7.8/1092 votes#1 - The Teeth of the Barracuda
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1968
The daughter of a California governorial candidate is caught with drugs and is blackmailed.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1062 votes
#2 - Bad Man on Campus
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1968
Pete, Linc and Julie work undercover in a high school to break up a juvenile car theft ring.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
7.9/1059 votes#3 - My, What a Pretty Bus
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1968
No description available
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1059 votes
#4 - When Smitty Comes Marching Home
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1968
A Vietnam veteran awakens on the beach beside the body of his Army nemesis. Linc helps his old friend figure things out.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Harve Bennett
- 7.7/1058 votes
#5 - You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1968
A computer dating agency sets up to find very wealthy women and send out a young stud to rip them off.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1057 votes
#6 - A Time to Love -- A Time to Cry
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1968
After an LSD trip, photographer Robbie Larson wakes up beside the dead body of one of his models.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1061 votes
#7 - Find Tara Chapman!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1968
Unaware she has contagious meningitis, a singer who witnessed a mob murder flees the hospital.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Harve Bennett
- 7.8/1048 votes
#8 - The Price of Terror
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1968
The squad searches for the assailant behind the attempts on Greer's life, leading to the kidnapping of Julie in exchange for Greer.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1059 votes
#9 - A Quiet Weekend in the Country
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1968
An ex-convict tells Greer that drug pushers will be meeting at a rural trailer camp.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1050 votes
#10 - Love
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1968
Pete's cousin Karen turns to kidnapping to gain her parents attention after they are distracted by the new baby.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1050 votes
#11 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1968
This episode is one of the creepiest Mod Squad shows! The trio is planted in an acting community to find out who is killing the young starlet wannabes. Julie is staying at the same small apartment house where all the starlets are. Mrs. Petree who runs the place, and her very creepy son Norman (ugh very very disturbing portrayal). Norman has a habit of walking into the starlets rooms and sniffing their stockings and other unmentionables! The TV Host who is a perv and cant keep his clammy paws off of the starlets, and the abusive actor wannabe Timmy who thinks he is a Brando/Dean all are suspect, but dont count out the other characters.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Jerome Ross
- 7.6/1060 votes
#12 - The Guru
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1968
Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: Leigh Chapman
- 7.7/1048 votes
#13 - The Sunday Drivers
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1969
Linc is convinced that the death of his friend, Tommy Salido, a stunt-driver was not accidental. The trio investigates and uncover a drug smuggling operation.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
- 7.5/1049 votes
#14 - Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1969
No description available
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1051 votes
#15 - Flight Five Doesn't Answer
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1969
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.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1040 votes
#16 - Shell Game
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1969
No description available
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
- 6.3/1050 votes
#17 - Fear Is the Bucking Horse
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1969
Far West Acres is Western Rodeo where the squad is sent to protect former TV Cowboy star Billy Kilgore from a series of bizarre attacks against his life.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1052 votes
#18 - A Hint of Darkness, A Hint of Light
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1969
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
- 8.1/1052 votes
#19 - The Uptight Town
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1969
A racist town tries to pin a murder on a black man who had nothing to do with it.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1043 votes
#20 - A Reign of Guns
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1969
No description available
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
- 7.3/1045 votes
#21 - A Run for the Money
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1969
Pete falls for Ginny, who believes her jailed father is innocent of robbery.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
- 7.8/1049 votes
#22 - Child of Sorrow, Child of Light
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/18/1969
Julie poses as an unwed mother to infiltrate an extortion racket that blackmails parents of adopted babies.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1049 votes
#23 - Keep the Faith, Baby
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1969
A murderer stalks the suspended priest who heard his confession.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Harve Bennett
7.8/1040 votes#24 - Captain Greer, Call Surgery
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1969
Greer thinks a series of hospital drug robberies are inside jobs. The trio poses as hospital staff to solve this case.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
- 7.6/1045 votes
#25 - Peace Now -- Arly Blau
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/8/1969
Linc and Pete go undercover as prison inmates to protect the life of a convicted draft dodger, whose father is a General in the Vietnam War.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Mod Squad Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Teeth of the Barracuda" is the best rated episode of "The Mod Squad" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Lee H. Katzin and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bad Man on Campus".