
Harry O — Season 2
A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.
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)

1. Anatomy of a Frame
Aired 11 September 1975 • 60 min
When Lt. Trench is framed for the murder of an informant, Harry tries to help him by masquerading as a drug pusher.

2. One for the Road
Aired 18 September 1975 • 60 min
An alcoholic attorney, unable to recall the events following a party the night before, hires Harry to ascertain whether she was the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

3. Lester Two
Aired 25 September 1975 • 60 min
Student criminologist Lester Hodges returns to bedevil Harry when diamond smugglers kidnap Harry's stewardess friend Sue, and force him to make an unexpected trip to Paris.

4. Shades
Aired 2 October 1975 • 60 min
A wealthy woman hires Harry to help her housekeeper, who admits to murdering a small-time blackmailer but refuses to discuss the reason.

5. Portrait of a Murder
Aired 20 November 1975 • 60 min
Harry's investigation into the murder of another private eye results in a painful reunion with his ex-wife, who visited the victim just before he died.

6. The Acolyte
Aired 16 October 1975 • 60 min
Harry looks for a missing heiress who seems to have taken sanctuary with a religious cult.

7. Mayday
Aired 23 October 1975 • 60 min
Harry investigates the possibility that a plane crash which killed an old war buddy and paralyzed a U.S. senator was the result of sabotage.

8. Tender Killing Care
Aired 30 October 1975 • 60 min
Harry investigates the nursing home where his mechanic's father died suddenly, and Sue asks him to help some kids find their missing father.

9. APB Harry Orwell
Aired 6 November 1975 • 60 min
The only woman who can clear Harry of a murder charge refuses to testify.

10. Group Terror
Aired 13 November 1975 • 60 min
When a psychiatrist suspects that one of her group therapy patients murdered another, she hires Harry to join them, posing as an alcoholic.

11. Reflections
Aired 9 October 1975 • 60 min
Harry helps a man who has been accused of a series of strangulation murders.

12. Exercise in Fatality
Aired 4 December 1975 • 60 min
A cop framed for murder hires Harry to find his estranged daughter, a pregnant teenage addict who's on the run from killers but is the only one who can clear him.

13. The Madonna Legacy
Aired 11 December 1975 • 60 min
Harry searches for the connection between the suicide of an ex-cop and the shooting of an oil magnate the same night.

14. Mister Five and Dime
Aired 8 January 1976 • 60 min
An elderly counterfeiter, who prints only enough money to supplement his pension, is kidnapped by drug dealers who need $250,000 in a hurry.

15. Book of Changes
Aired 15 January 1976 • 60 min
The murder of a gambling-club owner leaves Harry with two jobs: caring for her homeless protege, and searching for a book she compiled that would be worth a fortune to an extortionist.

16. Past Imperfect
Aired 22 January 1976 • 60 min
A woman's former boyfriend returns from prison and wants the old suitcase he left with her, which he claims is worth $300,000.

17. Hostage
Aired 19 February 1976 • 60 min
Lt. Trench is among the hostages held in a liquor store by a desperate veteran who demands that his addicted girlfriend be found and brought to him within two hours.

18. Forbidden City
Aired 26 February 1976 • 60 min
Harry investigates the murder of a fellow private eye in Chinatown.

19. Victim
Aired 4 March 1976 • 60 min
Harry is hired by a rape victim, whose charge is likely to be dismissed because she made a false accusation against another man in a rape case some years before.

20. Ruby
Aired 11 March 1976 • 60 min
A ghetto youth is caught in an aborted car theft that causes the death of an officer, and is threatened with death if he reveals the name of his companion who was doing the driving.

21. The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
Aired 18 March 1976 • 60 min
Young criminologist Lester Hodges returns and teams up with his college mentor to find out who is systematically killing off members of Lester's family.

22. Death Certificate
Aired 29 April 1976 • 60 min
Defying mysterious threats, two women hire Harry to find proof of malpractice against the doctor they hold responsible for the death of an old man in their family.