The Mod Squad TV Series

This article provides an overview of the Mod Squad TV series. It includes an overview of the show’s premise and its characters. Also, it provides a list of the season episodes, a video of the opening credits, ratings and reviews, and how to buy it on DVD.

Series Overview: The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad was a television series on the ABC network from 1968 to 1973. It was innovative and hip and starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews.

The Mod Squad TV series is a police crime drama featuring three young and hip crime fighters. The casting for the Mod Squad television series was intended to appeal primarily to a young audience.

The basic premise of the Mod Squad television show is that the police department offers several young people an opportunity to work on fighting crime as an alternative to being incarcerated themselves. This was indeed a unique twist for a show in the ’70s.

The TV show’s primary gimmick centered on the three cops using their youthful, hippie personas as a disguise to allow them to get close to the criminals they were investigating – somewhat of an undercover type of operation. The Squad comprised one white kid, one black kid, and one blonde girl. The team is led by Captain Greer (Tige Andrews).

The Mod Squad television show was moderately popular during its five seasons and 123 episodes.  The “old school” show portrayed a multicultural society and dealt with issues of racial politics, drug culture, and counterculture in a progressive way.

Executive Producers

The series’ executive producers were the well-known Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.

List of Mod Squad Episodes by Season

The series ran for five seasons and had 124 episodes in total. The following is a list of episodes for each season.

Season 1

1. The Teeth of the Barracuda
2. Bad Man on Campus
3. What a Pretty Bus
4. Smitty Comes Marching Home
5. You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Programmer
6. A Time to Love, A Time to Cry
7. Find Tara Chapman
8. The Price of Terror
9. Quiet Weekend in the Country
10. Love
11. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet
12. The Guru
13. The Sunday Drivers
14. Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
15. Flight Five Doesn’t Answer
16. Shell Game
17. Fear Is the Bucking Horse
18. A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light
19. The Uptight Town
20. Reign of Guns
21. Run for the Money
22. Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
23. Keep the Faith, Baby
24. Captain Greer, Call Surgery
25. Peace Now Arly Blau
26. Seat by the Window

The first season has a total of 26 episodes:

Season 2

The second season has 26 episodes.

1. The Girl in Chair Nine
2. My Name Is Manolette
3. An Eye for an Eye
4. Ride the Man Down
5. To Linc with Love
6. Lisa
7. Confrontation!
8. Willie Poor Boy
9. The Death of Bill Hannachek
10. A Place to Run, A Heart to Hide In
11. The Healer
12. In This Corner, Sol Albert
13. Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break
14. The Debt
15. Sweet Child of Terror
16. King of Empty Cups
17. A Town Called Sincere
18. The Exile
19. Survival House
20. Mother of Sorrow
21. The Deadly Sin
22. Time for Remembering
23. Return to Darkness, Return to Light
24. Call Back Yesterday
25. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?
26. The Loser

Season 3

The third season has 24 episodes.

1. Long Road Home
2. See the Eagles Dying
3. Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?
4. A Is for Annie
5. Song of Willie
6. Search And Destroy
7. Just Ring the Bell Once
8. Welcome to the Human Race, Levi Frazee!
9. A Far Away Place So Near
10. Time of Hyacinths
11. Judas Trap
12. Fever
13. Is There Anyone Left Is Santa Paula?
14. A Short Course in War
15. Kicks Incorporated
16. Bummer for RJ
17. Hot, Hot Car
18. Suffer, Little Children
19. Is That Justice? No, It’s Law.
20. A Double for Danger
21. Welcome to Our City
22. The Comeback
23. We Spy
24. Price of Love

Season 4

The fourth season has 24 episodes.

1. Sentinels
2. Cricket
3. Home Is the Streets
4. Survival
5. The Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
6. The Medicine Men
7. Sands of Anger
8. The Poisoned Mind
9. Exit the Closer
10. Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?
11. And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them
12. The Loser
13. Death of a Nobody
14. Feet of Clay
15. Am My Brother’s Keeper
16. Deal with the Devil
17. Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie
18. Shockwave
19. No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland
20. The Cave
21. Wild Weekend
22. Tangled Web
23. Outside Position
24. Big George

Season 5

The fifth season has 24 episodes.

1. The Connection – Part 1
2. The Connection – Part 2
3. The Thunder Makers
4. Yesterday’s Ashes
5. Gift for Jenny
6. Taps, Play It Louder
7. Eyes of the Beholder
8. Good Times Are Just Memories
9. Corbey
10. Can You Hear Me Out There?
11. Another Final Game
12. Crime Club
13. The Twain
14. Belinda End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
15. Kristie
16. Sanctuary
17. Run, Lincoln, Run
18. Don’t Kill My Child
19. Death in High Places
20. Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
21. Scion of Death
22. Night Holds Terror
23. Cry Uncle
24. And Once for My Baby

Watch a preview of the show:

Ratings and Reviews

The Mod Squad has a rating of 7 out of 10 stars on IMDB and 7.9 out of 10 stars on TV.com. The DVDs are rated 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon.com.

More Information

If you would like to learn more about the series, visit the Wikipedia page. You can also check out other Police Crime Dramas on DVD.