The Mod Squad - Season 5

The Mod Squad - Season 5

Season 5

Network
Episodes24
DatesSep 14, 1972 - Mar 1, 1973
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Episodes

The Connection (1)
Season 5Episode 160 min

The Connection (1)

When Greer is seriously hurt by phony cops (one of these a drug dealer whom Greer had previously apprehended), and four suitcases of heroin belonging to a crime syndicate are stolen, Sgt. Ed Lassiter leads the Squad on their most challenging assignment ever, looking at every possible connection. 

Sep 14, 1972
The Connection (2)
Season 5Episode 260 min

The Connection (2)

Pete and Julie risk their lives gathering evidence of the syndicate's plan of distributing the heroin while attending an upscale party of one of its henchmen. And Sgt. Lassiter harbors a dark secret that would not only affect his career, but also his future. 

Sep 14, 1972
The Thunder Makers
Season 5Episode 360 min

The Thunder Makers

The Squad investigates when a youth joins a motorcycle gang, plots a fake payroll robbery of his father's company and learns the other gang members are playing it for real.

Sep 21, 1972
Yesterday's Ashes
Season 5Episode 460 min

Yesterday's Ashes

The Squad witnesses a shoplifting by a badly scarred woman and arranges plastic surgery, believing it would prevent her from a life of crime.

Sep 28, 1972
A Gift for Jenny
Season 5Episode 560 min

A Gift for Jenny

A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.

Oct 5, 1972
Taps, Play It Louder
Season 5Episode 660 min

Taps, Play It Louder

The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.

Oct 12, 1972
Eyes of the Beholder
Season 5Episode 760 min

Eyes of the Beholder

The brother of a fur thief attempts to kill Pete, holding him responsible for his brother's death. Meanwhile, a blind childhood friend of Pete's returns home for an operation that would give her the ability to see, although her surgeon fears the positive results may not be permanent.

Oct 19, 1972
Good Times Are Just Memories
Season 5Episode 860 min

Good Times Are Just Memories

A police lieutenant involved in a jewel theft ring murders an informer and plants evidence implicating Pete as the killer.

Oct 26, 1972
Corbey
Season 5Episode 960 min

Corbey

When Greer is framed as being on the take, the Squad begins an investigation to clear his name. Complicating things is a boy who became handicapped after being injured by Greer a few years earlier during a shootout.

Nov 2, 1972
Can You Hear Me Out There?
Season 5Episode 1060 min

Can You Hear Me Out There?

A rash of car thefts appear to be connected to a particular radio station and a puzzling code. Pete becomes friends with the car thief while Julie and Linc check out the station.

Nov 9, 1972
Another Final Game
Season 5Episode 1160 min

Another Final Game

When a con man takes a little old lady friend of Linc's for $600, Pete and Julie assume the roles of a wealthy young couple to lure the bad guy.

Nov 16, 1972
Crime Club
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Crime Club

The Squad matches wits with a group of students with genius IQs responsible for bizarre headline making robberies.

Nov 23, 1972
The Twain
Season 5Episode 1360 min

The Twain

A Korean girl finds trouble in her search for her American father. Pete accidentally hits her with his car after she runs from the scene of a murder she witnessed, and the killers are still after her.

Nov 30, 1972
Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
Season 5Episode 1460 min

Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum

The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.

Note: Songs "Bitter Weeds" and "Take Me Along", words and music by Peggy Lipton.

Dec 7, 1972
Kristie
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Kristie

A little girl's father gets in trouble with jewel thieves just before Christmas. He leaves his daughter with Pete, an old friend, but then doesn't return for her as promised, and the trio tries to find him.

Dec 14, 1972
Sanctuary
Season 5Episode 1660 min

Sanctuary

Julie is hit by a truck after collecting evidence against a mobster. Though her injuries are not serious, she is kept in the hospital for her protection. But she is still in danger from people working for the syndicate who want to keep her from testifying.

Dec 21, 1973
Run, Lincoln, Run
Season 5Episode 1760 min

Run, Lincoln, Run

A friend of Linc's is caught in the clutches of loan sharks and forced to set Linc up for elimination.

Jan 4, 1973
Don't Kill My Child
Season 5Episode 1860 min

Don't Kill My Child

Although a stepfather confesses to child beating, the Squad believes the mother is guilty.

Jan 18, 1973
Death in High Places
Season 5Episode 1960 min

Death in High Places

Linc takes an undercover job as a high steel construction worker to find his friend's murderer.

Jan 25, 1973
Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
Season 5Episode 2060 min

Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death

The trio investigates a euthanasia that may turn out to be murder. The accused man, who killed his terminally ill wife, claims she was in intolerable pain, but doctors say she was receiving too much morphine to be suffering that much.

Feb 1, 1973
Scion of Death
Season 5Episode 2160 min

Scion of Death

Pete and Linc witness a kidnapping of a son of a newspaper publisher, but his father refuses to report the abduction to the police. After Greer and the Squad got involved, it was revealed that an ex-servant of the publisher was involved.

Feb 8, 1973
The Night Holds Terror
Season 5Episode 2260 min

The Night Holds Terror

Convalescing in the home of a doctor and his wife, Julie is terrorized by a man who vows to kill everyone in the house.

Feb 15, 1973
Cry Uncle
Season 5Episode 2360 min

Cry Uncle

The visit of Captain Greer's eccentric Uncle Max, a Greek painter, coincides with a series of art thefts. The robberies are baffling police as the guards can recall no one entering or leaving the galleries.

Feb 22, 1973
And Once for My Baby
Season 5Episode 2460 min

And Once for My Baby

The Squad helps prevent a $1 million heist masterminded by an ex-con whose pregnant wife is an unknowing victim of cervical cancer.

Mar 1, 1973

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