The trials and adventures of three young police officers.
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Lt. Ryker, Officer's Terry Webster, Willie Gillis, and Mike Danko as well as Jill Danko try to help a young nurse get through the emotional trauma that she must endure after she is raped.
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A couple having an affair witness a murder, but the married man in the relationship wants to keep quite about it and not go to the police for fear of losing his family. What they don't realize is ...
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Mike gets a new partner he shares a lot of common interest with. But Luke is a man obsessed, blurring the lines between law and vengeance. When Mike fears he'll become just like him, he quits. Terry ...
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Title: The Rookies (1972–1976)
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| Georg Stanford Brown | ... | Officer Terry Webster / ... 93 episodes, 1972-1976 | |
| Sam Melville | ... | Officer Mike Danko / ... 93 episodes, 1972-1976 | |
| Gerald S. O'Loughlin | ... | Lt. Ed Ryker / ... 92 episodes, 1972-1976 | |
| Kate Jackson | ... | Jill Danko 92 episodes, 1972-1976 | |
| Michael Ontkean | ... | Officer Willie Gillis / ... 47 episodes, 1972-1974 | |
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Bruce Fairbairn | ... | Officer Chris Owens / ... 46 episodes, 1974-1976 |
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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. Written by Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
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I remember this series with great fondness. I was seriously contemplating a career in law enforcement when I grew up, and this show had great appeal. Three brand-new, fresh-out-of-the-academy police officers were going to clean up the mean streets of Santa Clara, California! They were all "pretty people": Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville and, not to be forgotten, Kate Jackson. The plots were frequently paper thin and the acting was always terribly earnest, but there was still a certain something that made it very watchable. Not the least of these intangibles was Gerald S. O'Loughlin as the supervising (and long-suffering) lieutenant. It does not stand the test of time - I mean, really, who believed that two rookies would be assigned to ride together and a third would be assigned to lone patrol with no senior officer in sight? And while replacing Michael Ontkean with Bruce Fairbairn didn't work for me, it still has the charm of nostalgia.