About this season
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
Episodes (32)
1. The Monster
Aired 19 September 1965 • 60 min
Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.
2. Image in a Cracked Mirror
Aired 26 September 1965 • 60 min
Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.
3. A Mouthful of Dust
Aired 3 October 1965 • 60 min
Case file #70-68307-C - Joseph Cloud - Crime on Indian Reservation.
4. Slow March Up a Steep Hill
Aired 10 October 1965 • 60 min
Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.
5. The Insolents
Aired 17 October 1965 • 60 min
Case file #45-47339-Y - Roger York - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.
6. To Free My Enemy
Aired 24 October 1965 • 60 min
The good inspector has the distasteful job of finding a kidnap victim--a pornographer that the good inspector is trying build a case against. In the end, Erskine captures the kidnappers and obtains a warrant for the arrest of the pornographer.
7. The Problem of the Honorable Wife
Aired 31 October 1965 • 60 min
Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.
8. Courage of a Conviction
Aired 7 November 1965 • 60 min
Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.
9. The Exiles
Aired 14 November 1965 • 60 min
Case file #2-46675-R - General Romero, et al. - Violation of Neutrality Act.
10. The Giant Killer
Aired 21 November 1965 • 60 min
Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.
11. All the Streets Are Silent
Aired 28 November 1965 • 60 min
Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.
12. An Elephant is Like a Rope
Aired 5 December 1965 • 60 min
Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transsportation of Stolen Property. $500,000 that nobody would claim, and a man who has lost his memory are Inspector Erskine's and Agent Jim Rhodes' only lead to a crime within a crime.
13. How to Murder an Iron Horse
Aired 12 December 1965 • 60 min
Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion. Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage.
14. Pound of Flesh
Aired 19 December 1965 • 60 min
The FBI Investigates the murder of an Army Chaplains wife on an U.S. Army base.
15. The Hijackers
Aired 26 December 1965 • 60 min
Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.
16. The Forests of the Night
Aired 2 January 1966 • 60 min
Case file #9-26080-X Adam MacDonald, et al., Victims - Extortion.
17. The Chameleon
Aired 9 January 1966 • 60 min
Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A clever confidence man of a thousand faces plays a deadly game of cat & mouse with a million dollars as the prize
18. The Sacrifice
Aired 16 January 1966 • 60 min
Case file #65-9525-X - The Doriskin Papers - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine infiltrates a spy network and is marked for assassination.
19. Special Delivery
Aired 23 January 1966 • 60 min
Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder. Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring.
20. Quantico
Aired 30 January 1966 • 60 min
Case File #52-7672-S - Willard Smith - Destruction of Government Property. A plot to destroy The Supreme Court Building could cost an F.B.I. agent his job.
21. The Spy Master
Aired 6 February 1966 • 60 min
Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation.
22. The Baby Sitter
Aired 13 February 1966 • 60 min
Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping. Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting.
23. Flight to Harbin
Aired 27 February 1966 • 60 min
Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder. Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passengers aboard a flying prison of terror.
24. The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake
Aired 6 March 1966 • 60 min
Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.
25. The Divided Man
Aired 20 March 1966 • 60 min
Case file #98-81829-M - Roger Leroy Mason - Sabotage.
26. The Defector (1)
Aired 27 March 1966 • 60 min
Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States.
27. The Defector (2)
Aired 3 April 1966 • 60 min
Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. plays a deadly game of espionage with foreign assassins who seek the life of an Eastern European defector to the U.S.
28. The Tormentors
Aired 10 April 1966 • 60 min
Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping. A desperate father jeopardizes the life of his kidnapped son when he defies F.B.I. warnings to keep the story out of the media.
29. The Animal
Aired 17 April 1966 • 60 min
Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.
30. The Plunderers
Aired 24 April 1966 • 60 min
Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder. The F.B.I. leads a search for bank robbers who did not take enough money.
31. The Bomb That Walked Like a Man
Aired 1 May 1966 • 60 min
Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a para-military hate group.
32. The Hiding Place
Aired 8 May 1966 • 60 min
Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during World War II, serving as a Japanese officer without ever renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The one-time officer also was involved in torture during the war. To find the man, the agents eventually must seek the aid of one of the torture victims from the war.