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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Strike Force' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Strike Force':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)

November 13, 1981: Strike Force
Season 1, episode 1
W: Lane Slate   D: Richard Lang

With Warren Berlinger (Dr. Syson), John McCann (Deputy Bowen), John Harkins (Walter Stockton), Grayce Grant (Evelyn Stockton), Stanley Brock (Theater Manager), George Dickerson (Chester Leedham), Ted Gehring (Foreman), Laurence Haddon (Plainclothes Cop), Hank Rolike (Mr. Langhorn).
Series premiere. Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.

November 20, 1981: Kidnap
Season 1, episode 2
D: Lawrence Dobkin

With Richard Herd.
The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a now-homeless drunkard who claims he also witnessed a murder.

November 27, 1981: The Victims
Season 1, episode 3
D: Lane Slate

With Lynne Moody (Annie/Jossy), Virginia Hawkins, Philip Michael Thomas (Wesley), Sandy Helberg.
The Force gambles that money will motivate a young female gang member to set a trap for her colleagues in crime.

December 4, 1981: The Predator
Season 1, episode 4
D: Richard Lang

With Kathleen Lloyd (Lucy Durrant), Ellen Bry (Eunice), John Calvin (Rapist), Lane Bradbury (Julie).
Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

December 11, 1981: Magic Man
Season 1, episode 5
W: E. Nick Alexander   D: Richard Lang

With Robert Ridgley (Professor), Ike Eisenmann (Jamie), Claudia Wells (Patty), Ellen Geer (Mrs. Wilcox), Robert Sampson (Mr. Wilcox), Marianne McAndrew (Jane Dixon), Gina Alvarado (Doctor), Sheila Scott-Wilkenson (Mrs. Jefferson).
A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

December 18, 1981: Night Nurse
Season 1, episode 6
W: Michael Fisher   D: Cliff Bole

With Tab Hunter (Dr. Voorhees), Steve Sandor (Shuster), Lynn Carlin (Lorraine Klein), Fredd Wayne (Ryder), Edward Grover (Tidings), Nora Gaye (Nurse).
Patients who were well on their way to recovery have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

December 25, 1981: The Hollow Man
Season 1, episode 7
W: William Douglas Lansford   D: Richard Lang

With Ron Moody.
A bomber sends Klein a photographic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.

January 8, 1982: The Outcast
Season 1, episode 8
W: Gene Hanson, T.J. Miles   D: Don Chaffey

With Paul Koslo (Randy), John Dennis Johnston (Dave), Barbara Iley (Laura Strobber), Jenny Sherman (Jessi), Kevyn Major Howard (Kenny), Freeman King (Mr. Simms), Marilyn Coleman (Mrs. Simms).
Strobber shoots a teenage robber whose brother swears revenge in a taped message -- vowing to kill a cop a day until Strobber is fired -- which he leaves on the body of a slain black cop.

January 15, 1982: Ice
Season 1, episode 9
W: Jeffrey Bloom   D: Cliff Bole

With David McCallum (William Hadley).
An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

January 22, 1982: Internal Affair
Season 1, episode 10
W: Les Carter   D: Bob Sweeney

With Don Gordon (Bukowski), Sam Melville (Dennis), Dick Anthony Williams (Warwick), Ally Sheedy (Delores), Frank Arno (Dietz), Adam Roarke (Doukas), William Burns (Royko), Sherry Jackson (Mimi).
Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberies point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who tries to pin the crimes on Gunzer.

February 5, 1982: Lonely Ladies
Season 1, episode 11
W: William Hopkins   D: Bob Sweeney

With Ellen Bry (Anne), Ronnie Schell (Lonnie Markham), Joey Aresco (Mitch), James Carrington (Lonnie), Elizabeth Stack (Vicki), Anthony De Longis (Dennis), C.J. Hincks (Sally), Bobbie Bresee (Angie).
The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

February 12, 1982: Fallen Angel
Season 1, episode 12
W: Joe Gores   D: Lawrence Dobkin

With Judson Scott (Johnny Lee), Cindy Fisher (Sunset), Paul Brinegar (Ike), Sally Kemp (Eleanor), Lurene Tuttle (Old Lady), William Traylor (Hunt), Charles Dierkop (Chet), Anne Bruner (Linda), Shannon Presby (Billy).
A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

February 19, 1982: Sharks
Season 1, episode 13
W: Ron Friedman   D: Cliff Bole

With Naomi Stevens (Councilwoman Stein), John Karlen (District Attorney Trenton), Jeanette Nolan (Maggie), Cliff Emmich (Hugo), Robin Strand (Packy), Christopher Pennock (Shank), Gerard Prendergast (Marv).
Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

February 26, 1982: Turnabout
Season 1, episode 14
W: Calvin Clements Jr.   D: Cliff Bole

With Joanna Cassidy (Eve Murphy), Raymond St. Jacques (Ed Ortega), Don Stroud (Gene Terry), Steve Peck (Barrick), Haven Earle Haley (Popovich).
A mobster's right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wife to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness -- and set him up for assassination.

March 5, 1982: The John Killer
Season 1, episode 15
W: Calvin Clements Jr., Michael Fisher   D: Don Chaffey

With Ann Turkel (Ian / Marian), Eric Braeden (Dr. Van Keuren), Peter De Anda (Pimp), Paul Picerni (Dr. Bernardo), Penny Gillette (Mrs. Van Keuren), Fred Lerner (Bradley), Paul Petersen (Bluecoat), Lewis Arquette (Hopkins), Deborah Dalton (Cindy), Michael Collins (Leroy), Ray Ballard (Roundface).
Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

March 19, 1982: Humiliation
Season 1, episode 16
W: Bill Stratton   D: Robert Gist

With Alan Fudge (Dr. Miles Halligan), Andrea Howard (Marian), Kevin Brophy (Otis), Sandy Helberg (Wickes), Kevyn Major Howard (Sisto), Lewis Arquette (Zack), Karen Machon (Janice), Percy Rodrigues (Mr. Ross), Deborah Pratt (Loretta).
Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

March 26, 1982: Deadly Chemicals
Season 1, episode 17
W: Bill Stratton   D: Charles Picerni

With Charles Napier (Richard Trallis), Stuart Pankin, Lindsay Bloom, Christopher Stone.
Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

April 2, 1982: Revenger
Season 1, episode 18
W: Rick Kelbaugh   D: Don Chaffey

With Steve Fifield (Edward Bannock), Suzanne Adkinson (Carrie), Tony O'Dell (Bobby), Robert O'Reilly (Hartkoff).
A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in the investigation of a white slavery ring which specializes in the sale of teenage girls to wealthy foreigners.

April 9, 1982: Chinatown
Season 1, episode 19
W: Calvin Clements Jr.   D: Mike Vejar

With Wendy Schaal (Mandy), Bert Freed (Sully), James Shigeta (Leong), Paul Comi (Dr. Allen), Paul Petersen (Officer Daley), Evan Kim (San Chow), Sean McClory (Priest).
Lt. Gunzer's honeymoon turns into a nightmare when his bride is critically wounded during an assassination attempt.

April 16, 1982: Death Fare
Season 1, episode 20
D: Don Chaffey

With Christopher Connelly (Pepper), Vince Flaherty (Detective O'Brien), Ann McCurry (Karen).
A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his "death". (Last show of the series.)


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