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The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Episode 1
Case: Carl Schmidt, Colonel Lorenz Tabor - Espionage, Murder. A dead mans hearing aid containing microfilm has The FBI uncovering an espionage ring.
Written by Charles LarsonGuest stars George N. Neise, Dennis Cross, Kaz Garas, Lawrence Dane, Nancy Kovack, Louis Jourdan, Michael Tolan, Forrest Compton
Episode 2
Case: Miguel Ramos Valdez-Assaulting a Federal Officer, Murder. Assistant Director Arthur Ward, Inspector Lew Erskine and Agent Tom Colby track down an oil field killer.
Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Armando Silvestre, James Franciscus, Buck Young
Episode 3
Case: Michael Vincent Riley, Fugitive - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Dean Stockwell, Roy Poole, Susan Strasberg, John Milford, Richard Devon, Andy Romano
Episode 4
Case: John Graham Evans - Parole Violator - Murder. A killer picks for his robbery Victims, a happy family of four living on a farm.
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Arthur HeinemannGuest stars Bill Williams, Ron Howard, Dabbs Greer, Jan Shepard, Charles Bateman, J.D. Cannon
Episode 5
Case: Roy Donald Blake - Fugitive, Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Gambling.
Guest stars Daniel J. Travanti, Brooke Bundy, Jessica Walter, Phyllis Hill, Joseph Campanella, Frances Reid, Lawrence Montaigne
Episode 6
Case: Ralph Gordon Stuart - Espionage, Murder. The FBI follows a trail of blood in the hunt for a deadly Communist spy who's out to steel a top secret rocket fuel.
Directed by Don MedfordWritten by Peter Allan FieldsGuest stars Al Freeman Jr., Cicely Tyson, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Anderson, Curt Lowens, Dean Harens
Episode 7
Case: Harold Dale Converse - Fugitive, Bank Embezzlement. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine hunts down a bank embezzler and also tries to protect him from criminals helping in his escape.
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Patricia Smith, Bruce Dern, William Windom, Frank Marth, Lee Meriwether, Ellen Corby
Episode 8
Case: Vincent Preston Gray - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion.
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Dorothy Provine, Rose Hobart, John P. Ryan, Joseph V. Perry, Edward Andrews, Peter Mark Richman
Episode 9
Case: James Reed, George Wilson, Joseph Troy - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A holdup mans love for a woman forces him into a shootout with a crew of FBI agents.
Guest stars Burt Brinckerhoff, Diane Baker, Larry Gates, Robert Duvall, James McCallion
Episode 10
Case: Thomas Waters a.k.a. Thomas Grant; William MacKenzie; Jack Dale - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Major Theft. Inspector Lew Erskine is the go-between for a jeweler seeking the return of stolen diamonds.
Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Georg Stanford Brown, Maurice Evans, Monte Markham, Michael Strong, Burr DeBenning, Anthony Eisley
Episode 11
Case: Helmut Probst a.k.a. Paul Seiger - Unlawful Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inspector Erskine hunts down a wartime SS colonel who is still promoting Nazi ideals.
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Christopher Stone, Paul Gleason, Ralph Bellamy, Anne Helm, Harold Gould, Ellen Corby, Gregory Gaye, Charles Korvin
Episode 12
Case: Glen Parmenter et al - Espionage, murder. Inspector Lew Erskine snares a spy ring and in turn trapped by them in a deserted Mountain cabin.
Directed by Robert DouglasWritten by Paul SchneiderGuest stars Barry Morse, Marie Windsor, Tol Avery, Donald Harron
Episode 13
The crime is ""Unlawful Wearing of the Uniform"" and (by the way) murder. A con man wears a US Air Force uniform to entice women to marry him. He then murders or otherwise cheats them.
Written by Charles LarsonGuest stars Reta Shaw, Chad Everett, Kathleen Widdoes, Virginia Christine
Episode 14
Case: Joyce Carr - Parole Violator,Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine traps a go-go dancer who conspires to marry military service men and collects their insurance money when her boyfriend murders them.
Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Patrick Wayne, Malachy McCourt, Glenn Corbett, Margaret Field, Lynda Day George, Peter Hobbs, Arch Johnson, Geoffrey Deuel
Episode 15
Case: Edward and Nora Tobin - Kidnapping. Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby search for a kidnapped negro baby who is hiding in a plague infested ghetto.
Directed by Jesse HibbsWritten by Don BrinkleyGuest stars Margarita Cordova, Billy Dee Williams, Denise Nicholas, Byron Morrow, Don Dubbins, S. John Launer
Episode 16
Case: David Joseph Miles, Frank Stocker - Interstate transportation of Stolen Property, Extortion. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine fights the Mafias entry into selling fake masterpiece paintings.
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Ellen Weston, Nan Martin, Hal Holbrook, Roger Perry, Wesley Addy, William Smithers, Noah Keen, John Anthony Hayes
Episode 17
Case: Eugene David Holt, Elaine Donner, Richard Mills - Kidnapping. Blood at the sight of a kidnapping decides FBI Inspector Lew Erskine to act immediately without waiting for the ransom payment.
Directed by Robert DouglasWritten by Arthur HeinemannGuest stars James Caan, Murray Hamilton, Julie Sommars, Connie Sawyer
Episode 18
Case: Danielle Chabrol - Espionage.
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Harrison Ford, Claudine Longet, Richard Bull, Albert Carrier, Michael Rennie, Russell Johnson
Episode 19
Case: Richard William Shaefer, alias Marvin Smith - Kidnapping.
Directed by Robert DayGuest stars Thomas Gomez, Gilbert Roland, Marianna Hill, Fred Holliday, Ned Romero, Carlos Romero, James T. Callahan, Ross Elliott
Episode 20
Case: Frank Dixon Welles - Top Ten Fugitive, Assaulting a Federal Officer.
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Charles LarsonGuest stars Simon Oakland, Steve Ihnat, John Kerr, Jerry Ayres, Joe Lo Presti
Episode 21
Case: Arnold Grant Toby - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Attempted Murder.
Directed by Robert DouglasGuest stars Dawn Wells, Ed Asner, Arthur Hill, Tim O'Connor, Linden Chiles, Walter Janovitz
Episode 22
Case: Miguel Torres - Destruction of Aircraft, Kidnapping.
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Alejandro Rey, Norman Fell, Valentin de Vargas
Episode 23
Case: Leonard King et al - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Murder.
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Gene Tierney, Kent Smith, Don Chastain, Mary Jackson, James Daly, Kevin McCarthy, Jason Wingreen, Dean Harens
Episode 24
Case: William Rockhill - Crime on a Government Reservation, Arson, Murder.
Directed by Robert DouglasGuest stars Anthony Caruso, BarBara Luna, Dana Elcar, Don Keefer, Scott Marlowe, Lawrence Montaigne, Lin McCarthy
Episode 25
Case: Terence Cober - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
Directed by Jesse HibbsGuest stars Jack Ging, Francine York, Don Gordon, Mark Roberts, Alfred Ryder, Harold J. Stone, John Daheim
Episode 26
Case: Vincent Tobias, John Beeker - Crime on a Government Reservation, Murder. A banker runs a loan sharking ring from his bank. He specializes in ripping off ex servicemen who have been rejected for a normal loan at his bank. The crime on a government reservation was the murder of a serviceman who could not pay the outrageous interest on a ""loan"".
Directed by Robert DayWritten by Don BrinkleyGuest stars Michael Witney, Gary Vinson, Richard Carlson, Janis Hansen, Victor French, Marlyn Mason, Dean Harens
Episode information updated Jul 25, 2026
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.Lewis Erskine
Philip AbbottArthur Ward
Marvin MillerNarrator (uncredited)
Lynn LoringBarbara Erskine
Shelly NovackAgente especial Chris Daniels
Stephen BrooksAgente especial Jim Rhodes
William ReynoldsSpecial Agent Tom Colby
Noah KeenVictor Quinlan
ABCUnited States
