Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Joe Forrester' from 1970-1982:
- Lloyd Bridges as Joe Forrester (1975-1976)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Joe Forrester':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Dallas L. Barnes D: Alf Kjellin
With Scoey Mitchell (Sgt. Steele), Jim Backus (Jake Mandel), Geoffrey Deuel (Clint Dancer), Madge Sinclair (Sheila Gates), Arch Whiting (Det. Will Carson), Ray Vitte (Ethan Gates), Paul Cavonis.
Forrester is a street cop who walks a beat in a metropolitan city. Everyone knows him and respects him as he cares about people above all. Tonight, Forrester's keen knowledge of his beat and its people results in tragedy for a close friend when he closes in on a robbery team pretending to be detectives.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Sean Baine D: Alexander Singer
With Sheila Larken, Dewey Martin (Inspector Mason), John Karlen (Mason), Michael Gregory (Cordero), Mark Jenkins, Nathan Jung, Borah Silver.
Officer Forrester saves the life of a pretty bank clerk hostage during a robbery, but the trauma of the experience changes her life and involves her in a murder investigation.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Frank Telford D: Alvin Ganzer
With Jack Ging (Stacey Williams), Maureen McCormick (Irene Kellogg), James A. Watson Jr. (Eddie Dell), Amanda McBroom, Barbara Peacock (Carol Hennings), Lynne Holmes (Jobina), Claudio Martinez (Manuel), Ed Call, Tony Ballen.
Joe Forrester has his hands full when a robbery team and a naive runaway teenager both show up on his beat.
Season 1, episode 4
W: S.S. Schweitzer D: Barry Shear
With Richard Yniguez (Dan Palomar), Hector Elias (Oso), Lazaro Perez (Nando Salazar), Mary Maldonado (Ginger), Valentine Villareal (Jesus), Guillermo San Juan (Rudy), Jon Linton.
Joe Forrester and his young partner work hard to gain the trust of youngsters who are afraid to set foot outside their homes in a housing project.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Mark Rodgers D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Dick Butkus, Jane Actman (Linda Miller), Jim McMullan (Chuck Miller), Stanley Bennett Clay, Julian Christopher (Russell), Thomas Evans, Gina Alvarado.
Joe Forrester must face problems as a beat cop, dealing with a gang fight, a robber and a massage parlor hostess who is having trouble with her husband.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Mark Rodgers D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Dick Butkus, Jane Actman (Linda Miller), Jim McMullan (Chuck Miller), Stanley Bennett Clay, Julian Christopher (Russell), Thomas Evans, Gina Alvarado, Eddie Hice, Marged Wakeley.
Joe continues the manhunt for the robber who killed an old friend, and comes up with a novel way of preventing a dangerous gang fight.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Frank Telford D: Alvin Ganzer
With Ned Wilson, Clifford David (David Connors), Bruce Gordon, Phillip R. Allen, Marjorie Battles (Trish).
On loan to the detective bureau, Forrester is assigned to work with a female officer until her jealous husband intervenes.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Irving Pearlberg D: Richard Benedict
With Ray Danton (Frank Medina), Erik Estrada (Pete Cruz), Rosemary Forsyth (Marian Medina), Milt Kogan, Lloyd Battista (Luna), Armand Alzamora (Manny Escobar), Thomas Trujillo.
Joe Forrester lets the underworld know that he needs money and can be "bought", as he tries to infiltrate a narcotics ring.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Norman Jolley, Frank Telford D: Alexander Singer
With Richard Basehart (Al Morgan), June Lockhart (Judge), Paul Stevens (Dewey Reed), Iggie Wolfington, Jason Wingreen, Scott Walker (Milo), Dick Durock (Knuckles).
Forrester is angry and frustrated when the courts release a drug pusher and a very stubborn drunk.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Dallas L. Barnes D: Alf Kjellin
With Jeff Conaway (Cliff), Kathleen Quinlan (Bethany), George Dzundza, Joe Turkel, Paul Mantee, Priscilla Pointer, John Lisbon Wood, Gary Brockette.
Joe Forrester sets out on a frantic search when he learns that his friend, Sgt. Bernie Vincent, stumbled into a robbery and has been taken hostage by hoodlums who are threatening his life.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Sean Baine D: Barry Crane
With Ralph Wilcox, Ben Frank, Barry Brown, John David Carson, Rita Wilson, Dale Tarter, Albert Hill, Ron Blake, Ben Frommer.
Joe Forrester goes beyond patrol officer duties when he tracks down the true suspect of a double homicide, despite evidence pointing to a retarded youth.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Mark Rodgers, Albert Aley D: Alex March
With Veronica Hamel (Gloria Richards), Vincent Baggetta, Richard Kelton, Brooke Mills (Karen Stone), Suzy Parker (Anne Leigh), Alex Nicol (Lawrence Goldman), Robert Gentry (Fred Mason), James Ingersoll, Randolph Powell.
Joe Forrester is faced with two possible homicides in the high fashion district of his beat after a fashion executive and a model fall from the top of a high rise.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Frank Telford, Orville Hampton D: Reza Badiyi
With Barra Grant (Nancy), James Naughton (Harry Enders), Deidre Hall, Stack Pierce, Edward Winter, Rick Garcia, Claire Touchstone.
Forrester is instrumental in thwarting a band of robbers using sophisticated weapons, meanwhile helping a fellow officer accept his mixed-race stepdaughter.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Dallas L. Barnes D: Alf Kjellin
With Arthur Peterson, Renne Jarrett (Connie Stanton), Peter Hobbs, Kaz Garas (David Benton), Joshua Shelley, Jess Nadelman (Beck), Jay Fletcher (Seldeen), Bryan O'Byrne.
With girlfriend Gloria's help, Forrester and policewoman B.J. get evidence to arrest a sex assailant.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Stanford Whitmore, Rick Kelbaugh, Mark Rodgers D: Jerry London
With Scott Hylands, Julie Bridges, Sal Mineo (Parma), Bernie Casey (Cleveland), Shera Danese.
A young vice squad officer, the son of Joe's best friend, shoots his wife in a fit of frustration prompted by an unsuccessful gambling arrest and the suspicion that she is unfaithful.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Walter Dallenbach D: Barry Crane
With Alex Cord, Al Ruscio (Griff), Michael Swan (Police Officer), Karen Machon (Darlene), Paul Winchell, Lee Delano, Marc Alaimo, Byron Mabe, Kipp Whitman.
Forrester breaks up a gambling ring with the help of an addicted player.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Robert Dellinger D: Alf Kjellin
With Joe Santos, Victor Argo, Sondra Locke, Jack O'Leary (Marty Schine), Sondra Wilson (Pam), Martin Garner, Jeffrey Druce.
A gambling addict caught violating parole goes for broke to prove that he's really gone straight -- he turns informer in a murder case involving armed robbers who hit high-stakes games.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Calvin Clements, Jr. D: Alf Kjellin
With Bob Crane (Alban), Albert Paulsen (Hugo Jurczak), Barbara Rhoades, James Whitmore III (Pete Smith), Jack Knight, Eva Soreny.
Forrester declares a one-man war on the underworld when they begin to flood his beat with pornographic films.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Sean Baine D: Alvin Ganzer
With Ian Abercrombie (Newsman), Kiel Martin, Joan Van Ark (Angie), Ned Romero (Sandoval), John Milford, Michael Bell, Kevin Hagen, Phillip Pine.
When a young prostitute is dumped on Joe's beat, he learns that a nearby city is allowing prostitution with payoffs to someone high in city government.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Dallas L. Barnes D: Russ Mayberry
With Janet Margolin (Marcia Roberts), John Lawlor (Jason Roberts), Claude Earl Jones (Cunningham), Christian Markett (Marc Roberts), Peter De Anda (D.C. Marsh).
A destitute husband and father is drawn into the world of crime.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Jack Miller D: Jerry London
With Andrew Parks, Richard Jaeckel (Sullivan), Katherine Helmond (Mrs. Pyrnelle), Richard Venture, Don McGovern, Claire Brennen, Robert Sampson.
Forrester tries to arrest a deranged and dangerous Vietnam veteran, but his efforts are thwarted by an arbitrary lieutenant.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Dallas L. Barnes D: Jerry London
With James Keach, Jonelle Allen, Jerry Fujikawa, Michael Warren (Detective Marshall), Lynn Redding (Sgt. Storm), Stephen Pearlman.
A burglary-homicide suspect released on bail begins to harass a neighbor who may have seen too much. (Last show of the series.)