The Rookies

- Season 4

(1975)

Lt. Ryker befriends the son of an arrested burglar, only to be taken hostage by the boy's escaped father.

When a youth leaps to his death, the Rookies enlist the aid of another kid to trace the drug source.

A gang of thieves and gun runners take Terry hostage to trade for their hospitalized leader. Mike is seriously wounded during the arrest. The leader attempts to break out. How will Terry survive?

Terry pursues two young men who gave an unidentified 19-year-old girl drugs which subsequently lead to her death in a car accident.

After Jill Danko and one of the doctors from the hospital are taken hostage at the women's prison farm, officers Danko, Webster, Owens, and Lt. Ryker are called in to diffuse the situation.

Chris is wounded on duty and Hank witnesses it but he is afraid to come forward for fear of harm to either him or his family.

A female officer is partnered with a male officer who encounter a gang of jewelry store robbers who kill the male officer. The female officer is blamed for the male officer's death and given the nickname Death Lady.

A child at the hospital where Jill works is in critical condition and is about to be operated on. And they need a lot of blood for the operation. Fortunately there a sufficient supply in the blood bank. Jill is passing by when she's a guy take the blood out of the cooler. Jill asks him what is he doing, he then knocks her out and takes the blood. The guys upon learning what happened tries to find the blood because the child needs. They are told that who stole it plans to sell it. So the press learns about this and announces how much the blood could be worth. So the ...

Officers Owens and Danko track down the man who raped Owens's sister. But the tables are turned on Officer Owens when the rapist claims police brutality during his arrest. Meanwhile Kim Owens struggles to cope with her feelings and her faith after the attack.

A repentant ex-con out on parole is tracked down by his former associates to aid in a robbery.

A gang leader from Terry's old neighborhood runs him down in a speeding car. Loyalty within the gang is strained as Terry is still well regarded in the community and none want to see him die or their gang brother jailed.

A rookie officer (John Ritter) is unsure if he can live up to his father's super cop image. He trips and takes down a world class hired killer leading the assassin to make the rookie his next target.

Terry and Chris become locked in the sweltering heat of a local department store over night during a stand off with three armed criminals.

Chris and Terry remember seeing the same girl at the scenes of several Sunday bombings terrorizing the city.

Terry and Chris bust a drug operation, but the drug organization uses an elaborate scheme to get their heroin back, involving a pretty girl to con Chris out of information on a scheduled transfer. The heist is successful and Chris investigates the girl to discover if she was in on it or was also being used.

A veteran cop whose partner is killed during a robbery attempt steals some of the money to improve his home life.

A man, put in prison for 18 years for a crime he didn't commit, vows revenge on the men who sent him there; guest Robert Lansing.

A mentally deranged former POW thinks rookie Mike Danko, who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, panicked and left him behind to be captured and tortured in a POW camp.

There's a robbery and the security guard there is killed. Terry shows up and sees that the man who was killed is the father of the girl he was once involved with. While the robbers are being sought, Terry goes to see the man's daughter. He recalls how he met her. She's blind and a musician. When they were getting serious, her father spoke to him and told Terry that she's never been self reliant and is worried what will happen when he's gone. He tells Terry that she was going to go a school for blind musicians which is wanted to do till she met Terry. So he asks Terry ...

A trio of junkies mug and brutalize a middle aged woman. As she lingers near death and legal issues keep the criminals on the street, her doctor son spirals into increasing anger.

The rookies go undercover to investigate a syndicate backed film company that is responsible for the deaths of some of its actors.

A 16yr old boy gets involved with a junkie and ends up getting blamed for the addict's crimes.

A rich young man murders his bookie with Jill as the only eyewitness. He hires a professional criminal to help him abduct and kill her.