S05 Episode 1
Dirt Duel
Motorcyclists are snatching purses and escaping down dirt roads. Reed holds a community meeting with the various motorcycle clubs (one of which is suspected in the snatchings), but one of the club leaders challenges Malloy to a race on one of the off-trails.
30 mins · Wed, 13 Sep 1972
S05 Episode 2
The Late Baby
Malloy goes on a date with Officer Wells' niece, and Malloy learns just how over-protective her uncle is. Patrol calls include a prowler in a heavily wooded neighborhood, a flower vendor with a stack of unpaid tickets, check on a suspicious gardener, and a high-speed pursuit with a green Corvette leads to an unexpected ending.
30 mins · Wed, 20 Sep 1972
S05 Episode 3
Airdrop
Malloy and Reed patrol the countryside around Los Angeles. A girl on horseback alerts them to a small plane that landed in a secluded area. The pilot has an excuse for his landing there, but later Malloy and Reed find out from Detectives and DEA agent Edwards that this is part of a Mexican drug smuggling ring is behind the landings.
30 mins · Wed, 27 Sep 1972
S05 Episode 4
Lost And Found
Reed and Malloy rush an 8-year old to Rampart Emergency Hospital, where he is diagnosed with diabetes. Scared of the hospital, Jimmy runs off, and it's up to Reed and Malloy to find him before he goes into a diabetic coma. Elsewhere, Malloy's new girlfriend, Cathy, mans a hospital telephone hotline. Sherry, a 15-year old junkie, is threatening suicide to escape her troubled life. Malloy and Reed need to find her fast, before she OD's.
30 mins · Wed, 4 Oct 1972
S05 Episode 5
Training Wheels
The officers undergo their driver refresher courses to hone their pursuit and driving skills. A rash of car strippers brings about a new approach suggested by Officer Wells: going undercover as paperboys riding bicycles to find the thieves. Hilarity ensues; Wells wrecks his bicycle that belonged to a young girl, Malloy deals with an irate newspaper customer, and Reed and Malloy pull over a VW Microbus on a traffic violation where the driver's parrot chanted "Down with Pigs!", but the tactics work and the officers break up the car stripping ring.
30 mins · Thu, 12 Oct 1972
S05 Episode 6
Badge Heavy
Porter, a friend of Reed's, feels his partner Burnside is being a little "badge heavy" (rough) on his suspects. Later, Reed observes Burnside choking a suspect. Reed reports it but nothing is done by the Captain because the victim wouldn't admit Burnside was the aggressor...
30 mins · Wed, 25 Oct 1972
S05 Episode 7
Harry Nobody
A hotel janitor (and wino) named Harry witnesses a murder in a hotel room, but refuses to talk until Reed shows him compassion and respect, both of which are lacking from his family and friends, but his testimony is clouded by his alcoholic past. Malloy relives his childhood by telling the story of his chaperoning a junior high dance.
30 mins · Wed, 8 Nov 1972
S05 Episode 8
The Surprise
It's Malloy's birthday and he makes it known to Reed, "no surprise parties". Sgt. MacDonald warns the officers about a rash of robberies using milk crates to break store windows. Other calls include backing up a jewelry store robbery, an embarrassed male purse-snatching victim inside a negligee shop, a phony gas station worker at a closed gas station, a shootout in the police garage resulting from a drunk suspect officers failed to handcuff, and Officer Wells captures a B&E suspect based on a hunch by Malloy.
30 mins · Wed, 15 Nov 1972
S05 Episode 9
Vendetta
A World War II survivor (and bar owner) sets an ambush for an unidentified intruder. Malloy and Reed try to intervene.
30 mins · Wed, 22 Nov 1972
S05 Episode 10
The Chaser
An out-of-state armed private investigator is inside a bar, looking for a bail jumper. Other calls include an elderly man wanting a group of cars driven by hippies ticketed for illegal parking, and a woman who demands the officers ticket her husband's car because he refuses to replace the balding tires on it.
30 mins · Wed, 6 Dec 1972
S05 Episode 11
Hot Spell
Malloy and Reed have to wear their long-sleeved uniforms despite a hot forecast, then later found out they could have changed to short sleeves but missed the radio notification. The officers receive a tip about a bicycle pump that contains drugs, and a man complains about his grass being trampled during his yard sale.
30 mins · Wed, 13 Dec 1972
S05 Episode 12
Gifts and Long Letters
Malloy and Reed are called to a hotel to stop a suicide attempt. Another patron of the hotel, a parolee with ties to organized crime, is extremely paranoid and thinks the mob is after him. The officers offer assistance to a man whose car needed a tire change, later learning he was a suspect in a robbery.
30 mins · Wed, 20 Dec 1972
S05 Episode 13
O'Brien's Stand
Malloy's fiesty landlady, Mrs. O'Brien, has her purse stolen and refuses to leave the station until her case is settled. Malloy eventually suggests using a decoy to put an end to the heists. Another incident involved two men behaving erratically, and a call to a home where a man killed his son with a shovel.
30 mins · Wed, 3 Jan 1973
S05 Episode 14
Clear with a Civilian (1)
Reed spreads his flu to several other officers, leaving the station undermanned and Reed and Malloy with a double shift on their hands. Reed has a shootout with a rifle-toting man, Malloy has an argument with a storekeeper and a customer of the quality of merchandise, and Malloy tickets a woman (who turns out to be the new police commissioner) for failing to stop at a stop sign.
30 mins · Wed, 10 Jan 1973
S05 Episode 15
Clear with a Civilian (2)
While on second shift, Malloy and Reed take Police Commissioner Dixon on a ride-along. They encounter a bar owner who locked a naked, elderly man inside, a fight with a knife-wielding man and another man with a gun, and a missing 17-year-old deaf boy with mental instabilities, which Reed recognizes as the boy that escaped his foot pursuit in the previous episode.
30 mins · Wed, 17 Jan 1973
S05 Episode 16
Citizen's Arrest - 484
A woman is arrested for shoplifting, then escapes from custody during a disruption at the station. Later another call regarding a stolen baby involves their missing shoplifter, which leads to a disturbance call at an apartment complex. Another call resulted in a brief hostage situation between Reed and the suspected B&E of a warehouse; Reed manages to trick his way out and capture the suspect.
30 mins · Wed, 24 Jan 1973
S05 Episode 17
The Beast
Malloy and Reed are given a different police car which has 300 miles to go until retirement, and also inherit its problems. Another call regarding warehouse activity (for the first time in eight years) results in the capture of a some burglary suspects.
30 mins · Wed, 31 Jan 1973
S05 Episode 18
Killing Ground
Malloy and Reed pull over a car on a routine traffic stop and are taken hostage by two robbers escaping from their heist. The officers have to use all their skills to escape the situation.
30 mins · Wed, 7 Feb 1973
S05 Episode 19
Night Watch
Reed spends a Saturday night talking about buying a used car, during the watch the officers handle a possible DUI but the driver passes the field sobriety tests, a shooting during which a man kills his recently paroled son-in-law, a car stripper, trick a man into revealing his name after pulling him over for speeding and finding the car has over $900 of unpaid tickets, and two beatings at motels.
30 mins · Wed, 14 Feb 1973
S05 Episode 20
Suspended
A man in a green BMW holds a gun on Reed in an all-night grocery store; although Reed is uninjured, the man's accomplice is shot and makes a dying declaration that Reed was trigger-happy and fired without warning. Malloy and his by-the-book replacement partner locate the gunman and clear Reed's name.
30 mins · Wed, 21 Feb 1973
S05 Episode 21
A Fool and His Money
Malloy wins $10,000 in a women's shampoo naming contest and is stampeded by people telling him what he should do with the money. Calls include an elderly male tenant complaining that a new elderly female tenant's Irish music is too loud, a sniper wreaking havoc until he is shot trying to escape in a car, a reported theft turned out to be a broke man whose three wives stripped the expensive house he was in clean except for the stolen items, and a wino is killed by another wino for his new tennis shoes.
30 mins · Wed, 28 Feb 1973
S05 Episode 22
Anatomy of a 415
The officers spot a runaway young boy hiding in the woods; when they take him home they find it's a "frequent flyer" house for domestic abuse. Other incidents include a man who was waiting for his wife encountering a girl who offers him drugs, and a man trying to break into his truck after his dog locked him out.
30 mins · Wed, 7 Mar 1973
S05 Episode 23
Keeping Tabs
Malloy and Reed pull over a speeding car full of teenagers, including Sgt. MacDonald's son, and Malloy finds himself in the middle between father and son on how to handle it. Other calls include a burglar who tries to run up the fire escape unsuccessfully, complaints about a woman feeding ducks interrupting two men and a chess game, two boyfriends fighting at knifepoint over a woman who leaves with a third man, and saving a drunk (played by Pat Buttram) who is trying to direct traffic at a busy intersection.
30 mins · Wed, 14 Mar 1973
S05 Episode 24
Easy Rap
Reed loses a case against a young car thief in juvenile court, who later dies in high-speed pursuit. A girl's boyfriend dies from a heroin "hot shot", she buys drugs from the supplier and provides the serial number of the $10 bill she used to buy them. An elderly woman insists on being arrested rather than ticketed for a traffic violation.
30 mins · Wed, 21 Mar 1973
