Cannon Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Cannon: Season 5 (1975 - 1976)

• Season 5 Episode 25: Madman

  A research scientist hires old friend Cannon when her husband begins to display erratic behavior after joining a top-secret Army project.

• Season 5 Episode 24: Blood Lines

  An angry father is determined to prove his son's death in a plunge from the cliffs of Acapulco was not a suicide; guest Frank Aletter.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Point After Death

  A revenge-seeking father sets out after his slain daughter's pro football quarterback boyfriend despite the solidity of the man's alibi.

• Season 5 Episode 22: Snapshot

  Cannon is hired by a racketeer (Robert Loggia) to capture the hired killer responsible for an attempt on the life of the gangster's wife.

• Season 5 Episode 21: The Quasar Kill

  Cannon investigates possible extraterrestrial involvement in the death of an internationally known space scientist; guest Eric Braeden.

• Season 5 Episode 20: Cry Wolf

  A multimillionaire hires Cannon to avoid police involvement in the possibly fraudulent kidnapping of his grandson; guest Ralph Bellamy.

• Season 5 Episode 19: Revenge

  Cannon's military past in Korea returns to haunt him when he becomes the target of a South Korean officer's revenge; guest Gary Merrill.

• Season 5 Episode 18: The House of Cards

  The disappearance of an accountant coincides with a huge fraud investigation set to begin against his employer, a land-development firm.

• Season 5 Episode 17: The Reformer

  Despite hints of a frame-up, a crusading newspaper editor is arrested after being found unconscious with a murdered girl in a hotel room.

• Season 5 Episode 16: The Game Children Play

  A boy is initially disbelieved when he claims two men dressed as Arabs shot at him while they wheeled a patient into a makeshift hospital.

• Season 5 Episode 14: The Star

  A former film actress (Joan Fontaine) hires Cannon to find her son, who disappeared just after returning from three years of traveling.

• Season 5 Episode 13: To Still the Voice

  The son (Carl Franklin) of a slain black political leader hires Cannon to look into the possibility of a conspiracy; guest Herb Edelman.

• Season 5 Episode 12: The Hero

  A retired general's (Morgan Woodward) son (Dean Stockwell) becomes a hero to his father after being accused of killing a terrorist leader.

• Season 5 Episode 11: The Wedding March

  A policewoman comes to Cannon for help when her superiors won't let her hunt the men who assaulted her; guests James Olson, Tina Louise.

• Season 5 Episode 10: The Melted Man

  An heiress's boyfriend receives a death threat from the Chinese underworld in the form of a melting snowman with a hatchet in its head.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Fall Guy

  A petroleum company's vice-president, on the verge of being fired after being accused of misappropriation of funds, asks Cannon for help.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Man in the Middle

  As a favor, Cannon agrees to travel to Mexico to get the body of his former police mentor's son; guests Stuart Whitman, Chris Robinson.

• Season 5 Episode 7: A Touch of Venom

  Terrorists give Cannon poison that will kill in 72 hours without an antidote, which they will exchange for a defector.

• Season 5 Episode 6: The Man Who Died Twice

  Cannon and his old police partner (Leslie Nielsen) are asked by their ex-superior to reopen the probe of a corrupt officer thought dead.

• Season 5 Episode 5: The Victim

  A drugged, battered girl insists her friend (Donna Mills), a singer, is being held prisoner in the Hollywood hills; guest Joel Fabiani.

• Season 5 Episode 4: The Iceman

  A reopened murder case involves a former Green Beret and a convict who surprisingly rejects parole; guests Robert Foxworth, Dennis Patrick.

• Season 5 Episode 3: The Wrong Medicine

  Cannon looks into charges against a physician (David Birney) in the death of a woman he was treating who was in an apparent diabetic coma.

• Season 5 Episode 2: The Deadly Conspiracy

  As a favor, Cannon investigates the case of a liquor deliveryman charged with murder; guests Lee Meriwether, Buddy Ebsen, Sharon Acker.

• Season 5 Episode 1: Nightmare

  Cannon hears the confession of a hit man who admits to killing the detective's wife and baby son 14 years before; guest Elizabeth Allen.

Cannon: Season 4 (1974 - 1975)

• Season 4 Episode 24: Search and Destroy

  Cannon uncovers a crime during his search for a teenage runaway; guests Dana Wynter, James Wainwright, Abe Vigoda, Priscilla Pointer.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Tomorrow Ends at Noon

  Cannon has a 24-hour deadline to rescue a wealthy industrialist's daughter after she is taken by a terrorist group; guest Charles Cioffi.

• Season 4 Episode 22: Vengeance

  An ex-convict (Clu Gulager) attempts suicide to force Cannon to search for the fake CIA agent who sent him to jail; guest Monte Markham.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Lady on the Run

  A disenchanted wife flees to a sanitarium she once inhabited after seeing her lover commit a murder; guests Barbara Rush, Barbara Luna.

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Investigator

  A Midwestern mayor calls in Cannon to clean up police corruption in his community that has resulted in a string of warehouse burglaries.

• Season 4 Episode 19: The Set Up

  Cannon suspects he has a double after two nearly successful attempts on his life follow a strange woman's greeting to him at the airport.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Missing at FL 307

  A former convict boards an Atlanta airliner for a reunion with his daughter but is missing when the plane lands; guest Bradford Dillman.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Killer on the Hill

  Cannon encounters corruption when he investigates the attempted assassination of a state assemblyman; guests Michael Tolan, Brooke Bundy.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Perfect Fit for a Frame

  Cannon is framed when the supposed pursuer of the girl he was hired to protect is found murdered; guests Ralph Meeker, Kathleen Cody.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Coffin Corner

  A lawyer (Gary Lockwood) returns to the scene of his college football triumphs to escape a crime mob pursuing him; guest Patty McCormack.

• Season 4 Episode 14: The Conspirators

  A tape recording detailing the murder of a girl reported missing brings Cannon to a rural town to solve the crime; guest Tom Skerritt.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Daddy's Little Girl

  Cannon becomes the target of a setup when he fakes the murder of a mobster to allow the man to testify against the mob as part of a deal.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Prisoner

  Cannon goes under cover as a hired killer to uncover the dark secret behind the blackmail of a former Army captain; guest Peter Haskell.

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Sounds of Silence

  A chess champion and financial wizard suddenly breaks off his engagement, leading his puzzled fiancee to ask Cannon to find the reason.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Man Who Couldn't Forget

  Cannon finds himself involved in an assassination attempt and the manhunt for an alleged World War II criminal; guest Leslie Nielsen.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Flashpoint

  A falsely accused suspect faces injury at the hands of a mob unless a rapist/murderer's mother reveals vital evidence; guest Ruth Roman.

• Season 4 Episode 8: A Killing in the Family

  Cannon feels victimized when he discovers the true identity of the insurance man who hired him to look into a girl's auto-accident death.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The Avenger

  An ex-police officer (Dane Clark) intends to avenge his brother who died while doing a favor for Cannon; guests Kay Lenz, Greg Mullavey.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Exchange

  Cannon becomes involved in a terrorist's vendetta through his friendship with the intended victim, an ex-colleague; guest Robert Loggia.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Deadly Trail

  A domineering tycoon whose daughter has been missing for a long time tries to force Cannon to search for the girl; guest Kevin McCarthy.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Lady in Red

  The woman Cannon was hired to guard eludes him at the airport, only to turn up later robbed and slain; guests Steve Forrest, David Soul.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Voice From the Grave

  An unofficial probe conducted by Cannon's friend (Ford Rainey), a retired police officer, makes both him and Cannon targets for hit men.

• Season 4 Episode 2: The Hit Man

  To save a Catholic bishop (Richard Kiley), Cannon must pose as a hired assassin and infiltrate a crime mob; guest Christopher Connelly.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Kelly's Song

  A retired call girl (Stefanie Powers) resists cooperating when Cannon asks her to be the lure in a police plan to trap her former boss.

Cannon: Season 3 (1973 - 1974)

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Stalker

  An escaped mental patient bent on vengeance stalks Cannon during the investigator's vacation at a mountain lake; guest Cindy Williams.

• Season 3 Episode 24: Triangle of Terror

  An English heiress (Dana Wynter) suspects the supposedly suicidal death of her father on a Caribbean island was in reality a homicide.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Bobby Loves Me

  A naive schoolteacher hires Cannon to investigate the murder of her love interest, a smooth-talking dance teacher at a lonely-hearts club.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Cure That Kills

  Cannon moves among evangelists and carnival performers while probing the disappearance of a faith healer's protege; guest Peter Strauss.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Death of a Hunter

  The widow of a big-game hunter believes her husband was murdered, despite evidence suggesting he was mauled to death by an ailing lion.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Blood Money

  A flamboyant attorney (Peter Haskell) defends a doctor (Perry King) charged in the death of a financier during an apparent jail escape.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Where's Jennifer

  A shy heiress hires Cannon to stop attacks of vandalism she claims are the handiwork of her long-missing sister; guest Pamela Franklin.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Duel in the Desert

  On a mission to deliver ransom money, Cannon falls prey to opportunists while wandering in the desert with amnesia; guest Joan Van Ark.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Photo Finish

  Cannon becomes the target of a sniper when a mercenary (Jack Cassidy) hires the detective for a murder investigation; guest Hal Williams.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Arena of Fear

  A boxing contender's (Nick Nolte) fiancee asks Cannon's help when the fighter threatens to leave the country just before a major bout.

• Season 3 Episode 15: A Well-Remembered Terror

  Cannon finds a clue to a bizarre harassment case in the involvement of a pilot (Robert Goulet) in a $1 million hijacking years before.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Valley of the Damned

  Cannon contacts the legal counsel (Leslie Nielsen) for an American Indian organization when he tries to clear an Indian of murder charges.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Murder by the Numbers

  A socialite (Dina Merrill) is astonished to discover that her missing fiance is actually a married man being sought by his Swiss wife.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Trial By Terror

  A judge's (Simon Scott) daughter (Kelly Miles) disappears while her father is presiding over a case involving a major syndicate kingpin.

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Limping Man

  Cannon's longtime friend (Jason Evers), a police detective, is suspended after the escape of the top suspect in a counterfeit-stock ring.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Dead Lady's Tears

  Cannon enters the circle of admirers around a lovely model when he tries to clear the man charged with her murder; guest Dabney Coleman.

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Perfect Alibi

  Cannon's prime suspect in a $50,000 payroll burglary at an electronics plant turns out to have been in jail when the crime was committed.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Come Watch Me Die

  Cannon agrees to search for an escaped convict who may have been framed on a murder charge; guests Michael Tolan, Don Stroud, John Larch.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Night Flight to Murder

  Cannon investigates the unexplained disappearance of an airplane carrying $3 million in securities; guests John Vernon, David Hedison.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Murder by Proxy

  An innocent publicist (Anne Francis) finds herself charged with a producer's murder when she becomes involved in a complicated conspiracy.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Target in the Mirror

  Cannon is accused in the slaying of a mobster's girlfriend who contacted him in hope of getting government immunity for her lover.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Hounds of Hell

  Killer dogs slay two survivors of an Army unit whose commanding lieutenant became paralyzed in a deliberate attack; guest Geoffrey Deuel.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Memo from a Dead Man

  A lawyer (Martin Sheen) presents Cannon with a will provision requiring the detective to look into the death of the lawyer's late client.

• Season 3 Episode 2: He Who Digs a Grave : Part Two

  Part two. Drama series, starring William Conrad as a tough police officer-turned-private detective

• Season 3 Episode 1: He Who Digs a Grave

  Cannon faces a small cattle town's hostility when he tries to clear a friend of two homicide charges; guest Anne Baxter.

Cannon: Season 2 (1972 - 1973)

• Season 2 Episode 24: Deadly Heritage

  A wealthy arts patron (Beverly Garland) hires Cannon to find her long-missing stepson; guests John Anderson, Lynne Marta, Glynn Turman.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Press Pass to the Slammer

  A news reporter (Marlyn Mason) asks old friend Cannon to help her when she faces a contempt charge for refusing to reveal a news source.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Catch Me If You Can

  An admitted mass murderer (Anthony Zerbe) hires Cannon and tells the investigator to prevent him from killing again; guest Dana Wynter.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Seventh Grave

  A rural newspaper editor (Barry Nelson) hires Cannon to find evidence linking a powerful local community leader to a series of murders.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Prisoners

  An importer's ex-wife (Geraldine Brooks) hires Cannon when her son is reportedly jailed on a drug charge in Turkey; guest Harold Gould.

• Season 2 Episode 19: To Ride a Tiger

  Cannon attempts to locate both a missing lawyer and the killer of a police officer; guests John Larch, Christine Belford, Stewart Moss.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Murder for Murder

  Cannon tries to prevent the violent revenge sought by a high-school teacher whose daughter died at a jet-set party; guest Jason Evers.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Moving Target

  A photographer (Susan Oliver) finds Cannon hesitant to search for her missing boyfriend after the detective learns his quarry's identity.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Death of a Stone Seahorse

  A suspect (Sondra Locke) is missing in Cannon's investigation of the death of a famed marine biologist; guests David Soul, Tim O'Connor.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Dead Samaritan

  A would-be actress (Arlene Golonka) becomes the pawn in a plot to take over a real-estate empire; guests David Hedison, Barbara Babcock.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Hard Rock Roller Coaster

  Unknown assailants plague an amnesia victim (John Vernon) who appears to know an important secret; guests Fritz Weaver, Greg Mullavey.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Nobody Beats the House

  Cannon pursues a mob kingpin threatening the life of a gambler's wife; guests John Marley, Tom Skerritt, (Paul) Michael Glaser.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Endangered Species

  Cannon's old friend (Andrew Duggan), a boat builder, finds himself charged in his son's hunting-accident death; guest Billy Green Bush.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Hear No Evil

  A former policewoman hires Cannon when her husband becomes the victim of blackmailers; guests William Daniels, Linden Chiles, Wesley Lau.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Shadow Man

  Cannon looks into the disappearance of a real-estate tycoon's body after the man's plunge from a precipice overlooking a development site.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Child of Fear

  Cannon leads the hunt for a missing rancher who has been taken hostage by a hostile narcotics smuggler; guests Clu Gulager, Julie Adams.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Rip-Off

  Cannon accidentally uncovers a major-league hijacking operation; guests George Maharis, Stephanie Powers, Robert Mandan, Max Gail.

• Season 2 Episode 7: A Long Way Down

  Cannon tries to clear a black physician who has been framed in a drug-theft case; guests James A. Watson Jr., Dana Elcar, Ned Romero.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Predators

  Cannon aids a sheep rancher charged in the death of an illegal Mexican immigrant caught in a coyote trap.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Stakeout

  Drama series, starring William Conrad as a tough police officer-turned-private detective

• Season 2 Episode 4: That Was No Lady

  Drama series, starring William Conrad as a police officer who opens his own detective agency following the tragic loss of his wife and child

• Season 2 Episode 3: Bitter Legion

  Cannon's search for a missing husband reveals plans for an upcoming, daring robbery; guests Irene Tsu, Lloyd Bochner, Mickey Dolenz.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Sky Above, Death Below

  Deaths resulting from a ski-lift tragedy bring Cannon to Colorado to investigate; guests Leslie Charleson, Richard Hatch, Ken Scott.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Bad Cats and Sudden Death

  A man accused of murdering his wife is also a close friend of Cannon's; guests Michael Tolan, Marj Dusay, Severn Darden, Larry Linville.

Cannon: Season 1 (1971 - 1972)

• Season 1 Episode 24: Murder by Moonlight

  A young convict falls prey to a prison mastermind who is in charge of a vast gambling empire operating behind bars; guest Lin McCarthy.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Cain's Mark

  A wealthy manufacturer and gun collector whose younger brother has suddenly vanished hires Cannon to investigate; guest Bradford Dillman.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Torch

  A man accused of setting the fire that killed his estranged wife comes to Cannon for help in proving his innocence; guest Anthony Zerbe.

• Season 1 Episode 21: A Flight of Hawks

  Drama series, starring William Conrad as a police officer who opens his own detective agency following the tragic loss of his wife and child

• Season 1 Episode 20: A Deadly Quiet Town

  Frightened parents call in Cannon when their teenage daughter falls under the mystical spell of a cult leader; guest John Rubinstein.

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Island Caper

  The life of a safecracker trying to stay within the law is threatened if he fails to cooperate in a $1 million theft; guest Keenan Wynn.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Blood on the Vine

  Cannon discovers an impostor posing as the son of a winemaker whose life has been threatened; guests Theodore Bikel, Katherine Justice.

• Season 1 Episode 17: To Kill a Guinea Pig

  A harassment campaign is directed at a doctor (Vera Miles) engaged in a medical research project at a state prison; guest Arthur Franz.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Treasure of Saint Ignacio

  Cannon pursues three hoodlums who stole valuable artifacts from a church in Mexico; guests Tab Hunter, Alejandro Rey, Victoria Racimo.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Devil's Playground

  A disabled ex-motorcycle officer seeks revenge on the man he holds responsible for his injuries; guests Martin Sheen, Daniel J. Travanti.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Flight Plan

  A thief dupes Cannon into providing him with a plan to change his identity and escape the country; guests Cesare Danova, Barbara Luna.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Nowhere Man

  A disgruntled accountant plans to protest the production of deadly nerve gas by stealing a canister of the substance; guest Fritz Weaver.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Death Is a Double-Cross

  Cannon's simple assignment as bodyguard to a broker's daughter and grandchildren suddenly turns complex; guests Ed Nelson, Leif Garrett.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Stone Cold Dead

  A missing bicycle provides a vital clue in Cannon's investigation of a salesgirl's mysterious death; guests Richard Anderson, Dack Rambo.

• Season 1 Episode 10: No Pockets in a Shroud

  Cannon's work in a missing-persons investigation is hampered by a firm's attorney; guests Arthur O'Connell, Linda Marsh, Roy Scheider.

• Season 1 Episode 9: A Lonely Place to Die

  A frightened woman hires Cannon to find her missing brother, whom she fears is a homicide victim; guests R.G. Armstrong, Harold Gould.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Dead Pigeon

  A police detective who has been framed on a murder charge asks Cannon for help; guests Brooke Bundy, James Wainwright, Barnard Hughes.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Girl in the Electric Coffin

  The death of a private-investigator friend during a missing-persons case leads Cannon to join the probe; guests Kim Hunter, Andrew Prine.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Fool's Gold

  The trail of suspects in an armored-car robbery leads Cannon to a hamlet where he receives an unfriendly greeting; guest Andrew Duggan.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Scream of Silence

  Cannon is called in when a gubernatorial candidate wants to avoid police involvement in rescuing his kidnapped son; guest Tim O'Connor.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Country Blues

  An insurance company hires Cannon to investigate the plane-crash death of a country-and-western singer; guests Clu Gulager, Joan Van Ark.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Call Unicorn

  A trucking firm hires Cannon to find those responsible for a series of hijackings; guests Patricia Smith, Wayne Rogers, Charles Cioffi.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Death Chain

  The death of a secretary prompts her employer, a middle-aged banker, to hire Cannon to investigate; guests William Windom, Sorrell Booke.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Salinas Jackpot

  An insurance firm hires Cannon to find the thief who robbed a rodeo of $100,000; guests Sharon Acker, Tom Skerritt, Vincent Van Patten.

Cannon:

• Pilot : Part Two

  Part two. Drama series, starring William Conrad as a tough police officer-turned-private detective