7.6/10115 votes#1 - Bad Cats and Sudden Death
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1972
That's about as unlucky as you can get. An assistant DA investigating a car theft ring is framed for his wife's murder.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Robert Lewin
7.2/10130 votes#2 - Sky Above, Death Below
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1972
Keeping your double chin up. A draft dodger winesses a murder on his way to the Yukon.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
7.3/10111 votes#3 - Bitter Legion
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1972
Cannon goes undercover to find a missing man in a gang. ""Why did the barmaid champagne?""
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: George Bellak
7.6/10119 votes#4 - That Was No Lady
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1972
That was my wife? A lady lawyer gets threatened with death for defending punks who robbed a charity.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
7.8/10109 votes#5 - Stakeout
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1972
Served with a good Victor Hugo sauce, preferably. A girl wounded in a holdup mysteriously refuses to identify the crook.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
7.5/10108 votes#6 - The Predators
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1972
Alien-smuggling.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Arthur Heinemann
7.3/10120 votes#7 - A Long Way Down
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1972
A doctor is accused of drug-dealing.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
8.2/10115 votes#8 - The Rip-Off
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1972
There's only one way to deal with that: serve equal portions. Freight shipments are stolen by computer, and Cannon's in the middle of a custody fight.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Douglas Day Stewart
7.8/10120 votes#9 - Child of Fear
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1972
A farmer is missing and guards have replaced the hands.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
7.5/10105 votes#10 - The Shadow Man
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1972
A corpse missing with valuable bonds.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Robert Lewin
8.0/10107 votes#11 - Hear No Evil
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1972
Dale and Laura Corey are a happily married couple who own an electronics store; he does a lot of electronic eavesdropping for clients, she was a cop on the force with Cannon a few years back, and hires him because Dale is being threatened after bugging some hotel rooms for the owner.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: N/A
8.0/10112 votes#12 - The Endangered Species
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1972
A murder suspect has a dubious counsel.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
7.6/10114 votes#13 - Nobody Beats the House
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1972
Toby Hauser is a compulsive gambler who is $200,000 in debt to Ben Logan (who runs local illegal gaming operations). The bill is due and Hauser has about $5000; they threaten to come after Hauser's wife Cathy if payment isn't made. Cathy, sensing one of them will be hurt, calls in Cannon to help.
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.6/10110 votes#14 - Hard Rock Roller Coaster
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1973
A diamond smuggler is drugged to reveal his contraband.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.8/10115 votes#15 - The Dead Samaritan
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1973
A fellow who intervenes in a fight gets made the fall guy.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: N/A
7.8/10109 votes#16 - Death of a Stone Seahorse
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1973
A drug dealer's infirm sister takes the rap for a murder.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: N/A
7.3/10103 votes#17 - Moving Target
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1973
The co-author of an industrialist's unauthorized biography is murdered.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Worley Thorne
7.5/1093 votes#18 - Murder for Murder
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1973
A case of revenge for a daughter's death at a swinging affair.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Arthur Heinemann
7.6/1095 votes#19 - To Ride a Tiger
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1973
A kidnapping case involving the funds of a halfway house and a diabetic lawyer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10109 votes#20 - The Prisoners
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1973
A young man is persuaded to extort $50,000 from his father, who turns out to be bankrupt.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Robert Lewin
7.9/10123 votes#21 - The Seventh Grave
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1973
One step forward, two steps back as Cannon hunts a mass murderer. Helping to cloud the facts: a police lab technician who's altering the evidence as quickly as it is found.
Director: John Badham
Writer: N/A
7.7/10111 votes#22 - Catch Me If You Can
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1973
A serial killer dogs Cannon to put him out of his misery.
Director: N/A
Writer: Douglas Day Stewart
7.3/1094 votes#23 - Press Pass to the Slammer
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1973
A columnist faces contempt charges; Cannon takes the case.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.8/10105 votes#24 - Deadly Heritage
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1973
A terrorized woman asks Cannon to find her husband's illegitimate son.
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Robert Lewin
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Bad Cats and Sudden Death" is the best rated episode of "Cannon" season 2. It scored 7.6/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by Philip Leacock and written by Robert Lewin, it aired on 9/13/1972. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Sky Above, Death Below".