NaN/100 votes#1 - For Members Only
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1968
Ross is hired to go undercover in an exclusive club to ferret out a cardsharp who has been fleecing some of its members.
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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - What Flowers Daisies Are
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1968
Ross is hired to find a missing model. At first the case seems routine but then he stumbles into a million dollar con game and murder.
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Along Came a Spider
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1968
Ross is hired by a woman who lent her fiancee $6,000. Then the poor fellow got himself killed and now his erstwhile intended wants her money back.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/107 votes
#4 - A Wide Place in the Road
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1968
Ross travels to a small town in search of a car thief and bail jumper who was once an athletic hero in the town.
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- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Cold as Ashes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1968
Ross is hired to carry the ashes of a recently deceased man from Los Angeles to San Francisco but soon discovers that others are following him with mayhem in their hearts. He then tries to figure out why.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/107 votes
#6 - A Time to Run
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1968
A defense attorney hires Ross to find a missing witness in a murder case. Ross finds him but then things go from bad to worse.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/107 votes
#7 - Love Is Under "L"
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1968
A millionaire hires Ross to find his missing galpal. Ross finds her and soon discovers that she is in hiding for good reason.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Twenty-Thousand Dollar Carrot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1968
Ross must try to return a man who supposedly died from his hiding place in Mexico back to the United States along with the insurance money he got after faking his death.
Director: Michael Ritchie
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - One Long Stemmed American Beauty
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1968
Ross begins to wonder if the suicide of a renowned stage and dancing legend was murder.
Director: N/A
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- 7.1/1011 votes
#10 - I Can't Hear You Scream
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1968
Ross is running down leads to save a convict from the gas chamber but he doesn't have much time remaining.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Tell It Like It Was--and You're Dead
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1968
A former burlesque queen hires Ross to find out who's been making death threats against her personage.
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - The Land of the Fox
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1968
On a case, Ross falls for a woman involved in the case and with some rough characters.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#13 - There Was a Little Girl
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1968
Ross is hired when a woman shows up on a millionaire's doorstep claiming that the girl she has raised is his. It all has to do with a twelve year old kidnapping case for which a ransom was paid yet the victim never seen again.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Girl from Missouri
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1969
A naive midwestern gal hires Ross to locate her missing brother. He soon learns that the sibling is involved with some very unsavory types.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Secret of Mareno Bay
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1969
Ross searches for a missing novelist in a town where most of the residents are glad that the man is gone.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Old School Tie
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1969
Ross's old prison buddy, who once saved his life, insists that the gumshoe join him in an extortion plot and he won't take no for an answer.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#17 - A Bowl of Cherries
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1969
When Ross offers to help out the son of an old friend he soon finds himself tangled up in a homicide.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Behind God's Back
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1969
Ross goes to Acapulco to find a millionaire's runaway daughter. He locates her among the jet set there then tries to convince her that some of her playmates are up to no good.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Take the Key and Lock Him Up
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1969
Investigating a shooting in a rural town, Ross is arrested on charges of selling marijuana.
Director: N/A
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- 6.8/107 votes
#20 - The Flip Side
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1969
A homely looking woman hires Ross to find her missing glamorous model twin sister. He finds her and discovers that she's mixed up in extortion and a narcotics trafficking ring.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Handle with Care
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1969
Hired by an insurance company to investigate a series of truck hijackings, Ross poses as a drifter named Leo Martin and joins the hijacking ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - All the Social Graces
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/12/1969
A crude and rough hewn millionaire hires Ross but he's killed before our protagonist can discover why he's been hired. Ross's investigation leads to an elegant tennis club which considered the deceased too uncouth for membership.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#23 - A Lot of Muscle
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/26/1969
Ross is hired by a hard as nails, unbending cop who's facing an indictment on a bribery charge. Suspecting a possible frame-up, he begins checking out the cop's enemies and the man has a whole bunch.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/109 votes
#24 - Periwinkle Blue
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/2/1969
A woman has already buried two previous husbands and her third hires Ross to make sure she's not planning on being a widow for the third time.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Service for One
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/9/1969
Ross is hired to tail a recently paroled convict who is supposedly the only person who knows the exact location of missing money in the amount of $250,000. But, as could be expected, he's not the only one searching for the missing loot.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Outsider Season 1
Every episode of The Outsider Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Outsider Season 1!
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"For Members Only" is the best rated episode of "The Outsider" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1968. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "What Flowers Daisies Are".