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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...
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Season 1

  • For Members Only
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    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Flowers Daisies Are
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    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Along Came a Spider
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Wide Place in the Road
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    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Cold as Ashes
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Time to Run
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Love Is Under "L"
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Twenty-Thousand Dollar Carrot
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    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: Unknown

  • One Long Stemmed American Beauty
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • I Can't Hear You Scream
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Tell It Like It Was--and You're Dead
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    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Land of the Fox
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • There Was a Little Girl
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Girl from Missouri
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    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: Unknown

  • The Secret of Mareno Bay
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Old School Tie
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Bowl of Cherries
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Behind God's Back
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Take the Key and Lock Him Up
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Flip Side
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Handle with Care
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • All the Social Graces
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Lot of Muscle
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Periwinkle Blue
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    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: Unknown

  • Service for One
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    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: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Through a Stained Glass Window
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    Through a Stained Glass Window

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/16/1969

    Ross is hired to serve a subpoena on a Howard Hughes like millionaire who has never been photographed and uncovers a curious love affair along with a murder plot.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown