule (Gary Deuel)
27. The Defector (2)
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
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. Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Dana Wynter (Barbara Holman), John Van Dreelen (Alex Yustov), Forrest Compton (Glenn Orland) , George Voskovec (Dr. Gregory Holman), Paul Lukas (Ambassador Korvin), Peter Coe (Resko), James Frawley (Kessler), Carl Benton Reid (Claude Townsend), Olan Soule (Gary Deuel), Bobs Watson (Welsh), Janet MacLachlan (Maid), Lisa Pera (Clerk), Florence Sundstrom (Landlady)
28. The Tormentors
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
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. Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Wayne Rogers (Logan Dupree), John Mayo (Lab Technician) , Lew Ayres (Marshall Winslow), Kurt Russell (Dan Winslow), William Reynolds (Franklin Benton), Judee Morton (Anita James), Garth Pillsbury (Dale Hamilton), Garry Walberg (Forbes), Joel Fluellen (Williams), Warren Parker (Doctor), Edward Asner (John Carl Brock)
29. The Animal
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
In New Mexico, Erskine and Rhodes track five escaped convicts, one of whom brutally murdered two law officers. Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Barry Russo (Myron Pierce), Tim McIntire (Lambert Hayes), Lew Brown (II) (Firearms Expert) , Charles Bronson (Earl Clayton), Mimsy Farmer (Jody Conners), Crahan Denton (Vincent "Doc" LeFavre), Ted Gehring (Roy Joe Spencer), Robert Bice (Sheriff Wiley), Norma Connolly (Aline Spencer), James Doohan (Claude Bell), Harry Basch (Albertson), Harry Lauter (Judd Connors), James Noah (Ed Brocton), Doris Singleton (Renata Walker), Valentin de Vargas (Henry Silva)
30. The Plunderers
Community Score
| 6.1 Fair |
Inspector Erskine is puzzled: Why would four men go to all the trouble of staging an intricately planned bank robbery - and then steal only a small part of the money? Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest star: Mark Roberts (I) (Howard Schaal), Paul Bryar (Otto Breese), Robert Patten (George Lyon), Tom Palmer (Gardiner), John Mayo (Spectrographic Examiner), Garrison True (Bellboy) , Albert Salmi ("Cowboy" Eddie Richards), Ralph Meeker (King Hogan), Don Quine (Frank Collins), Lisabeth Hush (Eleanor Gray), Walter Reed (Dwight Livingstone), Wesley Addy (Goulding), Bill Erwin (Paxton), Harry Ellerbe (Desk Clerk)
31. The Bomb That Walked Like a Man
Community Score
| 7.8 Good |
The FBI searches for Dale Hillman a murder suspect being primed for membership in a private army of extremists. Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder.