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The F.B.I.
The F.B.I.
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The F.B.I.

5.6 / 10 · 25 votes
TV-14
1965
~1h / ep
9 seasons
241 episodes
CrimeDramaMystery

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

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Cast

William Reynolds

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Philip Abbott

Marvin Miller

Shelly Novack

Stephen Brooks

Lynn Loring

Anthony Eisley

Dean Harens

James B. Sikking

Dabbs Greer

Forrest Compton

Seasons

  • The Monster

    1.The Monster

    19-09-19651h

    Case file #76-3342-J- Francis Jerome - Escaped Federal Prisoner.

  • Ep 2

    2.Image in a Cracked Mirror

    26-09-19651h

    Case file #29-68954-G - Charles Emery Gates - Federal Reserve Act, Embezzlement.

  • Ep 3

    3.A Mouthful of Dust

    03-10-19651h

    Case file #70-68307-C - Joseph Cloud - Crime on Indian Reservation.

  • Ep 4

    4.Slow March Up a Steep Hill

    10-10-19651h

    Case file #91-77270-X - Wayne Everett Powell - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicle.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Insolents

    17-10-19651h

    Case file #45-47339-Y - Roger York - Crime on the High Seas - Murder.

  • Ep 6

    6.To Free My Enemy

    24-10-19651h

    The good inspector has the distasteful job of finding a kidnap victim--a pornographer that the good inspector is trying build a case against. In the end, Erskine captures the kidna...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Problem of the Honorable Wife

    31-10-19651h

    Case file #98-63520-M - Maury Maddock - Sabotage.

  • Ep 8

    8.Courage of a Conviction

    07-11-19651h

    Case file #87-633462-C - Harry Castle - Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Fraudulent Checks.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Exiles

    14-11-19651h

    Case file #2-46675-R - General Romero, et al. - Violation of Neutrality Act.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Giant Killer

    21-11-19651h

    Case file #52-19223-W - Joseph Maurice Walker - Destruction of Government Property.

  • All the Streets Are Silent

    11.All the Streets Are Silent

    28-11-19651h

    Case file #52-499362-M - Mike Murtaugh - Theft of Government Property.

  • Ep 12

    12.An Elephant is Like a Rope

    05-12-19651h

    Case file #87-52739-X - John Doe - Interstate Transsportation of Stolen Property. $500,000 that nobody would claim, and a man who has lost his memory are Inspector Erskine's and A...

  • How to Murder an Iron Horse

    13.How to Murder an Iron Horse

    12-12-19651h

    Case File #9-74219-C - Howard Spencer Collier Jr. - Extortion. Inspector Lew Erskine and Special Agent Jim Rhodes hunt a young man involved with railroad sabotage.

  • Ep 14

    14.Pound of Flesh

    19-12-19651h

    The FBI Investigates the murder of an Army Chaplains wife on an U.S. Army base.

  • Ep 15

    15.The Hijackers

    26-12-19651h

    Case file #15-9436-S - Harold K. Smith - Theft from Interstate Shipment.

  • Ep 16

    16.The Forests of the Night

    02-01-19661h

    Case file #9-26080-X Adam MacDonald, et al., Victims - Extortion.

  • The Chameleon

    17.The Chameleon

    09-01-19661h

    Case file #29-31091-C - Andrew S. Cook, Jr., with Aliases - Violation of Federal Reserve Act, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, Murder. A clever confidence man of a th...

  • The Sacrifice

    18.The Sacrifice

    16-01-19661h

    Case file #65-9525-X - The Doriskin Papers - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine infiltrates a spy network and is marked for assassination.

  • Ep 19

    19.Special Delivery

    23-01-19661h

    Case file #91-42238-P - Robert Charles Porter - Bank Robbery, Unlawful Flight, Murder. Inspector Erskine goes undercover to crack an inter-hemisphere fugitive smuggling ring.

  • Ep 20

    20.Quantico

    30-01-19661h

    Case File #52-7672-S - Willard Smith - Destruction of Government Property. A plot to destroy The Supreme Court Building could cost an F.B.I. agent his job.

  • The Spy Master

    21.The Spy Master

    06-02-19661h

    Case file #65-4948-X - The Forsythe Memo - Espionage. Inspector Lew Erskine masquerades as a traitor to break up a Red Chinese spy operation.

  • Ep 22

    22.The Baby Sitter

    13-02-19661h

    Case file #7-1101-D - Mrs. Amy Doucette - Kidnapping. Lew Erskine leads a three state search for a deranged woman who kidnaps an infant she has been baby-sitting.

  • Flight to Harbin

    23.Flight to Harbin

    27-02-19661h

    Case file #164-4391-K - Charles Wallace King - Alias Ernest C. Putnam - Crime Aboard Aircraft - Piracy - Attempted Murder. Inspector Erskine must save the lives of airline passeng...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake

    06-03-19661h

    Case file #115-28414-T - Mark Stephen Tabor - Bond Default, Fraud Against The Government, Unlawful Flight.

  • Ep 25

    25.The Divided Man

    20-03-19661h

    Case file #98-81829-M - Roger Leroy Mason - Sabotage.

  • Ep 26

    26.The Defector (1)

    27-03-19661h

    Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. seeks to protect the life of an Eastern European cryptographer who defects to the United States.

  • Ep 27

    27.The Defector (2)

    03-04-19661h

    Case file #65-22317-H - The Holman Defection - Espionage. The F.B.I. plays a deadly game of espionage with foreign assassins who seek the life of an Eastern European defector to t...

  • Ep 28

    28.The Tormentors

    10-04-19661h

    Case file #7-4929-D - Logan Clyde Dupree, John Carl Brock, Anita James - Kidnapping. A desperate father jeopardizes the life of his kidnapped son when he defies F.B.I. warnings to...

  • Ep 29

    29.The Animal

    17-04-19661h

    Case file #76-2947-C - Earl Clayton, Roy Joe Spencer, et al. - Escaped Federal Prisoners, Killing a Federal Officer.

  • Ep 30

    30.The Plunderers

    24-04-19661h

    Case file #91-62290-H - King Hogan, Frank Donald Collins, Otto Hans Breese, Edward Ralph Richards - Bank Robbery, Murder. The F.B.I. leads a search for bank robbers who did not ta...

  • Ep 31

    31.The Bomb That Walked Like a Man

    01-05-19661h

    Case file #7-76881-H - Dale Vernon Hillman - Kidnapping, Murder. Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a para-military hate group.

  • Ep 32

    32.The Hiding Place

    08-05-19661h

    Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during W...

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