10.0/101 votes#1 - Angels in Vegas (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1978
After showgirl Mary Phillips becomes the second employee of the Tropicana Hotel and Casino to perish in a deadly auto accident, Tropicana owner Frank Howell hires the Angels to establish a motive for the killings. Kelly joins the hotel's show as a dancer, while Kris is hired as the new backup singer for lounge star Marty Cole.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
10.0/101 votes#2 - Terror on Skis (1)
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1979
A U.S. government agent is killed on the slopes of Vail, Colorado, while investigating a rumor that someone will kidnap Carl Hansworth, a special aide to the President. Fearing that the identity of all federal agents has been compromised, the government turns to outside help- the Angels- to provide protection.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
10.0/101 votes#3 - Marathon Angels
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1979
The Angels investigate the mysterious disappearance of Sylvia and Sally, two participants in a promotional running race. Kris and Kelly enter the race and must literally chase their suspects.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
10.0/101 votes#4 - Love Boat Angels (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1979
Five million dollars worth of gold and bronze artwork is stolen in spectacular fashion from the Los Angeles Harbor. The insurance company that covered the artwork sends an agent to brief the Angels, and Charlie sends them on a Carribean cruise to intercept the dashing thief, Paul Hollister, and his accomplice, Wes Anderson. With Sabrina now married and retired from detective work, Kelly and Kris are joined by a new recruit, Tiffany Welles. Bosley stays in LA to trail Eleanor Case, the fence for the merchandise.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
10.0/101 votes#5 - Pilot Error
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
A plane carrying Steve, a senator, and the senator's aides crashes in the desert. Steve must lead the others to safety despite being blinded in the crash.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
9.0/101 votes#6 - The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1960
Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.0/102 votes#7 - Aura Lee, Farewell
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1975
Jim's old friend Sara Butler hires him to find out the real reason her employee Aura Lee Benton died. The police believe it was a drug overdose but Sara is convinced she was murdered.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
8.0/101 votes#8 - The Italian Bird Fiasco
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1976
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Director: Jackie Cooper
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.5/102 votes#9 - Claire
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1975
Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.3/103 votes#10 - Roundabout
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1975
An insurance company hires Rockford to locate a missing woman who is due an inheritance. He finds her in Las Vegas where she is an unwitting pawn in a money laundering operation.
Director: Lou Antonio
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.0/103 votes#11 - The Trap
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
In a ruined city, Burke and Urko are trapped underground and must reluctantly work together to escape, while Alan and Galen must deal with Urko's gorilla patrol in the streets above.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
7.0/101 votes#12 - Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Hearts
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1976
Dedicated Detectives Starsky and Hutch are working undercover at a plush Hollywood dance studio, as a dance teacher and student respectively, to investigate an extortion racket operating from the club that lures members into compromising situations, and then bribes the victims for large amounts of money...
Director: Fernando Lamas
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
6.5/101 votes#13 - Run for the Money
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1971
Syndicate members Trask and Mason control the Syndicate's illegal racing operations, while Trask ruthlessly dispatches the competition - the IMF must take them out. Trask is jealous of thoroughbred owner Mason so Jim offers him a mysterious but promising racehorse - Trask finds out the horse is a kidnapped fast-racer. The IMF arrange for him to get the horse and then place a number of bets on the horse in Trask's name. After keeping Mason from having the horse killed, Trask's horse wins and the IMF get the $4 million from the Syndicate funds, leaving Trask to hold the bag.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
6.5/102 votes#14 - The Connection
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1971
Reese Dolan is the new Syndicate heroin distributor on the East Coast. Dolan uses an island base off the coast of northwest Africa and is going to use it as a distribution point for heroin into the U.S - the IMF must identify his overseas opium source and get the evidence to convict him. Dolan is being financed by an underworld figure, Madame Renada, whom he has never met, so Jim and Barney fly him and his men not to the island but to a lookalike off the coast of Georgia, where Casey assumes the role of Renada. Reese calls his distributor in Istanbul and the IMF has the delivery plane taken into custody. An IMF flyer makes the delivery which Dolan apparently converts to heroin and sends on its way, while Reese's supplier, Hajii, suspects a double-cross when his pilot doesn't return and calls Dolan's distributor, Cleff. Willy tries to sell heroin to Clegg and then is ""forced"" to tell that Dolan still has it, then lead Clegg to the fake island. Dolan finds out he still has the opium, and
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
6.3/103 votes#15 - The Cure
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1974
Thanks to their advanced medical knowledge, Burke and Virdon are able to help a village struck with malaria, but risk discovery.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
6.0/101 votes#16 - Rabbit's Feet
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1984
Colt and his assistants become fugitives after they are involved in a jail break in Argentina.
Director: Daniel Haller
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.5/102 votes#17 - Hellride
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1976
Sabrina pretends to be a racecar driver when the girls go undercover to investigate a conspiracy surrounding the death of a female racer.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.5/102 votes#18 - Angel Trap
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1977
The Angels try to stop an assassin intent on killing members of the WW II French underground. Sabrina poses as the girlfriend of the next victim.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.3/1036 votes#19 - And the Children Shall Lead
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1968
On a distant planet, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a scientific team dead, and their children who, unknown to the crew, have great powers at their disposal.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.0/102 votes#20 - Eagles
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1985
At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.0/101 votes#21 - The Traitor
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1967
An American intelligence officer, Hughes, has defected to the enemy with the only copy of an encoded top-secret message. The IMF must get to him, get him out, discredit him, and recover the message before the enemy can get a cryptographer, Belson, to work on the message. Rollin takes Belson's place, and sets it up so that Ambassador Brazneck, in charge of Hughes, believes that Dan is going to buy the papers from someone in the embassy. Rollin-as-Belson works with Hughes to decode the message, then drugs him. Willy gets special agent Tina Mera, a contortionist and acrobat, into the embassy through a fake air duct. She uses a fake bed covering to make Hughes ""disappear"", then break into the vault and get the real message. With Hughes out, Briggs picks up the fake message from someone pretending to be Hughes, who has ""disappeared"" from the embassy. Tina returns, plants money on Hughes, and removes the fake disappearing bed cover. Brazneck believes Hughes has betrayed him and Hughes flees
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
5.0/101 votes#22 - Imitation
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1973
The Marnsburg Crown Jewels were brought to the U.S. and stolen from the UN Building - Jena Cole, a thief, is believed responsible but have no leads on the location of the jewels. The IMF must recover the jewels before the hostile Marnsburg government makes a case out of it. Jena is to turn the jewels over to the Syndicate, which financed the theft. Barney manage to get close to Jena and she finds he has plans to the Marnsburg Consulate. Meanwhile, the IMF return the ""real"" jewels, claiming the first ones were fake and confirming it throuigh her diamond fence (a IMF replacement). Jena and Barney team up to get into the consulate and steal the ""real"" jewels and turns them over to Jim the creditor, so Jena tries to fake him out for substituting her supposedly fake gems for the ""real"" ones, then sneak out. The Syndicate shows up and figures out which gems are which, and the police take everyone, including Jena, into custody.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
4.5/102 votes#23 - Break-In at Santa Paula
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1986
The wife of a deceased old friend of Hawke's begs him to rescue her son Terry, who is in a corrupt Mexican prison after being framed, with a bad heart condition. After visiting the prison posing as the boy's uncle, in order to survey the layout, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin make the rescue bit; but the attempt fails when Terry attempts to take an ill friend with them, causing Hawke himself to be captured and held in the prison...
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
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"Angels in Vegas (1)" is the best rated episode written by Edward J. Lakso. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 9/13/1978 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Terror on Skis (1)".