Harry O
Harry O
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Harry O

A part-time investigator and a full-time human being.

4.6 / 10
1974
2 seasons
44 episodes
DramaAction & Adventure

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

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Seasons

  • Gertrude

    1.Gertrude

    8.0
    12-09-197460m

    Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.

  • The Admiral's Lady

    2.The Admiral's Lady

    19-09-197460m

    A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?

  • Guardian at the Gates

    3.Guardian at the Gates

    26-09-197460m

    Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.

  • Mortal Sin

    4.Mortal Sin

    6.0
    03-10-197460m

    A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.

  • Coinage of the Realm

    5.Coinage of the Realm

    7.0
    10-10-197460m

    Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.

  • Eyewitness

    6.Eyewitness

    17-10-197460m

    When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.

  • Shadows at Noon

    7.Shadows at Noon

    24-10-197460m

    To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.

  • Ballinger's Choice

    8.Ballinger's Choice

    6.0
    31-10-197460m

    When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.

  • Second Sight

    9.Second Sight

    07-11-197460m

    The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.

  • Material Witness

    10.Material Witness

    14-11-197460m

    The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.

  • Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

    11.Forty Reasons to Kill (1)

    05-12-197460m

    Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.

  • Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

    12.Forty Reasons to Kill (2)

    12-12-197460m

    Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.

  • Accounts Balanced

    13.Accounts Balanced

    26-12-197460m

    An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.

  • The Last Heir

    14.The Last Heir

    09-01-197560m

    Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.

  • For the Love of Money

    15.For the Love of Money

    16-01-197560m

    A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.

  • The Confetti People

    16.The Confetti People

    23-01-197560m

    A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a s...

  • Sound of Trumpets

    17.Sound of Trumpets

    30-01-197560m

    Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.

  • Silent Kill

    18.Silent Kill

    06-02-197560m

    Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.

  • Double Jeopardy

    19.Double Jeopardy

    13-02-197560m

    An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.

  • Lester

    20.Lester

    20-02-197560m

    A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.

  • Elegy for a Cop

    21.Elegy for a Cop

    27-02-197560m

    Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.

  • Street Games

    22.Street Games

    02-03-197560m

    Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.

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