The Rookies

  • Premiered: Sep 1972
  • Episodes: 93
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Unknown
  • Crime Drama

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Season 4
4x1
Lamb to the Slaughter
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 09, 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 .. show full overview
4x2
Reading Writing and Angel Dust
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x3
One-Way Street to Nowhere
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 23, 1975
Mike is critically injured when he tries to capture the leader of a militant group and Terry is taken hostage.
4x4
Someone Who Cares
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x5
Ladies Day (a.k.a. Ladies Kill, Too)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1975
Jill is working in a womens prison, fighting an outbreak of diphtheria. In order to protest for better food and working conditions, inmates take Jill Danko and Dr. Malcolm hostage.
4x6
Reign of Terror
Episode overview
Air date
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. .. show full overview
4x7
Death Lady
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x8
Measure of Mercy
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x9
A Time to Mourn
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 1975
Chris' sister makes a surprise visit on her brother. He is suspended after conducting an unauthorized bust of the man who molested her.
4x10
The Torch Man
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x11
Invitation to a Rumble
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x12
Reluctant Hero
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x13
Dead Heat
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 02, 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.
4x14
The Voice of Thunder
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 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 .. show full overview
4x15
The Code Five Affair
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x16
Shadow of a Man
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x17
Eye for an Eye
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x18
Sudden Death (a.k.a. Return from the Past)
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 06, 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.
4x19
From Out of the Darkness
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x20
The Mugging
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x21
Blue Movie, Blue Death
Episode overview
Air date
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.
4x22
Deliver Me From Innocence
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 02, 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.
4x23 Show finale
Journey to Oblivion
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 30, 1976
A gambler kills his creditor and is witnessed by Jill Danko whom he and his accomplice must now do away with. Another episode dedicated to nurse Jill Danko. In this episode Jill bears a big resemblance to her later character Sabrina Duncan.

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