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COLLECTION · Series · 1974

Harry O

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.

Source: TMDB
* 5.2 (12)ActionAdventureDramaUnited States
Creators
Howard Rodman
Countries
United States
Studios
ABC · Warner Bros. Television
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
12/09/1974
Score
5.2 / 10 (12)

Awards and nominations

  • Winner at Primetime Emmy Awards — Anthony Zerbe
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Specials
Specials
2 episodes · 1973
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Episode 1. Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
1973-11-03 · 60 min

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…

Smile Jenny, You're Dead
Episode 2. Smile Jenny, You're Dead
1974-02-03 · 60 min

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

Season 1
Season 1
22 episodes · 1974
Gertrude
Episode 1. Gertrude
1974-09-12 · 60 min

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.

The Admiral's Lady
Episode 2. The Admiral's Lady
1974-09-19 · 60 min

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?

Guardian at the Gates
Episode 3. Guardian at the Gates
1974-09-26 · 60 min

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

Mortal Sin
Episode 4. Mortal Sin
1974-10-03 · 60 min

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

Coinage of the Realm
Episode 5. Coinage of the Realm
1974-10-10 · 60 min

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

Eyewitness
Episode 6. Eyewitness
1974-10-17 · 60 min

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

Shadows at Noon
Episode 7. Shadows at Noon
1974-10-24 · 60 min

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

Ballinger's Choice
Episode 8. Ballinger's Choice
1974-10-31 · 60 min

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

Second Sight
Episode 9. Second Sight
1974-11-07 · 60 min

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.

Material Witness
Episode 10. Material Witness
1974-11-14 · 60 min

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

Forty Reasons to Kill (1)
Episode 11. Forty Reasons to Kill (1)
1974-12-05 · 60 min

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

Forty Reasons to Kill (2)
Episode 12. Forty Reasons to Kill (2)
1974-12-12 · 60 min

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.

Accounts Balanced
Episode 13. Accounts Balanced
1974-12-26 · 60 min

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

The Last Heir
Episode 14. The Last Heir
1975-01-09 · 60 min

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

For the Love of Money
Episode 15. For the Love of Money
1975-01-16 · 60 min

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

The Confetti People
Episode 16. The Confetti People
1975-01-23 · 60 min

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.

Sound of Trumpets
Episode 17. Sound of Trumpets
1975-01-30 · 60 min

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.

Silent Kill
Episode 18. Silent Kill
1975-02-06 · 60 min

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

Double Jeopardy
Episode 19. Double Jeopardy
1975-02-13 · 60 min

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

Lester
Episode 20. Lester
1975-02-20 · 60 min

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

Elegy for a Cop
Episode 21. Elegy for a Cop
1975-02-27 · 60 min

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.

Street Games
Episode 22. Street Games
1975-03-02 · 60 min

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.

Season 2
Season 2
22 episodes · 1975
Anatomy of a Frame
Episode 1. Anatomy of a Frame
1975-09-11 · 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
Episode 2. One for the Road
1975-09-18 · 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
Episode 3. Lester Two
1975-09-25 · 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
Episode 4. Shades
1975-10-02 · 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
Episode 5. Portrait of a Murder
1975-11-20 · 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
Episode 6. The Acolyte
1975-10-16 · 60 min

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

Mayday
Episode 7. Mayday
1975-10-23 · 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
Episode 8. Tender Killing Care
1975-10-30 · 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
Episode 9. APB Harry Orwell
1975-11-06 · 60 min

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

Group Terror
Episode 10. Group Terror
1975-11-13 · 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
Episode 11. Reflections
1975-10-09 · 60 min

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

Exercise in Fatality
Episode 12. Exercise in Fatality
1975-12-04 · 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
Episode 13. The Madonna Legacy
1975-12-11 · 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
Episode 14. Mister Five and Dime
1976-01-08 · 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
Episode 15. Book of Changes
1976-01-15 · 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 extortionist.

Past Imperfect
Episode 16. Past Imperfect
1976-01-22 · 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
Episode 17. Hostage
1976-02-19 · 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
Episode 18. Forbidden City
1976-02-26 · 60 min

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

Victim
Episode 19. Victim
1976-03-04 · 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
Episode 20. Ruby
1976-03-11 · 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
Episode 21. The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
1976-03-18 · 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
Episode 22. Death Certificate
1976-04-29 · 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.

Cast by season
David Janssen
David Janssen
Harry Orwell
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe
Lt. K.C. Trench
Henry Darrow
Henry Darrow
Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan
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