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The Best Episodes of The Mod Squad Season 5

Every episode of The Mod Squad Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Mod Squad Season 5!

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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 starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 1 - The Connection (1)
    7.7/10(53 votes)

    #1 - The Connection (1)

    S5:E1

    The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 2 - The Connection (2)
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #2 - The Connection (2)

    S5:E2

    The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 3 - The Thunder Makers
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #3 - The Thunder Makers

    S5:E3

    A youth joins a motorcycle gang that plans to pull off a robbery of his father's company.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 4 - Yesterday's Ashes
    7.9/10(35 votes)

    #4 - Yesterday's Ashes

    S5:E4

    The trio believes that plastic surgery may be the best way to rehabilitate a disfigured girl caught shoplifting.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 5 - A Gift for Jenny
    8.2/10(41 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 6 - Taps, Play It Louder
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #6 - Taps, Play It Louder

    S5:E6

    The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 7 - Eyes of the Beholder
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #7 - Eyes of the Beholder

    S5:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 8 - Good Times Are Just Memories
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #8 - Good Times Are Just Memories

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 9 - Corbey
    8.6/10(42 votes)

    #9 - Corbey

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 10 - Can You Hear Me Out There?
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #10 - Can You Hear Me Out There?

    S5:E10

    A rash of car thefts appear to be connected to a particular radio station and a puzzling code. Pete becomes friends with the car thief while Julie and Linc check out the station.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 11 - Another Final Game
    7.9/10(45 votes)

    #11 - Another Final Game

    S5:E11

    Pete and Julie pose as a newlywed couple to outsmart a master con artist.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 12 - Crime Club
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #12 - Crime Club

    S5:E12

    Students with high IQs commit crimes just for kicks.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 13 - The Twain
    7.8/10(30 votes)

    #13 - The Twain

    S5:E13

    A Korean girl finds trouble in her search for her American father. Pete accidentally hits her with his car after she runs from the scene of a murder she witnessed, and the killers are still after her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 14 - Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
    9.1/10(49 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 15 - Kristie
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #15 - Kristie

    S5:E15

    A little girl's father gets in trouble with jewel thieves just before Christmas. He leaves his daughter with Pete, an old friend, but then doesn't return for her as promised, and the trio tries to find him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 16 - Sanctuary
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Sanctuary

    S5:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 17 - Run, Lincoln, Run
    8.2/10(37 votes)

    #17 - Run, Lincoln, Run

    S5:E17

    Linc tries to save his cabby friend from loan sharks.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 18 - Don't Kill My Child
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #18 - Don't Kill My Child

    S5:E18

    A father is suspected of beating his own son.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 19 - Death in High Places
    8.6/10(37 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 20 - Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 21 - Scion of Death
    7.8/10(27 votes)

    #21 - Scion of Death

    S5:E21

    The parents of a kidnapped young man give the trio a hard time with their silence.

    Director:Daniel Haller
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 22 - The Night Holds Terror
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #22 - The Night Holds Terror

    S5:E22

    Julie is trapped in a strange house with an escaped lunatic.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 23 - Cry Uncle
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #23 - Cry Uncle

    S5:E23

    The visit of Captain Greer's eccentric Uncle Max, a Greek painter, coincides with a series of art thefts. The robberies are baffling police as the guards can recall no one entering or leaving the galleries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 24 - And Once for My Baby
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - And Once for My Baby

    S5:E24

    An imaginative thief plots a spectacular heist. The trio hopes to stop it before it happens, but they learn of another urgency.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Connection (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Mod Squad" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 53 votes. Directed by George McCowan and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/14/1972. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Connection (2)".