Harry O
A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.
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.
Seasons
1. Gertrude
Air Date: 1974-09-12
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.
2. The Admiral's Lady
Air Date: 1974-09-19
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?
3. Guardian at the Gates
Air Date: 1974-09-26
Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.
4. Mortal Sin
Air Date: 1974-10-03
A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.
5. Coinage of the Realm
Air Date: 1974-10-10
Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.
6. Eyewitness
Air Date: 1974-10-17
When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.
7. Shadows at Noon
Air Date: 1974-10-24
To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.
8. Ballinger's Choice
Air Date: 1974-10-31
When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.
9. Second Sight
Air Date: 1974-11-07
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.
10. Material Witness
Air Date: 1974-11-14
The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.
11. Forty Reasons to Kill (1)
Air Date: 1974-12-05
Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.
12. Forty Reasons to Kill (2)
Air Date: 1974-12-12
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.
13. Accounts Balanced
Air Date: 1974-12-26
An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.
14. The Last Heir
Air Date: 1975-01-09
Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.
15. For the Love of Money
Air Date: 1975-01-16
A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.
16. The Confetti People
Air Date: 1975-01-23
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.
17. Sound of Trumpets
Air Date: 1975-01-30
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.
18. Silent Kill
Air Date: 1975-02-06
Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.
19. Double Jeopardy
Air Date: 1975-02-13
An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.
20. Lester
Air Date: 1975-02-20
A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.
21. Elegy for a Cop
Air Date: 1975-02-27
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.
22. Street Games
Air Date: 1975-03-02
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.
1. Anatomy of a Frame
Air Date: 1975-09-11
When Lt. Trench is framed for the murder of an informant, Harry tries to help him by masquerading as a drug pusher.
2. One for the Road
Air Date: 1975-09-18
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.
3. Lester Two
Air Date: 1975-09-25
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.
4. Shades
Air Date: 1975-10-02
A wealthy woman hires Harry to help her housekeeper, who admits to murdering a small-time blackmailer but refuses to discuss the reason.
5. Portrait of a Murder
Air Date: 1975-11-20
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.
6. The Acolyte
Air Date: 1975-10-16
Harry looks for a missing heiress who seems to have taken sanctuary with a religious cult.
7. Mayday
Air Date: 1975-10-23
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.
8. Tender Killing Care
Air Date: 1975-10-30
Harry investigates the nursing home where his mechanic's father died suddenly, and Sue asks him to help some kids find their missing father.
9. APB Harry Orwell
Air Date: 1975-11-06
The only woman who can clear Harry of a murder charge refuses to testify.
10. Group Terror
Air Date: 1975-11-13
When a psychiatrist suspects that one of her group therapy patients murdered another, she hires Harry to join them, posing as an alcoholic.
11. Reflections
Air Date: 1975-10-09
Harry helps a man who has been accused of a series of strangulation murders.
12. Exercise in Fatality
Air Date: 1975-12-04
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.
13. The Madonna Legacy
Air Date: 1975-12-11
Harry searches for the connection between the suicide of an ex-cop and the shooting of an oil magnate the same night.
14. Mister Five and Dime
Air Date: 1976-01-08
An elderly counterfeiter, who prints only enough money to supplement his pension, is kidnapped by drug dealers who need $250,000 in a hurry.
15. Book of Changes
Air Date: 1976-01-15
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.
16. Past Imperfect
Air Date: 1976-01-22
A woman's former boyfriend returns from prison and wants the old suitcase he left with her, which he claims is worth $300,000.
17. Hostage
Air Date: 1976-02-19
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.
18. Forbidden City
Air Date: 1976-02-26
Harry investigates the murder of a fellow private eye in Chinatown.
19. Victim
Air Date: 1976-03-04
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.
20. Ruby
Air Date: 1976-03-11
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.
21. The Mysterious Case of Lester and Dr. Fong
Air Date: 1976-03-18
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.
22. Death Certificate
Air Date: 1976-04-29
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.
Select an episode to start watching
Rating
4.6/10
Release Date
1974-09-12
Episodes
44 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Television