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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Hold Out

    • September 14, 1975
    • CBC

    Inspector Woodward and Sergeant Dias face an unscrupulous developer and his ruthless henchmen who are terrorizing an elderly widow, the lone "hold-out" preventing the developer from proceeding with a major real estate project.

  • S01E02 The Money-Go-Round

    • September 21, 1975
    • CBC

    A youth turns to crime in order to pay off inherited debts to a loan shark.

  • S01E03 Strikebreaker

    • September 28, 1975
    • CBC

    This episode concerns a strikebreaker who plans to ignore a picket line and lead a group of workers back to their jobs.

  • S01E04 Perhaps In Dreams Old Man

    • October 5, 1975
    • CBC

    An informer's tip wrecks the dreams of two elderly pensioners whose obsession with living out their remaining days as owners of an Alberta farm leads them into committing a somewhat unusual robbery.

  • S01E05 Rape

    • October 12, 1975
    • CBC

    A young woman about to be married is raped, an occurrence which moves several people to launch their own attempts to ensure justice.

  • S01E06 Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

    • October 19, 1975
    • CBC

    A hard-line police inspector is torn between a sense of duty and paternal concern when he learns that his own son has become involved in organized juvenile crime.

  • S01E07 The Rebellion of Bertha MacKenzie

    • October 26, 1975
    • CBC

    A Metis woman's welfare cheque is cut off when a by-the-book social worker discovers she is living common-law with a white man.

  • S01E08 Playing The Game

    • November 2, 1975
    • CBC

    Overzealous police officers employ barely-within-the law tactics to extract information from a young parolee.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Line of Duty

    • October 3, 1976
    • CBC

    Sergeant Glen Olsen is accused of knocking down a pregnant woman during a violent street demonstration. The woman - wife a political candidate - loses her baby and Olsen is suspended.

  • S02E02 The Right to Defend

    • October 10, 1976
    • CBC

    Ed Mallory is an average, law-abiding citizen until the night he takes his hunting rifle from the wall and fires at a shadowy intruder.

  • S02E03 Intimidation

    • October 24, 1976
    • CBC

    When a cop blows his cool it spells nothing but trouble for his enemies and friends.

  • S02E04 Assault (aka Bad Samaritans)

    • October 31, 1976
    • CBC

    Cabdriver Chet Deckerman has no idea what he's letting himself in for when he plays the good Samaritan and rushes to the aid of a man suffering a brutal beating in an alley. When the victim dies, his assailant, Cowboy Hanna, relentlessly pursues Deckerman - the only witness who can identify him.

  • S02E05 Death Sentence

    • November 7, 1976
    • CBC

    Community service sergeants Raitt and Olsen are summoned when a rifle used in cadet drills is stolen from a high school storeroom. While the officers concentrate their investigation on a cocky juvenile delinquent, the quiet young man who actually stole the gun teeters on the brink of tragedy.

  • S02E06 Rogue Cop

    • November 14, 1976
    • CBC

    Raitt and Olsen suspect something's wrong when a veteran morality squad officer gets a tip on a bookie and arrests him without trying to track down his source.

  • S02E07 'Til Death Do Us Part

    • November 21, 1976
    • CBC

    Sergeants Raitt and Olsen are called in to cool down a series of violent domestic arguments between a hotheaded salesman and his wife. The officers suggest a trial separation and set the wife up with a job and a place to live.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Saturday Night Special

    • October 9, 1977
    • CBC

    Sgts. Nick Raitt and Glenn Olson's search for the weapon that killed a fellow officer leads them to a gun-smuggling operation.

  • S03E02 Between Friends

    • October 23, 1977
    • CBC

    An ex-marine CIA operative, wounded at the scene of a homicide, enlists the aid of a former buddy, now working with Raitt and Olsen, in getting to the U.S. Consulate.

  • S03E03 Eighteen Hours To Kill

    • October 30, 1977
    • CBC

    The kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy complicates a case for Raitt and Olsen, who are trying to locate a load of bombs planted by an international terrorist ring.

  • S03E04 Sugar and Spice

    • November 6, 1977
    • CBC

    Raitt's unmarried daughter arrives in town, desperate for an abortion at any cost.

  • S03E05 Last of the Fall Guys

    • November 13, 1977
    • CBC

    Raitt and Olsen find themselves facing a wall of silence while trying to solve a murder witnessed by many people. The suspect, linked to loan sharking, gambling and prostitution rackets, has an iron-clad alibi.

  • S03E06 With This Ring

    • November 20, 1977
    • CBC

    An illegal immigrant, about to receive an award from the federal government for research he has done during his eighteen years in this country, flees from immigration authorities and marries a woman who specializes in "quickie" immigration marriages.

  • S03E07 Once a Hero

    • December 4, 1977
    • CBC

    A retired and now aging sports hero turns to Nick Raitt for help when his son, an aspiring hockey star, turns to crime in order to further his career.

  • S03E08 Stakeout

    • December 11, 1977
    • CBC

    A woman held hostage in her apartment is in less danger from her captor than from an overzealous rescue leader who wants to end the stakeout with a shootout.

  • S03E09 Case in Point

    • December 18, 1977
    • CBC

    A hired killer mistakenly assassinates a community lawyer and leads Raitt and Olsen to a series of fraudulent transactions in upper-crust society.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Just Another Day

    • September 24, 1978
    • CBC

    An ordinary day for Sgts. Raitt and Olsen turns into one of fear and confusion when with dynamite strapped to his body, a crazed man named Ferris holds a terrorized Inspector Bowen at gunpoint.

  • S04E02 Holiday With Homicide

    • October 1, 1978
    • CBC

    In this episode, to prevent an unwanted horse from being destroyed, Sgts. Raitt and Olsen claim, and enter him in Quarter Horse Competition.

  • S04E03 Big Brother

    • October 8, 1978
    • CBC

    A man is forced into hiding from a loan shark enforcer until he can raise the cash he owes.

  • S04E04 Les Gendarmes

    • October 15, 1978
    • CBC

    Raitt and Olsen assist Andre Bergeron and Marc Roy, two Montreal police officers, track a courier for a well know crime syndicate.

  • S04E05 Scorpio Rising

    • October 22, 1978
    • CBC

    The German CEO of a multinational corporation comes to visit the head of a Canadian multinational corporation to discuss financial matters. However, the primary reason for his visit is to discuss Project Scorpio, a world-wide security force for wealthy businesspeople.

  • S04E06 The Moneylender

    • October 29, 1978
    • CBC

    A ruthless loan shark preys on teenagers at a big city high school.

  • S04E07 Revenge

    • November 4, 1978
    • CBC

    A convict is released from prison.

  • S04E08 Vancouver Connection

    • November 11, 1978
    • CBC

    Narcotics trafficking on the West Coast, Glenn Olsen is forced to go undercover to trace a drug shipment that is contaminated with a deadly disease.