Season 5

Episodes • 1976

Karl Malden
Michael Douglas
Richard Hatch
The Thrill Killers (1)

1. The Thrill Killers (1)

60 min

Misguided radicals take a jury hostage in a case where corrupt "movement leaders" are being tried for murder.

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The Thrill Killers (2)

2. The Thrill Killers (2)

60 min

Mike and Inspector Dan Robbins make a last-ditch effort to save the jury from execution at the hands of the radicals.

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Dead or Alive

3. Dead or Alive

60 min

A man offers a $1,000,000 reward for the capture -- dead or alive -- of the man who raped and murdered his daughter, throwing the city into greed-fueled chaos.

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The Drop

4. The Drop

60 min

Mike thinks he's a murder target when a kidnapper specifies that he deliver the ransom money.

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No Minor Vices

5. No Minor Vices

60 min

A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

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In Case of Madness

6. In Case of Madness

60 min

A music producer turns up dead; a popular singer he was producing an album for is convinced that he is going insane and killed the producer, but the truth is stranger.

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Till Death Do Us Part

7. Till Death Do Us Part

60 min

Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife, in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.

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Child of Anger

8. Child of Anger

60 min

A clothing designer finds herself on the front page after her daughter confesses to the murder of her latest fling. Stone and Robbins realize the girl's really a witness and not a murderer.

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Hot Dog

9. Hot Dog

60 min

Inpector Stone and Robbins go after a gang of thieves who use motor cycles to make their get away.

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Castle of Fear

10. Castle of Fear

60 min

A man who has been tormented by mysterious, threatening phone calls believes that his stalker has entered his property, and shoots him. Unfortunately for the man, his victim was a totally innocent cop...

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One Last Trick

11. One Last Trick

60 min

A former prostitute goes back to work to smoke out the murderer of another prostitute.

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Monkey is Back

12. Monkey is Back

60 min

As a dare to try to win a spot among a gang of high school thugs in the 1950's, Charley Belasco commits a crime that sends him to prison for 20 years. Upon his release, he goes on a murderous rampage to hunt down the the high school thugs who spurned him.

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The Cannibals

13. The Cannibals

60 min

A mobster's son steals loot from his father and seeks protection from federal authorities in exchange for being a material witness against his father.

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Who Killed Helen French?

14. Who Killed Helen French?

60 min

An abused wife vanishes after a vicious attack by her drunken husband and all clues point to murder with the husband as the prime suspect, but he can't remember if he did it or not.

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A Good Cop...But

15. A Good Cop...But

60 min

A cop-killer's henchmen hunt the only witnesses to his crime, an officer and an informer.

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Hang Tough

16. Hang Tough

60 min

A narcotics cop who has only four months to go 'til retirement roughs up a drug pusher and plants a knife on him. Meanwhile, an operation begins to uncover the "Tucson connection," a major drug ring operating in San Francisco.

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Innocent No More

17. Innocent No More

60 min

Mike pushes to get teen gang members, who have made a mockery of the juvenile court, tried as adults.

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Once a Con

18. Once a Con

60 min

When a female college student is killed on campus, suspicion falls on a prison inmate allowed temporary release to work in the college's print-shop.

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Interlude

19. Interlude

60 min

Refusing to believe he murdered his wife, a man escapes from an institution for the criminally insane to find her.

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Dead Lift

20. Dead Lift

60 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bodybuilder with a strong body but a fragile ego, who causes trouble wherever he goes.

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Breakup

21. Breakup

60 min

An episode where there are two parallel stories: A small business owner is going through divorce proceedings while his business is in financial straits. His wife's lawyer just happens to also be hunted by a revenge-seeking ex-con.

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Let's Pretend We're Strangers

22. Let's Pretend We're Strangers

60 min

A public defender is convinced that a young man (Wheeler) accused of murder, is innocent. Stone and Robbins are not convinced.

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Time Out

23. Time Out

60 min

A San Quentin prison guard tries to hunt down the criminals who escaped while under his guard.

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The Canine Collar

24. The Canine Collar

60 min

Mike and Dan pursue a smuggler who will stop at nothing to locate a dog collar containing stolen diamonds.

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