Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Sarge' from 1970-1982:
- George Kennedy as Father Samuel Cavanaugh (1971-1972)
- Harold Sakata as Takichi (1971-1972)
- Ramon Bieri as Lt. Barney Verick (1971-1972)
- Sallie Shockley as Valerie (1971-1972)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Sarge':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
February 22, 1971: The Badge Or The Cross
W: Don M. Mankiewicz D: Richard Colla
With George Kennedy (Sarge), Larry Gates (Arnie Bigelow), Nico Minardos (Nico), Stewart Moss (Father Terence), Ricardo Montalban (Sgt. Matteo), Diane Baker (Carol), Henry Wilcoxon (Bishop Andrade), Sallie Shockley (Kenji Takichi).
Pilot movie for the series. After a bomb in a car kills his wife, Sarge re-evaluates his life and decides to return to the priesthood he once prepared to enter.
W: Joel Oliansky D: Richard Colla
With Anthony Zerbe (The Priest Killer), Don Mitchell (Mark Sanger), Don Galloway (Sergeant Ed Brown), Max Gail (Patrolman), Ann Doran (Harriet Miles), Robert Shayne (Father Adam Wendell), Fred Slyter (Author), Peter Brocco (Father Miles), Kermit Murdock (Publisher), Ned Romero (Monsignor), David Huddleston (Harrison Davis), Raymond Burr (Robert Ironside).
A young priest who was a friend of Sarge is murdered, and Sarge insists on aiding Chief Ironside with his investigation.
September 21, 1971: A Terminal Case Of Vengeance
Season 1, episode 1
W: Joel Oliansky D: John Badham
With Roy Poole (Michaels), Mike Farrell (Steve), James Wainwright (Wally), Jack Albertson (Henry), Barra Grant (Christina).
Academy Award-winner George Kennedy stars as a former police sergeant who has become a priest. In the premiere episode, a parishoner who learns he has only a short while to live decides to kill a well-known hoodlum to avenge a humiliating incident of years before.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Edward DeBlasio D: Daniel Haller
With Joe De Santis (Vito), Corinne Camacho (Marie), Martin Sheen (Dan Cooper), Irene Tsu (Akiko), Roy Jenson (Wickowski).
Asked to perform a marriage ceremony, Sarge recognizes the prospective bridegroom as a suspect in an old unsolved murder.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Richard Donner
With Tom Bosley (Stanley Miller), Vincent Gardenia (Arnold Bates), Janis Paige (Marian Hart), Denny Miller (Rockhead), Warren Stevens (Peter North), Henry Wilcoxon (Bishop Andrade), Melendy Britt (Candy Mills), Carol Wayne (Receptionist), Anthony James (Alan Duncan).
Sarge sets out to uncover the source and reason behind a large cash donation and finds himself in the middle of a double murder.
Season 1, episode 4
With Sheila Larken (Jane Doe), Pippa Scott (Dr. Windsor), Jeff Pomerantz (Steve Farrell), Bill Fletcher (Gerald MacLean), Carole Cook (Cass).
A troubled "Jane Doe", hospitalized for mental observation, blurts out a strange story that sends Sarge on the trail of a murderer.
Season 1, episode 5
W: David Levinson D: John Badham
With Ted Gehring (Vernon Harris), Gerald Hiken (Marion Page), Marion Ross (Joyce Edmonds), Vic Morrow (Ross Edmonds), Lieux Dressler (Wanda Harris), Bart Burns (Sprill), Felton Perry (Policeman).
Lt. Ross Edmonds, driven to the brink of mental collapse by taunting phone calls from a deranged killer, decides to pursue the madman on his own when he's removed from the case.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Robert L. Collins D: Seymour Robbie
With Jack Cassidy (John Michael O'Flaherty), Dana Elcar (Father Dinsmore), Julie Gregg (Jeanette), Lazaro Perez (Jaime Rodriguez), Kermit Murdock (Pierce).
An overly ambitious TV newsman gets Sarge into trouble with a sensational documentary.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Joel Oliansky D: Daniel Haller
With Allison McKay (Margo Drake), Joseph V. Perry (Sal Roselli), Leslie Nielsen (Joe Drake), Jonathan Lippe (Henry), Felice Orlandi (Segarra), Colby Chester (Banners), Ken Lynch (Gray), Johnny Silver (Freddy), Kip Niven (Fifield), Carol Lawson (Anita Roselli).
Sarge tries to help an old friend, a reluctant paid informer in trouble with waterfront hoods.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Robert Van Scoyk, Joel Hammil D: Seymour Robbie
With Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Sigmund Hess), Michael Baseleon (Andy Miklis), Carol Lawrence (Carol Sato), Richard Bull (Commander Kellin), James Daris (Falco), Robert Doyle (Taggart).
Sarge becomes a target for death when the widow of a wealthy Japanese businessman enlists his help to prove her husband was murdered.
Season 1, episode 9
With David Sheiner (Lloyd), Arlene Golonka (Marygrace), Monte Markham (Tom Flynn).
Insisting that, as a Catholic, a divorce granted his wife while he was in prison is not valid, ex-convict Tom Flynn returns to renew life with his former wife, who has since remarried.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Walter Black D: Walter Doniger
With Jeff Morrow (Colonel Mitchell), Morgan Woodward (Sergeant Matlock), Randolph Mantooth (Corporal Finch), Joe Hoover (Captain Ludlow), Kip Niven (Randolph), Buck Young (Pete), Gordon Pinsent (Chaplain Stone), Don Johnson (Deloy Coopersmith), Tom Selleck (Captain Dennings), Lindsay Wagner (Laurie Meyers).
Acting as temporary chaplain of a military base, Sarge takes a hand in what he considers undue harassment of a recruit.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Robert L. Collins D: Jeannot Szwarc
With Ross Elliott (Commissioner O'Neil), Peter Brocco (Kress), Than Wyenn (Swarthy Man), Regis Cordic (Bishop), Hank Brandt (Sgt. Marx), Antony Carbone (Victor Bonfiglio).
A series of attempts on the life of Sarge sets the priest on the trail of the would-be assassin.
Season 1, episode 12
With Robert F. Lyons (Leo Hartbeck), Lou Frizzell (Gus), Jess Walton (Evelyn).
Sarge, confronted by a man just released from prison, investigates the ex-convict's claim of innocence.
Season 1, episode 13
With Robert Sampson (Father Burke), Susan Oliver (Fran Bavarian), Billy Green Bush (Cy Bronson).
Questioning the circumstances under which a man was killed when struck by a car driven by Father Burke, Sarge sets out to prove his fellow priest innocent of manslaughter.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Hal Sitowitz D: Georg Fenady
With Michael Burns (Michael Greer), Pamela McMyler (Kay), Skip Homeier (Professor Sitton), Peggy Stewart (Mrs. Whitman), William Bryant (Paul Trinn), Steven Marlo (Tom Woodward), Cliff Carnell (Officer Whitman).
Bitter over his failure to meet the police department's physical requirements, the son of a former policeman assaults an officer and, when the officer is later found dead, is accused of murder. (Last show of the series.)