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 (26)
1. Wind It Up and It Betrays You
Aired 22 September 1968 • 60 min
Case: Carl Schmidt, Colonel Lorenz Tabor - Espionage, Murder. A dead mans hearing aid containing microfilm has The FBI uncovering an espionage ring.
2. Out of Control
Aired 29 September 1968 • 60 min
Case: Miguel Ramos Valdez-Assaulting a Federal Officer, Murder. Assistant Director Arthur Ward, Inspector Lew Erskine and Agent Tom Colby track down an oil field killer.
3. The Quarry
Aired 6 October 1968 • 60 min
Case: Michael Vincent Riley, Fugitive - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
4. The Runaways
Aired 13 October 1968 • 60 min
Case: John Graham Evans - Parole Violator - Murder. A killer picks for his robbery Victims, a happy family of four living on a farm.
5. Death of a Fixer
Aired 20 October 1968 • 60 min
Case: Roy Donald Blake - Fugitive, Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Gambling.
6. The Enemies
Aired 3 November 1968 • 60 min
Case: Ralph Gordon Stuart - Espionage, Murder. The FBI follows a trail of blood in the hunt for a deadly Communist spy who's out to steel a top secret rocket fuel.
7. The Nightmare
Aired 10 November 1968 • 60 min
Case: Harold Dale Converse - Fugitive, Bank Embezzlement. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine hunts down a bank embezzler and also tries to protect him from criminals helping in his escape.
8. Breakthrough
Aired 17 November 1968 • 60 min
Case: Vincent Preston Gray - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion.
9. The Harvest
Aired 24 November 1968 • 60 min
Case: James Reed, George Wilson, Joseph Troy - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A holdup mans love for a woman forces him into a shootout with a crew of FBI agents.
10. The Intermediary
Aired 1 December 1968 • 60 min
Case: Thomas Waters a.k.a. Thomas Grant; William MacKenzie; Jack Dale - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Major Theft. Inspector Lew Erskine is the go-between for a jeweler seeking the return of stolen diamonds.
11. The Butcher
Aired 8 December 1968 • 60 min
Case: Helmut Probst a.k.a. Paul Seiger - Unlawful Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inspector Erskine hunts down a wartime SS colonel who is still promoting Nazi ideals.
12. The Flaw
Aired 15 December 1968 • 60 min
Case: Glen Parmenter et al - Espionage, murder. Inspector Lew Erskine snares a spy ring and in turn trapped by them in a deserted Mountain cabin.
13. The Hero
Aired 8 December 1968 • 60 min
The crime is ""Unlawful Wearing of the Uniform"" and (by the way) murder. A con man wears a US Air Force uniform to entice women to marry him. He then murders or otherwise cheats them.
14. The Widow
Aired 29 December 1968 • 60 min
Case: Joyce Carr - Parole Violator,Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine traps a go-go dancer who conspires to marry military service men and collects their insurance money when her boyfriend murders them.
15. Eye of the Storm
Aired 5 January 1969 • 60 min
Case: Edward and Nora Tobin - Kidnapping. Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby search for a kidnapped negro baby who is hiding in a plague infested ghetto.
16. The Fraud
Aired 12 January 1969 • 60 min
Case: David Joseph Miles, Frank Stocker - Interstate transportation of Stolen Property, Extortion. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine fights the Mafias entry into selling fake masterpiece paintings.
17. A Life in the Balance
Aired 19 January 1969 • 60 min
Case: Eugene David Holt, Elaine Donner, Richard Mills - Kidnapping. Blood at the sight of a kidnapping decides FBI Inspector Lew Erskine to act immediately without waiting for the ransom payment.
18. Caesar's Wife
Aired 26 January 1969 • 60 min
Case: Danielle Chabrol - Espionage.
19. The Patriot
Aired 2 February 1969 • 60 min
Case: Richard William Shaefer, alias Marvin Smith - Kidnapping.
20. The Maze
Aired 9 February 1969 • 60 min
Case: Frank Dixon Welles - Top Ten Fugitive, Assaulting a Federal Officer.
21. The Attorney
Aired 16 February 1969 • 60 min
Case: Arnold Grant Toby - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Attempted Murder.
22. The Catalyst
Aired 23 February 1969 • 60 min
Case: Miguel Torres - Destruction of Aircraft, Kidnapping.
23. Conspiracy of Silence
Aired 2 March 1969 • 60 min
Case: Leonard King et al - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Murder.
24. The Young Warriors
Aired 9 March 1969 • 60 min
Case: William Rockhill - Crime on a Government Reservation, Arson, Murder.
25. The Cober List
Aired 23 March 1969 • 60 min
Case: Terence Cober - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
26. Moment of Truth
Aired 30 March 1969 • 60 min
Case: Vincent Tobias, John Beeker - Crime on a Government Reservation, Murder. A banker runs a loan sharking ring from his bank. He specializes in ripping off ex servicemen who have been rejected for a normal loan at his bank. The crime on a government reservation was the murder of a serviceman who could not pay the outrageous interest on a ""loan"".