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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. 8.9/10(47 votes)

    #1 - Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum

    S5:E14

    The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. 8.5/10(47 votes)

    #2 - 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
  3. 8.5/10(42 votes)

    #3 - Corbey

    S5:E9

    A policeman attempts to nab a pusher who's able to get off on technicalities.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. 8.4/10(37 votes)

    #4 - Death in High Places

    S5:E19

    The trio's investigation of a cover-up in a construction-site murder leads them to a pair of bad heavies.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. 8.3/10(61 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. 8.1/10(54 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. 8.1/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Eyes of the Beholder

    S5:E7

    A killer stalks Pete as he helps a formerly blind girl.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. 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. 8.0/10(35 votes)

    #9 - Sanctuary

    S5:E16

    Julie is put in the hospital when she's targeted by syndicate undercover agents.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. 8.0/10(37 votes)

    #10 - Run, Lincoln, Run

    S5:E17

    Linc tries to save his cabby friend from loan sharks.

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    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown
  12. 7.9/10(59 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. 7.9/10(52 votes)

    #12 - Keep the Faith, Baby

    S1:E23

    A murderer stalks the suspended priest who heard his confession.

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    Director:Gene Nelson
  14. 7.9/10(43 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. 7.9/10(41 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. 7.9/10(40 votes)

    #16 - A Gift for Jenny

    S5:E5

    A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. 7.9/10(33 votes)

    #17 - Good Times Are Just Memories

    S5:E8

    A dirty cop frames Pete for the murder of a confederate in crime.

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Unknown
  19. 7.9/10(30 votes)

    #18 - Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death

    S5:E20

    The trio investigates a euthanasia that may turn out to be murder. The accused man, who killed his terminally ill wife, claims she was in intolerable pain, but doctors say she was receiving too much morphine to be suffering that much.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
  20. 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. 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. 7.8/10(62 votes)

    #21 - My, What a Pretty Bus

    S1:E3

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    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Unknown
  23. 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. 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. 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. 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

"Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum" is the best rated episode of "The Mod Squad". It scored 8.9/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/7/1972. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Time for Remembering".