Episode 1
Net Loss
Sep 23, 1977
Episode 2
Downshift
Sep 30, 1977
Episode 3
Legend of the Macunas (1)
Oct 14, 1977
Episode 4
Legend of the Macunas (2)
Oct 21, 1977
Episode 5
Fade Out
Nov 4, 1977
Episode 6
Dancer
Dec 5, 1977
Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.
Episode 7
Go for Broke
Dec 12, 1977
Episode 8
Lady of the Deep
Dec 19, 1977
Episode 9
Thirty Thousand Witnesses
Dec 26, 1977
Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).
Episode 10
Dangerous Curves
Jan 2, 1978
Episode 11
The Tong
Jan 9, 1978
Episode 12
Who Killed Lila Craig?
Jan 16, 1978
Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.
Episode 13
Three Blond Mice
Jan 30, 1978
Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.
Episode 14
Coranodo Circle
Feb 7, 1978
Episode 15
Stolen Island (aka Death Island)
Mar 28, 1978
Episode 16
Formula for Murder
Apr 28, 1978
Episode 17
Blue Crusaders Reunion
May 5, 1978
Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.
Episode 18
Mexican Standoff
May 12, 1978
Episode 19
Play-off
Jun 18, 1978
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
Episode 20
The Cage
Jun 25, 1978
The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.
Episode 21
Photo Finish
Jul 2, 1978
Episode 22
The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
Jul 9, 1978
The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).
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