7.9/1028 votes#1 - Target of Interest
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1969
Case: Michael Weil, Sandra Davis, Eugene Moody, et al - Espionage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1025 votes
#2 - Nightmare Road
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1969
Case: Gerald Wilson, Lawrence ""Jack"" Collins, Carolyn Paul - Killing a Federal Officer, Unlawful Flight, Murder.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1031 votes
#3 - The Swindler
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1969
Case: Robert Charles Pollard, William Fremont Quine, George J. Hoyer - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1034 votes
#4 - Boomerang
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1969
Case: Extortion - Kidnapping. Terry Shelton, Melinda Collier, Harvey George Windsor, Robert David Fleming.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1028 votes
#5 - Silent Partners
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1969
Case: Victor Berris, Carl Torrance, Steven Harber - Jury Tampering. Inspector Lew Erskine duels with a hitman who bribed a juror in the trial of a mob kingpin.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Turley
- 7.9/1025 votes
#6 - Gamble With Death
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1969
Case: Harry L. Springer - Extortion.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 8.3/1024 votes
#7 - Flight
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1969
Case: Walter Everett Hazlett - Crime Aboard Aircraft, Piracy, Attempted Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine urges the Hijacker of a Cuban-bound plane to land immediately to save the life of a wounded passenger.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1028 votes
#8 - The Challenge
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1969
Case: Paul Winters, Andrei Vallone - Espionage.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
- 7.5/1028 votes
#9 - Blood Tie
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1969
Case: Richard Arthur Kriton, Maximilian Kerry, Francis Wanderman - Theft from Interstate Shipment, Attempted Murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1025 votes
#10 - The Sanctuary
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1969
Case: Nate Phelps, John Carl Winslow - Bank Robbery, Murder.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1035 votes
#11 - Scapegoat
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1969
Case: Harley Earl Garnett - Crime on a Government Reservation - Murder.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
- 7.8/1027 votes
#12 - The Inside Man
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1969
Case:Harold H. Casey, Frank V. Sawyer-Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, Murder. Inpector Erskine and Agent Colby uncovers the ""Inside Man"" in a series of jewelery heists from New York City's Diamond District.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Norman Hudis
- 8.2/1030 votes
#13 - The Prey
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1969
Case: Carl S. Beaumont, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives - Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 8.1/1027 votes
#14 - Journey Into Night
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1969
Case: David Mark Starret - Escaped Federal Prisoner - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. The escaped federal prisoner, David Starret, kidnaps his own son from the son's foster parents in Albany NY. The father and son travel to Texas where the good inspector finally captures him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1026 votes
#15 - The Doll Courier
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1969
Case: John DeBecker,Eric Linler, et al-Espionage,murder. The FBI goes after communist agents in which the head of a porcelain doll is used to transport top secret microfilm.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1030 votes
#16 - Tug-of-War
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1969
Case: Aaron Taylor, Milo Pike - Organized Crime, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Major Theft, Murder.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1026 votes
#17 - Fatal Impostor
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1970
Case: Victor Kiley, Rick Davis - Unlawful Flight, Murder.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1026 votes
#18 - Conspiracy of Corruption
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1970
Case: Peter Freeman Griffith - Victim, Civil Rights Violation.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1029 votes
#19 - The Diamond Millstone
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1970
Case: Victor Amazeen, Billy Jack Lyle, James Tate - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property. The bad guys rip off a 31 carat diamond pendant with the aid of the owner's maid.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1027 votes
#20 - Deadly Reunion
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1970
Case: Matthew Bernhardt, David Hermann, John Stone, et al. - Espionage. Agents from the ""Eastern Sector"" (East Berlin) allow the wife of a US based spy to ""escape"" the eastern sector. She is to then assassinate her husband, who is about to defect. The good inspector goes undercover to transport the wife from Berlin to the US and eventually prevent the assassination.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1026 votes
#21 - Pressure Point
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1970
Case: Martin Rawll, Jack Lee Lutcher, Scott Rogers - Interstate Transportation of Gambling Devices, Attempted Murder.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#22 - Summer Terror
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1970
Case: Alex Drake, Beau Thomas Manley - Extortion, Kidnapping.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1030 votes
#23 - Return to Power
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/1970
Case: Peter Joseph Tenny, Frank DiMirjian - Organized Crime, Assault of a Federal Officer. Inspector Lew Erskine Capitalizes on a blood feud to lead him to secret mafia financial records.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1024 votes
#24 - The Dealer
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/22/1970
Case: Bernard Simms, Frank Brokaw, Norman Whitehead, David Osborne, et al-Theft From Interstate Shipments, Attempted Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine goes undercover by driving big rigs to obtain evidence against an Interstate Hijacking Ring. Colby also goes undercover as a shipping clerk to uncover the smuggling ring. He is injured in the line of duty when an ex-con reveals that Colby was not a convict!
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 7.6/1028 votes
#25 - Deadfall
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1970
Case: Ronald Brimlow, Frank Morris Moonan, Shelly Brimlow, Arthur Cody - Kidnapping, Bank Robbery, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 5
Every episode of The F.B.I. Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The F.B.I. Season 5!
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Target of Interest" is the best rated episode of "The F.B.I." season 5. It scored 7.9/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Nightmare Road".