Harry O

Harry O

A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.

Ended First aired 12/Sep/1974 United States English 3 season(s) 46 episode(s)

Drama Action & Adventure

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

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Season 2 · Season 2

22 episode(s) · Air date: 11/Sep/1975

Season Overview

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S2E22

Death Certificate

Air date: 29/Apr/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E21

The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong

Air date: 18/Mar/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E20

Ruby

Air date: 11/Mar/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E19

Victim

Air date: 04/Mar/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E18

Forbidden City

Air date: 26/Feb/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry investigates the murder of a fellow private eye in Chinatown.

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S2E17

Hostage

Air date: 19/Feb/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E16

Past Imperfect

Air date: 22/Jan/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A woman's former boyfriend returns from prison and wants the old suitcase he left with her, which he claims is worth $300,000.

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S2E15

Book of Changes

Air date: 15/Jan/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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 extortionist.

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S2E14

Mister Five and Dime

Air date: 08/Jan/1976 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

An elderly counterfeiter, who prints only enough money to supplement his pension, is kidnapped by drug dealers who need $250,000 in a hurry.

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S2E13

The Madonna Legacy

Air date: 11/Dec/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry searches for the connection between the suicide of an ex-cop and the shooting of an oil magnate the same night.

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S2E12

Exercise in Fatality

Air date: 04/Dec/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E11

Reflections

Air date: 09/Oct/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry helps a man who has been accused of a series of strangulation murders.

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S2E10

Group Terror

Air date: 13/Nov/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

When a psychiatrist suspects that one of her group therapy patients murdered another, she hires Harry to join them, posing as an alcoholic.

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S2E9

APB Harry Orwell

Air date: 06/Nov/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

The only woman who can clear Harry of a murder charge refuses to testify.

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S2E8

Tender Killing Care

Air date: 30/Oct/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry investigates the nursing home where his mechanic's father died suddenly, and Sue asks him to help some kids find their missing father.

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S2E7

Mayday

Air date: 23/Oct/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E6

The Acolyte

Air date: 16/Oct/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry looks for a missing heiress who seems to have taken sanctuary with a religious cult.

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S2E5

Portrait of a Murder

Air date: 20/Nov/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E4

Shades

Air date: 02/Oct/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A wealthy woman hires Harry to help her housekeeper, who admits to murdering a small-time blackmailer but refuses to discuss the reason.

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S2E3

Lester Two

Air date: 25/Sep/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E2

One for the Road

Air date: 18/Sep/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

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.

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S2E1

Anatomy of a Frame

Air date: 11/Sep/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

When Lt. Trench is framed for the murder of an informant, Harry tries to help him by masquerading as a drug pusher.

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Season 1 · Season 1

22 episode(s) · Air date: 12/Sep/1974

Season Overview

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S1E22

Street Games

Air date: 02/Mar/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.

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S1E21

Elegy for a Cop

Air date: 27/Feb/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.

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S1E20

Lester

Air date: 20/Feb/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.

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S1E19

Double Jeopardy

Air date: 13/Feb/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.

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S1E18

Silent Kill

Air date: 06/Feb/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.

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S1E17

Sound of Trumpets

Air date: 30/Jan/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.

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S1E16

The Confetti People

Air date: 23/Jan/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.

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S1E15

For the Love of Money

Air date: 16/Jan/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.

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S1E14

The Last Heir

Air date: 09/Jan/1975 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.

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S1E13

Accounts Balanced

Air date: 26/Dec/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.

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S1E12

Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

Air date: 12/Dec/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.

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S1E11

Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

Air date: 05/Dec/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.

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S1E10

Material Witness

Air date: 14/Nov/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.

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S1E9

Second Sight

Air date: 07/Nov/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.

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S1E8

Ballinger's Choice

Air date: 31/Oct/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.

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S1E7

Shadows at Noon

Air date: 24/Oct/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.

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S1E6

Eyewitness

Air date: 17/Oct/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.

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S1E5

Coinage of the Realm

Air date: 10/Oct/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.

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S1E4

Mortal Sin

Air date: 03/Oct/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.

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S1E3

Guardian at the Gates

Air date: 26/Sep/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.

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S1E2

The Admiral's Lady

Air date: 19/Sep/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?

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S1E1

Gertrude

Air date: 12/Sep/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.

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Season 0 · Specials

2 episode(s) · Air date: 03/Nov/1973

Season Overview

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S0E2

Smile Jenny, You're Dead

Air date: 03/Feb/1974 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

2nd pilot movie. A private detective begins investigating the death of his police lieutenant friend's son-in-law and becomes involved with the prime suspect, the lieutenant's daughter

S0E1

Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On

Air date: 03/Nov/1973 · Time: 22:00 · Runtime: 60 min

Summary

Harry Orwell is a LA cop who is retired due to a bullet in his back. Now a Private Detective, Harry O. is hired by the man who shot him to find the other man who was involved in the shooting. Scheerer is trying to kill Garrison and also keep his heroin business alive. Harry O. wants to bring both to justice. First Pilot movie.

Cast

Main cast members.

David Janssen

Anthony Zerbe

Lt. K.C. Trench

Henry Darrow

Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan

Lani O'Grady

William Sylvester

William Sylvester

Clifford David

Ned Romero

Deputy Pete Gutierrez

Jester Hairston

Jester Hairston

Susan Strasberg

Susan Strasberg

Leif Erickson

Laurence Luckinbill

Laurence Luckinbill

Karen Lynn Gorney

Karen Lynn Gorney

Mike Farrell

Diane Shalet

Rosalind Cash

Barry Sullivan

Eric Server

Crew

Creators, directors, writers, and production crew.

Craig R. Baxley

Craig R. Baxley

Daryl Duke

Harry Falk

Jerry Thorpe

John Newland

Russ Mayberry

Buck Houghton

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Quick Facts

Seasons 3

Episodes 46

Year 1974

Status Ended

Runtime 60 min

Language English

Country United States

Release Info

Schedule Thursdays at 10:00 PM (60 min)

Timezone America/New_York

Content

Drama Action & Adventure

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Network United States ABC (1974 - 1976)

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Schedule Thursdays at 10:00 PM (60 min)

Timezone America/New_York

Network United States ABC (1974 - 1976)

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