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- Lt. Trench is called to a hostage situation at a local liquor store, and soon calls on Harry to act as the nonpolice intermediary the hostage-taker has demanded. With John Rubinstein, George Murdock, Quinn Redeker, Colleen Camp, and Tim Thomerson. Guest star Rubinstein also composed the score for this episode. (en)
- A psychiatrist hires Harry to pose as a patient, to help smoke out a killer among the members of her therapy group. With Joanna Pettet and Linda Lavin (en)
- A blind teenager is the only witness to a murder. It stars James McEachin and Rosalind Cash. Margaret Avery, later a series regular in a different role, plays the teenager's elder sister. Both Hal Williams and Bill Henderson, who later play Harry's mechanics in the Los Angeles episodes, also appear in this episode as different characters. (en)
- A pilot friend of Harry's dies in a plane crash, and Harry discovers he was involved in an attempted murder. With Bruce Kirby, Maggie Blye, Linda Kelsey, and Geoffrey Lewis (en)
- A deaf-mute janitor is framed for arson. With Kathleen Lloyd, Gail Strickland, Lawrence Pressman, and Jack Riley (en)
- A college student who wants to be a detective becomes a suspect in the murder of two coeds. With Richard Schaal and Scott Newman, Les Lannom's character of Lester Hodges, who became a recurring character in the series' second season, makes his debut. (en)
- Harry, Lester, and Lt. Trench run into repeated cases of mistaken identity as they pursue a gang of armored-car thieves. Harry mentions Lester's mentor Dr. Creighton Fong for the first time in the series. With Glynnis O'Connor, Michael McGuire, J. Pat O'Malley, and Michael Pataki (en)
- Fay Conners , an apparent psychic, predicts a series of murders that all come true amid Harry's search for a missing psychiatrist. Also starring Robert Doyle (en)
- Harry attempts to clear a developmentally disabled young man accused of a series of murders he says were committed by "a lion"—a clue to the murderer's actual identity. With Adam Arkin and Katherine Helmond (en)
- Harry must help one of his informants after a youth gets mixed up in a car theft that results in the death of a policeman. With Joe Ruskin (en)
- A former crime boss mistakenly believes Todd Conway, an aspiring actor, killed the man's daughter, and Harry smokes out the real killer when the girl was found to be pregnant. With Kurt Russell, Will Kuluva and Ben Piazza, Linda Dano appears very briefly as the murder victim. This is also the first episode with Farrah Fawcett-Majors, who plays the semiregular role of Orwell's neighbor, Sue. (en)
- Harry is framed for murder, and must escape his cell to find the real guilty party. With Lesley Ann Warren, and Michael C. Gwynne (en)
- Harry is hired to protect Jennifer English , a model being tailed by a deranged stalker who also appears to have murdered her estranged husband. It stars Jodie Foster as Liberty Cole , Clu Gulager, and Zalman King. (en)
- The mother of a teenaged girl who is an addict hires Harry to find her after her boyfriend is murdered by a narcotics dealer. With Maureen McCormick and Philip Sterling (en)
- Harry finds himself framed for murder as his investigation of a 40-acre purchase continues. With Joanna Pettet, Craig Stevens and Bill Quinn (en)
- Harry is hired to smoke out a killer of a woman's heirs. With Jeanette Nolan, Clifford David, and Whit Bissell (en)
- Harlan Garrison , a member of the gang that shot Harry in a drugstore robbery four years earlier, hires Harry to find Garrison's two accomplices. It stars Sal Mineo, Will Geer, Margot Kidder and Mel Stewart. Portions of this movie were re-edited and reused in the first-season episode "Elegy For A Cop"; the two stories are not compatible within the same series continuity. (en)
- An informant for Lt. Trench is murdered; Trench himself is implicated and must hire Harry Orwell to clear his name. With René Auberjonois, James McEachin, Gordon Jump, James Hong, Harold J. Stone, and an unbilled Gary Sandy (en)
- A housekeeper is accused of killing a small-time hood; Harry is hired to clear her name and must work with the hood's ex-partner to find the real killer. With Lou Gossett, Jr., Linden Chiles and Anjanette Comer. G.W. Bailey, seen occasionally as Officer Remsen during the San Diego episodes, also plays a police officer in this episode, identified in the credits as "Garner". (en)
- Harry must find a man who is needed to donate a kidney to his daughter, and who also has two hired killers on his trail. With Kenneth Mars, Joan Darling, and Florence Stanley (en)
- Harry is forced to relive his bitter divorce when his ex-wife is involved in a murder. With Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, and Peter Donat (en)
- The sister of a sailor absent without leave, Gertrude hires Harry to find him, and the only clue is that his left shoe was mailed to her. However, another clue then arrives in the form of two fake shore patrol officers. Les Lannom, later a series regular in the role of Lester Hodges, plays the AWOL sailor. Henry Darrow debuts as Lt. Quinlan. (en)
- A recently released jazz trumpeter is pursued by a vengeful record executive who has a left-handed knife killer take the trumpeter's daughter hostage. With Julius Harris, Brenda Sykes, Jim Backus, and jazz legend Cab Calloway (en)
- A woman helps her boyfriend steal $25,000 and now the boyfriend has disappeared. This is the first episode with Anthony Zerbe as Lt. Trench and Paul Tulley as Sgt. Roberts, and the first episode actually set in Los Angeles. The opening theme song is also completely reworked for this and all future season-one episodes. With Mariclare Costello, Bernie Kopell, Sabrina Scharf, and Sharon Farrell (en)
- Harry is hired to find an admiral's wife, who is presumed dead by the police, but who turns out to be alive and in genuine danger. With Leif Erickson and Sharon Acker (en)
- Harry is hired by a woman who believes her husband is having an affair. With Robert Reed, Gerrit Graham, and Jerry Hardin, this was the last episode shot in San Diego, and the final episode for Lt. Quinlan as a regular. (en)
- Harry must rescue a woman taken in by a religious cult. With Bettye Ackerman, Severn Darden, Barry Atwater, Clyde Kusatsu, and Sam Jaffe (en)
- A con artist takes his ex-partner and Harry hostage to get back a suitcase he claims contains several thousand dollars, and they are themselves pursued by two mob hitmen. With Susan Strasberg, Tim McIntire, Granville Van Dusen, and David Opatoshu (en)
- A friend of Harry's is framed for drug dealing when he tries to purchase a parcel of land. With Joanna Pettet, Broderick Crawford, Craig Stevens, and Paul Benedict (en)
- Lester Hodges gets mixed up with Harry when diamond smugglers kidnap Harry's neighbor Sue Ingham. With Ina Balin and—extremely briefly—Loni Anderson (en)
- A rape victim hires Harry. With Eugene Roche, Michael Lerner, and Cynthia Avila, this was the last episode of the series to be filmed. (en)
- A witness to the murder of a gambling club owner hires Harry to find the club owner's book of clients, which has been stolen by extortionists. With Barbara Rhoades and Barbara Cason (en)
- A man confesses to murder to a priest, and Harry is brought in to help stop the man from killing again. With Laurence Luckinbill (en)
- Harry investigates the killing of a private detective in Chinatown. With Tina Chen, Ramon Bieri, Benson Fong, James Hong, and Jerry Hardin (en)
- An alcoholic lawyer subject to memory blackouts hires Harry to investigate a hit-and-run incident, though she is aware that she may well have been the driver behind the wheel. With Carol Rossen, Larry Hagman, and Robert Loggia (en)
- Harry investigates the shady nursing home where Spencer's parents live, while Sue has Harry look for the missing father of three children who have just arrived from Hong Kong. With Kenneth Mars, Howard Hesseman, Jester Hairston, and Robert Ito (en)
- Harry is hired to track down a wealthy missing pal with a penchant for extramarital affairs, but the investigation soon reveals a number of sordid -- and deadly -- details. With Juliet Mills, Paul Burke, and Lisa Gerritsen (en)
- Dr. Noelle Kira witnesses the killing of a witness to crimes by one Joe Kiley. SDPD Captain Pete Jaklin, because of the killing of other witnesses, hires Harry to protect Kira. She dislikes Harry, but when they are followed to a beach house, Harry realizes a mole is in the department, so Jaklin and he have to find the mole. With Barbara Anderson, James Olson, and Mike Farrell (en)
- Lester Hodges and his mentor, Dr. Creighton Fong , work together to find the murderer of members of Lester's family. Harry is seen only in a supporting role, and is absent for long stretches of screen time, as this episode was a backdoor pilot intended to launch a spin-off series titled Fong and Hodges. With Anne Archer, Barry Atwater, Sorrell Booke, Dean Jagger, and Roddy McDowell (en)
- A hotheaded policeman is accused of murder when the boyfriend who fathered his daughter's unborn child is found dead; making it worse for Harry, a former lover returns to his life and gets swept into the case. With Ralph Meeker (en)
- Harry investigates a doctor suspected by two women of fatal malpractice. With Ruth Roman and Kiel Martin (en)
- Harry must protect an obnoxious, self-centered architect , who witnessed a murder and is oblivious to attempts on his own life. This was the first episode filmed for the regular series. With Linda Evans, Anne Archer, Richard Kelton and Gordon Jump (en)
- One of Harry's former police colleagues is killed while reinvestigating an old murder, and Harry learns that a violent man convicted of the murder was recently released. With John Colicos, Christine Belford, and Jack Riley (en)
- An arthritic painter and his wife frame his brother, a mental patient, for murder, until the plan goes awry and the painter is shot dead by the brother. With Diana Hyland, Scott Hylands, John Rubinstein, and Marsha Hunt (en)
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