The F.B.I. - Season 8

1. The Runner

Aired: 9/17/1972

Inspector Erskine trails an Escaped Federal Prisoner who abducted a young girl and vanishes into the Oregon Wilderness.

2. The Edge of Desperation

Aired: 9/24/1972

A business man masterminds his own kidnapping and flees with the ransom money obtained from his father in-law along with a young woman to New York City.

3. The Fatal Showdown

Aired: 10/1/1972

Inspector Lew Erskine pursues Ken Meed's gang after the robbery of a valuable statue from a New York City art auction.

4. The Franklin Papers

Aired: 10/8/1972

While Inspector Lew Erskine investigates a con game that was perpetrated Christine Minton and her boyfriend, The pair set out to sell forged historical documents to an amateur historian.

5. The Gopher

Aired: 10/15/1972

To crack a loan sharking operation, Inspector Lew Erskine sets out to find the man who stole the organizations book of borrowers' name.

6. End of a Nightmare

Aired: 10/22/1972

The case is to catch an escaped convict before he takes revenge on the persons responsible for the annulment of his marriage.

7. The Engineer

Aired: 10/29/1972

Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby go after an unemployed aerospace engineer who turns to crime.

8. A Game of Chess

Aired: 11/5/1972

9. The Wizard

Aired: 11/12/1972

10. The Loner

Aired: 11/19/1972

11. Canyon Of No Return

Aired: 11/26/1972

12. Holiday With Terror

Aired: 12/3/1972

Kidnapping with a twist in ""Holiday with Terror"". The naive victim believes she's on a weekend vacation. (60 mins)

13. The Jug Marker

Aired: 12/10/1972

14. The Outcast

Aired: 12/17/1972

15. Dark Christmas

Aired: 12/24/1972

Hitman Stuart Tilden seriously wounds a businessman in Chicago while seeking the whereabouts of his intended target. The FBI launches an intense investigation, seeking to prevent him from succeeding, and even Assistant Director Arthur Ward will make an arrest in the field as part of the effort. The target is Richard Ghormley, who formerly worked for a criminal. While he wasn't involved with illegal activities, the criminal fears that he knows too much. He is desperately trying to get home from a business trip to San Francisco on Christmas Eve and Tilden is waiting for him there. Colby and other agents rescue his children while Erskine confronts Tilden.

16. The Rap Taker

Aired: 1/7/1973

17. A Gathering Of Sharks

Aired: 1/14/1973

18. The Disinherited

Aired: 1/21/1973

19. Desperate Journey

Aired: 1/28/1973

20. The Double Play

Aired: 2/4/1973

21. The Wedding Gift

Aired: 2/11/1973

22. The Detonator

Aired: 2/25/1973

23. Sweet Evil

Aired: 3/4/1973

24. Memory of a Legend

Aired: 3/11/1973

Inspector Lew Erskine & The FBI confront a father and son, The father being a small time burglar glamorized by the son who is trying to follow in his footsteps.

25. Night of the Long Knives

Aired: 3/25/1973

Suspecting assassinations in the Mafia are being planned, Inspector Erskine goes undercover as a caterer at the wedding of a mob bosses daughter.

26. The Loper Gambit

Aired: 4/1/1973

Inspector Lew Erskine's attempt to capture the kidnappers of the son of a wealthy land developer without endangering the life of the victim.