The Mod Squad: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
The Connection (1)
Sep 14, 1972 · 60 min
The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.
The Connection (2)
Sep 14, 1972 · 60 min
The trio go undercover to take down an international drug ring.
The Thunder Makers
Sep 21, 1972 · 60 min
A youth joins a motorcycle gang that plans to pull off a robbery of his father's company.
Yesterday's Ashes
Sep 28, 1972 · 60 min
The trio believes that plastic surgery may be the best way to rehabilitate a disfigured girl caught shoplifting.
A Gift for Jenny
Oct 5, 1972 · 60 min
A fur coat is the only lead the trio has in a case involving kidnapping and murder that has them baffled.
Taps, Play It Louder
Oct 12, 1972 · 60 min
The trio searches for Julie's cousin, a Vietnam veteran who missed his stop when he took the bus home.
Eyes of the Beholder
Oct 19, 1972 · 60 min
A killer stalks Pete as he helps a formerly blind girl.
Good Times Are Just Memories
Oct 26, 1972 · 60 min
A dirty cop frames Pete for the murder of a confederate in crime.
Corbey
Nov 2, 1972 · 60 min
A policeman attempts to nab a pusher who's able to get off on technicalities.
Can You Hear Me Out There?
Nov 9, 1972 · 60 min
A rash of car thefts appear to be connected to a particular radio station and a puzzling code. Pete becomes friends with the car thief while Julie and Linc check out the station.
Another Final Game
Nov 16, 1972 · 60 min
Pete and Julie pose as a newlywed couple to outsmart a master con artist.
The Twain
Nov 30, 1972 · 60 min
A Korean girl finds trouble in her search for her American father. Pete accidentally hits her with his car after she runs from the scene of a murder she witnessed, and the killers
Belinda -- End of Little Miss Bubble Gum
Dec 7, 1972 · 60 min
The squad must determine if a former child star is a klutz or a target for murder.
Kristie
Dec 14, 1972 · 60 min
A little girl's father gets in trouble with jewel thieves just before Christmas. He leaves his daughter with Pete, an old friend, but then doesn't return for her as promised, and t
Sanctuary
Dec 21, 1973 · 60 min
Julie is put in the hospital when she's targeted by syndicate undercover agents.
Run, Lincoln, Run
Jan 4, 1973 · 60 min
Linc tries to save his cabby friend from loan sharks.
Death in High Places
Jan 25, 1973 · 60 min
The trio's investigation of a cover-up in a construction-site murder leads them to a pair of bad heavies.
Put Out the Welcome Mat for Death
Feb 1, 1973 · 60 min
The trio investigates a euthanasia that may turn out to be murder. The accused man, who killed his terminally ill wife, claims she was in intolerable pain, but doctors say she was
Scion of Death
Feb 8, 1973 · 60 min
The parents of a kidnapped young man give the trio a hard time with their silence.
The Night Holds Terror
Feb 15, 1973 · 60 min
Julie is trapped in a strange house with an escaped lunatic.
Cry Uncle
Feb 22, 1973 · 60 min
The visit of Captain Greer's eccentric Uncle Max, a Greek painter, coincides with a series of art thefts. The robberies are baffling police as the guards can recall no one entering
And Once for My Baby
Mar 1, 1973 · 60 min
An imaginative thief plots a spectacular heist. The trio hopes to stop it before it happens, but they learn of another urgency.