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The F.B.I.

The F.B.I.
★ 5.6/10•1965•1h 0m•TV-14•Crime•Drama•Mystery
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 19, 1965

Episodes

Episode 1 - The MonsterE160m

The Monster

Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.

Sep 19, 1965

E260m

Image in a Cracked Mirror

Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.

Sep 26, 1965

E360m

A Mouthful of Dust

Case file #70-68307-C - Joseph Cloud - Crime on Indian Reservation.

Oct 3, 1965

E460m

Slow March Up a Steep Hill

Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.

Oct 10, 1965

E560m

The Insolents

Case file #45-47339-Y - Roger York - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.

Oct 17, 1965

E660m

To Free My Enemy

The good inspector has the distasteful job of finding a kidnap victim--a pornographer that the good inspector is trying build a case against. In the end, Erskine captures the kidnappers and obtains a warrant for the arrest of the pornographer.

Oct 24, 1965

E760m

The Problem of the Honorable Wife

Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.

Oct 31, 1965

E860m

Courage of a Conviction

Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.

Nov 7, 1965

E960m

The Exiles

Case file #2-46675-R - General Romero, et al. - Violation of Neutrality Act.

Nov 14, 1965

E1060m

The Giant Killer

Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.

Nov 21, 1965

Episode 11 - All the Streets Are SilentE1160m

All the Streets Are Silent

Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.

Nov 28, 1965

E1260m

An Elephant is Like a Rope

Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transsportation of Stolen Property. $500,000 that nobody would claim, and a man who has lost his memory are Inspector Erskine's and Agent Jim Rhodes' only lead to a crime within a crime.

Dec 5, 1965

Episode 13 - How to Murder an Iron HorseE1360m

How to Murder an Iron Horse

Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion. Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage.

Dec 12, 1965

E1460m

Pound of Flesh

The FBI Investigates the murder of an Army Chaplains wife on an U.S. Army base.

Dec 19, 1965

E1560m

The Hijackers

Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.

Dec 26, 1965

E1660m

The Forests of the Night

Case file #9-26080-X Adam MacDonald, et al., Victims - Extortion.

Jan 2, 1966

Episode 17 - The ChameleonE1760m

The Chameleon

Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A clever confidence man of a thousand faces plays a deadly game of cat & mouse with a million dollars as the prize

Jan 9, 1966

Episode 18 - The SacrificeE1860m

The Sacrifice

Case file #65-9525-X - The Doriskin Papers - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine infiltrates a spy network and is marked for assassination.

Jan 16, 1966

E1960m

Special Delivery

Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder. Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring.

Jan 23, 1966

E2060m

Quantico

Case File #52-7672-S - Willard Smith - Destruction of Government Property. A plot to destroy The Supreme Court Building could cost an F.B.I. agent his job.

Jan 30, 1966

Episode 21 - The Spy MasterE2160m

The Spy Master

Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation.

Feb 6, 1966

E2260m

The Baby Sitter

Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping. Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting.

Feb 13, 1966

Episode 23 - Flight to HarbinE2360m

Flight to Harbin

Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder. Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passengers aboard a flying prison of terror.

Feb 27, 1966

E2460m

The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake

Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.

Mar 6, 1966

E2560m

The Divided Man

Case file #98-81829-M - Roger Leroy Mason - Sabotage.

Mar 20, 1966

E2660m

The Defector (1)

Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States.

Mar 27, 1966

E2760m

The Defector (2)

Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. plays a deadly game of espionage with foreign assassins who seek the life of an Eastern European defector to the U.S.

Apr 3, 1966

E2860m

The Tormentors

Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping. A desperate father jeopardizes the life of his kidnapped son when he defies F.B.I. warnings to keep the story out of the media.

Apr 10, 1966

E2960m

The Animal

Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.

Apr 17, 1966

E3060m

The Plunderers

Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder. The F.B.I. leads a search for bank robbers who did not take enough money.

Apr 24, 1966

E3160m

The Bomb That Walked Like a Man

Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a para-military hate group.

May 1, 1966

E3260m

The Hiding Place

Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during World War II, serving as a Japanese officer without ever renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The one-time officer also was involved in torture during the war. To find the man, the agents eventually must seek the aid of one of the torture victims from the war.

May 8, 1966

Actors

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Lewis Erskine

Philip Abbott

Philip Abbott

Arthur Ward

Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller

Narrator (uncredited)

William Reynolds

William Reynolds

Special Agent Tom Colby

Shelly Novack

Shelly Novack

Agente especial Chris Daniels

Stephen Brooks

Stephen Brooks

Agente especial Jim Rhodes

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