Robert Wagner
Pete Ryan
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Episode 160 min1975-09-09
The James Caan Con
An wannabe actor who blackmails women targets an actress who ask for help from Pete and Frank.
Episode 260 min1975-09-16
The Late Show Murders
A ex-cop now private investigator murders a man who stole jewels and takes the jewels himself. Pete and Frank help the cops by linking the murder and the jewels to the private investigator.
Episode 360 min1975-09-23
The Old Diamond Game
The treasurer of a retirement home takes the money and runs away to Brazil. The owner asks Pete and Mac to get the money back or the home will be shut down and the residents will have no place to go. Since the man can't be extradited . Mac and Pete decide to get him to give up the money by pretending to have a diamond mine they want to sell.
Episode 460 min1975-09-30
Stung from Beyond
A small group of con artists, including two women( one played by Joan Collins), use seances to dupe their gullible clients out of their Stockmarket investments.
Episode 560 min1975-10-07
The Deadly Missiles Caper
A woman persuades Pete and Mac to investigate and prove her wealthy Father was murdered by her unscrupulous Uncle.
Episode 660 min1975-10-14
The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Pete and Mac try to uncover the location of a high jacked armored truck's loot.
Episode 760 min1975-10-21
Death Heist
Pete and Mac have only 11 days to solve an old emerald robbery.
Episode 860 min1975-11-04
The Body at the Bottom
An ex-con turns to Pete and Mac for help when he's accused of torching a warehouse on the waterfront. Certain that the warehouse owner is the real culprit, the two detectives plan a con to nail him, trying to convince him that he's a murderer who disposed of his victim under the burnt warehouse.
Episode 960 min1975-11-11
The Cruise Ship Murders
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Episode 1060 min1975-11-25
Kiss of Death
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Episode 1160 min1975-12-02
Death By Resurrection
A client asks Pete to do a background check on a man with possible mob connections, who wants to marry his daughter .
Episode 1260 min1975-12-09
The Cold War Con
A fashion model is abducted by white slavers. Pete and Mac devise a plan to rescue her.
Episode 1360 min1975-12-16
Through the Past Deadly
A bomb is planted in Ryan's car and he is injured. Mac tries to find the one who planted the bomb and starts by looking for the one who sold the explosive used. He finds the seller dead and all signs lead him to think it has something to do with a man named Speer who's the man who brought Ryan and Mac together. While waiting for the police to find the one who planted the bomb Mac recalls how they got together. It was two years ago and Mac was trying to get Speer for killing his partner and sought Ryan's help because Speer killed someone close to Ryan.
Episode 1460 min1975-12-23
Mistresses, Murder and Millions
A business magnate involved in a hideous divorce is kidnapped, and the kidnappers later critically wound a police officer. Pete and Mac suspect that the man's soon-to-be-ex-wife and his girlfriend may be behind the kidnapping -- along with somebody else.
Episode 1560 min1976-01-06
The Walking Bomb
Extortionists kidnap a bank executive and strap a bomb to his chest in order to force him to pay them a fortune. When the bank executive suffers a heart attack, they let him go -- and strap the bomb to Pete Ryan instead.
Episode 1660 min1976-01-13
Ain't Nobody Here Named Barney
A loony sculptor claims her grandfather wasn't buried in his grave at all. Turns out he was ("When we put them down there, they stay down", says a minor character), but there is also evidence that $4.3 million in embezzled money is -- or was -- down there too. When Pete and Mac take up the case and find the money hijacked from a computer account, they also come upon a shadowy killer who is intent on making the sculptor look crazy or dead and take them with her.
Episode 1760 min1976-01-27
Come Die with Me
A stewardess stumbles on an air crew's plan to steal Federal money bags on her flight. She is murdered by them and they then frame Pete for her demise.
Episode 1860 min1976-02-10
One of Our Zeppelins Is Missing
A car collector (Dabney. Coleman) is blackmailed by a revengeful woman out to punish Mac who she blames for putting her husband in prison.
Episode 1960 min1976-02-17
Before the Holocaust
Pete and Mac check out a gun club in the mountains which stockpiles supplies for wealthy buyers who want to hide in its bunkers in case of a nuclear war. The club's proprietors are swindlers who have already murdered an employee.
Episode 2060 min1976-02-24
Big Deal in Paradise
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Episode 2160 min1976-03-02
The Case of the Purloined Case
Pete and Mac become involved in the search for a missing briefcase with something of value inside, something that a disparate cast of characters is also after and quite possibly willing to kill for.
Episode 2260 min1976-03-16
The Girl on the Golden Strip
Unknown to himself, a Vegas nightclub singer turns into his alter ego, a deranged slasher-killer, when he hears one of his own classic songs. Pete and Mac get on the trail of the murderer but are sidelined by criminal activity on the parts of his managers. Filmed on location in Las Vegas and on Lake Mead.
Episode 2360 min1976-03-23
Round Up the Usual Suspects
The beautiful client's (Veronica Hamel) brother is falsely imprisoned in Casablanca, and it's up to Pete and Mac to get him out before it's too late.
Episode 2460 min1976-04-06
Death Squad
A woman Pete knows shows UP with her son. She tells him her husband called and told her they're in danger and That they had to get away. She and Pete Go to meet her husband, he says he was hired to do something. When he found out its illegal he tried to get out but they're telling him, he has to do it and they threatened his family. Before he could say anything else the ones following him show up and take him. Pete and Mac Try to Find out whats going on, the men Show trying to get the boy but When they couldn't Find him, they take the mother, they also take Maggie to ...