The WORST episodes of The Mod Squad
Every episode of The Mod Squad ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Mod Squad!
The Mod Squad was about three young people who have been in trouble with the law who are recruited to be undercover cops.
#1 - Cry Uncle
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1973
When Greer and the Squad investigate a series of art thefts, they come up with an unexpected culprit.
#2 - Scion of Death
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1973
Pete and Linc witness a kidnapping, but the victim's father refuses to report the abduction to the police.
#3 - Can You Hear Me Out There?
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1972
The Squad's investigation turns up a radio disc jockey who was an unwitting helper of an auto-theft ring when his commercial indicated where stolen cars could be picked up.
#4 - Taps, Play It Louder
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1972
The Squad finds a missing ex-soldier working as a longshoreman, but because of mysterious circumstances they question his identity.
#5 - Real Loser
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1971
The Squad tries to track down a killer who was hired by his intended victim.
#6 - And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1971
The Squad tries to protect a TV clown whose life is in danger.
#8 - To Linc -- with Love
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1969
Linc falls in love with an attractive young woman, but their romance is threatened when a man from her past turns up.
#9 - You Can't Tell the Players Without a Programmer
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1968
Julie serves as a decoy as the Mod Squad attempts to sting a computer-dating service operating in blackmail.
#10 - A Town Called Sincere
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1970
A sleepy Mexican town becomes a prison for Pete and Linc, captured by a savage motorcycle gang. The bikers center their terror tactics on the townspeople as they try to learn who killed two members of their gang.
#11 - Lisa
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1969
The squad is unaware that the writer they are assigned to protect, has a split personality.
#13 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1968
With Pete and Linc close by, Julie poses as a Hollywood starlet to lure into the open a serial assailant preying upon young actresses.
#14 - Hello Mother, My Name Is Julie
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1969
Julie's mother, a former prostitute, arrives in Los Angeles to introduce Julie to the man she plans to marry.
#15 - A Reign of Guns
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1969
The Squad tangles with a wealthy arch-conservative who is forming a private militia armed with stolen guns.
#16 - A Seat by the Window
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/15/1969
The trio splits up onto three tour buses to find the killer of a man found at a bus station.
#17 - The Tangled Web
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1972
Pete and Linc jeopardize their lives and careers by helping Julie's friend return the jewelry he has stolen.
#18 - The Teeth of the Barracuda
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1968
The origin of the Mod Squad. Greer puts his newly-formed squad to work investigating a cop killing, which the evidence suggests was the work of young people. Uncredited cameos by Harrison Ford and Richard Pryor.
#19 - An Eye for an Eye
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1969
Greer falls in love with an attractive widow, unwittingly making her the kidnapping target of a narcotics gang.
#20 - The Sands of Anger
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1971
The Squad investigates a mysterious explosion that kills a driver at a dune-buggy rally in the desert.
#21 - The Guru
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1968
Posing as hippies the trio investigate the bombing of an underground paper, resulting in murder.
#22 - My, What a Pretty Bus
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1968
A wily ex-con, unaware that Pete, Linc and Julie are cops, recruits them for a big counterfeiting caper.
#23 - Find Tara Chapman!
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1968
Unaware she has contagious meningitis, a singer who witnessed a mob murder flees the hospital.
#24 - The Uptight Town
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1969
The Squad searches for Greer, who has disappeared while vacationing in a little desert town.
#25 - Captain Greer, Call Surgery
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1969
Greer thinks a series of hospital drug robberies are inside jobs. The trio poses as hospital staff to solve this case.