The BEST episodes of Cannon
Every episode of Cannon ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cannon!
Frank Cannon is a tough, middle-aged, portly ex-cop turned private eye. A gourmet, with expensive tastes, he mostly took cases at a substantial fee so he could afford indulging in personal luxuries. He was a shrewd investigator, dedicated, clever and despite his bulk, was not afraid of getting physical if he had to.
#1 - To Kill a Guinea Pig
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1972
Prison doctor and experimental pressures.
#2 - Press Pass to the Slammer
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1973
A columnist faces contempt charges; Cannon takes the case.
#3 - Memo from a Dead Man
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1973
Cannon's latest client is a dead man via a will.
#4 - Target in the Mirror
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1973
A former syndicate henchman has information wanted by the police and the underworld.
#5 - Arena of Fear
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/19/1973
A boxer is blackmailed into throwing a fight.
#6 - Perfect Fit for a Frame
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1975
Cannon gets set up for a murder charge.
#7 - A Touch of Venom
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1975
A group of terrorists have drugged Cannon with a poison, giving him 72 hours to give them a defector and receive the antidote or die.
#8 - The Wedding March
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1975
Cannon and a female vice squad officer who's on leave after being viciously beaten while undercover posing as a prostitute go after this same man who has previously beaten prostitutes to death while playing the music "The Wedding March".
#9 - The Reformer
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1976
Frank Cannon takes up the case when it appears that the head of a newspaper is being framed for the murder of a prostitute.
#10 - Revenge
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1976
Cannon becomes a hunted man when a young South Korean man comes after him seeking revenge for his late father who was a tortured prisoner of war during the Korean War-and he believes Cannon is solely responsible for it.
#11 - Madman
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1976
An Army researcher goes berserk; his wife pleads with Cannon to intervene.
#12 - The Salinas Jackpot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1971
Tom Skerritt plays Dude Donaldson: dressed as rodeo clowns, he and an accomplice rob a rodeo (rather brutally, killing half-a-dozen people). Cannon is summoned to figure out what's going on, after authorites spend 6 weeks and come up with nothing. There's a home movie taken at the time of the robbery, in the vicinity of the buliding... Cannon and the others watch this film over and over, like the Zapruder film, and eventually it dawns on Cannon that the clowns may be involved. He tracks a clown suit to a Texan who died in Vietnam the previous winter... the man's widow (Sharon Acker) is less than forthcoming... though her young son (Vincent Van Patten) gives Cannon some leads... Skerritt took the suit from the widow's barn and used it in the robbery. Skerritt goes to Acker's house and threatens her and her son against saying anything to Cannon...Cannon senses what's going on, and after almost being snipered by Skerritt...finally subdues him with a bear hug.
#13 - The Rip-Off
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1972
The burglary of his apartment leads Cannon to a computer-controlled freight train robbery.
#14 - Valley of the Damned
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/1973
Airport drug smugglers frame a worker for murder.
#15 - The Quasar Kill
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1976
Cannon investigates the death of a scientist who designed a computer that searches for extra terrestrial signals. But was he murdered by an entity from outer space or by a fellow scientist with something to hide?
#16 - The Star (2)
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/10/1975
Snapshots reveal a dubious link between policy and high crime.
#17 - The Star (1)
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/1975
When the son of a famous actress disappears the police think its another instance of his recurring drug problem. Cannon is hired to find him, but no one is telling him the whole truth.
#18 - The Melted Man
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1975
Cannon unravels a murder plot that was made to look like it involved the Chinese Tongs gang. But the intended victim turns the tables on the real man behind the plot and try's eliminate Cannon in the process.
#19 - Nightmare
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1975
A dying prisoner, a former hit man confesses to Cannon that he killed his wife and child 14 years ago when Cannon was a cop. Cannon investigates.
#20 - The Set Up
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1975
A case of mistaken identity: Cannon is greeted by a stranger, and later almost killed.
#21 - Flashpoint
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1974
A psychiatric patient falls in with bad company and is accused of rape and murder.
#22 - Trial by Terror
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1973
A mob boss on trial has the judge's daughter kidnapped.
#23 - Dead Lady's Tears
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1973
A young model's death leads to many suspects.
#24 - Come Watch Me Die
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1973
Cannon's engaged to protect a gang boss from the innocent man he sent up the river.
#25 - Catch Me if You Can
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1973
A serial killer begs Cannon to catch him before he kills again.