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 (27)
1. The Gold Card
Aired 17 September 1967 • 60 min
Paul Nichols, a long-time member of the Cosa Nostra, over 30 years organized the mob's illegal gambling network. He kills Denton, a Mafia member who has been skimming off the top. But the killing was done without a vote from the Cosa Nostra's "commission." Complicating the situation: Nichols has taken possession of "the book," a list of codes necessary to the running of the gambling operation. The FBI learns through an informant that Nichols may be participating in a high-stakes poker game. Erskine recruits Doc Cameron, once a successful gambler who was nearly killed by the mob. Cameron also has been invited to the poker game and Erskine goes undercover as Cameron's "silent partner." The Cosa Nostra's commission, meanwhile, decides to hire hit men who will murder everyone at the poker game and make a grab for "the book."
2. Counter-Stroke
Aired 24 September 1967 • 60 min
3. Blood Verdict
Aired 8 October 1967 • 60 min
4. Traitor
Aired 15 October 1967 • 60 min
Inspector Lew Erskine posing as a communist courier, uncovers a plot to steal top secret missle data.
5. By Force and Violence (1)
Aired 22 October 1967 • 60 min
Inspector Lew Erskine connects the kidnapping of a teenage boy to a multi-million dollar heist planned by his long lost father.
6. By Force and Violence (2)
Aired 29 October 1967 • 60 min
Trailing the kidnappers of a teenage boy, Inspector Erskine uncovers plans for a $3,000,000 robbery by the boys father.
7. A Sleeper Wakes
Aired 5 November 1967 • 60 min
8. Overload
Aired 12 November 1967 • 60 min
9. Line of Fire
Aired 26 November 1967 • 60 min
10. Blueprint for Betrayal
Aired 3 December 1967 • 60 min
11. False Witness
Aired 10 December 1967 • 60 min
12. The Legend of John Rim
Aired 31 December 1967 • 60 min
Case: John Rim, Escaped Federal Prisoner, Unlawful Interstate Flight to avoid confinement, murder. Quick sand, an alligator infested swamp, and a viscious backwood's town protect an escaped killer being sought by the F.B.I.
13. The Dynasty
Aired 7 January 1968 • 60 min
A millionaire refuses to pay the ransome for his kidnapped brother, focing The F.B.I. to move fast in order to save the victims life.
14. The Daughter
Aired 14 January 1968 • 60 min
A long-lost daughter helps the F.B.I. unmask a communist spy who has taken the identity of a dead American.
15. Act of Violence
Aired 21 January 1968 • 60 min
Two murders, ten years apart, are linked by Inspector Erskine, giving him clues to solving both.
16. Crisis Ground
Aired 28 January 1968 • 60 min
An unsolved homicide ignites into a riot a town's hatred for a nearby job training camp.
17. Ring of Steel
Aired 4 February 1968 • 60 min
The unexplained death of a race car driverplaces Inspector Erskine on the trail of a stolen car ring.
18. The Homecoming
Aired 11 February 1968 • 60 min
A scientist who defected from an Iron Curtain country returns to New York in secret and Assistant Director Arthur Ward personally handles the case.
19. The Phone Call
Aired 18 February 1968 • 60 min
The husband, an Army sergeant, had just returned from service in Viet Nam. He found his wife had died under mysterious circumstances the night before his return.
20. Region of Peril
Aired 25 February 1968 • 60 min
Inspector Lew Erskine send a secret radio message to a kidnapped woman to aid her rescue
21. Southwind
Aired 3 March 1968 • 60 min
The F.B.I and a mob hitman both try to catch up with a bank embezzler who has fled to the caribean.
22. The Messenger
Aired 17 March 1968 • 60 min
23. The Ninth Man
Aired 24 March 1968 • 60 min
The F.B.I. hunts down a $2,000,000 treasure and the armoured car robbers who buried their ill-gotten loot.
24. The Mechanized Accomplice
Aired 31 March 1968 • 60 min
Inspector Erskine races a time bomb for the life of a kidnapped youth.
25. The Predators
Aired 7 April 1968 • 60 min
Inspector Lew Erskine holds off at gun point the crew of a cruise ship.
26. The Tunnel
Aired 21 April 1968 • 60 min
The FBI goes after bank robbers who use a tunnel to penetrate the vault.
27. The Mercenary
Aired 28 April 1968 • 60 min
Inspector Lew Erskine uncovers a communist spy ring whose pretty wife is the lure in blackmailing top secret information.