Net Loss

S03 E01 • Friday, Sep 23, 1977 • Sep 23 • 1h

Downshift

S03 E02 • Friday, Sep 30, 1977 • Sep 30 • 1h

Legend of the Macunas (1)

S03 E03 • Friday, Oct 14, 1977 • Oct 14 • 1h

Legend of the Macunas (2)

S03 E04 • Friday, Oct 21, 1977 • Oct 21 • 1h

Fade Out

S03 E05 • Friday, Nov 4, 1977 • Nov 4 • 1h

Dancer

S03 E06 • Monday, Dec 5, 1977 • Dec 5 • 1h

Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.

Go for Broke

S03 E07 • Monday, Dec 12, 1977 • Dec 12 • 1h

Lady of the Deep

S03 E08 • Monday, Dec 19, 1977 • Dec 19 • 1h

Thirty Thousand Witnesses

S03 E09 • Monday, Dec 26, 1977 • Dec 26 • 1h

Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).

Dangerous Curves

S03 E10 • Monday, Jan 2, 1978 • Jan 2 • 1h

The Tong

S03 E11 • Monday, Jan 9, 1978 • Jan 9 • 1h

Who Killed Lila Craig?

S03 E12 • Monday, Jan 16, 1978 • Jan 16 • 1h

Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.

Three Blond Mice

S03 E13 • Monday, Jan 30, 1978 • Jan 30 • 1h

Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.

Coranodo Circle

S03 E14 • Tuesday, Feb 7, 1978 • Feb 7 • 1h

Stolen Island (aka Death Island)

S03 E15 • Tuesday, Mar 28, 1978 • Mar 28 • 1h

Formula for Murder

S03 E16 • Friday, Apr 28, 1978 • Apr 28 • 1h

Blue Crusaders Reunion

S03 E17 • Friday, May 5, 1978 • May 5 • 1h

Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.

Mexican Standoff

S03 E18 • Friday, May 12, 1978 • May 12 • 1h

Play-off

S03 E19 • Sunday, Jun 18, 1978 • Jun 18 • 1h

Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.

The Cage

S03 E20 • Sunday, Jun 25, 1978 • Jun 25 • 1h

The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.

Photo Finish

S03 E21 • Sunday, Jul 2, 1978 • Jul 2 • 1h

The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

S03 E22 • Sunday, Jul 9, 1978 • Jul 9 • 1h

The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).