• 1968
  • 1h
The Outsider

Summary David Ross is a orphaned, ex-con, loner living in a world that loaths and makes a living as a private investgator in Los Angeles to tackle his financial problems and other people's problems as well. View more details

  • 1968
  • 1h

The Outsider

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Darren McGavin James Edwards Bill Quinn Will J. White

All cast & crew

7.9

Details

Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 17, 1968

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Universal Television Universal/Public Arts Production

Summary David Ross is a orphaned, ex-con, loner living in a world that loaths and makes a living as a private investgator in Los Angeles to tackle his financial problems and other people's problems as well. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 17, 1968

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production companies : Universal Television Universal/Public Arts Production

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 17, 1968
For Members Only
Ross is hired to catch a cardshark who is swindling members of an exclusive gambling club. He poses as a wealthy prospective member of the club to draw out the swindler, but gets more than he bargained for.
Episode 2 • Sep 24, 1968
What Flowers Daisies Are
Ross is hired to look into the disappearance of a beautiful model and finds himself in the middle of a million-dollar scam involving a research foundation and murder.
Episode 3 • Oct 01, 1968
Along Came a Spider
A homely young woman hires Ross to get back the $6000 he loaned to a younger man who promised to marry her, and then was murdered. Ross' investigation takes him into the world of lonely-hearts clubs, where he comes up against gangsters, tough cops and a killer.
Episode 4 • Oct 09, 1968
A Wide Place in the Road
Ross is looking for a car thief who jumped bail, and his search takes him to the thief's home town. There Ross finds that the residents--including the sheriff--are in no mood to cooperate with him, and in fact see the young man as somewhat of a hero.
Episode 5 • Oct 15, 1968
Cold as Ashes
Ross is hired to deliver an urn containing the ashes of a dead man to San Francsico. He's astonished to discover that killers are after him, and soon discovers that his assignment wasn't quite as innocuous as he thought it was.
Episode 6 • Oct 29, 1968
A Time to Run
A defense attorney hires Ross to find a missing witness in a murder trial. He finds him, but soon afterward the man is murdered, and the killers set out to silence Ross before he can bring the evidence he has discovered back to the trial.
Episode 7 • Nov 05, 1968
Love Is Under 'L'
A millionaire hires Ross to find his missing girlfriend. Ross finds her, but discovers that the girl isn't really missing--she ran away to escape her "boyfriend" and has no intention of going back to him.
Episode 8 • Nov 12, 1968
The Twenty Thousand Dollar Carrot
Ross takes an assignment to investigate the death of a beautiful young girl's boyfriend. His investigation reveals that not only is the boyfriend not dead, but that he staged a huge insurance scam. Ross makes a deal with the insurance company to bring back the crook and the money, but it turns out to be more difficult than he thought.
Episode 9 • Nov 19, 1968
One Long-Stemmed American Beauty
Ross investigates the death of a man who used to be a top dancer in Hollywood but whose career lately consisted of bit parts and being a gigolo.
Episode 10 • Nov 26, 1968
I Can't Hear You Scream
Ross tries to save a small-time thief from being executed for a crime he didn't commit. He runs into a variety of problems, from a police lieutenant who doesn't think the man is worth saving to the thief's mother who doesn't trust Ross because he's white to the thief's girlfriend whose acting career is more important to her than her boyfriend's life.
Episode 11 • Dec 03, 1968
Tell It Like It Is... and You're Dead
A washed-up burlesque star decides to write her life story and gets a ghostwriter to help her. It's not long before someone tries to kill her, and she hires Ross to find out who and why. His job get complicated when he falls in love with the ghostwriter.
Episode 12 • Dec 17, 1968
The Land of the Fox
Ross is looking for a witness to a hit-and-run death and gets involved in the California "sun-and-surf" crowd.
Episode 13 • Dec 24, 1968
There Was a Little Girl
Twelve years ago, industrialist George Harrington paid a $250,000 ransom for his kidnapped daughter, who was never seen again. Now, Sadie Burch claims the girl she raised as her own is the millionaire's missing daughter.
Episode 14 • Jan 07, 1969
The Girl from Missouri
A young girl comes to Los Angeles looking for her brother, in order to bring him back to Missouri to see their dying father.
Episode 15 • Jan 14, 1969
The Secret of Mareno Bay
Ross hits a wall of resentment and hostility as he searches for Marion Bay's least-loved citizen. Novelist John Bedford disappeared shortly after returning to the area, and the residents are unanimous in wishing him dead.
Episode 16 • Jan 21, 1969
The Old School Tie
Ross had his life saved by another convict during a savage fight in the past. When his prison-buddy is released, he contacts Ross to tell him of a big, money-making plot he has devised, which is actually extortion.
Episode 17 • Jan 28, 1969
A Bowl of Cherries
A Latino friend of Ross' from prison asks him to check on his impulsive young son. It seems that the boy has fallen in love with the girlfriend of his boss' son, and since she's white, the father is afraid it will lead to trouble.
Episode 18 • Feb 04, 1969
Behind God's Back
In Acapulco, Mexico, Ross mixes in with the jet set as he tries to convince a millionaire's runaway daughter that her new-found playmates are up to no good.
Episode 19 • Feb 11, 1969
Take the Key and Lock Him Up
While investigating the shooting of a convict in a backwater town, Ross is arrested on the charge of selling marijuana.
Episode 20 • Feb 25, 1969
The Flip Side
Ross is hired by a shy and somewhat prudish young woman to find and stop her wild, out-of-control sister.
Episode 21 • Mar 04, 1969
Handle with Care
Posing as a drifter with the alias Leo Martin, Ross joins a gang of hijacking truckers, whose operation is hurting an insurance company.
Episode 22 • Mar 11, 1969
All the Social Graces
Ross is hired by a diamond-in-the-rough millionaire who is slain before the detective has any idea why he was hired. His investigation leads him to an elegant tennis club, which considered the millionaire too "low crust" for membership.
Episode 23 • Mar 25, 1969
A Lot of Muscle
Ross takes up the cudgels for a tough, unbending cop who's facing indictment on a bribery charge. Probing a possible frame, Ross begins to sort out the man's many enemies - ranging from a bartender to a high city official.
Episode 24 • Apr 01, 1969
Periwinkle Blue
Ross has a client who suspects that his wife is trying to kill him. Sometime later, the client is killed in a hit and run.
Episode 25 • Apr 08, 1969
Through a Stained Glass Window
A thief who stole $250,000 gets out of prison, and the man he stole the money from hires Ross to follow him and get it back. Ross discovers that he's not the only one out to recover the money.
Episode 26 • Apr 15, 1969
Service for One
Ross is hired to serve a subpoena to an eccentric, hermit-like billionaire. He discovers that the billionaire isn't quite what he seems to be.
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