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Harry O — Season 1

A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.

197422 episodes6.8/10 (4 votes)

About this season

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.

Episodes (22)

Gertrude
E1

1. Gertrude

8.0

Aired 12 September 1974 • 60 min

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.

The Admiral's Lady
E2

2. The Admiral's Lady

Aired 19 September 1974 • 60 min

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?

Guardian at the Gates
E3

3. Guardian at the Gates

Aired 26 September 1974 • 60 min

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

Mortal Sin
E4

4. Mortal Sin

6.0

Aired 3 October 1974 • 60 min

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

Coinage of the Realm
E5

5. Coinage of the Realm

7.0

Aired 10 October 1974 • 60 min

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

Eyewitness
E6

6. Eyewitness

Aired 17 October 1974 • 60 min

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

Shadows at Noon
E7

7. Shadows at Noon

Aired 24 October 1974 • 60 min

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

Ballinger's Choice
E8

8. Ballinger's Choice

6.0

Aired 31 October 1974 • 60 min

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

Second Sight
E9

9. Second Sight

Aired 7 November 1974 • 60 min

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.

Material Witness
E10

10. Material Witness

Aired 14 November 1974 • 60 min

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

Forty Reasons to Kill (1)
E11

11. Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

Aired 5 December 1974 • 60 min

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

Forty Reasons to Kill (2)
E12

12. Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

Aired 12 December 1974 • 60 min

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.

Accounts Balanced
E13

13. Accounts Balanced

Aired 26 December 1974 • 60 min

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

The Last Heir
E14

14. The Last Heir

Aired 9 January 1975 • 60 min

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

For the Love of Money
E15

15. For the Love of Money

Aired 16 January 1975 • 60 min

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

The Confetti People
E16

16. The Confetti People

Aired 23 January 1975 • 60 min

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.

Sound of Trumpets
E17

17. Sound of Trumpets

Aired 30 January 1975 • 60 min

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.

Silent Kill
E18

18. Silent Kill

Aired 6 February 1975 • 60 min

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

Double Jeopardy
E19

19. Double Jeopardy

Aired 13 February 1975 • 60 min

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

Lester
E20

20. Lester

Aired 20 February 1975 • 60 min

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

Elegy for a Cop
E21

21. Elegy for a Cop

Aired 27 February 1975 • 60 min

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.

Street Games
E22

22. Street Games

Aired 2 March 1975 • 60 min

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.

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