The BEST episodes of Cannon season 1
Every episode of Cannon season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cannon season 1!
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 - Flight Plan
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1971
Cannon helps a supposed political refugee.
#3 - Death is a Double-Cross
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1971
A bridegroom's father-in-law suspects him.
#4 - The Island Caper
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1972
An ex-con is blackmailed into crime.
#5 - Girl in the Electric Coffin
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1971
The latest thing is a runaway on the lam.
#6 - Scream of Silence
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1971
The son of a gubernatorial candidate is kidnapped.
#7 - Stone, Cold Dead
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1971
A closed case gets reopened and leads to further consequences.
#8 - The Nowhere Man
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1971
Should the weapons manufacturer be judged by its bookeeper?
#9 - No Pockets in a Shroud
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1971
A newly-discovered heir comes home, and finds you can't get blood from a stone, and you can't take it with you.
#10 - Death Chain
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1971
If it isn't one thing, it's another: a bank manager's mistress is killed, and Cannon finds that's not the end of it.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Treasure of San Ignacio
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1972
A bad day at the track leaves a race car driver with a taste for vengeance.
#13 - A Lonely Place to Die
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1971
A murder is witnessed, but the body disappears.
#14 - Call Unicorn
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1971
Unexpected overhead in the trucking business as costly loads are hijacked, and private detectives murdered.
#15 - The Torch
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/29/1972
Heat and light: a textile manufacturer is suspected of arson and murder in the death of his wife and the destruction of his factory.
#16 - Country Blues
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1971
A wry tale with a twang and a twist: was the country singer's plane crash accidental or not?
#17 - Fool's Gold
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1971
A deceptive premise: small town citizens harbor a thief on the promise of a cut.
#18 - Dead Pigeon
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1971
A perfect frame for a cop.
#19 - A Flight of Hawks
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1972
A pilot's apparent suicide leads to plans for a military putsch by a predatory flock.
#20 - Cain's Mark
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1972
Murder will out; an under-the-counter arms merchant is unmasked.
#21 - A Deadly Quiet Town
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1972
Larry Bolinger, a charismatic young man, cons the youth of a quiet town into his cult.
#22 - Blood on the Vine
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1972
Mike Tampa owns a vineyard in northern California... his land alone is worth $2 million, but he loves wine-making and is not considering selling. His father started the vineyards, handed them down to him, and he hopes that his son Johnny Tampa will be the third generation. Mike Tampa, however, has been the victim of three murder attempts—in the last one, his brakes were tampered with, and he barely survived when he took his car down a mountain road. At this point, his secretary calls on Cannon—secretly, because the stubborn Mike has refused to do anything. Cannon is brought in to investigate. We learn that Johnny Tampa had only been re-united with Mike two years ago... after not having seen him for 20 years (Mike and his wife went through a bitter divorce 22 years prior and she took their son down to San Francisco). Cannon suspects that Johnny may be pulling a con and that he is not really Mike's son. The winery accountant says that they had Johnny checked out by a PI down in SF n
#23 - Devil's Playground
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1972
A policeman injured in a payroll robbery asks Cannon for help.
#24 - Murder by Moonlight
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1972
A young prisoner is forced to do the bidding of a gang boss.