The Rookies

4 Seasons 1972 - 1976 TV-PG 1h 00m 6.8

The trials and adventures of three young police officers.

The exploits of three rookie police officers in a large unnamed Southern California city are followed in this weekly series. Mike Danko is a married former marine, Willie Gillis is a recent college graduate and Terry Webster joined the police as part of a special minority recruitment plan. Their supervisor is Lt. Eddie Riker and Jill is Mike's worried wife who works as a nurse at the local hospital.

The Rookies background

Episodes:

Episode 3 The Informant

3. The Informant

Aired: Sep 18, 1972

Officer's Webster and Gillis try to help a young man break away from two thug...

Episode 4 The Commitment

4. The Commitment

Aired: Sep 25, 1972

Gillis is severly injured during an armed robbery. The doctors inform him tha...

Episode 5 Covenant with Death

5. Covenant with Death

Aired: Oct 2, 1972

Against advice of their lieutenant, Webster and Gillis are charmed by Toby Jo...

Episode 6 Time Is the Fire

6. Time Is the Fire

Aired: Oct 9, 1972

Frank Queenlin has a grudge against the rich and kidnaps wealthy Andrea Sloan...

Episode 8 Dirge for Sunday

8. Dirge for Sunday

Aired: Oct 23, 1972

A sophisticated criminal (Roddy McDowall) takes Danko hostage and will blow h...

Episode 9 The Good Die Young

9. The Good Die Young

Aired: Oct 29, 1972

When three women are killed by someone who writes "please" with their lipstic...

Episode 10 To Taste of Terror

10. To Taste of Terror

Aired: Nov 12, 1972

When the guys respond to an alarm, they arrive to find two men. When they spl...

Episode 11 A Deadly Velocity

11. A Deadly Velocity

Aired: Nov 19, 1972

Danko and his crew are assigned to protect controversial General Brooker who ...

Episode 15 Tarnished Idol

15. Tarnished Idol

Aired: Dec 24, 1972

Gills arrests a washed up fighter (Lou Antonio) who's still connected enough ...

Episode 16 Crossfire

16. Crossfire

Aired: Jan 7, 1973

Webster teams with veteran African-American cop RC Taylor who's biased agains...

Episode 17 Snow Job

17. Snow Job

Aired: Jan 14, 1973

Country, a small time hood with a cocaine addiction, learns that police HQ is...

Episode 18 Point of Impact

18. Point of Impact

Aired: Jan 28, 1973

Terry (Georg Stanford Brown) investigates an old friend's apparently purposel...

Episode 19 Three Hours to Kill

19. Three Hours to Kill

Aired: Feb 4, 1973

A police Captain is taken to the hospital and needs surgery. A woman who blam...

Episode 20 The Wheel of Death

20. The Wheel of Death

Aired: Feb 11, 1973

Widower father Frank Essex (Mike Farrell) targets a local criminal organizati...

Episode 21 Life Robbery

21. Life Robbery

Aired: Feb 18, 1973

Ryker helps out old friend Haskell when a death in his jurisdiction occurs du...

Episode 23 Easy Money

23. Easy Money

Aired: Mar 4, 1973

Danko, Gillis, and Webster's assignment is to uncover an extortion ring. Thei...

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Info about The Rookies

Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Genres: Drama, Crime

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