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Episode Guide

• 30,000 Witnesses

  Pete and Mac infiltrate a soccer team after its star player is murdered; guests Eric Braeden, Lorenzo Lamas. Directed by Fernando Lamas.

• Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney

  Pete goes against Mac's advice to help a woman (Ann Prentiss) determine whether an uncle she detested is truly dead; guest Bernie Kopell.

• The Argonaut Special

  Mac steps in to help a friend (Beverly Garland), his partner in a ranching business, when a ruthless land speculator wants her property.

• Before the Holocaust

  The death of a client's brother leads Pete and Mac to a protected mountain compound and a band of men planning to survive World War III.

• Big Deal in Paradise

  Pete is in danger when mobsters believe he was Malcolm's partner in a plan which robbed the syndicate of $1 million; guest Anne Archer.

• Blue Crusader's Reunion

  Mac and Pete bargain for the life of a girl held hostage by gunmen at a police officers' reunion; guests Simon Oakland, Frank Campanella.

• The Body at the Bottom

  A businessman (Vic Tayback) sets his own business afire and frames Pete's old prison friend; guest James Keach.

• Butterfly Mourning

  Mac and Pete search for the killer of Mac's pilot friend, who died after flying back from Mexico; guests Sharon Farrell, Slim Pickens.

• The Cage

  A rare white rhinoceros may hold the vital clue in a zoo veterinarian's bizarre disappearance; guests Joanna Cameron, Eric Christmas.

• Camera Angles

  Pete and Mac are unaware they are working on the same camera-theft case, only from different angles; guests Pernell Roberts, Linda Gray.

• Case of the Purloined Case

  A woman from Pete's con-man days asks him to recover a stolen package supposedly containing letters; guests Larry Storch, Dionne Warwick.

• The Cold War Con

  Pete discovers his new love interest (Randi Oakes) has been abducted and sold to a white-slavery ring; guests Anne Archer, Madlyn Rhue.

• Come Die With Me

  Pete is accused of the rape/murder of a stewardess who died after stumbling upon a plot to rob the Federal Reserve System; guest Don Ho.

• Coronado Circle

  A ship owner (Juliet Mills) comes to Pete and Mac for help after her grandfather's boat disappears in a mysterious region of the ocean.

• The Cruise Ship Murders

  Pete and Mac convince an executive who hired an assassin that a killer is now after him; guest Jared Martin.

• Dancer

  Murder attempts disrupt an old vaudeville dancer's (David Wayne) comeback, which was engineered by a Salvation Army friend (Kim Cattrall).

• Dangerous Curves

  Mac and Pete are called in to learn who is responsible for mishaps aimed at putting an all-woman taxi company permanently out of business.

• The Deadly Missiles Caper

  A woman (Kathleen Quinlan) persuades Pete and Mac to go to Oregon to help prove her father was murdered by her uncle; guest Martin Kove.

• Death by Resurrection

  A routine background check turns dangerous for Pete and Mac when local police, the FBI and the mob all want to stop their investigation.

• Death Heist

  Pete and Mac have 11 days under the statute of limitations to solve an old emerald robbery; guest Jaclyn Smith.

• Death Squad

  A wife comes to Pete when her estranged husband warns her that his involvement with a 'death squad' has put her and their son in danger.

• Downshift

  A mechanic hires Mac and Pete to prove that the mysterious death of a top race-car driver was actually murder; guest Morgan Fairchild.

• Eden's Gate

  The death of Pete's girlfriend leads the detectives to a posh health resort run by a plastic surgeon (June Allyson); guest Lorenzo Lamas.

• Eyewitness

  A blind woman turns to Mac and Pete after being unable to convince anyone a murder she witnessed actually happened; guest Joel Fabiani.

• Fade Out

  A movie's producer hires Mac and Pete to protect his star after a series of near-fatal accidents on the film's set; guest Zohra Lampert.

• Fleece of Snow

  Mac poses as World War II flying ace to infiltrate a veterans' club he suspects of cocaine smuggling and clear a dead friend's reputation.

• Formula for Murder

  Pete and Mac are each hired by different sisters to find a stolen formula and the killer of the women's father; guest Macdonald Carey.

• The Four Horseman

  A mobster holds Maggie captive to force Pete and Mac to learn who is threatening his father's life; guests Vincent Baggetta, Elisha Cook.

• Gaffing the Skim

  Pete goes under cover in a carnival to look into the disappearance of the fair's administrative executive; guest Norman Fell, Bill Dana.

• The Girl on the Golden Strip

  A Las Vegas entertainer (Wayne Newton) hires Pete and Mac as protection when a crazed killer appears to be after him; guest Kelly Harmon.

• Go for Broke

  Pete insists on searching for a missing husband, despite the murder of the wife who hired him and Mac for the case; guest Susan Anton.

• Hemline Heist

  Mac and Pete find more than just theft after Mac is robbed of jewels headed for use in a fashion show; guests Sheree North, Dick Gautier.

• Heritage of Death

  Malcolm finds an African leader's 4-year-old son at his door with a note asking him to protect the boy; guests Moses Gunn, Lola Falana.

• The Hundred Thousand Ruble Rumble

  Pete abandons caution when he sets conspirators against each other to save Mac, jailed as part of a murder frame; guest Val Bisoglio.

• James Caan Con

  Mac poses as a movie producer to nab an actor (Keir Dullea) who blackmails actresses; guest John S. Ragin.

• Kiss of Death

  A charming con man (Ricardo Montalban) takes $100,000 from his fiancee (Dina Merrill), a woman Mac secretly loves.

• The Lady From Liechtenstein

  Pete and Mac enlist an impressionist (Jim Bailey) to pose as a baroness as part of their plot to nab an investment swindler.

• The Lady From Liechtenstein

  Pete and Mac alter plans quickly when newspaper headlines threaten the impressionist's (Jim Bailey) portrayal of a baroness.

• Lady of the Deep

  A woman calls in Mac and Pete to investigate an underwater habitation experiment in Mexico after its top scientist, her father, vanishes.

• The Late Show Murders

  A private detective (Roger C. Carmel) acquires $1 million in gems stolen from his client by killing the jewel thief.

• Legend of the Macunas

  Pete and Mac head to Las Vegas to help a pilot learn the cause for her father's fatal plane crash; guest George Maharis.

• Legend of the Macunas

  The search for the cause of a pilot's fatal crash leads to a disputed desert treasure; guests Wayne Newton, Dionne Warwick.

• Maggie's Hero

  Maggie unknowingly falls deeply in love with a con man, who is arrested and jailed on falsified forgery charges; guest Lawrence Pressman.

• The Man Who Couldn't Lose

  By making it appear that one thief is dipping into the loot, Pete tries to expose the location of a missing armored car.

• Mexican Standoff

  After witnessing a murder attempt on his father, an ex-journalist's 10-year-old son joins Pete and Mac to break a Mexican smuggling ring.

• Mistresses, Murder and Millions

  A woman's (Ann Blyth) husband, whom Pete and Mac are hired to watch, is kidnapped from in front of them and held for $3,000,000 in ransom.

• Net Loss

  Pete's old friend, a tennis team's coach, asks him to find the killer responsible for gunning down the team's star player on the court.

• The Old Diamond Game

  Pete and Mac must get an embezzler and his $1 million out of Brazil within a week to prevent the impending eviction of senior citizens.

• One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing

  A blackmailer (Joan Blondell) tries to frame Mac to avenge her husband's death in prison; guest Dabney Coleman.

• Photo Finish

  An airline stewardess asks Pete and Mac to locate her sister, a member of a terrorist group, who went into hiding following a bomb attack.

• The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley

  Pete and Mac investigate when a disc jockey's ex-wife and her companion die in a mysterious accident; guests Sonny Bono, Howard Hesseman.

• Play-Off

  The ransom in Malcolm's kidnapping by a crime czar is Pete's protection of the mobster's pro-golfer son, the recipient of death threats.

• Portraits of Death

  Pete winds up accused of murder when he steps in to reveal the true motives of his college sweetheart's fiance; guest Joseph Mascolo.

• Quicker Than the Eye

  A con artist (Eileen Heckart) asks Pete and Mac's aid when a partner's death makes her think her latest scam is more than she can handle.

• Round Up the Usual Suspects

  Pete and Mac travel to Casablanca to trick a syndicate kingpin (Ricardo Montalban) who jailed an innocent American; guest Veronica Hamel.

• The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

  Pete, Mac, Maggie and Malcolm spend a night trapped in Malcolm's bar when they try to protect a pregnant woman from a gang of attackers.

• The Snitch

  Pete and Mac play mob bosses to learn who made an attempt on Malcolm's life; guests Robert Loggia, Joshua Bryant.

• Stolen Island

  Mac and Pete go under cover to determine who is responsible for a series of mishaps at the construction site of a luxurious island hotel.

• Stung From Beyond

  A family (Ida Lupino, Joan Collins, John Dehner, Granville Van Dusen) of con artists stages seances to bilk unsuspecting stock investors.

• Switch Hitter

  Pete and Mac pose as professional assassins to find who is behind a series of attempts on the life of an investigative newspaper reporter.

• The Things That Belong to Mickey Costello

  Mac tries to break a gangster's alibi after a date with the mobster's girlfriend makes Pete the victim of a beating; guest George Wyner.

• Three Blonde Mice

  A routine burglary at a girls' boarding school takes on international implications when the stolen object is a science-fair atomic bomb.

• Three for the Money

  Executors Pete and Mac are caught amidst a mobster's widow, ex-wife and mistress, all wanting a share of his money; guest Penny Peyser.

• Through the Past Deadly

  A car-bombing by the first man he and Mac put in prison critically injures Pete.

• The Tong

  Wang's sudden disappearance leads Pete, Mac and a police detective (Barbara Luna) into an underworld war threating the Chinese community.

• The Twelfth Commandment

  Pete and Mac go around in circles until they learn the real reason a thief (Margot Kidder) hired them to protect an unknown cleric's life.

• Two on the Run

  Pete risks the agency when he ignores Mac's objections and agrees to help a ex-convict friend; guests Lynda Day George, Gerald McRaney.

• The Walking Bomb

  A pair of extortionists outfits a kidnapped bank president (James Aubuchon) as a walking human bomb; guests Charles Haid, Larry Manetti.

• Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?

  A fan-club president's belief that something is not right with her film idol (Joanne Linville) leads Pete and Mac to a 25-year-old murder.

• Who Killed Lila Craig?

  Mac is considered a suspect after an actress's murder he worked on 20 years before becomes the subject of a new book; guest Howard Duff.