7.2/1042 votesLoading...#1 - The Acolyte
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1975
Harry looks for a missing heiress who seems to have taken sanctuary with a religious cult.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1038 votesLoading...
#2 - The Madonna Legacy
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1975
Harry searches for the connection between the suicide of an ex-cop and the shooting of an oil magnate the same night.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 7.2/1033 votesLoading...
#3 - Ruby
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1976
A ghetto youth is caught in an aborted car theft that causes the death of an officer, and is threatened with death if he reveals the name of his companion who was doing the driving.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 7.3/1042 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
- 7.3/1042 votesLoading...
#5 - One for the Road
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1975
An alcoholic attorney, unable to recall the events following a party the night before, hires Harry to ascertain whether she was the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1080 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.4/1057 votesLoading...
#7 - 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
- 7.4/1034 votesLoading...
#8 - Forbidden City
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1976
Harry investigates the murder of a fellow private eye in Chinatown.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.4/1039 votesLoading...
#9 - The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1976
Young criminologist Lester Hodges returns and teams up with his college mentor to find out who is systematically killing off members of Lester's family.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Robert Dozier
- 7.5/1046 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
- 7.5/1044 votesLoading...
#11 - Group Terror
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1975
When a psychiatrist suspects that one of her group therapy patients murdered another, she hires Harry to join them, posing as an alcoholic.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1074 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 7.6/1064 votesLoading...
#13 - 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
- 7.6/1054 votesLoading...
#14 - 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 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.6/1046 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.6/1046 votesLoading...
#17 - Lester Two
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1975
Student criminologist Lester Hodges returns to bedevil Harry when diamond smugglers kidnap Harry's stewardess friend Sue, and force him to make an unexpected trip to Paris.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.6/1044 votesLoading...
#18 - Exercise in Fatality
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1975
A cop framed for murder hires Harry to find his estranged daughter, a pregnant teenage addict who's on the run from killers but is the only one who can clear him.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1040 votesLoading...
#19 - Hostage
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1976
Lt. Trench is among the hostages held in a liquor store by a desperate veteran who demands that his addicted girlfriend be found and brought to him within two hours.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 7.7/1069 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.7/1055 votesLoading...
#21 - 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
- 7.7/1056 votesLoading...
#22 - 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
- 7.7/1040 votesLoading...
#23 - Book of Changes
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1976
The murder of a gambling-club owner leaves Harry with two jobs: caring for her homeless protege, and searching for a book she compiled that would be worth a fortune to an extortionist.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky, Michael Sloan
- 7.8/1059 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 7.8/1051 votesLoading...
#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Harry O
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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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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Acolyte" is the worst rated episode of "Harry O". It scored 7.2/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Harry Falk and written by N/A, it aired on 10/16/1975. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Madonna Legacy".