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The Mod Squad

For other uses, seeThe Mod Squad (disambiguation).

The Mod Squad is an Americancrime drama series, originally broadcast for five seasons onABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973.[1] It starredMichael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran,Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes,Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, andTige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. Theexecutive producers of the series wereAaron Spelling andDanny Thomas.[1][2]

The Mod Squad
Title screen, 1970 to 1973
GenreAction
Crime drama
Created byBud "Buddy" Ruskin
Developed byTony Barrett
Harve Bennett
Sammy Hess
StarringMichael Cole
Clarence Williams III
Peggy Lipton
Tige Andrews
Theme music composerEarle Hagen
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes124(list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersAaron Spelling
Danny Thomas
Running time60 minutes
Production companyThomas-Spelling Productions
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 24, 1968 (1968-09-24) –
March 1, 1973 (1973-03-01)

Thecounterculture police series earned sixEmmy Award nominations, fourGolden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, oneDirectors Guild of America Award, and fourLogies.[3] In 1970, the second-season episode, "In This Corner . . . Sol Alpert," script byRita Lakin and Harve Bennett, was nominated by theMystery Writers of America for anEdgar Award in the category ofBest Mystery Teleplay, losing to theTV-MovieDaughter of the Mind. In 1997, a 1970 episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 onTV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[4]

Plot

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The main cast in 1971 from left: Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton and Michael Cole

They were The Mod Squad ("One black, one white, one blonde"), described by one critic as "the hippest and first young undercover cops on TV".[5] Each of these characters represented mainstream culture's principal fears regarding youth in the era:[6] long-haired rebel Pete Cochran (Michael Cole) was evicted from his wealthy parents'Beverly Hills home, then arrested and put on probation after he stole a car; Lincoln Hayes (Clarence Williams III), who came from a family of 13 children, was arrested in theWatts riots, one of the longest and most violent riots inLos Angeles history;flower child Julie Barnes (Peggy Lipton), the "canary with a broken wing,"[7]: 64  was arrested forvagrancy after running away from her prostitute mother'sSan Francisco home; and Captain Adam Greer (Tige Andrews) was a tough but sympathetic mentor andfather figure who convinced them to form the squad.[1][8][9]

The concept was to take three rebellious, disaffected young social outcasts and convince them to work as unarmed undercover detectives as an alternative to being incarcerated. Their youthful,hippie personas would enable them to get close to the criminals they would investigate. "The times are changing," Captain Greer explained. "They can get into places we (the regular police) can't." Examples included their infiltrations of ahigh school to solve a teacher's murder, of anunderground newspaper to find a bomber, and of an acting class to look for a strangler who was preying on blonde actresses.[1][9]

More than a year before the release of the filmEasy Rider,The Mod Squad was one of the earliest attempts to deal with the counterculture. Groundbreaking in the realm of socially relevant drama,[2] it dealt with issues such asabortion,domestic violence,child abuse,illiteracy,slumlords, theanti-war movement,illegal immigration,police brutality,student protest,sex education,soldiers returning from Vietnam andPTSD,racism,euthanasia, and theillegal drug trade.[10] Spelling intended the show to be about the characters's relationships, and he promised that the Squad "would never arrest kids ... or carry a gun or use one."[7]: 63 

The show was loosely based on creator Bud "Buddy" Ruskin's experiences in the late 1950s as a squad leader for young undercovernarcotics cops, though it took almost 10 years after he wrote a script for the idea to begreen-lighted by ABC Television Studios.[8]

Impact

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The showsStar Trek (1966–69),I Spy (1965–68),The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71),Room 222 (1969–74),Mannix (1967–75),Mission: Impossible (1966–73),Julia (1968–71),The Flip Wilson Show (1970–74), andThe Mod Squad (1968–73) were among the first programs to feature African-Americans as stars since the stereotyped roles ofAmos 'n' Andy andBeulah (ABC, 1950–53).[11] Significantly,The Mod Squad presented an African-American character (Linc) as being on an equal footing, as roles went, to the Caucasian characters (Barnes and Cochran). In oneMod Squad episode, the script called for Linc to give Barnes a "friendly kiss". Since thefirst interracial kiss on an American television show was in 1968, this was still fairly new territory in popular culture.[12] The studio was frightened of a negative public reaction, so they asked Spelling to cut it:[7]: 67–68 

"You can't do that," I was told. "You can't have a black man kissing a white girl." I won and ABC agreed to let it in, but they warned me I'd receive thousands of complaint letters. I didn't get one.[7]: 68 

Linc's famous "solid" and "keep the faith" were among the current-day slang used on the show, which included "pad", "dig it", and "groovy."[8][13]

The "kids" traveled in Pete's oldstation wagon, "Woody": a greenwoodie-style1950 Mercury which became famous until it burned up in a fire after going over a cliff during a chase at the end of the second-season episode "The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek".

Among the series guest stars were Spelling's ex-wifeCarolyn Jones,Leslie Nielsen,William Windom,Ed Asner (three episodes in three different roles),Vincent Price,Sammy Davis Jr. (three episodes in three different roles),Andy Griffith,Joe Don Baker,David Cassidy,Richard Pryor,Lee Grant,Richard Dreyfuss (two episodes in two different roles),Jo Van Fleet,Tom Bosley,Marion Ross,Danny Thomas (as well as being co-executive producer of the show),Tyne Daly (two episodes in two different roles),Anthony Geary,Sam Elliott,Martin Sheen,Desi Arnaz Jr.,René Auberjonois,Stefanie Powers,Robert Reed,Cesar Romero,Meg Foster (two episodes in two different roles),Jack Cassidy,Tony Dow,Vic Tayback,Fritz Weaver,Harrison Ford (uncredited role),Clint Howard,Louis Gossett Jr.,Sugar Ray Robinson,Bobby Sherman (two episodes in two different roles),Billy Dee Williams,Victor Buono,Jim Backus,Fernando Lamas,Cleavon Little,Daniel J. Travanti (three episodes in three different roles),Barbara McNair andRodolfo Hoyos Jr. (three episodes in three different roles).[14]

Episodes

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SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
126September 24, 1968 (1968-09-24)April 15, 1969 (1969-04-15)
226September 23, 1969 (1969-09-23)April 7, 1970 (1970-04-07)
324September 22, 1970 (1970-09-22)March 23, 1971 (1971-03-23)
424September 14, 1971 (1971-09-14)March 7, 1972 (1972-03-07)
524September 14, 1972 (1972-09-14)March 1, 1973 (1973-03-01)
Television filmMay 18, 1979 (1979-05-18)

Broadcast history and Nielsen ratings

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SeasonTimeRankRating
1 (1968–69)Tuesday at 7:30-8:30 PM#2820.5 (tied withThe Lawrence Welk Show)
2 (1969–70)#2320.8
3 (1970–71)#1122.7
4 (1971–72)#2121.5
5 (1972–73)Thursday at 8:00-9:00 PM#5416.5

Syndication

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In the U.S.,MeTV reran the series from May 26 to August 29, 2014, and again on Sunday afternoons from January 4 to August 30, 2015.Decades re-ran part of the series on February 24–25, 2018, and again on January 30–31, 2021, for their binge weekend programming block; they presented one final Weekend Binge of it on March 25–26, 2023 before the network changed intoCatchy Comedy.Mod Squad was being shown on MeTv+ late in 2021.

Related productions

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Atelevision pilot was shot in 1968, with a running time of 74 minutes, but it was never aired in its entirety. The film was edited to 50 minutes and aired as the show's first episode. The uncut 74-minute version appears on the DVD set as the opening episode, with the title "The Teeth of the Barracuda."

A TV reunion movie,The Return of the Mod Squad, was transmitted on ABC on May 18, 1979, featuring the entire original cast. Tom Bosley, a guest star during the original run, also participated as an antagonist targeting Julie Barnes herself. Peggy Lipton said she participated in it as a favor to Aaron Spelling.[citation needed]

In 1999, the series was adapted into afeature film with the same title byMGM; however, this film, which starredGiovanni Ribisi,Omar Epps,Claire Danes, andDennis Farina in Cole's, Williams III's, Lipton's, and Andrews's roles respectively, was not a box-office success.

Home media

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CBS DVD (distributed byParamount) has released the first two seasons ofThe Mod Squad on DVD inRegion 1.

On August 20, 2013, it was announced thatVisual Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series (under license fromParamount) and would release season 3 on DVD on September 24, 2013. Season 4 would be released on October 1, 2013.[15] In Canada, Season 3 was released on DVD a week earlier, on September 17, 2013, and Season 4 was released on October 8, 2013. Season 5 was released in Canada on November 19, 2013 and in the US on December 17, 2013.[16][17] A complete series set was released in Canada and the US on November 12, 2013.[18]

DVD nameEp #Release date
Season 1, Volume 113December 18, 2007 (US & Canada)
Season 1, Volume 213March 11, 2008 (US & Canada)
Season 2, Volume 113November 25, 2008 (US & Canada)
Season 2, Volume 213May 26, 2009 (US & Canada)
Season 3, Volume 112September 24, 2013 (US)
September 17, 2013 (Canada)
Season 3, Volume 212September 24, 2013 (US)
September 17, 2013 (Canada)
Season 4, Volume 112October 1, 2013 (US)
October 8, 2013 (Canada)
Season 4, Volume 212October 1, 2013 (US)
October 8, 2013 (Canada)
Season 5, Volume 112December 17, 2013 (US)
November 19, 2013 (Canada)
Season 5, Volume 212December 17, 2013 (US)
November 19, 2013 (Canada)
Complete Series124November 12, 2013 (US & Canada)[18]

References elsewhere in popular culture

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The term "Mod Squad" had been introduced the previous year inDragnet 1967's sixteenth installment, "The Big Kids," where it described a club of high schoolers who had to shoplift at least $20 to become members.

In 1990 on the TV seriesTwin Peaks, in which Lipton was a regular, Williams appeared in two episodes. The pair shared a brief scene that appears to have been an intentional reunion.[19]

References

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  1. ^abcd"The Mod Squad".St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
  2. ^abLovece, Frank (December 16, 2007)."Groovy kind of law".Newsday. Archived fromthe original on February 15, 2008.
  3. ^"Awards forThe Mod Squad". Internet Movie Database. RetrievedApril 28, 2017.
  4. ^"Special Collectors' Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time".TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.
  5. ^Hutchings, David (April 4, 1988)."Can You Dig It? the Mod Squad's Peggy Lipton, One Marriage and 15 Years Later, Returns to Acting".People. Vol. 29, no. 13. RetrievedApril 28, 2017.
  6. ^Debolt, Abbe A.; Baugess, James S., eds. (2011).Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture [2 volumes]: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. ABC-CLIO. p. 629.ISBN 9781440801020. RetrievedJune 10, 2014.
  7. ^abcdSpelling, Aaron; Graham, Jefferson (2002).Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life. Macmillan.ISBN 9780312313449.
  8. ^abcMadden, Joanne (May 17, 2011)."The Coolness of The Mod Squad".TV Banter. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  9. ^ab"The Mod Squad - Season 1, Volume 1".Amazon. December 18, 2007. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  10. ^Blythe, Kambur O."The Mod Squad: The Second Season, Volume One".GameVortex.com. GameVortex Communications. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  11. ^Allen, Steve."Television in the United States".Britannica.com. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  12. ^TheStar Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren", often cited as a controversial 'first' of this kind, was not until 1968.
  13. ^"'Mod Squad' Star Returns to TV".Los Angeles Times. Times Wire Services. October 19, 1990. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  14. ^"No. 12: Classic TV Beauties 1960s Countdown: Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes in "The Mod Squad"".ClassicTVBeauties.com. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2015.
  15. ^Half-Season Sets Scheduled for 'Season 3' and 'Season 4'Archived August 23, 2013, at theWayback Machine at TVShowsonDVD.com
  16. ^The Mod Squad Season 5, Volume One at Amazon.com
  17. ^The Mod Squad Season 5, Volume Two at Amazon.com
  18. ^abThe Mod Squad: The Complete Collection at VisualEntertainment.tv
  19. ^Thomlison, Adam."Q&A". TV Media. RetrievedSeptember 24, 2015.

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