N.Y.P.D. (TV series)

N.Y.P.D. centers around three New York police detectives – Lieutenant Mike Haines (Jack Warden), Detective Jeff Ward (Robert Hooks), and Detective Johnny Corso (Frank Converse) – who fight a wide range of crimes and criminals. The show features many real New York City locations, as well as episodes based on actual New York City police cases.

• Jack Warden as Lt. Mike Haines
• Robert Hooks as Det. Jeff Ward
• Frank Converse as Det. Johnny Corso
• Ted Beniades as Det. Richie
• Denise Nicholas as Ethel
• Tom Rosqui as Det. Jacobs

The show was produced by Talent Associates, Ltd., a company founded by Alfred Levy and David Susskind. Talent Associates had produced 14 years of the anthology program Armstrong Circle Theatre and The Kaiser Aluminum Hour. David Susskind created N.Y.P.D. with screenwriter Arnold Perl (Cotton Comes to Harlem). Daniel Melnick, executive producer of N.Y.P.D., was a partner with Susskind in Talent Associates and had brought Mel Brooks and Buck Henry together to create the television comedy Get Smart in 1965. Producer Susskind and actor Harvey Keitel would work together again on Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). One of the writers on the series was Lonne Elder, who would later become the first African-American nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar (for the 1972 movie Sounder).

Among the guest stars who appeared in the series were:

• Al Pacino (S02E05; "Deadly Circle of Violence")
• Martin Sheen (S02E08 "The Peep Freak")
• Jon Voight (S01E14; "The Bombers")
• Harvey Keitel (S02E06; "The Shady Lady")
• Jane Alexander (S02E14; "The Night Watch")
• Roy Scheider (S02E19; "Who's Got the Bundle?")
• Sam Waterston (S02E23; "No Day Trippers Need Apply")
• Charles Grodin (S01E06; "Money Man")
• Howard Da Silva (S01E07; "Old Gangsters Never Die")
• Murray Hamilton (S01E24; "The Private Eye Puzzle")
• Charles Durning (S02E01 "Naked in the Streets")

Others include: Robert Alda, Rutanya Alda, Conrad Bain, Philip Bosco, John Cazale, Leslie Charleson, Miriam Colon, Franklin Cover, Matthew Cowles, Blythe Danner, Ossie Davis, Mary Fickett, Scott Glenn, Moses Gunn, Graham Jarvis, James Earl Jones, Raul Julia, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Laurence Luckinbill, Nancy Marchand, Bill Macy, Donna McKechnie, Meg Myles, Priscilla Pointer, Andrew Robinson, Esther Rolle, Richard Ward, Louis Zorich, Jill Clayburgh, Jane Elliot, Ralph Waite, Gretchen Corbett

In 1967, N.Y.P.D. was the first television series in America to air an episode with a self-identified gay character ("Shakedown").{{Cite web |date=2008-07-23 |title=The Museum presents "Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That": The History of Gay and Lesbian Images on Television |url=https://www.paleycenter.org/press-releases/press-release-2004-gay-lesbian-television-history/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Paley Center |language=en-US}} The plot of the episode centers around the police tracking down a blackmailer who has triggered several suicides by their targeting of gay men. In the course of their investigation, the police also visit a gay rights group, another first.

N.Y.P.D. scripts featured both black and white people as cops, suspects, and witnesses, an unselfconscious racial blend that would not otherwise be seen for several years on American network television (Room 222 and Hawaii Five-O were among the next series to feature casts situated similarly.)

The series' opening credit sequence, prominently featuring a closeup of a police car emergency light as the vehicle drives through the streets of New York, would later be spoofed in the 1980s comedy series Police Squad! and subsequent movies.

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|Title=Shakedown

|DirectedBy=Daniel Petrie

|WrittenBy=Albert Ruben

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|5}}

|ShortSummary=A blackmail ring that targets homosexuals is investigated after it leads to a series of suicides.

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|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Fingerman

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=George Bellak

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|12}}

|ShortSummary=Ward receives a series of hysterical calls from an informer who believes he's being followed by friends of a man he helped put in jail.

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|EpisodeNumber=3

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Screaming Woman

|DirectedBy=Daniel Petrie

|WrittenBy=Robert Van Scoyk

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|19}}

|ShortSummary=Corso is suspended after being charged with attempted rape after he and Ward investigate complaints from a woman about noisy drunks.

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|EpisodeNumber=4

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Fast Gun

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Albert Ruben

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|26}}

|ShortSummary=A man with a quick trigger finger kills a detective and then taunts the police department.

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|EpisodeNumber=5

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Walking Target

|DirectedBy=Daniel Petrie

|WrittenBy=Edward Adler

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|10|3}}

|ShortSummary=A high-ranking foreign police official is nearly shot by a sniper during an award ceremony at city hall.

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|EpisodeNumber=6

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Money Man

|DirectedBy=John Howe

|WrittenBy=Edward Adler

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|10|10}}

|ShortSummary=The presence of a loan shark results in Ward and Corso going undercover in the construction industry to find out the reason for a series of unexplained deaths.

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|EpisodeNumber=7

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Old Gangsters Never Die

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Mark Jam

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|10|17}}

|ShortSummary=A professional hijacker (Howard Da Silva) emerges from a lengthy prison term and immediately resumes his old bad habits.

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|EpisodeNumber=8

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Catch a Hero

|DirectedBy=Robert Butler

|WrittenBy=Edward DeBlasio

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|10|31}}

|ShortSummary=Haines breaks down a girl's alibi whereby she incriminates her boyfriend in the brutal killing of a drunk.

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|EpisodeNumber=9

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Murder for Infinity

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=Ian McLellan Hunter

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|11|7}}

|ShortSummary=A sculptor wanted for murder contacts Haines' friend and bargains for a top defense lawyer.

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|EpisodeNumber=10

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Pink Gumdrop

|DirectedBy=Gene Reynolds

|WrittenBy=Robert Crean

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|11|14}}

|ShortSummary=An attractive ex-convict who is a passenger in a stolen sports car, provides the lead in helping capture the head of a car theft ring.

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|EpisodeNumber=11

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Witness

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|11|21}}

|ShortSummary=Ward is accused of accepting a bribe from a frontman during a crackdown on the numbers racket.

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|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Boy Witness

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay

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| t = Albert Ruben

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|ShortSummary=A 13-year-old boy is the only witness in the murder of an attractive young woman.

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|EpisodeNumber=13

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Joshua Fit the Battle of Fulton Street

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Lee Kalcheim

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|12|5}}

|ShortSummary=After a crime wave strikes a New York neighborhood, residents form a vigilante group.

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|EpisodeNumber=14

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Bombers

|DirectedBy=Robert Gist

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay

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| t = Edward DeBlasio

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|12|12}}

|ShortSummary=A fanatical anti-Communist (Jon Voight) and his fiancée bomb multiple Iron Curtain consulates, killing and injuring a number of people

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|EpisodeNumber=15

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Wire Finish

|DirectedBy=Hal Cooper

|WrittenBy=Edward DeBlasio

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|12|19}}

|ShortSummary=A jockey (Robert Salvio) is told during mysterious phone calls that two murders were committed in his name.

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|EpisodeNumber=16

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Cruise to Oblivion

|DirectedBy=John Moxey

|WrittenBy=Roger Hill Lewis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|12|26}}

|ShortSummary=Haines gets a tip that a passenger aboard an incoming ocean liner is carrying narcotics into New York.

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|EpisodeNumber=17

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Patriots

|DirectedBy=John Howe

|WrittenBy=Charles S. Israel

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|1|2}}

|ShortSummary=The wife of an exiled Latin American dictator is murdered, with the prime suspects being the dictator's political enemies.

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|EpisodeNumber=18

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Red Headed Pigeon

|DirectedBy=Lawrence Dobkin

|WrittenBy=George Bellak

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|1|16}}

|ShortSummary=An elusive rapist who always attacks young women with long hair results in the police department using a young policewoman just out of the academy as a decoy.

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|EpisodeNumber=19

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Which Side Are You On?

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Albert Ruben

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|1|30}}

|ShortSummary=After an elderly African-American high school teacher is killed, Ward goes to the neighborhood where the killing took place, but is met with cold hostility from the residents.

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|EpisodeNumber=20

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=Cry Brute

|DirectedBy=Reza Badiyi

|WrittenBy=Alvin Boretz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|2|6}}

|ShortSummary=Corso is accused of police brutality and is the central figure in a $100,000 lawsuit against the city.

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|EpisodeNumber=21

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Last Port of Call

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|2|13}}

|ShortSummary=A merchant seaman is accused of molesting children and instructed to stay aboard his ship, but he makes an effort to clear himself by visiting the parents of one of the children.

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|EpisodeNumber=22

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Macho

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|2|20}}

|ShortSummary=A Puerto Rican grocer's life is threatened and his store is boycotted after he saves a policeman from an attack by a gang of neighborhood boys.

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|EpisodeNumber=23

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=Stones

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|WrittenBy=George Bellak

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|2|27}}

|ShortSummary=Corso infiltrates a gang of "thrill muggers" who victimize elderly vagrants in Central Park.

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|EpisodeNumber=24

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=The Private Eye Puzzle

|DirectedBy=Joshua Shelby

|WrittenBy=Alvin Boretz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|3|5}}

|ShortSummary=A former private eye reports that he was robbed of a large sum of money, but has no witnesses to back up his story.

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|EpisodeNumber=25

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=Nothing Is Real but the Dead: Part 1

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Edward Adler

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|3|12}}

|ShortSummary=Haines and Corso search for a young girl who left her wealthy parents to take up life as a Greenwich Village hippie.

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|EpisodeNumber=26

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=Nothing Is Real but the Dead: Part 2

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Edward Adler

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|3|19}}

|ShortSummary=Two Greenwich Village hippies who can identify a killer go into hiding out of fear of him.

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|EpisodeNumber=27

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Naked in the Streets

|DirectedBy=Stuart Hagman

|WrittenBy=David Davidson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|1}}

|ShortSummary=After a young married woman is raped, the detectives are stymied when she refuses to sign a complaint against the attacker.

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|EpisodeNumber=28

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Encounter on a Rooftop

|DirectedBy=John Manduke

|WrittenBy=Gene Radano

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|8}}

|ShortSummary=Ward is accidentally shot by a rookie policeman after he's mistaken for a burglar.

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|EpisodeNumber=29

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Day Tripper

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=George Bellak

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|15}}

|ShortSummary=An attractive young girl is found murdered and all the evidence points to her boyfriend as the killer.

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|EpisodeNumber=30

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=What's a Nice Girl ...

|DirectedBy=Reze Bella

|WrittenBy=Leo Hutchinson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|10|29}}

|ShortSummary=After the death of a beautiful young girl, the damaged relationship between a spoiled son and his wealthy father becomes part of the subsequent interrogation.

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|EpisodeNumber=31

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Deadly Circle of Violence

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=Lonne Elder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|12}}

|ShortSummary=A motive is sought for the attempted killing of a disreputable white southerner (Al Pacino), with suspicions pointing toward black militants who are seeking revenge for the bombing of an African-American church in the South.

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|EpisodeNumber=32

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Case of the Shady Lady

|DirectedBy=Vincent Benedict

|WrittenBy=Alvin Boretz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|19}}

|ShortSummary=A go-go dancer accuses an influential businessman (Robert Alda) of murdering her husband.

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|EpisodeNumber=33

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Golden Fleece

|DirectedBy=Davis Pressman

|WrittenBy=Robert Lewis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|11|26}}

|ShortSummary=Detectives have difficulty tracking down a con artist who has swindled an out-of-town businessman out of $5,000.

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|EpisodeNumber=34

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Peep Freak

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=Stanley H. Silverman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|3}}

|ShortSummary=While investigating the murder of a young woman, the police discover a peeping Tom (Martin Sheen) who they believe is connected with the slaying.

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|EpisodeNumber=35

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Walk the Long Pier

|DirectedBy=

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|10}}

|ShortSummary=Corso poses as a longshoreman in order to stop the theft of guns on the docks.

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|EpisodeNumber=36

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Witch of 116th Street

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|17}}

|ShortSummary=An extortionist is threatening residents with his self-proclaimed powers of black magic.

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|EpisodeNumber=37

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title='L' Is for Love and Larceny

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|24}}

|ShortSummary=Haines investigates the theft of an expensive pendant from the apartment of one of his friends.

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|EpisodeNumber=38

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=The Love Hustle

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|31}}

|ShortSummary=A prostitute staggers into the squad room and just before she dies, she indicates that an unknown man is planning to kill her mother.

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|EpisodeNumber=39

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=The Body in the Trunk

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|7}}

|ShortSummary=After the mysterious death of a young woman, the detectives are confronted with the woman's frightened boyfriend, her irate parents and an abortion doctor.

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|EpisodeNumber=40

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Night Watch

|DirectedBy= Nicholas Colasanto

|WrittenBy=

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|21}}

|ShortSummary=The search is on for a health food addict whose fanaticism eventually leads to murder.

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|EpisodeNumber=41

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Three-Fifty-Two

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Gene Rodano

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|1|28}}

|ShortSummary=Ward loses his gun and shield during a holdup, with the entire police squad taking action to apprehend the thieves (Andy Robinson) .

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|EpisodeNumber=42

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=The Attacker

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=Heyward Gould

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|4}}

|ShortSummary=A man who has been attacking women in a specific neighborhood eludes detection at first when he becomes part of a group that confess to all sorts of crimes.

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|EpisodeNumber=43

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Candy Man: Part 1

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Robert Schiltt

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|11}}

|ShortSummary=The detectives head to a drug rehabilitation center run by Candy Latson (James Earl Jones) in their search for a grocery store thief.

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|EpisodeNumber=44

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Candy Man: Part 2

|DirectedBy=Alex March

|WrittenBy=Robert Schlitt

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|18}}

|ShortSummary=In an attempt to capture the grocery store thief, Corso observes a group therapy session at the rehab center.

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|EpisodeNumber=45

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Who's Got the Bundle?

|DirectedBy=Tom Donovan

|WrittenBy=Alvin Boretz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|2|25}}

|ShortSummary=Both police and criminals are in search of a valise that contains $150,000 in stolen money.

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|EpisodeNumber=46

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=The Face on the Dart Board

|DirectedBy=Nicholas Colasanto

|WrittenBy=Gene Radano

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|4}}

|ShortSummary=Haines' wife is harassed by crank calls, obscene letters and other disturbances, which are attributed to a vendetta against Haines.

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|EpisodeNumber=47

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Boys Night Out

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=Burt Armus

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|11}}

|ShortSummary=A number of neighborhood bartenders are being shaken down by extortionists.

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|EpisodeNumber=48

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Everybody Loved Him

|DirectedBy=David Pressman

|WrittenBy=Heyward Gould

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|18}}

|ShortSummary=A film producer who appeared to have no enemies is murdered.

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|EpisodeNumber=49

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=No Day Trippers Need Apply

|DirectedBy=Nicholas Colasanto

|WrittenBy=Mel Alright

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|3|25}}

|ShortSummary=A man is being blackmailed after the appearance of pictures showing him attending an orgy.

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{{commons category}}

• {{IMDb title|id=0061282|title=N.Y.P.D.}}
• The [http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20297148 Robert J. Markell papers, 1967–1968] are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

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