- 7.8/1094 votes7.8/10(94)
#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
- 7.8/1064 votes7.8/10(64)
#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
- 7.8/1060 votes7.8/10(60)
#3 - My, What a Pretty Bus
Season 1 Episode 3
Aired 10/8/1968
- 7.5/1060 votes7.5/10(60)
#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
- 7.7/1059 votes7.7/10(59)
#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
- 7.9/1058 votes7.9/10(58)
#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
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- 7.8/1062 votes7.8/10(62)
#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
- 7.8/1049 votes7.8/10(49)
#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
- 8.4/1060 votes8.4/10(60)
#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
- 7.5/1051 votes7.5/10(51)
#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
- 7.7/1051 votes7.7/10(51)
#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
- 7.6/1061 votes7.6/10(61)
#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
- 7.7/1049 votes7.7/10(49)
#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
- 7.6/1050 votes7.6/10(50)
#14 - Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
Season 1 Episode 14
Aired 1/14/1969
- 7.8/1052 votes7.8/10(52)
#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
- 7.5/1041 votes7.5/10(41)
#16 - Shell Game
Season 1 Episode 16
Aired 1/29/1969
- 6.3/1051 votes6.3/10(51)
#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
- 7.9/1053 votes7.9/10(53)
#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
- 8.1/1053 votes8.1/10(53)
#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
- 7.1/1045 votes7.1/10(45)
#20 - A Reign of Guns
Season 1 Episode 20
Aired 2/25/1969
- 7.3/1046 votes7.3/10(46)
#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
- 7.8/1050 votes7.8/10(50)
#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 votes7.8/10(49)
#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 votes7.8/10(40)
#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 votes7.6/10(45)
#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
Every episode of The Mod Squad Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Mod Squad Season 1!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:ABC
Episodes
26
Avg. Rating
7.7
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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 94 votes. Directed by Lee H. Katzin and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/1968. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Bad Man on Campus".