The Rookies Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Rookies: Season 4 (1975 - 1976)

• Season 4 Episode 23: Journey to Oblivion

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Ryker befriends the son of an arrested burglar, only to be taken hostage by the boy's escaped father; guest Matthew Laborteaux.

The Rookies: Season 3 (1974 - 1975)

• Season 3 Episode 24: Nightmare

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.

  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

  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

  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

  Terry and new rookie Chris Owens (Bruce Fairbairn) seek an arsonist responsible for killing dark-haired, mustachioed firefighters.

The Rookies: Season 2 (1973 - 1974)

• Season 2 Episode 22: Death Watch

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  An insane and vindictive former boyfriend targets Jill while Mike is away from home; guest Richard Hatch.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Down Home Boy

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Willie and Terry are kidnapped, then abandoned out in the desert without any food or water; guests John Saxon, James B. Sikking.

The Rookies: Season 1 (1972 - 1973)

• Season 1 Episode 24: Easy Money

  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

  A courtroom battle erupts when the only eyewitness in a manslaughter case is mentally impaired; guest Tyne Daly.

• Season 1 Episode 22: Life Robbery

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Willie, Terry and Mike are on the spot when a rivalry between two street gangs threatens to erupt into violence; guest Hilly Hicks.