The Rookies

Season 4 - The Rookies

• Season 4 Episode 23: Journey to Oblivion (1976) A gambler pursues Jill after she saw him killing his creditor; guests Geoffrey Lewis, Marc Singer. Directed by Georg Stanford Brown.
• Season 4 Episode 22: Deliver Me From Innocence (1976) A frightened, 16-year-old boy becomes involved with a junkie and winds up taking blame for the addict's crimes; guest Kevin Hooks.
• Season 4 Episode 21: Blue Movie, Blue Death (1976) The rookies go under cover to investigate a syndicate-backed film company that is responsible for the deaths of some of its actors.
• Season 4 Episode 20: The Mugging (1976) The son of a woman murdered in an assault vows revenge against her attackers, released on a technicality; guest John Rubinstein.
• Season 4 Episode 19: From Out of the Darkness (1976) Terry pursues the killer of his former girlfriend's father, a retired policeman turned security guard; guest Tyne Daly, Keenan Wynn.
• Season 4 Episode 18: Sudden Death (1976) A disturbed former Green Beret takes action against Mike, whom he blames for his capture and imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camp.
• Season 4 Episode 17: Eye for an Eye (1975) A man, put in prison for 18 years for a crime he didn't commit, vows revenge on the men who sent him there; guest Robert Lansing.
• Season 4 Episode 16: Shadow of a Man (1975) A career officer takes $10,000 from a robbery scene in which his partner was slain, causing Ryker to start an undercover probe.
• Season 4 Episode 15: The Code Five Affair (1975) The sole escapee from the rookies' stakeout/drug bust schemes to recover the heroin that was seized by police; guest Jaclyn Smith.
• Season 4 Episode 14: The Voice of Thunder (1975) Chris and Terry remember seeing the same girl at the scenes of several Sunday bombings terrorizing the city; guest Gail Strickland.
• Season 4 Episode 13: Dead Heat (1975) While investigating a department-store robbery, Chris and Terry's patrol car is stolen by teenage vandals; guest Roger E. Mosley.
• Season 4 Episode 12: Reluctant Hero (1975) A rookie accidentally thwarts an assassin, who then takes Jill hostage and offers to trade her for the officer; guest John Ritter.
• Season 4 Episode 11: Invitation to a Rumble (1975) A gang member calls an ambulance when he sees Terry run down by the gang leader, an act which causes his condemnation as a traitor.
• Season 4 Episode 9: A Time to Mourn (1975) After his sister is molested, Chris is suspended for arresting the culprit without authorization; guests Season Hubley, James Woods.
• Season 4 Episode 8: Measure of Mercy (1975) Robbers raid a hospital's blood bank and sell its contents to the black market; guests Cleavon Little, Martin Kove, Harold Gould.
• Season 4 Episode 7: Death Lady (1975) A policewoman blamed for the death of her former partner sets out to solve the crime and prove her worth; guest Katherine Helmond.
• Season 4 Episode 6: Reign of Terror (1975) A mailman who witnessed a robbery in which Chris is shot refuses to become involved; guests Raymond St. Jacques, Margaret Avery.
• Season 4 Episode 5: Ladies' Day (1975) Prison inmates, protesting to obtain improved food and working conditions, hold Jill and a doctor as hostages; guest Della Reese.
• Season 4 Episode 3: One-Way Street to Nowhere (1975) Mike is critically injured while trying to capture a militant group's leader; guest Michael Parks. Directed by Georg Stanford Brown.
• Season 4 Episode 2: Reading, Writing and Angel Dust (1975) The rookies make a concerted effort to rid a high school of drug pushers responsible for a student's death; guest Beth Howland.
• Season 4 Episode 1: Lamb to the Slaughter (1975) Ryker befriends the son of an arrested burglar, only to be taken hostage by the boy's escaped father; guest Matthew Laborteaux.

Season 3 - The Rookies

• Season 3 Episode 24: Nightmare (1975) Jill becomes a disturbed man's prisoner after she is involved in an automobile accident on a stormy night; guest Edward Albert.
• Season 3 Episode 23: Cliffy (1975) A mentally impaired man, who dreams of being a police officer, witnesses a murder at a gas station; guests Tyne Daly, Glynnis O'Connor.
• Season 3 Episode 22: A Deadly Image (1975) Ryker befriends a troubled girl whose boyfriend persuades her to use the relationship for his criminal gain; guest Richard Hatch.
• Season 3 Episode 19: The Shield (1975) Mistaken identities are revealed when the rookies charge the wrong man with the murder of a policeman. Directed by Fernando Lamas.
• Season 3 Episode 18: Angel (1975) The rookies struggle to amass sufficient evidence to arrest a man who forces girls into prostitution; guests Dack Rambo, Susan Dey.
• Season 3 Episode 17: Solomon's Dilemma (1975) A woman whose son was kidnapped in a supermarket parking lot denies the entire incident; guests Shelley Fabares, Kathleen Lloyd.
• Season 3 Episode 16: The Hunting Ground (1975) Mike's overeager, new partner sets out to hunt pushers because his younger brother died of a drug overdose; guest William Shatner.
• Season 3 Episode 15: Saturday Night Special (1975) A man who bought a handgun in order to protect his family is accidentally shot; guests Don Stroud, Ty Henderson, Eric Laneuville.
• Season 3 Episode 14: Take Over (1974) Gang members plan to continue operations after their boss is jailed, including killing Ryker; guests Vic Tayback, Vincent Baggetta.
• Season 3 Episode 13: Blue Christmas (1974) Various routine disturbances delay the rookies' arrival for a late Christmas Eve dinner at the Danko home; guest Elinor Donahue.
• Season 3 Episode 12: The Assassin (1974) Chris' friend, a photographer, makes herself a target when she accidentally snaps a picture of a hired assassin; guest Darleen Carr.
• Season 3 Episode 11: A Test of Courage (1974) The rookies pursue the perpetrators of a series of gun-shop robberies throughout the city; guests David Soul, David Huddleston.
• Season 3 Episode 10: The Old Neighborhood (1974) Ryker steps from behind his desk to hunt the operators of a neighborhood protection racket; guests Katherine Helmond, William Katt.
• Season 3 Episode 9: Vendetta (1974) An officer injured in a holdup returns after recovering for 10 years to hunt the man he thinks shot him; guest Lawrence Luckinbill.
• Season 3 Episode 8: Prelude to Vengeance (1974) A girl befriended by the rookies will be charged with her robber boyfriend's crime if he can't be apprehended; guest Andy Robinson.
• Season 3 Episode 7: Johnny Lost His Gun (1974) The rookies and Jill are forced to tell Mike that an old pal of his has become a heroin pusher; guests Fred Williamson, David White.
• Season 3 Episode 6: Judgment (1974) The rookies protect a judge marked for death by the son and daughter of a man whom he sentenced to prison; guest Stefanie Powers.
• Season 3 Episode 5: Walk a Tightrope (1974) Law students seeking revenge for a girl's death frame Terry, whom they blame for a store guard's murder; guest Kristoffer Tabori.
• Season 3 Episode 4: Death at 6 A.M. (1974) Chris pursues four young joyriders whose excitement suddenly turned to murder and robbery; guest Bo Hopkins, Charles Martin Smith.
• Season 3 Episode 3: A Legacy of Death (1974) A desperate officer purposefully puts himself in dangerous situations, hoping to be killed on duty so his family will be compensated.
• Season 3 Episode 2: Key Witness (1974) A married doctor will not allow his lover to give police information on a murder she witnessed; guests Jared Martin, Jon Cypher.
• Season 3 Episode 1: An Ugly Way to Die (1974) Terry and new rookie Chris Owens (Bruce Fairbairn) seek an arsonist responsible for killing dark-haired, mustachioed firefighters.

Season 2 - The Rookies

• Season 2 Episode 22: Death Watch (1974) Willie becomes infected with meningitis from a pair of former convicts who could cause a city-wide epidemic; guest Anthony Zerbe.
• Season 2 Episode 21: Time Lock (1974) A felon demanding his convict partner be freed holds Terry and three women hostage in a bank vault; guests Tyne Daly, Robert Walden.
• Season 2 Episode 20: Rolling Thunder (1974) Terry and a Police Cadet Program recruit are kidnapped by a fugitive, the boyfriend of the recruit's sister; guest Brad Davis.
• Season 2 Episode 19: Something Less Than a Man (1974) Ryker assists an old friend, an alcoholic former officer, when the man is framed for the murder of a gangster; guest Abe Vigoda.
• Season 2 Episode 18: Eyewitness (1974) A young man suffering from a split personality perplexes Terry and Willie, but is the cause of extreme danger for Mike and Ryker.
• Season 2 Episode 17: The Teacher (1974) An ex-convict masterminds several robberies using boys who have come to the city seeking adventure; guests Nick Nolte, Don Johnson.
• Season 2 Episode 16: The Late Mr. Brent (1974) Mike's sympathy for the widow of a man he killed in the line of duty endangers his own marriage; guests Darleen Carr, Matt Clark.
• Season 2 Episode 15: The Authentic Death of Billy Stomper (1974) Terry offers himself as a decoy to trap the killer of his new love, a college girl who witnessed a murder; guest Esther Anderson.
• Season 2 Episode 14: Trial by Doubt (1974) An older officer Willie was riding with is slain, and his colleagues want to punish his killer themselves; guest Fionnula Flanagan.
• Season 2 Episode 13: A Sound of Silence (1973) Willie's girlfriend learns she has diabetes and runs to friends on a drug-rehabilitation farm; guests Sissy Spacek, Jared Martin.
• Season 2 Episode 12: Lots of Trees and a Running Stream (1973) An insane and vindictive former boyfriend targets Jill while Mike is away from home; guest Richard Hatch.
• Season 2 Episode 11: Down Home Boy (1973) Two angry brothers terrorize a country singer they hold responsible for their sister's death; guests Jim Nabors, Billy Green Bush.
• Season 2 Episode 10: Prayers Unanswered, Prayers Unheard (1973) Ryker is asked to investigate the murder of a priest and the severe beating of a nun in a poor neighborhood; guest Johnny Brown.
• Season 2 Episode 9: Code 261 (1973) The rookies help a rape victim face the indignities and legal problems that accompany the crime's investigation; guest Mark Slade.
• Season 2 Episode 8: Blood Brother (1973) Terry's cousin, a bitter Vietnam veteran, considers becoming involved in a robbery plan; guests Glynn Turman, Herbert Jefferson Jr.
• Season 2 Episode 7: A Matter of Justice (1973) A man who wounded Jill is not prosecuted because of a brain tumor, leaving the rookies the task of proving that he should be jailed.
• Season 2 Episode 6: Cry Wolf (1973) Willie and Terry ignore a call from an elderly woman known to 'cry wolf,' not knowing this time is for real; guest Joan Blondell.
• Season 2 Episode 5: Get Ryker (1973) Ordered to protect an injured Ryker from a vengeful ex-convict, Jill discovers she has become a target herself; guest Joseph Campanella.
• Season 2 Episode 3: Deadly Cage (1973) Chaos erupts when Terry's true identity is revealed while he is undercover as a prison inmate; guests Robert Hooks, Victor French.
• Season 2 Episode 2: Margin for Error (1973) A veteran officer blames Mike for his partner's death, then asks to be teamed with the rookie; guests Claude Akins, Robert Walden.
• Season 2 Episode 1: Cauldron (1973) Willie and Terry are kidnapped, then abandoned out in the desert without any food or water; guests John Saxon, James B. Sikking.

Season 1 - The Rookies

• Season 1 Episode 24: Easy Money (1973) The brother of a nurse (Teresa Graves) who objects to police is involved in a neighborhood protection racket; guest Hilly Hicks.
• Season 1 Episode 23: A Farewell Tree From Marly (1973) A courtroom battle erupts when the only eyewitness in a manslaughter case is mentally impaired; guest Tyne Daly.
• Season 1 Episode 22: Life Robbery (1973) The rookies probe a suburban robbery ring that they suspect is lead by an old friend of Ryker's; guests Pat Hingle, Mark Lenard.
• Season 1 Episode 21: The Wheel of Death (1973) The only donor for a boy needing a bone-marrow transplant is his father, on the run from police and the mob; guest Mike Farrell.
• Season 1 Episode 20: Three Hours to Kill (1973) A police captain undergoing surgery is held hostage as part of a daring plan to release a jailed prisoner; guest Beverly Garland.
• Season 1 Episode 19: Point of Impact (1973) Terry attempts to learn the reasons behind an old friend's apparently senseless attack on a patrol-car officer; guest Victor Campos.
• Season 1 Episode 18: Snow Job (1973) A drug addict (Martin Sheen) plans to steal $2,000,000 in confiscated cocaine scheduled to be dumped out at sea; guest Ron Soble.
• Season 1 Episode 17: Crossfire (1973) The rookies volunteer to be counselors in a camp for juvenile delinquents; guests Percy Rodrigues, Eric Laneuville, Clint Howard.
• Season 1 Episode 16: Tarnished Idol (1973) Internal Affairs investigates Gillis after his shooting of a boy trapped in a flaming police car; guests Lou Antonio, Radames Pera.
• Season 1 Episode 15: Rabbits on the Runway (1972) A tattooed foot is the rookies' only clue to the whereabouts of a runaway girl fleeing from a killer who claims to be her father.
• Season 1 Episode 14: A Very Special Piece of Ground (1972) A veteran officer (Earl Holliman) loses his ranch to a proposed freeway, making him unstable; guest Pippa Scott.
• Season 1 Episode 13: A Bloody Shade of Blue (1972) Terry becomes the most recent victim of a pair of snipers shooting at anyone wearing a uniform; guests Brooke Bundy, Jared Martin.
• Season 1 Episode 12: A Deadly Velocity (1972) The rookies deal with a mob and a sniper while protecting a controversial Army general; guest Belinda J. Montgomery, Don Porter.
• Season 1 Episode 11: To Taste of Terror (1972) Jill becomes the target of violent revenge when the brother of a suspect lashes out following a routine arrest; guest Andy Robinson.
• Season 1 Episode 10: The Good Die Young (1972) The rookies are assigned to protect two policewomen (Leslie Charleson, Gwenn Mitchell) acting as bait to trap an elusive stranger.
• Season 1 Episode 9: Dirge for Sunday (1972) A shrewd extortionist holds Mike as a hostage and offers him in exchange for a criminal; guests Roddy McDowall, Vincent Gardenia.
• Season 1 Episode 8: The Bear That Didn't Get Up (1972) Willie struggles with his belief in police non-violence after he is forced to shoot an unarmed suspect; guest David Huddleston.
• Season 1 Episode 7: Time Is the Fire (1972) Ryker displays an unexplained personal interest in finding a kidnapper's (William Windom) victim; guests Craig Stevens, Lynne Marta.
• Season 1 Episode 6: Covenant With Death (1972) The rookies help an evangelist leading an anti-drug crusade who is accused of trafficking in narcotics; guest Louis Gossett Jr.
• Season 1 Episode 5: The Commitment (1972) Monster masks and horror films are the only clues after a petty thief shoots and paralyzes Willie; guests Darleen Carr, Bo Svenson.
• Season 1 Episode 4: The Informant (1972) Thieves, released because of a technicality, terrorize the police informant who incriminated them; guests Margaret Avery, Joe Kapp.
• Season 1 Episode 3: Dead, Like a Lost Dream (1972) An Internal Affairs investigation into rumors of police shakedowns begins to point to Willie, Terry and Mike; guest Dane Clark.
• Season 1 Episode 2: Concrete Valley, Neon Sky (1972) Willie, Terry and Mike are on the spot when a rivalry between two street gangs threatens to erupt into violence; guest Hilly Hicks.

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