Season 2 (1974)
Episodes: 22
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 A Dangerous Age
Air Date: 1974-09-10
Arch Tatum is close to retirement and is teamed up with a head-strong young trainee who throws a curve for the long time vet.
Ep.2 Requiem for C.Z. Smith
Air Date: 1974-09-17
Charlie Czonka resurrects his alter ego, pimp CZ Smith, to catch a murderer who mutilates prostitutes.
Ep.3 Robbery: 48 Hours
Air Date: 1974-09-24
Lt. Bruckner leads the Robbery Squad through a two-day run of holdups, big and small.
Ep.4 Fathers and Sons
Air Date: 1974-10-01
Members of the Serbian community are being gunned down and the police have few leads. Sgt. Wilson decides to use officer Joe Basic, an ethnic Slav, in an undercover situation. Joe learns his father Andrea is a possible target.
Ep.5 A World Full of Hurt
Air Date: 1974-10-08
Juvenile officers Craig and Prescott deal with runaways, delinquents, and Prescott's own troubled home life.
Ep.6 Glamour Boy
Air Date: 1974-10-29
Detectives Tony Calabrese and Bert Jameson try to hold onto a charming bank robber, which proves to be more difficult than actually catching him.
Ep.7 Across the Line
Air Date: 1974-11-12
Joe Benton is taken off the surveillance squad after being involved in too many stakeouts that ended violently, so Sgt. Barrett drafts him for his narcotics squad investigating the "Mexican Connection."
Ep.8 Wolf
Air Date: 1974-11-19
Sgt. Wolf Bozeman, a gung ho street cop who lives through his job, tries to cope with the prospect of losing that job due to his deteriorating health.
Ep.9 Love, Mabel
Air Date: 1974-11-26
Detectives investigate a series of murders of homeless men along the piers.
Ep.10 Explosion
Air Date: 1974-12-03
Detectives Bert Jameson and Tony Calabrese try to catch an extortionist who leaves remote-control bombs at his targets.
Ep.11 Capt. Hook
Air Date: 1974-12-17
A police officer fights the brass to keep his spot as a beat cop after he loses his right hand to a package bomb.
Ep.12 Incident in the Kill Zone
Air Date: 1975-01-07
Sergeant King Sherman endangers the public and the SWAT team he commands while preparing for his Lieutenant exams. His wife convinces him he'll pass his orals if he shows confidence in his leadership skills by projecting total authority.
Ep.13 Headhunter
Air Date: 1975-01-14
IA Det. Sgt. Stiles investigates an indecent exposure charge against a veteran officer, resulting in the officer's dismissal. Months later, the exposure complainant confesses to a years-old murder, and subsequently raises doubt on his original testimony.
Ep.14 Year of the Dragon (1)
Air Date: 1975-01-21
Det. John Darrin uses his experience in Chinatown to find the gang members who robbed a restaurant and killed one of the employees.
Ep.15 Year of the Dragon (2)
Air Date: 1975-01-28
Det. John Darrin has to keep his primary witness to the restaurant shooting alive, while searching for his Chinese gang snitch, who has been snatched by a rival gang.
Ep.16 To Steal a Million
Air Date: 1975-02-04
Detectives Grosser and Hyland know a big hotel heist is about to happen. They know who's involved, but they don't know which hotel or how to catch the thieves red-handed.
Ep.17 Sniper
Air Date: 1975-02-11
Detectives Calabrese and Thorpe try to catch a sniper before he, or she, strikes again.
Ep.18 The Execution
Air Date: 1975-02-18
Detectives attempt to solve a double execution-style shooting, which one victim manages to survive.
Ep.19 The Man in the Shadows
Air Date: 1975-02-25
While breaking in new partner Ron Cruz, narcotics Det. Frank Dolan is drawn by a drug-related murder into pursuing a drug kingpin from out-of-town, who may be attempting to muscle his way into the local market.
Ep.20 War Games
Air Date: 1975-03-04
Detectives Gordy and Ballard go undercover in a white-supremacist gun club to bust a paranoid gun collector who specializes in illegal military munitions.
Ep.21 The Witness
Air Date: 1975-03-11
Det. Bert Jameson has a new partner, Lew Reeves, and Lew's vicious cold complicates their efforts to solve armed pharmacy robberies and to catch the chopper rider who holds up taverns.
Ep.22 The Return of Joe Forrester
Air Date: 1975-05-06
Detective Joe Forrester must go back to the rough area that was his old beat to try and catch a serial rapist.