Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1972
In the introductory episode of the series, the presence of several street gangs contributes to a tension-filled atmosphere. The Rookies are assigned with the challenge of maintaining order amongst the rivaling street gangs, with Willie Gillis arising as the mediator between the gangs.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1972
Cops vs. cops as internal-affairs personnel investigate rumors of police shakedowns. Prime suspects: Ryker's rookies.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1972
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1972
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1972
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1972
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1972
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1972
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1972
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1972
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1972
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1972
This episode centers on a pair of masked thugs who are on a vendetta to kill police officers. In the opener, they are on a rooftop and shoot a guy named Karl Miller that they assumed was a cop, because they had previously (not shown) seen him dressed as a cop from a masquerade party. The SCPD investigates the motive of the thugs, who target Officer Terry Webster as their next victim. They shoot at him in his police car, shattering the windshield glass into his eyes, temporarily blinding him. During his hospital stay, he bonds with a nurse, Lynn Everett. She helps him and they form a friendship. After Terry is released from the hospital--his eyes still bandaged--he and Lynn go on a picnic, where the criminals chase them down, with the intention of killing Terry, so he can't identify them. Lynn calls for help, Terry helps subdue the thugs and he regains his sight at the end. This episode is very touching and emotional, from Terry being scared that he may never see again, to Lynn sharing that she led a sheltered life and had never communicated with a black person before and didn't know how to. This is one not to be missed!
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1972
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1972
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1973
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1973
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1973
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1973
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1973
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1973
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1973
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1973
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1973
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1973
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1973
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1973
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1973
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1973
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1973
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1973
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1973
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1973
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1973
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1973
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1973
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1974
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1973
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1974
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1974
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1974
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1974
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1974
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1974
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1974
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1974
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1974
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1974
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1974
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1974
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1974
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1974
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1974
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1974
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1974
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1974
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1974
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1974
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1974
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1974
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1974
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1975
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1975
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1975
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1975
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1975
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1975
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1975
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1975
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1975
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1975
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1975
When burglar Brad Gifford is arrested, his cop-hating, now orphaned son, Jody, is taken to Lambert Hall where he is befriended by Ryker, a former orphan himself. Jody is just beginning to trust and like Ryker when his father escapes custody and comes for him.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1975
After the tragic death of a bright high school student, the Rookies put in a team effort to get the pushers off the school campus. They get some help from a pusher who is pretending to scorch for the source.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1975
Mike is critically injured when he tries to capture the leader of a militant group and Terry is taken hostage.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1975
An unidentified nine-year-old girl is accidentally hit by a car after two hedonistic "swinging single" men spike her lunch with narcotics. Before she dies, she begs Terry for help. Terry, reluctant to let her die a Jane Doe, investigates.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1975
Jill Danko is working in a women's prison, fighting an outbreak of diphtheria. In order to protest for better food and working conditions, inmates take Jill and Dr. Malcolm hostage.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1975
Young crooks Pat Stevens and Glen Barton rob ticket agent Brewster and shoot rookie Chris. The scene is witnessed by mailman Charlie Brooks, who is adamant about not getting involved.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1975
A female officer is blamed for her partner's death during a jewelry store robbery. With her new partner, Mike, she sets out to solve the crime and prove her worth to the police department.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1975
The Rookies must investigate a robbery at Memorial Hospital. The blood bank was robbed and its contents sold to the black market, leaving an infant at the hospital on the critical list.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1975
Chris' sister makes a surprise visit on her brother. He is suspended after conducting an unauthorized bust of the man who molested her.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1975
An ex-convict out on parole desperately wants to go straight, but is sought after by his ex-cellmates to use his safe-cracking abilities in a robbery.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1975
Terry is run down by a car driven by the leader of a street gang in his old neighborhood. When one of the members of the gang is overheard calling for an ambulance, he is forced to kill Terry or he will be killed by the gang for betrayal.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1975
A rookie accidentally overpowers a professional assassin and is named "hero." The assassin vows to kill the rookie and escapes with Jill as a hostage, offering to exchange her for the rookie.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1975
Chris and Terry have their patrol car stolen by teenage vandals while investigating a major robbery in a department store, and three heavily armed killers trap them there.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1975
After a series of Sunday bombings of porno bookshops and massage parlors sweep the city, Chris and Terry recognize the same girl at the scene of each incident. The dangerously schizophrenic top fashion model believes she is being instructed by a supreme being.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1975
The rookies stake out an abandoned factory where a heroin deal is about to take place, and are able to seize the drugs and arrest all but one man. This man must get the heroin back from the police.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1975
Forest, a tough career cop, takes $10,000 from the scene of a robbery after his partner is killed by the robbers. Lt. Ryker puts an undercover investigator on the case to retrieve the money.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1975
A man who was forced to spend eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit is determined to get the men who framed him.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1976
Mike, a former helicopter pilot in Vietnam, becomes the prey of a deranged ex-POW who blames the policeman for his capture by the Vietcong.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1976
Terry vows to find the murderer of Dan Kennedy, a retired cop turned security guard. Dan was the father of a blind girl, Terry's former girlfriend.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1976
After a woman is fatally assaulted by three junkies, her son, a doctor in the same hospital where Jill works, announces his intention to get revenge against the three, who were released from jail on a technicality.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1976
The Rookies are given undercover assignments in order to smash a syndicate-owned porno film company responsible for the deaths of some of its actors.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1976
A frightened sixteen-year-old boy is forced to take the blame for the crimes of a junkie he has become mixed up with. The two had committed a burglary and escaped after killing a cop. The boy is Terry's current girlfriend's brother.
Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1976
A gambler kills his creditor and is witnessed by Jill Danko, whom he and his accomplice must now do away with.
