GUIA DE EPISODIOS
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Such Dust as Dreams Are Made OnOriginal Air Date—11 March 1973Harry Orwell is a LA cop who is retired due to a bullet in his back. Now a Private Detective, Harry O. is hired by the man who shot him to find the other man who was involved in the shooting. Scheerer is trying to kill Garrison and also keep his heroin business alive. Harry O. wants to bring both to justice. |
Season 1, Episode 1: GertrudeOriginal Air Date—12 September 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 2: The Admiral's LadyOriginal Air Date—19 September 1974Harry is hired by a retired Navy Admiral to find his missing wife, Andrea. The police think she drowned when her boat broke up and sank but the Admiral does not believe this. Harry begins his investigation by questioning members of the exclusive yacht club that the Admiral and his wife belong to. When the police pull a woman's body from the ocean Harry is surprised when it doesn't turn out to be the Admiral's wife but a friend of hers...and it turns out she was murdered and not a drowning victim. Harry now believes that Andrea Tannehill is alive and in danger somewhere and continues searching with renewed interest. |
Season 1, Episode 3: Guardian at the GatesOriginal Air Date—26 September 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 4: Mortal SinOriginal Air Date—3 October 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 5: Coinage of the RealmOriginal Air Date—10 October 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 6: EyewitnessOriginal Air Date—17 October 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 7: Shadows at NoonOriginal Air Date—24 October 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 8: Ballinger's ChoiceOriginal Air Date—31 October 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 9: Second SightOriginal Air Date—7 November 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 10: Material WitnessOriginal Air Date—14 November 1974Capt. Jaklin has been trying to nail Joe Kiley for years but witnesses keep disappearing or coming to other tragic ends. Harry is asked to guard a witness against Kiley but someone seems to have betrayed them. |
Season 1, Episode 11: Forty Reasons to Kill: Part 1Original Air Date—5 December 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 12: Forty Reasons to Kill: Part 2Original Air Date—12 December 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 13: Accounts BalancedOriginal Air Date—26 December 1974 |
Season 1, Episode 14: The Last HeirOriginal Air Date—9 January 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 15: For the Love of MoneyOriginal Air Date—16 January 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 16: The Confetti PeopleOriginal Air Date—23 January 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 17: Sound of TrumpetsOriginal Air Date—30 January 1975Harry is attending a seaside jazz club when he hears a trumpeter playing in tune outside. Suddenly the trumpeter falls into the water - pushed in by a hit man unnoticed by anyone else. Harry, thinking the trumpeter passed out from being drunk, takes him to his beach house to sober up, and the next morning leaves to buy groceries. When Harry returns he finds a bottle of scotch broken and his car gone, stolen by the trumpeter. He also finds a young singer, Ruthie Daniels, waiting for him; Ruthie knows who the trumpeter is - her father, Arthur "Art Sully" Daniels. Daniels went to prison in 1963 for stabbing to death a mobster named Reisman and is now on parole; Daniels was gypped by his record company, led by Sid Hacktel, out of royalties, and is being pursued. Harry smokes out the hit man seeking Daniels and identifies him as Manny "Smitty" Schmicht, a former bouncer for one of Hacktel's nightclubs - and who is left-handed. When Sid Hacktel is found shot to death, Harry's car with Daniel's hat and trumpet are found abandoned in the driveway, but Harry recognizes it to be a setup since he had the hat and horn at his house that morning. Lt. Trench is stuck, since the only hard evidence he has is against Daniels even though he recognizes Daniels is being set up, since Hacktel's company is under FBI investigation for pirating recordings of jazz concerts and festivals, and an FBI agent involved in the investigation was found stabbed to death six weeks earlier. But both Harry and Trench encounter more than they bargained for when a family friend of the Daniels' is found stabbed to death and Ruthie Daniels is taken hostage by Smitty. |
Season 1, Episode 18: Silent KillOriginal Air Date—6 February 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 19: Double JeopardyOriginal Air Date—13 February 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 20: LesterOriginal Air Date—20 February 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 21: Elegy for a CopOriginal Air Date—27 February 1975 |
Season 1, Episode 22: Street GamesOriginal Air Date—2 March 1975 |
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Anatomy of a FrameOriginal Air Date—11 September 1975Lt. Trench is the victim of a frame up. An informant of his is murdered and the circumstances make him appear guilty. It doesn't help his case any when the Captain in charge doesn't like Trench because of his swift promotion over more seasoned officers. Trench reluctantly hires Harry to find the truth and clear his name. Harry's investigation leads him to a ring of heroin dealers. |
Season 2, Episode 2: One for the RoadOriginal Air Date—18 September 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 3: Lester TwoOriginal Air Date—25 September 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 4: ShadesOriginal Air Date—2 October 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 5: Portrait of a MurderOriginal Air Date—20 November 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 6: The AcolyteOriginal Air Date—16 October 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 7: MaydayOriginal Air Date—23 October 1975Ward Nevins is a pilot whom Harry knew when they served in Korea. He is flying Senator John Elton when their private plane suddenly falters and begins to fall. Nevins radios for help while Elton dons a parachute, but Nevins suddenly passes out and the plane crashes, killing Nevins and injuring Senator Elton. Harry attends the funeral and Nevin's widow Ellen tells him of strange behavior and phone calls by Ward before the fatal flight, and when they arrive at her house it has been ransacked. Harry flies to Fresno and learns that a valve on the plane jammed, but they can't explain why; he also learns the Senator's chute was defective. Harry later learns that Elton is a swing vote on a highway bill that may benefit Northwest Engineering, whose president Hal Follet hates Senator Elton. Harry then learns from Lt. Trench that fingerprints from Ellen's house belong to hit-man Rod Stoner. Another enemy of the Senator is union boss Jake Muller, who has employed Stoner in the past, and Harry realizes the plane was sabotaged, a suspicion confirmed first by an attempt on his life by Stoner, then when he and Ellen discover a safe deposit box owned by Ward that contains over $50,000, and finally when Harry has Ward's body exhumed for a new autopsy and learns from the wrecked plane that Ward had deliberately had the fatal valve frozen to make a crash, and the oxygen tank used by Ward was replaced with a nitrogen tank. Harry tracks down and confronts the mechanic responsible, but their lives at in danger when they are cornered and attacked by Stoner and several accomplices. |
Season 2, Episode 8: Tender Killing CareOriginal Air Date—30 October 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 9: APB Harry OrwellOriginal Air Date—6 November 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 10: Group TerrorOriginal Air Date—13 November 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 11: ReflectionsOriginal Air Date—9 October 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 12: Exercise in FatalityOriginal Air Date—4 December 1975 |
Season 2, Episode 13: The Madonna LegacyOriginal Air Date—11 December 1975A man calls Harry Orwell while Harry is asleep, but when the half-awake Harry answers, there is nothing, so Harry hangs up. The next day Harry learns that Frank McDonald, an old friend from his days with the San Diego PD, has been found dead. The death is ruled a suicide but Harry is skeptical, and after learning that McDonald was the man who called him that night, Harry begins backtracking those who most recently knew McDonald. He meets a woman McDonald knew from attending AA meetings, a woman who was married to wealthy businessman Walter Nesbitt. Harry then begins piecing together information on a murder case McDonald was involved in years earlier involving the death of Walter Nesbitt's secretary, Angela Thomas. Several attempts on the lives of Harry, Nesbitt's estranged son-in-law, and Nesbitt's mentally disturbed son lead Harry and Lt. Trench back to the man convicted of Angela Thomas' murder, a man named Bill Henderson, a violent man who was recently paroled but who Harry learns was not the real killer. |
Season 2, Episode 14: Mister Five and DimeOriginal Air Date—8 January 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 15: Book of ChangesOriginal Air Date—15 January 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 16: Past ImperfectOriginal Air Date—22 January 1976Carl Dawes has been in prison for murder, but has been paroled and he goes to see his former girlfriend Sara Webber. Dawes and Webber played confidence games, cheating business types out of their money, but Sara has gone straight. When Carl asks about a suitcase they had kept, Sara tells him it is still at the San Diego apartment of her friend Kate Roberti, which drives Carl into a rage, as he claims the suitcase contains $300,000 from a Syndicate courier he killed years earlier. He smacks Sara, then stabs a bystander who tries to stop him, and flees. Sara is reluctant to implicate Carl, but Lt. Trench tells Sara to hire Harry Orwell else he'll have to arrest her for aiding a fleeing criminal. She hires Harry to find her suitcase in San Diego, but when Harry meets Kate he learns she gave the suitcase to another friend in LA. Harry drives to LA but find Kate's friend dead in her apartment, the suitcase hidden; Harry is also unaware that Granville Coleman and Roy Garvey, two Mob hit men, have assaulted Kate to learn the whereabouts of this same suitcase. When Harry and Trench have Sara search the suitcase, she finds nothing but old clothes and a stack of stamped letters. She nonetheless agrees to stay at Harry's beach house for awhile, but the next day she and Harry are taken at gunpoint by Carl, who tells Harry to get the suitcase from the police and return it to him else he'll kill Sara outside the city. Harry gets the suitcase but when he finds Carl Dawes, the man is dead, shot by Coleman and Garvey. Sara finally tells Harry who owns the suitcase and Harry must reluctantly take Garvey to a millionaire in San Diego while Coleman holds Sara hostage. |
Season 2, Episode 17: HostageOriginal Air Date—19 February 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 18: Forbidden CityOriginal Air Date—26 February 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 19: VictimOriginal Air Date—4 March 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 20: RubyOriginal Air Date—11 March 1976 |
Season 2, Episode 21: The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. FongOriginal Air Date—18 March 1976The fourth "Lester" episode is a pilot for what would have been a spinoff "Fong and Hodges" series. (Sadly, the episode's relatively low ratings may have been the tipping point in ABC deciding to cancel "Harry O." Harry receives a note from Simon Applequist (Dean Jagger), asking Harry to come to a meeting at Applequist's palatial mansion. Applequist is a fabulously successful businessman who made more enemies than even he could count. Applequist greats Harry and introduces him to his various relatives -- one of whom is Lester Hodges. Then he fixes a baleful glare on the group and announces someone has sent him a threatening audiotape. Applequist puts the tape on and sits back as a whispered death threat plays. As the voice hisses: "Wait to die! Wait to die!" that's what Applequist does. Officially he suffered a heart attack, but Lester and his oft-mentioned mentor, Dr. Creighton Fong (Keye Luke) find that Applequist was poisoned by a venom found in the skin of an Amazon River basin alligator. At the reading of the will, Applequist's attorney (Stuart Whitman) reveals that Applequist has left almost everything to his brother-in-law Edward Tabor (Sorrell Booke). Lester pokes around and gets everyone to whisper the same word to him, which he records. Dr. Fong finds that the word was uttered by Tabor. Lester goes to Tabor and confronts him, seeing his lab of various exotic poisons. Sure enough, Tabor has a nearly-empty vial of caimanol, the poison, in his collection. But the moment Lester points this out to Tabor, who is sipping a drink, Tabor drops dead in his tracks -- the caimanol was planted in the drink. As Harry (who is offscreen for most of this episode) leaves to check out the backgrounds of the suspects, one heir after another gets a lethal dose of caimanol in various fashions, until only two suspects are left. And Lester is one of them. |
Season 2, Episode 22: Death CertificateOriginal Air Date—29 April 1976 |