Season 5

September 30, 1976

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

October 7, 1976

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

October 21, 1976

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.

October 28, 1976

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

November 4, 1976

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

November 11, 1976

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.

November 18, 1976

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.

December 2, 1976

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.

December 9, 1976

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

December 23, 1976

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...

January 6, 1977

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

January 13, 1977

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.

January 20, 1977

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.

February 3, 1977

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.

February 10, 1977

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

February 17, 1977

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.

February 24, 1977

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

March 3, 1977

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.

April 28, 1977

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

May 5, 1977

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

May 12, 1977

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.

May 19, 1977

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

June 2, 1977

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

June 9, 1977

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