The Mod Squad - Episode Guide

After one of Greer's undercover associates was murdered at a psychedelic nightclub, he puts his newly formed undercover squad of young adults, all previously in trouble with the law, to work investigating, which the evidence suggests was the work of young people. 

Note: Produced as a 90 minute pilot (73 minutes without commercials), this episode was edited for a 60 minute slot. 

Following the death of a high school teacher, the Squad work undercover at her school to investigate a juvenile car theft ring, and the circumstances that led to the teacher's death.

The Squad go undercover in a prison to investigate one case but accidentally stumble onto another one involving counterfeiters.

Linc tries to help an old friend, a returning Vietnam War soldier, after he is framed for the murder of a policemen.

Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer dating service operating in blackmail. 

A photographer wakes up in his studio and discovers his model is dead. The Squad works to clear him of her murder.

A young woman arrives in L.A. not knowing she has meningitis. The Squad desperately tries to find her, but she thinks they're really looking to kill her, as she witnessed a mob hit back East.

The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.

Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover as vacationers in a rural trailer camp to investigate the death of a narcotics informant.

Pete's cousin Karen turns to kidnapping to gain her parents attention after they are distracted by the new baby.

When several young, blonde actresses are murdered by a serial strangler, Julie goes undercover as an aspiring actress, hoping to catch the killer.

Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.

Linc is convinced that the death of his stunt driver friend was not accidental. The trio investigates and uncover a drug smuggling operation.

Julie's mother, a former prostitute, arrives in Los Angeles to introduce Julie to the man she plans to marry: a bank robber under investigation by Pete and Linc.

While transporting a prisoner by commercial airline, Pete, Linc and Greer face death in a forced plane crash, brought on by the prisoner's foes on the ground.

Pete and Linc successfully infiltrate a gang of thieves only to discover they are protected by crooked cops and that Julie has become an unwitting hostage.

Pete and Linc go undercover in a rodeo after a movie stuntman is nearly killed by an unknown shooter.

Blind author Jenny Wills is viciously attacked on the beach by an unknown assailant, who makes repeated attempts on her life. Unbeknownst to her, he thinks she saw him commit a crime.

The Squad searches for Captain Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town, only to find the townspeople not particularly helpful. 

The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns.

Pete's girlfriend gets him tangled up in a mess involving her convict father and stolen money.

Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.

The Squad is assigned to protect the life of a black priest who was defrocked for his liberal views on society, before being threatened by a murderer who is afraid he will break his seal of confession.

Someone is stealing narcotics from area hospitals and Greer has the team go undercover in what he thinks will be the next target.

Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger (and old friend of Julie's), whose father is a General in the Vietnam War.

After someone is killed at a bus station, the killer is believed to have escaped in one of three outgoing buses. Linc, Pete, and Julie each board one of the buses to track the possible killer.

Capt. Greer reluctantly enlists the aid of a psychic to help find a kidnapped coed.

Julie takes in a young, apparently destitute, Mexican boy, not realizing that he is connected to a couple of thieves who don't want him talking to the wrong people.

Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang.

While on vacation Pete befriends a woman who tells him her brother is missing. When she is found dead he's charged with her murder.

Linc is initially bummed about having to get his driver's license renewed until he meets the examiner. They start dating but a man from her past comes back into her life and causes problems.

The squad is unaware that the writer they are assigned to protect has a split personality.

As dissident students prepare to demand changes in a school policy, a black student is found murdered on campus and the Squad is called in to investigate.

An illiterate small time crook gets caught when he can't read the sign warning of danger. The squad rallies to help him if he cooperates with the law and snitches on his partner, who is responsible for the death of the security guard.

Julie goes undercover as a country singer at a wayside inn while Pete and Linc investigate the suspicious death of a faded country western star.

Pete, Linc and Julie go undercover at Sims College to investigate a frat boy's mysterious death. Pete plays a running back, Linc an African exchange student, and Julie the object of desire for the star quarterback.

The Mod Squad sets to work busting an extortion racket run by a self styled healer responsible for the death of Linc's friend. Julie befriends a wheelchair bound man paying large sums for empty promises that his paralysis will be cured.

When Pete and Linc's friend Sol Alpert finds his business vandalized, he then learns it was done in protest over living conditions in ghetto housing owned by his own cousin. Sol decides to fight his cousin to get improvements in the housing, and with Pete, Linc, and Julie's help decides to bring the matter to a Jewish court.

Pete, Linc, and Julie go undercover to trap a suave, charming veteran con man. His latest targets are three gullible elderly widows.

After a young man helps Pete when he is attacked by hoodlums, Pete learns the man's father may be plotting a serious crime. 

An embittered handyman kidnaps Julie, mistaking her for the daughter of the woman who fired him.

Chief Metcalf asks the squad to find his daughter, who has left home despondent after the death of her fiancé in Vietnam. They find her, addicted to drugs and part of a decadent rock star's coterie.

While on a motorcycle trip to Mexico, Pete and Linc are detoured by a biker gang into a border town and held hostage along with all of the town's residents. The gang refuses to leave until they find out who in the town killed two of their members.

Julie's romance with a charming foreign exchange student turns dangerous when it's revealed that he's really a Middle Eastern Prince who's targeted for assassination by emissaries from his country.

A founder of a halfway house for drug addicts is wrongfully accused of statutory rape of a minor. Pete and Linc work undercover as tenants to find the person who framed him.

Pete's fraternity brother Curtis Bell casually tells him that he's going to kill a girl. When that very girl is found murdered, the trio investigate. Curtis happily tells them just how the murder was committed. But Pete and the others wonder if he really killed her, or is just trying to get attention from his neglectful mother.

A set of rosary beads found on a corpse are traced to a young novice, who witnessed her father, a Syndicate figure, commit the murder. The Squad tries to help her sort out the situation, while higher-up mobsters from out of state plot to kill the girl.

As the trio reminisces over two years together, and Pete considers quitting the group to work with his father, an old nemesis arrives: Beau Graves, one of those they helped put in jail in the premier episode. He has just been paroled and has come seeking revenge against the trio.

Janny Wills, first introduced in the first season episode "A Hint Of Darkness, A Hint Of Light", invites Linc, Pete, and Julie to meet her new fiancé, Dr. Frank Tarver. Tarver doesn't tell them that he is being threatened by a man blaming him for his daughter's death. But when the trio investigates further, they find that Tarver may not be who he seems.

Pete visits his Beverly Hills home to try to help his old girlfriend, who believes her father is being kept in a mental ward against his will and manipulated by her uncle and cousin. While there, Pete also reunites with his mother.

The Squad goes undercover on a movie set to aid a director whose film is being sabotaged. The film is based on a real life murder case from twenty years before that Greer worked on.

After he tries to stop a runaway car, the son of a former cop and friend of Captain Greer is charged with stealing the vehicle. Then it is learned that the car, which belonged to a judicial candidate's campaign worker, was also involved in a hit and run. The trio goes undercover at the candidate's headquarters to further investigate.

Pete falls in love with a young woman he has injured in an auto chase involving a robbery suspect, only to learn she is the sister of the suspect.

A friend of Captain Greer asks the trio to help find out what's bothering his daughter, who has been acting strangely since she's been associating with a group of motorcyclists who also engage in skydiving. The group let an old derelict go with them on a dive and jump, but the old man never opened his parachute.

Linc receives a desperate call from an old friend, now an inmate at a mental institution. Shortly afterward, the friend is dead of "heart failure", only the latest of a number of strange deaths at the place. Linc goes undercover as a patient at the institution, hoping to find out what's going on.

Julie comes to the assistance of her old teacher, who is being targeted by others in her community for teaching sex education in school.

Linc works undercover as an assistant to his childhood friend, movie star Willie Rush, after an attempt on his life with an ill timed car bomb on the movie set. But concerning Linc more was Willie's cavalier lifestyle and attitude, created in part due to Willie's fear that he may have Huntington's disease.

A hard nosed ex-cop returns from Vietnam to investigate the death of his brother, who was killed in a car accident just after he called him and told him that he had seen a murder, and that the murderer was an undercover cop.

The trio becomes involved in the case of a young boy who's being raised in an orphanage. His mother is not taking care of him, but she does not want to give him up for adoption, and she is involved with a drug dealer.

Pete and the Squad try to clear a young Apache falsely accused of murdering a man in a small desert town.

Linc comes to the airport to meet a friend who is returning from Vietnam, only to learn that he was killed by a sniper on the day he was supposed to go home. Suspicious of the story of how his friend died, he wonders if any of the four other servicemen in his unit who have returned know more than they are telling.

Julie becomes involved with a mysterious stranger, a movie actor believed to have died twenty years earlier.

The head of a local campus ROTC is murdered, and the main suspect is the man's mentally disabled teenage son, whom he had frequently beaten. However, Pete and Linc, who have befriended the youth, believe he is innocent.

A man on the run, with the son he doesn't have legal custody of, kidnaps Julie. However, as both have Rocky Mountain spotted fever, she is more concerned for their lives than hers.

Following a death of an immigration agent at a car wash where an undocumented immigrant (and a friend of Pete's) work, the Squad finds a cop involved in the illegal entry of Mexican youths across the border - all tied to a village in Sonora. The officer and Greer are at odds on how to handle the case.

An attention starved misfit gunman hell bent on starting a "war" with the establishment, infiltrates a student protest with Julie trapped as one of the hostages. Also among the hostages is her humanities teacher, who has a heart condition but left her medication in her car.

The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer's.

Carl Betz plays a disillusioned solid citizen who becomes involved in the death of a hippie girl. He's seeking the girl's killer while his heartsick daughter searches desperately for him. 

A car belonging to a businessman's associate has been stolen. However, the investigation becomes dire after Greer learns that that car was rigged with dynamite, as the businessman wanted to commit murder. The Squad rush to find the car before the dynamite explodes at 5 p.m., potentially killing an innocent family who rented it.

The Squad helps a minister find out who murdered his brother, a psychologist who ran a clinic for troubled youngsters. Besides differing ideologies, complicating matters was that the clinic was used to hold stolen goods before they are fenced.

Greer and another veteran cop have both been frustrated by a drug pusher they've been trying to nail, who has twice had his case dismissed on legal technicalities. Finally, the third time appears to be the clincher, as the man is caught at an airport with a case full of heroin.

A girl working undercover for a cop trying to bring down a drug lord is accidentally killed. Because of her resemblance to the dead girl, Julie is quickly recruited to impersonate her and continue in the mission, despite the great risk.

The trio tries to help a boy in his search for his father, who came to L.A. from West Virginia hoping to find work. It soon becomes apparent that there are people who don't want them to find the man, and that he is in debt to loan sharks.

The Squad helps the son of an aging ex-boxing champ who is being harassed by gamblers for inside information on his dad's return to the ring after an 11-year absence.

While working undercover as safe crackers, Pete and Linc meet a timid, clumsy young man who asks them to teach him about their trade. They learn that the young man has a twin brother who is a successful businessman. What they don't know is that the businessman is actually the leader of the industrial spying ring they are trying to investigate. And that's only the start of the surprises to come.

When his motorcycle breaks down on a trip, Linc stops in an abandoned town, only to discover that a kidnapped boy is being held there for ransom. The kidnappers decide to hold Linc as well until they get the money.

While searching for a pair of murderers, the trio uncovers a link between murder, a stolen car and a threatened epidemic.

Julie and a young boy named Cricket go to the park where Cricket finds a gun dropped by a man he runs into. Cricket then accidentally shoots Julie and, thinking he's killed her, runs away.

The Squad pursues a dope pusher on the run for shooting two policemen.

After Julie picks up a blind hitchhiker, they have a flat tire and flag down a passing car for help. Unfortunately, the people in the car trick them into switching cars and abandon them in the desert.

The Squad investigates a circus carnival that is being sabotaged before its opening day. The circus' owner vows the show will go on, despite it being in more danger of additional accidents.

Julie falls in love with a young doctor who is being blackmailed by one of his fellow students from medical school.

Julie, Linc and Pete attend a dune buggy race where a pickup truck blows up, killing a young man Julie had just met. The trio then investigate the incident, suspecting foul play.

Depressed after having shot a young man during a burglary, Greer takes time off to recover. However, while on vacation, he found himself poisoned by a slow acting poison that could kill him, leading to the Squad to go on a race against time to find the criminal. 

The trio helps a used car salesman who's made a deal with the devil.

Suffering from amnesia after getting mugged, Linc wanders Skid Row, unsure as to whether or not he is the escaped mental patient he reads about in a newspaper. The second clip show of the series, which includes flashbacks to previous episodes Bad Man on Campus, My, What a Pretty Bus, and Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?

The Squad tries to protect a TV clown whose life is in danger.

The Squad defends a drug dealer, whose daughter is a sick child in need of medical care; his associate has marked him for murder. 

A woman is killed by a hit and run driver, but Pete is sure he was the intended victim.

A young deaf-mute is credited as a hero after he saves a guard from a warehouse fire just as Pete, Linc, and Julie come upon the scene. But someone is trying to kill the young man, who seems ashamed by all the attention he's getting, and may know more than he's letting on.

Linc, Julie, and Greer race against time to find Pete, who has left the hospital prematurely after being run down by a car. He is determined to find out who murdered the friend he was meeting, and is unaware that he has a dangerous blood clot which could kill him. The killers of his friend are also looking for Pete, planning to kill him as well.

Pete is contacted by his old friend Rusty Bryson, a war correspondent whom he knew and idolized as a boy. But the Treasury department is looking for Bryson, who it suspects of smuggling drugs from Vietnam.

A convicted murderer out on parole goes on a mission to kill Pete, who he mistakenly believes was responsible for a savage beating he suffered years earlier.

Julie becomes emotionally attached to an abandoned baby whose parents are terrorizing the area with armed robberies.

A Vietnam veteran returns to the police force with questionable ideas of dealing with dissident ghetto residents.

Julie, Linc and Pete break down in the desert during a sandstorm and seek shelter in an abandoned mine. An old man embittered by the death of his son in the war who hates hippies then sets off dynamite and traps the trio inside.

Pete is kidnapped and almost killed by the jealous boyfriend of his former fiancée.

Pete and Linc come close to breaking the law as they attempt to help a parolee, an old friend of Julie's, return stolen jewelry.

A stable boy's employer frames him for possessing drugs and continues conspiring against him after his parole, all in order to stop the young man's romance with his daughter.

A man happens to witness the murder of a sales clerk and agrees to testify at the trial. As a result he and his family are relentlessly terrorized by someone, even after the trial has ended.

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Six years after the last known case, Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to team up again after several attempts are made on the life of Adam Greer, their former commander, now a Deputy Chief in the LAPD and on the verge of retiring. However, they soon discover that the attempts on Greer's life were a ruse to draw them out, and that they themselves are the real targets of the would be killer.