Harry O: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Harry O Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Anatomy of a Frame
Sep 11, 1975 · 60 min
When Lt. Trench is framed for the murder of an informant, Harry tries to help him by masquerading as a drug pusher.
One for the Road
Sep 18, 1975 · 60 min
An alcoholic attorney, unable to recall the events following a party the night before, hires Harry to ascertain whether she was the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Lester Two
Sep 25, 1975 · 60 min
Student criminologist Lester Hodges returns to bedevil Harry when diamond smugglers kidnap Harry's stewardess friend Sue, and force him to make an unexpected trip to Paris.
Shades
Oct 2, 1975 · 60 min
A wealthy woman hires Harry to help her housekeeper, who admits to murdering a small-time blackmailer but refuses to discuss the reason.
Portrait of a Murder
Nov 20, 1975 · 60 min
Harry's investigation into the murder of another private eye results in a painful reunion with his ex-wife, who visited the victim just before he died.
The Acolyte
Oct 16, 1975 · 60 min
Harry looks for a missing heiress who seems to have taken sanctuary with a religious cult.
Mayday
Oct 23, 1975 · 60 min
Harry investigates the possibility that a plane crash which killed an old war buddy and paralyzed a U.S. senator was the result of sabotage.
Tender Killing Care
Oct 30, 1975 · 60 min
Harry investigates the nursing home where his mechanic's father died suddenly, and Sue asks him to help some kids find their missing father.
APB Harry Orwell
Nov 6, 1975 · 60 min
The only woman who can clear Harry of a murder charge refuses to testify.
Group Terror
Nov 13, 1975 · 60 min
When a psychiatrist suspects that one of her group therapy patients murdered another, she hires Harry to join them, posing as an alcoholic.
Reflections
Oct 9, 1975 · 60 min
Harry helps a man who has been accused of a series of strangulation murders.
Exercise in Fatality
Dec 4, 1975 · 60 min
A cop framed for murder hires Harry to find his estranged daughter, a pregnant teenage addict who's on the run from killers but is the only one who can clear him.
The Madonna Legacy
Dec 11, 1975 · 60 min
Harry searches for the connection between the suicide of an ex-cop and the shooting of an oil magnate the same night.
Mister Five and Dime
Jan 8, 1976 · 60 min
An elderly counterfeiter, who prints only enough money to supplement his pension, is kidnapped by drug dealers who need $250,000 in a hurry.
Book of Changes
Jan 15, 1976 · 60 min
The murder of a gambling-club owner leaves Harry with two jobs: caring for her homeless protege, and searching for a book she compiled that would be worth a fortune to an extortion
Past Imperfect
Jan 22, 1976 · 60 min
A woman's former boyfriend returns from prison and wants the old suitcase he left with her, which he claims is worth $300,000.
Hostage
Feb 19, 1976 · 60 min
Lt. Trench is among the hostages held in a liquor store by a desperate veteran who demands that his addicted girlfriend be found and brought to him within two hours.
Forbidden City
Feb 26, 1976 · 60 min
Harry investigates the murder of a fellow private eye in Chinatown.
Victim
Mar 4, 1976 · 60 min
Harry is hired by a rape victim, whose charge is likely to be dismissed because she made a false accusation against another man in a rape case some years before.
Ruby
Mar 11, 1976 · 60 min
A ghetto youth is caught in an aborted car theft that causes the death of an officer, and is threatened with death if he reveals the name of his companion who was doing the driving
The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
Mar 18, 1976 · 60 min
Young criminologist Lester Hodges returns and teams up with his college mentor to find out who is systematically killing off members of Lester's family.
Death Certificate
Apr 29, 1976 · 60 min
Defying mysterious threats, two women hire Harry to find proof of malpractice against the doctor they hold responsible for the death of an old man in their family.