The Mod Squad: Season 4
Season 4 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 The Mod Squad Season 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
The Sentinels
Sep 14, 1971 · 60 min
While searching for a pair of murderers, the trio uncovers a link between murder, a stolen car and a threatened epidemic.
Cricket
Sep 21, 1971 · 60 min
Julie and a young boy named Cricket go to the park where Cricket finds a gun dropped by a man he runs into. Cricket then accidentally shoots Julie and, thinking he's killed her, ru
Home Is the Streets
Sep 28, 1971 · 60 min
A former addict helps the trio catch a cop killer - her own stepfather.
Survival
Oct 5, 1971 · 60 min
After Julie picks up a blind hitchhiker, they have a flat tire and flag down a passing car for help. Unfortunately, the people in the car trick them into switching cars and abandon
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
Oct 12, 1971 · 60 min
A circus owner asks the trio for help in finding out who's committed sabotage and murder in the big top.
The Medicine Men
Oct 19, 1971 · 60 min
Julie is drawn into a bittersweet romance and blackmail.
The Sands of Anger
Oct 26, 1971 · 60 min
Julie, Linc and Pete attend a dune buggy race where a pickup truck blows up, killing a young man Julie had just met. The trio then investigate the incident, suspecting foul play.
The Poisoned Mind
Nov 2, 1971 · 60 min
After Captain Greer shoots and kills a young man in self defense during a bust, he suffers from feelings of guilt and remorse. Julie suggests he take a vacation at a secluded resor
Exit the Closer
Nov 9, 1971 · 60 min
The trio helps a used-car salesman who's made a deal with the devil.
Whatever Happened to Linc Hayes?
Nov 16, 1971 · 60 min
On his way to the liquor store, Linc is mugged and hit over the head. When he comes to, he wanders around in a daze, unable to remember who he is or what he was doing.
And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them
Nov 23, 1971 · 60 min
The trio must protect a TV clown from an assassination attempt.
Death of a Nobody
Dec 7, 1971 · 60 min
The trio investigates after an innocent bystander is killed by a speeding car after it narrowly misses Pete.
Feet of Clay
Dec 14, 1971 · 60 min
The Trio help a young deaf-mute save a guard from a warehouse fire. Linc then gets involved with helping the young-deaf mute who is targeted for assassination.
I Am My Brother's Keeper
Jan 4, 1972 · 60 min
Pete is targeted by the very gunman he's tracking down.
Deal with the Devil
Jan 11, 1972 · 60 min
Pete is contacted by his old friend Rusty Bryson, a war correspondent whom he knew and idolized as a boy. But the Treasury department is looking for Bryson, who it suspects of smug
Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie
Jan 18, 1972 · 60 min
The trio and Greer know that a paroled killer plans to get revenge on Pete, but Pete has no idea why the man is out to get him.
Shockwave
Jan 25, 1972 · 60 min
Julie grows attached to a baby that's been abandoned by a couple on a robbery and murder spree.
No More Oak Leaves for Ernie Holland
Feb 1, 1972 · 60 min
A Vietnam veteran returns to the police force with questionable ideas of dealing with dissident ghetto residents.
The Cave
Feb 8, 1972 · 60 min
Julie, Link and Pete break down in the desert during a sandstorm and seek shelter in an abandoned mine. An old man embittered by the death of his son in the war who hates hippies t
The Wild Weekend
Feb 15, 1972 · 60 min
When Pete runs into an old girlfriend, she invites him to her birthday party but he turns her down, only to be kidnapped by her two friends and forced to attend the party.
The Tangled Web
Feb 22, 1972 · 60 min
Pete and Linc come close to breaking the law as they attempt to help a parolee, an old friend of Julie's, return stolen jewelry.
Outside Position
Feb 29, 1972 · 60 min
A stable boy's employer frames him for possessing drugs and continues conspiring against him after his parole, all in order to stop the young man's romance with his daughter.
Big George
Mar 7, 1972 · 60 min
A man happens to witness the murder of a sales clerk and agrees to testify at the trial. As a result he and his family are relentlessly terrorized by someone, even after the trial