Episodes

1. Gertrude

Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.

2. The Admiral's Lady

A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?

3. Guardian at the Gates

Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.

4. Mortal Sin

A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.

5. Coinage of the Realm

Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.

6. Eyewitness

When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.

7. Shadows at Noon

To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.

8. Ballinger's Choice

When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.

9. Second Sight

The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.

10. Material Witness

The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.

11. Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.

12. Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.

13. Accounts Balanced

An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.

14. The Last Heir

Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.

15. For the Love of Money

A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.

16. The Confetti People

A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.

17. Sound of Trumpets

Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.

18. Silent Kill

Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.

19. Double Jeopardy

An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.

20. Lester

A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.

21. Elegy for a Cop

Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.

22. Street Games

Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.

Overview

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

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Cast

David Janssen

Anthony Zerbe

Paul Tulley