Police Story

1Payment Deferred

60 minSep 21, 1976

Detective Joe Barley enlists Holly, his "retired" snitch and recovering addict, to help him find the man who shot his partner.

2Bought and Paid For

60 minOct 5, 1976

Detectives Belmont and Melino want the three men involved when a patrolman, the son of a Lieutenant, is killed when he interrupts a bank robbery. The one they need is the psychopath who recruits amateurs in his capers.

3Two Frogs on a Mongoose

60 minOct 12, 1976

Manny and Deke are on the narcotics squad, investigating a double shooting at a dry cleaning shop, when they get a tip that the shop owner is in business dealing drugs with a man called Mongoose.

4The Other Side of the Badge

60 minOct 26, 1976

Jack Mitchell is in control and keeps his cool when patrolling with his rookie partner, but his home life with his wife and her teenage daughter is not so tidy.

5Three Days to Thirty

60 minNov 9, 1976

While working out his last three days before retirement, Frank Moran is assigned a hot case.

6Trash Detail, Front and Center

60 minNov 16, 1976

Lew Randle, head of the Special Investigations Team, comes back after vacation and is immediately engulfed in the investigations of several armed robberies. He has to buck department politics to take down the violent trio responsible.

7Thanksgiving

60 minNov 23, 1976

K-Joe and Bunny investigate the sniper shooting of a young girl riding in a car on the freeway.

8Monster Manor

60 minNov 30, 1976

Gene (Santos) has a falling out with his wife and moves into a temporary bachelor's apartment, which becomes a party hangout for his buddies and attracts a lot of unwanted attention from others.

9Oxford Gray

60 minDec 7, 1976

Sgt. Kyles and Inv. McLiam try to break up the criminal activities of a local entrepreneur and philanthropist by bringing back his past as a violent revolutionary in Detroit and playing on his paranoia.

10The Jar (1)

60 minDec 14, 1976

Two detectives are called before the grand jury after a man is shot and killed when they attempt to arrest him.

11The Jar (2)

60 minDec 21, 1976

Hagen and Triplett are reassigned to an out-of-the-way detail to keep them out of the public eye pending their manslaughter trial.

12Trial Board

60 minJan 4, 1977

An undercover Vice detective is accused by one of his fellow Vice detectives of stealing cash during a drug bust.

13Spitfire

60 minJan 11, 1977

Detectives try to track down the two remaining robbers who participated in a tire store holdup that resulted in the deaths of an employee and one of the robbers. Their investigation leads them to a large illegal weapons operation.

14Nightmare on a Sunday Morning

60 minJan 18, 1977

Holly Green, a 19-year-old waitress is brutally beaten and raped by a pair of creeps, she then reluctantly helps bring her assailants to trial.

15The Malflores

60 minJan 25, 1977

Officers Webber and Cheruco discover a violent new gang on the streets, the Malflores, comprised entirely of Latinas.

16The Blue Fog

60 minFeb 1, 1977

Veteran Detective Jack McGraw is given the unsavory task of investigating Vice detectives suspected of taking bribes from the Chinese crime family running an illegal gambling operation.

17Hard Rock Brown

60 minFeb 15, 1977

LAPD Narcotics detectives work with a Mexican counterpart to try to break up the operation run by the Alvarez brothers, which is flooding the market with Mexican heroin known as "hard rock brown."

18End of the Line

60 minFeb 22, 1977

Detectives Gerard and Panelli try to catch a pair of armed robbers who hit a supermarket, and are joined by a one-armed former detective, who is now an investigator for the store's insurance company.

19One of Our Cops Is Crazy

60 minMar 1, 1977

Sgt. Paul Cazenovia uses highly unconventional, albeit successful, methods in his undercover narcotics unit, but his lieutenant thinks he is crazy. It doesn't help that Paul refuses to stay behind his desk while he's under suspension.

20Ice Time

60 minMar 8, 1977

Vice Detective Dave Tackleberry takes on a second job (to pay for his teenage daughter's figure skating development) at the same time he and his partner Det. Wurster try to bust a pimp specializing in underage girls.

21The Six Foot Stretch

60 minMar 22, 1977

Detectives DeHart and Ward go up against another team of officers Riggs and Salter in tracking down a criminal. A psychotic man is targeting elderly women and time is of the essence.

22Prime Rib

60 minApr 5, 1977

Marty Lacayo and Glenn Talbot are street narcs, meaning they are given the task of busting nickel-and-dime users and hustlers. Shep, one of their users, gives them a tasty lead on a big distributor, but they are forbidden by Lt. Hagedorn from pursuing him.