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1. Centerfold
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
A model who is doing a shoot at the Desert Inn decides that it's time for her to quit but her manager, who's worried about losing his meal ticket, resorts to drastic measures. He hires two guys to pretend to be cosmetic executives and at the meeting they drug her and take naked pictures of her. The next morning she calls Dan who picks her up and brings her back to the Desert Inn. He asks Two-Leaf to take care of her while he looks for her manager. The manager is met by the two men he hired who want in on the million dollar contract he told her of but he says that he made it up, they shoot him. Later they send her the photos they took, along with a contract they want her to sign. Dan tries to find them but she decides to give them what they want so no one else will be hurt. When Dan learns that she went to meet them Dan and Two-Leaf go there and grab them and make them turn the negatives over.
Guest star: John Ericson (Mr. Smith), Dane Clark (Nat Finer), Abe Vigoda (Max), Morey Amsterdam (Izzy), Vic Tayback (Bruno), Richard Roat (Smith's assistant), Cristina Ferrare (Shawn Adams)
2. The Games Girls Play
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Three Beverly Hills wives who added some excitement to their lives by posing as call girls get more than they expected when a senator is threatened with blackmail photographs.
Guest star: Shelley Fabares (Linda Stockwood), Ed Nelson (Jonathan Stockwood), Don Porter (Senator William Mitchell), Alex Trebek (Arthur Martin), Linda Thompson (Helen Martin), Tiffany Bolling (Doris Howard), Troy Donahue (Teddy Howard), Skip Homeier (Jason), John Carradine (Mr. Goody), George Jessel (Eulogist)
3. Mother Mishkin
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
When a former madam starts receiving death threats, Dan begins to suspect that a land speculator wants to drive her off her property.
Guest star: Anne Francis (Lillian Ross), Molly Picon (Mother Mishkin), Antonio Fargas (Fast Freddie Tibbs), Ross Martin (Werner Worthmeyer), John Durren (Omar), Rex Holman (Gaylord), Sid Caesar (The General), Joe Capp (Elija Two-Leaf), Richard Changey (Sorti), Taaffe O'Connell (M.J. Schultz)
4. Love, Laugh and Die
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
When a former call girl is killed, Dan tries to figure out which of three well-known former lovers is responsible: a folk singer, a tennis star, or a construction tycoon.
Guest star: Andrew Duggan (William Virgil), Don Galloway (Brad Thomas), Robert Mandan (Lou Smith), Bobby Van (Eddie Banning), Dorothy Malone (Mrs. Gardner), Gene Dynarski (Simon), Milton Selzer (Tenny), Bill Dana (Danny), Jonathan Harris (Used Car Salesman), Jenny Sherman (Carol), Jordan Michaels (Lexy Gardner)
5. Yes, My Darling Daughter
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
When a newlywed thinks she sees her supposedly long-dead father in the back of the hall at her wedding, she hires Tanna to find out the truth.
Guest star: Lauren Tewes (Cindy Smalley), Strother Martin (Hank Jenner), Lloyd Bochner (Lyle Galen), Christine De Lisle (Linda), Whitman Mayo (Lick Smith), Barbara McNair (Beverly), Slim Pickens (Ben Handler), Randy Powell (Jim Smalley), Frank Corsentino (Tony), Paul Valentine (Minister), Margolyn Curtis (Lady)
6. Lady Ice
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Kim Basinger (Allison Jorden), Cameron Mitchell (Willie 'Sparrow' Salters), Richard Bakalyan (Marvin Hale), Nehemiah Persoff (The Sheik), Barbara McNair (Beverly), Lee Parrish (Detective), Rozelle Gayle (Bodyguard)
7. Milliken's Stash
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Pernell Roberts (Pete Sedgewick), Shelley Berman (Mickey), Anthony James (Dwight Tully), Isabel Sanford (Mae), Henry Jones (Fitz), John Marley (Marty Trafalgar), Raymond St. Jacques (Lt. Burke Hansen), Andy Epper (Hood), Alan Oliney (Hood), Marvin Brody (Guard)
8. The Pageant
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Robert Reed (Mike Logan), Maureen McCormick (Jenny Logan), Dolly Martin (Annabelle), Peter Brown (Richie), Michael Callan (Ben Summers), Julie Casey (Mary), Michael Swan (David Lansford), Inga Swenson (The Producer), Clint Young (Detective), Tony Ballen (Sammy)
9. Lost Women
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Cesar Romero (Christopher Vincente), Della Reese (Ernie), Moses Gunn (Domo), Charles Dierkop (Lenny), Peter Mark Richman (Grady), Brit Lind (Karen), Kim Hamilton (Lois Chambers), Wendy Hoffman (Sandy), Rhonda Hopkins (Joyce)
10. Second Stanza
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Peter Breck (Walter Melford), Joseph Campanella (Stewy Wilson), Ronee Blakley (Ginny Gordon), Eugene Roche (Paul Dunniger), Johnny Seven (Buddy Johnson), Harvey Lembeck (Mike), Doc Severinsen, David Milton (Steve), Marc Cowell (Charlie)
11. Serve, Volley and Kill
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
An obnoxious and tempremental tennis player is about to have a grudge match with a rival at the Desert Inn. Now he has been receiving phone calls threatening him unless he throws the match. His manager hires Dan to protect him but he feels that his manager is overreacting. And Dan doesn't want to work for someone as obnoxious and inconsiderate as him and was about to quit when some men beat him up. Dan decides to look into it further and discovers that his girlfriend is involved with the man behind everything. When they try to get her he lets her go away. Later, his sister is kidnapped and he agrees to throw the match. Dan deduces that either the manager or the promoter is connected to the man, so when he goes to his office to find the sister, he subdues the man and his henchmen and discovers that it's the promoter. He finds the sister and arrives just in time to let her brother come from behind.
Guest star: Randolph Mantooth (Bobby Howard), Pamelyn Ferdin (Katie Howard), Dawn Wells (Millie Farmer), Red Buttons (Tommy Cirko), Don DeFore (Sid Green), Philip Abbott (Harry Snyder), Christopher George (Nicky Trent), Lynda Day George (Sandra Wells), Mamie Van Doren (Spa Manager), Gail Martin
12. Ghost of the Ripper
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Someone is killing prostitutes, and the police are baffled. A prostitute who is a friend of Dan's is cautioned not to work but feeling that he already got his mark will strike so soon. At the police, a man named Phillip Grayson, an amateur criminologist, arrives who says that another prostitute will be killed before sunrise. And it was the one Dan spoke to earlier. He says that they are dealing with someone who is emulating Jack the Ripper, because each of the victims have the same name of the Ripper's victims. After stating that the Ripper's next killing will not take place for another month, they feel that they have time. But Grayson and Dan suspect that he may be losing touch with reality and will not wait for the month to carry out his next killing. Valerie, a policewoman and friend of Dan's, suspects the same thing so she sets herself as a prostitute with the name of the Ripper's next victim. Dan finds her and backs her up. What they don't know is that he is already there, hiding in the closet. He takes the bullets out of Valerie's gun. He attacks her but Dan arrives in time to save her.
Guest star: Murray Matheson (Phillip Grayson), Pamela Hensley (Valerie Kemmet), Peter Lind Hayes (Brad Edelson), Courtney Pledger (Kate Crenshaw), Lee Travis (Martha), George Takei (Medical Examiner), John Larch (Jack the Ripper), Alan Manson (Assistant DA)
13. The Eleventh Event
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Leon Hazlet, an Olympic gold medalist and a friend of Dan's, is paralyzed. Paul Baker, an entertainer sponsors a telethon for but Leon doesn't exactly want to have anything to do with it. Dan convinces him to make an appearance. After Paul performs someone kidnaps him and demands $250,000 but it seems that Paul doesn't have that kind of money right now. Leon offers to pay the ransom. While waiting for the kidnapper Dan calls Paul's wife and plays a tape of the kidnapper and starts to talk to him, which means that she was in on it. It seems that she's tired of being Paul's wife. Leon, who dropped the ransom and was left in the desert by the kidnapper but who managed to hang on to the van. Dan arrives to take out the kidnapper and Paul's manager, who is also in on it, with Leon's help.
Guest star: Clifton Davis (Leon Hazlett), Michael Conrad (Albert Brown), Robert Loggia (Lou Voit), Vernee Watson-Johnson (Dorothy), Jill Haworth (Lily Baker), Squire Fridell (Paul Baker), Muhammad Ali, Walter Scott (Hank), Fred Lerner (Chuck)
14. Kill Dan Tanna!
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Byron Morrow (Dr. Rossmore) , Julie Harris (Julie), Richard Lynch (Mr. North), Don Gordon (Willie), Kyle Richards (Yancey), Kathryn Daley (Nurse)
15. Death Mountain
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: Ken Curtis (Digger Dennison), Joan Van Ark (Dr. Haven Grant), Ron Antonio Castro (Jim Cloud), Keye Luke (Henry Matsimura), Dehl Berti (Gray Bear), John Tuell (Mozzie), Glenn Wilder (Ben), Gil Frye (Medical Examiner)
16. Best Friends
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest star: Abbe Lane (Elizabeth Kyle), John Rubinstein (Vance Gilroy), Harold J. Stone (Mr. Hunter), Ned Glass (Erwin Levy), Margolyn Curtis (Aludra), Victoria Ann Berry (Hooker)
17. Demand and Supply
Community Score
| 10.0 Perfect |
Guest star: William Smith (I) (Jack Avery), John Fiedler (S.J. Henderson), Cindy Eilbacher (Jenny Miller), R.G. Armstrong (Wellman), Gregory Walcott (Halford), Michael D. Roberts (Chickie), Jean Allison (Sarah), Karlene Crockett (Tracy), Lynn Theel (Dahlia), Tom Williams (Grover), Peter Burnell (Intern)
18. Everything I Touch
First aired: 2/28/1979 Production Code: 09A girl whom Dan is seeing is killed. Dan goes all out to find out who killed her. After talking to a friend of hers, she is killed also. Dan surmises that the only thing that they have in common is that he was with them before they were killed. Initial investigation shows that the girls struggled with their attacker which leads Dan to think that the killer might be a woman. But when Angie is also attacked she says that the one who attacked her was a man. When the attacker makes another attempt, Dan chases him and discovers that it's a woman whom he knows and it appears that she has a fatal attraction for him.
Guest star: Adam West ([unavailable]), Vivian Blaine (Leonora), Heather Menzies (Lisa), Jo Ann Harris (Christy), Fawne Harriman (Shannon)
19. Doubtful Target
First aired: 3/7/1979 Production Code: 20Binzer is dating Kimberly, a blind girl. He goes to pick her up at her place of work. While there in an office not far from hers, a man Cy Winters is threatening a man named Ty Dickerson. It seems that they've been playing poker and Dickerson owes Winters a lot of money but Dickerson is trying to weasel his way out of it. When Winters threatens to tell his boss that he has been embezzling money from his bank, Dickerson shoots him. Dickerson was on his way out when Binzer and Kimberly come out of her office and Dickerson sees them. Dickerson goes to Kimberly and shoots her. Nelson arrives and tells Dan about Winters and realizes that Kimberly worked in the same building. Dan tells Binzer about it and tells them that when he picked her up he saw a man coming out of another office, Nelson has Binzer work with a sketch artist. While doing that Dan learns that Winters was a poker player who was banned from the casinos, so Dan goes to a woman named Cynthia who supplies men who can't play in casinos a place to play and asks her to let him in at her next game. With the sketch that Binzer made Dan goes to the game and matches it with Dickerson, but Dickerson runs away before Dan can approach him. When he tells Nelson, he says that if this comes to trial, it will be Binzer's word against Dickerson's and Dickerson is a respected member of the community. When Binzer is asked to identify Dickerson, he says that it's not him. Later he calls Dickerson and asks him to meet him. Dan goes to see Jackie, Dickerson's mistress and convinces to talk to Nelson. When Binzer confronts Dickerson, he holds a gun on him but doesn't shoot, Dickerson pulls a gun and shoots him wounding him, Dickerson was about to kill Binzer when Dan arrives and shoots Dickerson wounding him and telling him that Jackie is going to testify that Dickerson instructed her to tell the police that he was with her during the murders.
Guest star: Louise Sorel (Jackie), Leslie Nielsen (Tyler Dickerson), Anne Jeffreys (Cynthia), Woodrow Parfrey (Cy Winters), Gary Pagett (Dealer)
20. Touch of Death
First aired: 3/14/1979 Production Code: 19Guest star: Stephen Elliott (Col. Mitchell), Sondra West (Wendy Cole), Chip Lucia (Gary Cole), Paul Mantee (Sgt. Ross), Alan Oppenheimer (Mr. Stein), John Randolph (Oscar Duncan), Sarah Cunningham (Clara), Jerry Ayres (Alex), Herman Poppe (Driver), Noah Keen (Dr. Richards), Sandy Freeman (Maggie), Barbara Baldavin (Mrs. Stein)
21. A Way to Live
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
Guest star: Marlyn Mason (Sarah Stanley), Tom Urich (Grant Packer), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Matt Tolan), Norman Alden (Coleman), Kenneth Tobey (Bill Woods), Robert Lussier (Fields), Jason Wingreen (Drake), Jeff Bruce (Clerk), Richard S. Calvert (Announcer)
22. The Visitor
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
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