3x1 - Net Loss

September 23, 1977

3x2 - Downshift

September 30, 1977

3x3 - Legend of the Macunas (1)

October 14, 1977

3x4 - Legend of the Macunas (2)

October 21, 1977

3x5 - Fade Out

November 4, 1977

3x6 - Dancer

December 5, 1977

Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.

3x7 - Go for Broke

December 12, 1977

3x8 - Lady of the Deep

December 19, 1977

3x9 - Thirty Thousand Witnesses

December 26, 1977

Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).

3x10 - Dangerous Curves

January 2, 1978

3x11 - The Tong

January 9, 1978

3x12 - Who Killed Lila Craig?

January 16, 1978

Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.

3x13 - Three Blond Mice

January 30, 1978

Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.

3x14 - Coranodo Circle

February 7, 1978

3x16 - Formula for Murder

April 28, 1978

3x17 - Blue Crusaders Reunion

May 5, 1978

Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.

3x18 - Mexican Standoff

May 12, 1978

3x19 - Play-off

June 18, 1978

Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.

3x20 - The Cage

June 25, 1978

The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.

3x21 - Photo Finish

July 2, 1978

3x22 - The Siege at the Bouziki Bar

July 9, 1978

The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).