
Season 5 (1969)
Episodes: 26
Star Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. , Philip Abbott , Marvin Miller , William Reynolds ,
Episodes List

Ep.1 Target of Interest
Air Date: 1969-09-14
Case: Michael Weil, Sandra Davis, Eugene Moody, et al - Espionage.

Ep.2 Nightmare Road
Air Date: 1969-09-21
Case: Gerald Wilson, Lawrence ""Jack"" Collins, Carolyn Paul - Killing a Federal Officer, Unlawful Flight, Murder.

Ep.3 The Swindler
Air Date: 1969-09-28
Case: Robert Charles Pollard, William Fremont Quine, George J. Hoyer - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder.

Ep.4 Boomerang
Air Date: 1969-10-05
Case: Extortion - Kidnapping. Terry Shelton, Melinda Collier, Harvey George Windsor, Robert David Fleming.

Ep.5 Silent Partners
Air Date: 1969-10-12
Case: Victor Berris, Carl Torrance, Steven Harber - Jury Tampering. Inspector Lew Erskine duels with a hitman who bribed a juror in the trial of a mob kingpin.

Ep.6 Gamble With Death
Air Date: 1969-10-19
Case: Harry L. Springer - Extortion.

Ep.7 Flight
Air Date: 1969-10-26
Case: Walter Everett Hazlett - Crime Aboard Aircraft, Piracy, Attempted Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine urges the Hijacker of a Cuban-bound plane to land immediately to save the life of a wounded passenger.

Ep.8 The Challenge
Air Date: 1969-11-02
Case: Paul Winters, Andrei Vallone - Espionage.

Ep.9 Blood Tie
Air Date: 1969-11-09
Case: Richard Arthur Kriton, Maximilian Kerry, Francis Wanderman - Theft from Interstate Shipment, Attempted Murder.

Ep.10 The Sanctuary
Air Date: 1969-11-16
Case: Nate Phelps, John Carl Winslow - Bank Robbery, Murder.

Ep.11 Scapegoat
Air Date: 1969-11-23
Case: Harley Earl Garnett - Crime on a Government Reservation - Murder.

Ep.12 The Inside Man
Air Date: 1969-11-30
Case:Harold H. Casey, Frank V. Sawyer-Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inpector Erskine and Agent Colby uncovers the ""Inside Man"" in a series of jewelery heists from New York City's Diamond District.

Ep.13 The Prey
Air Date: 1969-12-07
Case: Carl S. Beaumont, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives - Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.

Ep.14 Journey Into Night
Air Date: 1969-12-14
Case: David Mark Starret - Escaped Federal Prisoner - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. The escaped federal prisoner, David Starret, kidnaps his own son from the son's foster parents in Albany NY. The father and son travel to Texas where the good inspector finally captures him.

Ep.15 The Doll Courier
Air Date: 1969-12-21
Case: John DeBecker,Eric Linler, et al-Espionage,murder. The FBI goes after communist agents in which the head of a porcelain doll is used to transport top secret microfilm.

Ep.16 Tug-of-War
Air Date: 1969-12-28
Case: Aaron Taylor, Milo Pike - Organized Crime, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft, Murder.

Ep.17 Fatal Impostor
Air Date: 1970-01-04
Case: Victor Kiley, Rick Davis - Unlawful Flight, Murder.

Ep.18 Conspiracy of Corruption
Air Date: 1970-01-11
Case: Peter Freeman Griffith - Victim, Civil Rights Violation.

Ep.19 The Diamond Millstone
Air Date: 1970-01-18
Case: Victor Amazeen, Billy Jack Lyle, James Tate - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. The bad guys rip off a 31 carat diamond pendant with the aid of the owner's maid.

Ep.20 Deadly Reunion
Air Date: 1970-01-25
Case: Matthew Bernhardt, David Hermann, John Stone, et al. - Espionage. Agents from the ""Eastern Sector"" (East Berlin) allow the wife of a US based spy to ""escape"" the eastern sector. She is to then assassinate her husband, who is about to defect. The good inspector goes undercover to transport the wife from Berlin to the US and eventually prevent the assassination.

Ep.21 Pressure Point
Air Date: 1970-02-01
Case: Martin Rawll, Jack Lee Lutcher, Scott Rogers - Interstate Transportation of Gambling Devices, Attempted Murder.

Ep.22 Summer Terror
Air Date: 1970-02-08
Case: Alex Drake, Beau Thomas Manley - Extortion, Kidnapping.

Ep.23 Return to Power
Air Date: 1970-02-15
Case: Peter Joseph Tenny, Frank DiMirjian - Organized Crime, Assault of a Federal Officer. Inspector Lew Erskine Capitalizes on a blood feud to lead him to secret mafia financial records.

Ep.24 The Dealer
Air Date: 1970-02-22
Case: Bernard Simms, Frank Brokaw, Norman Whitehead, David Osborne, et al-Theft From Interstate Shipments, Attempted Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine goes undercover by driving big rigs to obtain evidence against an Interstate Hijacking Ring. Colby also goes undercover as a shipping clerk to uncover the smuggling ring. He is injured in the line of duty when an ex-con reveals that Colby was not a convict!

Ep.25 Deadfall
Air Date: 1970-03-01
Case: Ronald Brimlow, Frank Morris Moonan, Shelly Brimlow, Arthur Cody - Kidnapping, Bank Robbery, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive.

Ep.26 The Quest
Air Date: 1970-03-08
Case: Walter Graham Carr - Crime on a Government Reservation.