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- The victim of an elaborate frame, Harry is arrested for murder. While awaiting trial, Harry escapes and tracks down the real killer as he attempts to clear his name.
- Lt. Trench is under investigation by Internal Affairs, suspected of killing an informant.
- A woman who runs a gambling club is murdered and a book of hers that's filled with incriminating photos of influential people is stolen. Harry is hired to find and destroy that book and to protect a young woman who witnessed the murder.
- A young widow has a malpractice suit against the doctor who was treating her deceased husband, but after she is threatened by two men to drop the suit, her mother hires Harry to look into the Dr.'s past. Dead bodies begin piling up around Orwell, including Spence, his auto mechanic. The investigation leads Harry into the world of organized crime, hit-men and the safe-deposit box of the deceased husband.
- A young man who witnesses a woman's murder is suspected of being the murderer by the woman's family. Harry helps clear the young man and find out the truth.
- Lt. Manny Quinlan drives to Los Angeles in order to help his drug addicted niece. He finds her in a seedy hotel, but it is a setup and he's shot. An envelope full of money is planted on his body to make it appear he was a 'dirty' cop. Before he dies however, he manages to mail the envelope full of money to Harry, and Orwell takes it from there, investigating his friend's murder and trying to clear his good name and reputation.
- Harry is hired to find a drug-addicted, pregnant teenage girl who ran away from her policeman father. In the midst of this case, an old girlfriend comes back into Harry's life.
- Emily and her boyfriend steal $25,000 in bonds from her boss's safe. She has a change of heart and wants to return the bonds, but her boyfriend and the bonds are gone. Harry is hired to find the missing boyfriend.
- Answering an old friend's plea for help, Harry arrives at the meeting and soon finds out that his friend has been killed. Harry digs into the circumstances and discovers a tangled web of smuggling, threats, and murder.
- When members of a therapy group turn up murdered, the group psychiatrist suspects one of the members and hires Harry to investigate.
- When a robbery goes awry, a standoff with the police ensues and Lt. Trench offers himself as trade for one of the hostages. Harry must find the thief's girlfriend before hostages are killed.
- A college student is murdered on campus and the prime suspect seems more interested in the investigation than worried about it. All clues point in one direction, but Harry digs deeper to find the truth.
- After Sue is kidnapped by diamond smugglers, Harry works hard to come up with their ransom demands.
- Harry reads in the paper that his old Korean War buddy died in a plane crash. His widow tells Harry about him acting strangely before his fatal flight and Harry decides to find out what really happened.
- A young lady is arrested for passing counterfeit money and she calls her classmate Lester for help. Lester in turn enlists Harry's help and soon they discover that her grandfather had been printing fake money. But now he's been kidnapped.
- Harry is hired by a woman who can't remember whether she was responsible for a hit-and-run that gravely injured a teenager.
- An ex-con gets out of prison and looks up his old girlfriend, intent on getting his hands on his old suitcase, which he says contains $300,000. Harry is hired to find the suitcase, as well as to protect the woman in the middle of it all.
- Harry is hired to find out if a mentally challenged 19-year-old is involved when a woman is found strangled to death under the Santa Monica Pier.
- Harry is reunited with his ex-wife over a case of blackmail and murder. Through flashbacks, we see Harry and Elizabeth fall in love before breaking up over his spending too many hours on the job.
- Harry goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of car thieves and drug traffickers.
- Harry is hired by a wealthy woman to investigate the arrest of her housekeeper for murder. The investigation leads Orwell into a world of blackmail, hidden family secrets and murder.
- Harry comes to the aid of a deaf mute man accused of setting fire to a building after he was fired from his job as the building's janitor.
- Harry is attending a seaside jazz club when he hears a trumpeter playing in tune outside. Suddenly the trumpeter falls into the water - pushed in by a hit man unnoticed by anyone else. Harry, thinking the trumpeter passed out from being drunk, takes him to his beach house to sober up, and the next morning leaves to buy groceries. When Harry returns he finds a bottle of scotch broken and his car gone, stolen by the trumpeter. He also finds a young singer, Ruthie Daniels, waiting for him; Ruthie knows who the trumpeter is - her father, Arthur "Art Sully" Daniels. Daniels went to prison in 1963 for stabbing to death a mobster named Reisman and is now on parole; Daniels was gypped by his record company, led by Sid Hacktel, out of royalties, and is being pursued. Harry smokes out the hit man seeking Daniels and identifies him as Manny "Smitty" Schmicht, a former bouncer for one of Hacktel's nightclubs - and who is left-handed. When Sid Hacktel is found shot to death, Harry's car with Daniel's hat and trumpet are found abandoned in the driveway, but Harry recognizes it to be a setup since he had the hat and horn at his house that morning. Lt. Trench is stuck, since the only hard evidence he has is against Daniels even though he recognizes Daniels is being set up, since Hacktel's company is under FBI investigation for pirating recordings of jazz concerts and festivals, and an FBI agent involved in the investigation was found stabbed to death six weeks earlier. But both Harry and Trench encounter more than they bargained for when a family friend of the Daniels' is found stabbed to death and Ruthie Daniels is taken hostage by Smitty.
- When a drug addicted street waif witnesses a murder, she is forced to flee for her life. Harry is hired by her mother to find her before the killers do.
- Spence, Harry's auto mechanic, fears his father is being mistreated at the 'old folks home'. When Spence's father dies, he hires Harry to investigate the Doctor at the home.
- On the trail of a missing woman, Harry finds himself investigating the leader of a religious cult and his chief disciple.
- A young man who has been in an institution is tricked into shooting his brother and Harry finds it is a scam by his sister-in-law to inherit a wealthy trust fund.
- Letty owns a gold mine in the desert. Letty's two sisters, a brother, and a grand-nephew and his wife come for their annual visit. Trapped in the house in the middle of the desert, they start getting killed off, one by one.
- An old policeman friend dies from a suspected suicide but Harry doesn't believe it. His investigation leads him to an 8-year-old murder case involving the family of a wealthy industrialist.
- The fourth "Lester" episode is a pilot for what would have been a spin off "Fong and Hodges" series. (Sadly, the episode's relatively low ratings may have been the tipping point in ABC deciding to cancel "Harry O." Harry receives a note from Simon Applequist, asking Harry to come to a meeting at Applequist's palatial mansion. Applequist is a fabulously successful businessman who made more enemies than even he could count. Applequist greats Harry and introduces him to his various relatives -- one of whom is Lester Hodges. Then he fixes a baleful glare on the group and announces someone has sent him a threatening audiotape. Applequist puts the tape on and sits back as a whispered death threat plays. As the voice hisses: "Wait to die! Wait to die!" that's what Applequist does. Officially he suffered a heart attack, but Lester and his oft-mentioned mentor, Dr. Creighton Fong find that Applequist was poisoned by a venom found in the skin of an Amazon River basin alligator. At the reading of the will, Applequist's attorney reveals that Applequist has left almost everything to his brother-in-law Edward Tabor. Lester pokes around and gets everyone to whisper the same word to him, which he records. Dr. Fong finds that the word was uttered by Tabor. Lester goes to Tabor and confronts him, seeing his lab of various exotic poisons. Sure enough, Tabor has a nearly-empty vial of caimanol, the poison, in his collection. But the moment Lester points this out to Tabor, who is sipping a drink, Tabor drops dead in his tracks -- the caimanol was planted in the drink. As Harry (who is off screen for most of this episode) leaves to check out the backgrounds of the suspects, one heir after another gets a lethal dose of caimanol in various fashions, until only two suspects are left. And Lester is one of them.
- A rape victim is turned away by the police who decline to prosecute. She turns to Harry for help finding justice.