Episode 1
A Dangerous Age
1h
Arch Tatum is close to retirement and is teamed up with a head-strong young trainee who throws a curve for the long time vet.
Episode credits
Guest stars Tom Drake, Albert Salmi, Scott Brady, Ed Asner
TV series
Police Story
1973TV-PG6 seasons7.0 / 10
Dared to be different.
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.
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Synopsis
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.
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Episode 2
Requiem for C.Z. Smith
1h
Charlie Czonka resurrects his alter ego, pimp CZ Smith, to catch a murderer who mutilates prostitutes.
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Guest stars Frankie Avalon, Lenore Kasdorf, James Farentino, Tina Louise, Harry Guardino, Marsha Hunt, Bruce Davison, Booth Colman
Episode 3
Robbery: 48 Hours
1h
Lt. Bruckner leads the Robbery Squad through a two-day run of holdups, big and small.
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Guest stars Shelly Novack, Burr DeBenning, Joe Santos, Jeremy Slate, Jackie Cooper, Phillip Pine, Glenn Corbett
Episode 4
Fathers and Sons
1h
Members of the Serbian community are being gunned down and the police have few leads. Sgt. Wilson decides to use officer Joe Basic, an ethnic Slav, in an undercover situation. Joe learns his father Andrea is a possible target.
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Directed by Gary NelsonGuest stars Tony Musante, Elaine Joyce, Richard Jaeckel, Harold Gould, Kaz Garas, Ramon Bieri, Lance Kerwin
Episode 5
A World Full of Hurt
1h
Juvenile officers Craig and Prescott deal with runaways, delinquents, and Prescott's own troubled home life.
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Guest stars Don Marshall, James Gregory, Gale Sondergaard, Susan Oliver, Moosie Drier, Paul Burke, Nancy Wilson, Frank Marth
Episode 6
Glamour Boy
1h
Detectives Tony Calabrese and Bert Jameson try to hold onto a charming bank robber, which proves to be more difficult than actually catching him.
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Guest stars Tony Lo Bianco, Rod Cameron, David Doyle, Bettye Ackerman, Don Meredith, Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Larry Hagman
Episode 7
Across the Line
1h
Joe Benton is taken off the surveillance squad after being involved in too many stakeouts that ended violently, so Sgt. Barrett drafts him for his narcotics squad investigating the "Mexican Connection."
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Guest stars Linda Cristal, Scott Brady, Roberto Contreras, Chuck Connors, Charles McGraw, Alejandro Rey, Frank De Kova, Lloyd Gough
Episode 8
Wolf
1h
Sgt. Wolf Bozeman, a gung ho street cop who lives through his job, tries to cope with the prospect of losing that job due to his deteriorating health.
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Directed by Barry ShearGuest stars Shelly Novack, Scott Brady, Christopher Connelly, Norman Fell, Jack Ging, Shelley Fabares, John Vivyan, Tim O'Connor
Episode 9
Love, Mabel
1h
Detectives investigate a series of murders of homeless men along the piers.
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Guest stars Peter Brown, John Russell, Larry Storch, Raymond St. Jacques, William Shatner, Michael Learned, Dean Stockwell, Janet Dey
Episode 10
Explosion
1h
Detectives Bert Jameson and Tony Calabrese try to catch an extortionist who leaves remote-control bombs at his targets.
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Guest stars Val Avery, Donna Mills, Tony Lo Bianco, Marie Windsor, Joanna Moore, John Lupton, Don Meredith, Dane Clark
Episode 11
Capt. Hook
1h
A police officer fights the brass to keep his spot as a beat cop after he loses his right hand to a package bomb.
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Guest stars Kim Darby, Amanda McBroom, David Birney, Phillip Pine, Dennis Cole, Richard Egan, Ben Frank, Shirley Jo Finney
Episode 12
Incident in the Kill Zone
1h
Sergeant King Sherman endangers the public and the SWAT team he commands while preparing for his Lieutenant exams. His wife convinces him he'll pass his orals if he shows confidence in his leadership skills by projecting total authority.
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Guest stars Jan-Michael Vincent, Scott Brady, James Farentino, Joseph Wambaugh, Lyle Bettger, Moosie Drier, Sorrell Booke, Cliff Osmond
Episode 13
Headhunter
1h
IA Det. Sgt. Stiles investigates an indecent exposure charge against a veteran officer, resulting in the officer's dismissal. Months later, the exposure complainant confesses to a years-old murder, and subsequently raises doubt on his original testimony.
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Guest stars Scott Brady, Joan Leslie, Shani Wallis, Don Murray, Howard Duff, George DiCenzo, Michael Anderson Jr., Madlyn Rhue
Episode 14
Year of the Dragon (1)
1h
Det. John Darrin uses his experience in Chinatown to find the gang members who robbed a restaurant and killed one of the employees.
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Guest stars Godfrey Cambridge, Jack Soo, Benson Fong, Joe Garagiola, Robert Culp, Wayne Maunder, Tommy Lee
Episode 15
Year of the Dragon (2)
1h
Det. John Darrin has to keep his primary witness to the restaurant shooting alive, while searching for his Chinese gang snitch, who has been snatched by a rival gang.
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Guest stars Dick Butkus, Jack Soo, Max Showalter, Benson Fong, Robert Culp, Wayne Maunder, Greta Chi
Episode 16
To Steal a Million
1h
Detectives Grosser and Hyland know a big hotel heist is about to happen. They know who's involved, but they don't know which hotel or how to catch the thieves red-handed.
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Guest stars Christopher Stone, Alex Cord, Clint Ritchie, Robert Brown, Henry Beckman, Pernell Roberts, Barbara Anderson, Anne Jeffreys
Episode 17
Sniper
1h
Detectives Calabrese and Thorpe try to catch a sniper before he, or she, strikes again.
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Guest stars Tony Lo Bianco, Alan Vint, Jeff Morrow, Marsha Hunt, Pamela Bellwood, Glenn Corbett, Patty Duke, Dane Clark
Episode 18
The Execution
1h
Detectives attempt to solve a double execution-style shooting, which one victim manages to survive.
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Directed by Alexander SingerGuest stars Don Marshall, Philip Carey, Christopher George, Sharon Farrell, Edward Andrews, Felton Perry, Scoey Mitchell, Ahna Capri
Episode 19
The Man in the Shadows
1h
While breaking in new partner Ron Cruz, narcotics Det. Frank Dolan is drawn by a drug-related murder into pursuing a drug kingpin from out-of-town, who may be attempting to muscle his way into the local market.
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Guest stars Joby Baker, BarBara Luna, John Ireland, Pat Crowley, Robert Forster, Michael Callan
Episode 20
War Games
1h
Detectives Gordy and Ballard go undercover in a white-supremacist gun club to bust a paranoid gun collector who specializes in illegal military munitions.
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Guest stars John Quade, John Davis Chandler, Murray Hamilton, Brooke Bundy, Neville Brand, Robert Alda, Marjoe Gortner, Mills Watson
Episode 21
The Witness
1h
Det. Bert Jameson has a new partner, Lew Reeves, and Lew's vicious cold complicates their efforts to solve armed pharmacy robberies and to catch the chopper rider who holds up taverns.
Episode credits
Guest stars James Gregory, John Kerr, Elaine Joyce, Michael Cole, Jackie Coogan, Don Meredith, Lillian Lehman, Richard Erdman
Episode 22
The Return of Joe Forrester
1hfinale
Detective Joe Forrester must go back to the rough area that was his old beat to try and catch a serial rapist.
Episode credits
Guest stars Shelly Novack, Robert Ginty, Joe Renteria, Lew Horn, Dean Stockwell, Tom Drake, Edie Adams, Jim Backus
Episode information updated Sep 14, 2026
More about Police Story
Cast
Tony Musante
Tony Lo Bianco
James Gregory
Shelly Novack
Tige Andrews
David Groh
John Kerr
Albert SalmiCredits
- Created by
- Joseph Wambaugh, E. Jack Neuman
- Written by
- Michael Mann
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 104
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
NBCUnited States
Columbia Pictures TelevisionUnited States
Screen GemsUnited States- David Gerber ProductionsUnited States
Themes
anthologypolice
