Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Chase' from 1970-1982:
- Brian Fong as Officer Fred Sing (1973-1974)
- Michael Richardson as Officer Steve Baker (1973-1974)
- Mitchell Ryan as Capt. Chase Reddick (1973-1974)
- Reid Smith as Officer Norm Hamilton (1973-1974)
- Wayne Maunder as Sgt. Sam MacCray (1973-1974)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Chase':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
With Sharon Gless (Sally), Susan Damante, Bob Corff (David), Michael Baseleon (Michaels), Lou Wagner (Mouse).
Mitchell Ryan stars as the leader of a quasi-official police unit designed to handle major crimes. Tonight, an international car theft ring dealing in Cadillacs and Lincolns is unveiled when the special unit attempts to stop a moving gambling casino.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Michael Donovan D: Christian Nyby
With Tom Bosley (Axel Sullivan), Joey Aresco (Duke), Wesley Lau, Joel Lawrence, Edward Bach (Salvino), John Mark Robinson (Graves).
While staked out in a park to bust a midnight cocaine drop, the Chase unit is suddenly caught between two rival battling gangs and decide to infiltrate to find out who is supplying the gangs with automatic weapons.
Season 1, episode 3
With Tim O'Connor (Edgar Bronston), George DiCenzo (K.C.), Tom Falk (Hank), Laurette Spang (Jill Bronston), Jean Allison (Helen Bronston), Craig Baxley (Rollo), William Bryant (Brace), Aldine King (Carla), Fred Dale (Marty), George Brenlin (Allie).
A clever gang of bank robbers kidnap a bank president's wife and daughter while Capt. Chase Reddick is catching heat from city hall for fouling up the plan to catch the robbers.
Season 1, episode 4
W: James Schmerer D: Alan Crosland Jr.
With Garry Walberg (Thomas), Harry Lauter, Bob Bralver (Cracker), Julie Ann Johnson (Lois), Dennis Robertson, Russ Conway, Charles Dierkop (Corona), Elizabeth St. Clair.
The Chase unit is stymied when they cannot locate a band of thugs who wait in the homes of big winners at the race track and rob them of their winnings.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Lou Shaw D: Christian Nyby
With Woodrow Parfrey (Jack), Alan Oppenheimer (Avery), Gregory Walcott (Slim), Dan Seymour (Whitey), Clint Ritchie (Mitch).
The Chase unit turns into "rogue" cops on the take, in an attempt to catch the top men in a cocaine operation.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Michael Donovan D: Georg Fenady
With Jed Allan (Josh Madison), Eddie Ryder (Morrie Klinger), Timothy Blake (Claire Freeman), William Harlow (Stewart Sykes), Harry Davis (Barney Wister).
A cinematic plot becomes the real thing when the Chase unit pursues thieves who use unreleased movie scripts to plot robberies.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Arthur Rowe D: Arthur H. Nadel
With Walter Brooke (Homer), Vic Perrin (Metzer), James Sloyan, Kathryn Kelly Wiget (Laurie), Joan Prather (Diane), Tom McDonald (Smitty), Bob Corff (Bob).
Chase moves in on a usury ring that is charging 20 percent a week on loans collected by thugs who would rather use muscle.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Jerry Thomas D: Christian Nyby
With Howard Platt (Arnold), Roy Jenson (Fat Jack), Dean Stewart (Ben), Gary Clarke (Sgt. Clemens), Del Monroe (Carl), Abigail Shelton (Stella).
Capt. Reddick tries to trick a motorcycle ring of small-time thieves into making a big purchase of cocaine from the East so his unit can crack a national narcotics ring.
Season 1, episode 9
With Craig Stevens (J.L. Staley), Marj Dusay, Leigh Christian (Jill), Robert Hogan (Birnham).
Capt. Chase Reddick pulls off a big bluff by posing as the head of a classy gambling ring for society patrons and putting himself in competition with a real criminal.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Michael Donovan D: Arthur H. Nadel
With Elaine Giftos (Gloria), Morgan Woodward (Fisk), Michael Fox (Franco), Royce D. Applegate (Ducas), Bill Fletcher (Torrio).
Sgt. MacCray goes to work for a garbage removal firm in order to uncover some illegal activity.
Season 1, episode 11
D: Christian I. Nyby II
With Cesar Romero (Parker), Beth Brickell (Corinne), Leigh French (Rita), Jack Manning (Mears), John Elerick (Al).
A smooth con artist is planning a $250,000 caper, setting the Chase unit into motion in an attempt to trap him.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Joseph Polizzi D: William Wiard
With Charles Martin Smith (Little Bits), John Mitchum (Bartender), Steve Kanaly (Jock), Ray Ballard (Conlon), Albert Reed (Inspector Dawson).
Chase and his team are assigned to uncover the mastermind behind a series of diamond heists resulting in a great loss to a large jewelry importing firm.
Season 1, episode 13
W: James Basler D: Alan Crosland Jr.
With Andrew Robinson (Paul Kendra), Warren Stevens (Dan Marcus), Virginia Gregg (Customer), Olan Soule (Clerk), Les Lannom (Ron Whitsett).
The wrong suspect in a robbery turns out to be the man who puts Capt. Reddick on the trail of a drug-dealing attorney.
Season 1, episode 14
D: Alan Crosland Jr.
With Harold Gould (Cheevers), Linda Marsh, Maurice Marsac, Roger Perry (LaBella), William Sargent, John Dennis.
Gary Crosby and Craig Gardner join the series regulars as undercover officers. When a man carrying $200,000 is run over by a bus during a minor narcotics arrest at a bus depot, the Chase unit changes the direction of its investigation.
Season 1, episode 15
W: William Kayden D: Georg Fenady
With Elliott Street (Abby), Pat Harrington Jr. (Nico), Rosalind Cash, Mel Torme (Cyclops), Sherry Jackson (Shirley), Larry Manetti, Eric Server (Sunshine).
Pursuit of a helicopter courier delivering heroin leads Chase and his unit to a huge narcotics operation involving a record company baron and a disc jockey.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Michael Donovan D: Georg Fenady
With Ramon Bieri, Henry Brown, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Jack Hogan.
Chase and hs unit infiltrate the football scene to investigate gambling threats.
Season 1, episode 17
W: William Driskill D: Arthur H. Nadel
With Henry Darrow (Amaros), Arlene Golonka (Joy), Rex Holman (Riker), Don Keefer, Sidney Clute (Settles).
A carefree foreign dignitary causes Chase and his undercover unit frustrating moments in their duties to protect him from an assassin.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Lou Shaw D: Alan Crosland Jr.
With Dana Elcar (Phelps), Will Hutchins (Spain), Paul Carr (Claude), Woodrow Parfrey, Lenore Kasdorf (Betty), Ron Feinberg (Deke).
The Chase unit breaks up a cattle rustling ring which is selling the stolen beef on the black market.
Season 1, episode 19
With Lou Frizzell (Smith), Dabbs Greer (Parino), Jack Kelly, Don Porter (Miller).
Chase and his undercover unit, with Officer Rice posing as a gas pump jockey, try to smash a ring of hijackers specializing in gasoline tankers.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Carey Wilber D: Arthur H. Nadel
With Michael Lerner (Cupid), Robert Reed (Dr. Playter), Barbara Baxley, Sharon Farrell (Elaine), John Agar, Pamela Hensley, Don Collier.
Chase and his unit get help from an ex-jewel thief in tracking a unique heist operation which involves wiretapping and blackmail.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Jerry Thomas D: Georg Fenady
With James McEachin (Clem), Murray Hamilton (Stone), Peter Brocco (Katz), Penny Santon (Mrs. Katz), Richard Bakalyan (Manduke), Joe Kapp (Clint).
Chase works as a bodyguard to an underworld figure while his unit uses other tactics to smoke out the leader of a bootleg operation.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Joseph Polizzi D: Alan Crosland Jr.
Chase infiltrates a gambling syndicate as a phone clerk and works his way up while gathering evidence to prosecute the big boss. (Last show of the series.)