8.1/1093 votes#1 - Gertrude
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1974
Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1080 votes
#2 - The Admiral's Lady
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1974
A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1074 votes
#3 - Guardian at the Gates
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1974
Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1069 votes
#4 - Mortal Sin
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1974
A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1060 votes
#5 - Coinage of the Realm
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1974
Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1071 votes
#6 - Eyewitness
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1974
When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Herman Groves
- 8.3/1065 votes
#7 - Shadows at Noon
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1974
To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Dozier
- 7.7/1055 votes
#8 - Ballinger's Choice
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1974
When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1057 votes
#9 - Second Sight
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1974
The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1064 votes
#10 - Material Witness
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1974
The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1056 votes
#11 - Forty Reasons to Kill (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1974
Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.
Director: Daryl Duke
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1054 votes
#12 - Forty Reasons to Kill (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1974
Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.
Director: Daryl Duke
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1051 votes
#13 - Accounts Balanced
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1974
An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.
Director: N/A
Writer: Herman Groves
- 7.8/1059 votes
#14 - The Last Heir
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1975
Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1053 votes
#15 - For the Love of Money
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1975
A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1042 votes
#16 - The Confetti People
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1975
A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Herman Groves
- 7.8/1051 votes
#17 - Sound of Trumpets
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1975
Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Robert Pirosh
- 7.6/1046 votes
#18 - Silent Kill
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1975
Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1057 votes
#19 - Double Jeopardy
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1975
An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.
Director: John Newland
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1056 votes
#20 - Lester
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1975
A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 8.2/1067 votes
#21 - Elegy for a Cop
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1975
Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Howard Rodman
- 7.5/1046 votes
#22 - Street Games
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1975
Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Herman Groves
The Best Episodes of Harry O Season 1
Every episode of Harry O Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Harry O Season 1!
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension,...
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Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Gertrude" is the best rated episode of "Harry O" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 93 votes. Directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1974. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Admiral's Lady".