- 7.6/1032 votes
#1 - Wind It Up and It Betrays You
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1968
Case: Carl Schmidt, Colonel Lorenz Tabor - Espionage, Murder. A dead mans hearing aid containing microfilm has The FBI uncovering an espionage ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
- 8.3/1029 votes
#2 - Out of Control
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1968
Case: Miguel Ramos Valdez-Assaulting a Federal Officer, Murder. Assistant Director Arthur Ward, Inspector Lew Erskine and Agent Tom Colby track down an oil field killer.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1029 votes
#3 - The Quarry
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1968
Case: Michael Vincent Riley, Fugitive - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1029 votes
#4 - The Runaways
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1968
Case: John Graham Evans - Parole Violator - Murder. A killer picks for his robbery Victims, a happy family of four living on a farm.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Arthur Heinemann
- 8.2/1033 votes
#5 - Death of a Fixer
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1968
Case: Roy Donald Blake - Fugitive, Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Gambling.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1032 votes
#6 - The Enemies
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1968
Case: Ralph Gordon Stuart - Espionage, Murder. The FBI follows a trail of blood in the hunt for a deadly Communist spy who's out to steel a top secret rocket fuel.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
- 8.3/1036 votes
#7 - The Nightmare
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1968
Case: Harold Dale Converse - Fugitive, Bank Embezzlement. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine hunts down a bank embezzler and also tries to protect him from criminals helping in his escape.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1029 votes
#8 - Breakthrough
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1968
Case: Vincent Preston Gray - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Extortion.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1030 votes
#9 - The Harvest
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1968
Case: James Reed, George Wilson, Joseph Troy - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A holdup mans love for a woman forces him into a shootout with a crew of FBI agents.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1026 votes
#10 - The Intermediary
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1968
Case: Thomas Waters a.k.a. Thomas Grant; William MacKenzie; Jack Dale - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property - Major Theft. Inspector Lew Erskine is the go-between for a jeweler seeking the return of stolen diamonds.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1028 votes
#11 - The Butcher
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1968
Case: Helmut Probst a.k.a. Paul Seiger - Unlawful Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inspector Erskine hunts down a wartime SS colonel who is still promoting Nazi ideals.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1029 votes
#12 - The Flaw
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1968
Case: Glen Parmenter et al - Espionage, murder. Inspector Lew Erskine snares a spy ring and in turn trapped by them in a deserted Mountain cabin.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Paul Schneider
- 7.9/1032 votes
#13 - The Hero
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1968
The crime is ""Unlawful Wearing of the Uniform"" and (by the way) murder. A con man wears a US Air Force uniform to entice women to marry him. He then murders or otherwise cheats them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
- 7.8/1033 votes
#14 - The Widow
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1968
Case: Joyce Carr - Parole Violator,Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine traps a go-go dancer who conspires to marry military service men and collects their insurance money when her boyfriend murders them.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1032 votes
#15 - Eye of the Storm
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1969
Case: Edward and Nora Tobin - Kidnapping. Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby search for a kidnapped negro baby who is hiding in a plague infested ghetto.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 7.9/1029 votes
#16 - The Fraud
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1969
Case: David Joseph Miles, Frank Stocker - Interstate transportation of Stolen Property, Extortion. FBI Inspector Lew Erskine fights the Mafias entry into selling fake masterpiece paintings.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1029 votes
#17 - A Life in the Balance
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1969
Case: Eugene David Holt, Elaine Donner, Richard Mills - Kidnapping. Blood at the sight of a kidnapping decides FBI Inspector Lew Erskine to act immediately without waiting for the ransom payment.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Arthur Heinemann
- 7.4/1041 votes
#18 - Caesar´s Wife
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1969
Case: Danielle Chabrol - Espionage.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1027 votes
#19 - The Patriot
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1969
Case: Richard William Shaefer, alias Marvin Smith - Kidnapping.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1030 votes
#20 - The Maze
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1969
Case: Frank Dixon Welles - Top Ten Fugitive, Assaulting a Federal Officer.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Charles Larson
- 8.3/1030 votes
#21 - The Attorney
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1969
Case: Arnold Grant Toby - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Attempted Murder.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1026 votes
#22 - The Catalyst
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1969
Case: Miguel Torres - Destruction of Aircraft, Kidnapping.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1031 votes
#23 - Conspiracy of Silence
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1969
Case: Leonard King et al - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering, Murder.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1025 votes
#24 - The Young Warriors
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1969
Case: William Rockhill - Crime on a Government Reservation, Arson, Murder.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1025 votes
#25 - The Cober List
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1969
Case: Terence Cober - Interstate Transportation in Aid of Racketeering.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 4
Every episode of The F.B.I. Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 4!
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Wind It Up and It Betrays You" is the best rated episode of "The F.B.I." season 4. It scored 7.6/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Charles Larson, it aired on 9/22/1968. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Out of Control".