Barnaby Jones

A TV reporter fakes a news story by hiring a stuntman to fake a suicide by jumping from a bridge. After a bystander is killed things spin out of control when the jumper's girlfriend hires Barnaby to find out what really happened.

One of the men that J.R. served with in Vietnam has come up missing after he joined a mercenary group.

One of Betty's friends comes to her when her alcoholic husband goes off the deep end and becomes physically abusive. Barnaby and J.R. become involved when he becomes a suspect in the murder of the woman's boss.

A woman trying to hide her sordid past from her well-to-do husband is blackmailed into stealing thousands in bonds from her husbands company. Investigating on behalf of the insurance company Barnaby unearths the details.

The sister (Lee Purcell) of a hit-and-run victim seeks her brother-in-law, who vanished after the accident.

A gang leader sends two of his men to bring Barnaby to him but he's not around so they get J.R. and bring him to him. He tells J.R. that his friend and lieutenant was shot and killed.