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Harry O

Harry O
★ 5.2/10•1974•1h 0m•Drama•Action & Adventure
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A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 12, 1974

Episodes

Episode 1 - GertrudeE160m

Gertrude

Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.

Sep 12, 1974

Episode 2 - The Admiral's LadyE260m

The Admiral's Lady

A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?

Sep 19, 1974

Episode 3 - Guardian at the GatesE360m

Guardian at the Gates

Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.

Sep 26, 1974

Episode 4 - Mortal SinE460m

Mortal Sin

A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.

Oct 3, 1974

Episode 5 - Coinage of the RealmE560m

Coinage of the Realm

Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.

Oct 10, 1974

Episode 6 - EyewitnessE660m

Eyewitness

When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.

Oct 17, 1974

Episode 7 - Shadows at NoonE760m

Shadows at Noon

To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.

Oct 24, 1974

Episode 8 - Ballinger's ChoiceE860m

Ballinger's Choice

When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.

Oct 31, 1974

Episode 9 - Second SightE960m

Second Sight

The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.

Nov 7, 1974

Episode 10 - Material WitnessE1060m

Material Witness

The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.

Nov 14, 1974

Episode 11 - Forty Reasons to Kill (1)E1160m

Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.

Dec 5, 1974

Episode 12 - Forty Reasons to Kill (2)E1260m

Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.

Dec 12, 1974

Episode 13 - Accounts BalancedE1360m

Accounts Balanced

An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.

Dec 26, 1974

Episode 14 - The Last HeirE1460m

The Last Heir

Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.

Jan 9, 1975

Episode 15 - For the Love of MoneyE1560m

For the Love of Money

A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.

Jan 16, 1975

Episode 16 - The Confetti PeopleE1660m

The Confetti People

A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.

Jan 23, 1975

Episode 17 - Sound of TrumpetsE1760m

Sound of Trumpets

Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.

Jan 30, 1975

Episode 18 - Silent KillE1860m

Silent Kill

Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.

Feb 6, 1975

Episode 19 - Double JeopardyE1960m

Double Jeopardy

An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.

Feb 13, 1975

Episode 20 - LesterE2060m

Lester

A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.

Feb 20, 1975

Episode 21 - Elegy for a CopE2160m

Elegy for a Cop

Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.

Feb 27, 1975

Episode 22 - Street GamesE2260m

Street Games

Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.

Mar 2, 1975

Actors

David Janssen

David Janssen

Harry Orwell

Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe

Lt. K.C. Trench

Paul Tulley

Sgt. Roberts

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