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The Best Episodes of The Mod Squad

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The Best Episodes of The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It...

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  1. Background image for A Time for Remembering
    8.4/10(48 votes)

    #1 - A Time for Remembering

    S2:E22

    Beau Graves is released from prison after the trio put him there two years ago. Pete is trying to decide whether or not to quit the trio and work for his dad. Flashbacks to previous episodes after Linc is shot make it clear to everyone the importance of their ""family"".

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    Director:Gene Nelson
  2. Background image for A Quiet Weekend in the Country
    8.3/10(61 votes)

    #2 - A Quiet Weekend in the Country

    S1:E9

    An ex-convict tells Greer that drug pushers will be meeting at a rural trailer camp.

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.3/10(42 votes)

    #3 - Survival

    S4:E4

    After Julie picks up a blind hitchhiker, they have a flat tire and flag down a passing car for help. Unfortunately, the people in the car trick them into switching cars and abandon them in the desert.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Poisoned Mind
    8.3/10(41 votes)

    #4 - The Poisoned Mind

    S4:E8

    After Captain Greer shoots and kills a young man in self defense during a bust, he suffers from feelings of guilt and remorse. Julie suggests he take a vacation at a secluded resort to sort things out.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Uptight Town
    8.1/10(54 votes)

    #5 - The Uptight Town

    S1:E19

    A racist town tries to pin a murder on a black man who had nothing to do with it.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #6 - Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?

    S4:E10

    On his way to the liquor store, Linc is mugged and hit over the head. When he comes to, he wanders around in a daze, unable to remember who he is or what he was doing.

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for I Am My Brother's Keeper
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    #7 - I Am My Brother's Keeper

    S4:E15

    Pete is targeted by the very gunman he's tracking down.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for In This Corner -- Sol Albert
    8.0/10(41 votes)

    #8 - In This Corner -- Sol Albert

    S2:E12

    Tenants revolt against a racist slum lord and threaten the wrong person. Trio confronts the slum lord to no avail, until interventions from the Rabbi Tannenbaum convince him otherwise.

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    Director:Harve Bennett
    Writer:Rita Lakin
  10. Background image for Feet of Clay
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    #9 - Feet of Clay

    S4:E14

    The Trio help a young deaf-mute save a guard from a warehouse fire. Linc then gets involved with helping the young-deaf mute who is targeted for assassination.

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Deal with the Devil
    8.0/10(43 votes)

    #10 - Deal with the Devil

    S4:E16

    Pete is contacted by his old friend Rusty Bryson, a war correspondent whom he knew and idolized as a boy. But the Treasury department is looking for Bryson, who it suspects of smuggling drugs from Vietnam.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Wild Weekend
    8.0/10(38 votes)

    #11 - The Wild Weekend

    S4:E21

    When Pete runs into an old girlfriend, she invites him to her birthday party but he turns her down, only to be kidnapped by her two friends and forced to attend the party.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for A Time to Love -- A Time to Cry
    7.9/10(59 votes)

    #12 - A Time to Love -- A Time to Cry

    S1:E6

    After an LSD trip, photographer Robbie Larson wakes up beside the dead body of one of his models.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Keep the Faith, Baby
    7.9/10(52 votes)

    #13 - Keep the Faith, Baby

    S1:E23

    A murderer stalks the suspended priest who heard his confession.

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    Director:Gene Nelson
  15. Background image for Captain Greer, Call Surgery
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    #14 - Captain Greer, Call Surgery

    S1:E24

    Greer thinks a series of hospital drug robberies are inside jobs. The trio poses as hospital staff to solve this case.

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  16. Background image for Sweet Child of Terror
    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #15 - Sweet Child of Terror

    S2:E15

    Disturbed handyman kidnaps the daughter of his employer, believes that Julie is the daughter. Ends in a showdown.

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    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #16 - Survival House

    S2:E19

    Sammy Davis Jr. plays Billy Lee Watson, a recovered drug addict who is accused of statutory rape by his alleged victim's father, who wants to close down the halfway house Billy has been appointed director of. Billy was trying to help the girl, who is herself addicted, and pregnant.

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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Cricket
    7.9/10(49 votes)

    #17 - Cricket

    S4:E2

    Julie and a young boy named Cricket go to the park where Cricket finds a gun dropped by a man he runs into. Cricket then accidentally shoots Julie and, thinking he's killed her, runs away.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Sands of Anger
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Sands of Anger

    S4:E7

    Julie, Linc and Pete attend a dune buggy race where a pickup truck blows up, killing a young man Julie had just met. The trio then investigate the incident, suspecting foul play.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Teeth of the Barracuda
    7.8/10(97 votes)

    #19 - The Teeth of the Barracuda

    S1:E1

    The daughter of a California governorial candidate is caught with drugs and is blackmailed.

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    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Bad Man on Campus
    7.8/10(67 votes)

    #20 - Bad Man on Campus

    S1:E2

    Pete, Linc and Julie work undercover in a high school to break up a juvenile car theft ring.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for My, What a Pretty Bus
    7.8/10(62 votes)

    #21 - My, What a Pretty Bus

    S1:E3

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    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Find Tara Chapman!
    7.8/10(63 votes)

    #22 - Find Tara Chapman!

    S1:E7

    Unaware she has contagious meningitis, a singer who witnessed a mob murder flees the hospital.

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    Director:Gene Nelson
  24. Background image for The Price of Terror
    7.8/10(50 votes)

    #23 - The Price of Terror

    S1:E8

    The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Flight Five Doesn't Answer
    7.8/10(53 votes)

    #24 - Flight Five Doesn't Answer

    S1:E15

    Mob assassins force a plane to crash, stranding Greer, Linc, and Pete and a government witness in the desert. All in search of five million dollars of missing mob money.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light
    7.8/10(54 votes)

    #25 - A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light

    S1:E18

    Blind author Jenny Wills is viciously attacked on the beach by an unknown assailant, who makes repeated attempts on her life. Unbeknowst to her, he thinks she saw him commit a crime.

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Time for Remembering" is the best rated episode of "The Mod Squad". It scored 8.4/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Gene Nelson and written by Harve Bennett, it aired on 3/3/1970. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Quiet Weekend in the Country".