The Immortal

Original title : The Immortal
First Aired : 30.09.1969 (USA)(ABC) - 30.09.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Joseph Sargent
Writing credits : James E. Gunn, Robert Specht
Cast : Mimi Dillard (Nurse #3), Lillian Adams (Nurse #2), Claudia Bryar (Nurse #1), Marvin Silbersher (Doctor), Garry Walberg (Detective), William Sargent (Pilot), Vincent Beck (Locke), Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Matt Pearce), Jessica Walter (Janet Braddock), Barry Sullivan (Jordan Braddock), Carol Lynley (Sylvia Cartwright), Joseph Bernard (Mechanic)

The Story : Billionaire Jordan Braddock is critically ill, a condition made worse after the crash of his private plane. He receives a transfusion of blood and miraculously recovers and grows younger. The cause of the recovery is traced to strange antibodies in the blood of the donor, Ben Richards, a test driver employee at one of Braddock's companies. Once it is learned that the effects of the transfusion are only temporary, Braddock devises a plan to imprison Ben for his own personal use. Ben has to leave everything, including his job and fiancee, behind to keep out of Braddock's clutches.

Original title : Sylvia
First Aired : 24.09.1970 (USA)(ABC)
Director : Don McDougall
Writing credits : Robert Malcolm Young
Cast : Bill Burton (Thug #3), Frank Orsatti (Thug #2), Bob Orrisson (Thug #1), Angela Greene (Mrs. Hiller), Paul Langton (Walter Hiller), David Brian (Arthur Maitland), Sherry Jackson (Sherry Hiller), Glenn Corbett (David Hiller), Carol Lynley (Sylvia Cartwright), Alan Oliney (Thug #4)

The Story : Sylvia, Ben's one-time fiancee, is engaged to marry another man. She has taken the step not because she loves the man -- she is still helplessly in love with Ben -- but because she thinks her marriage will get Fletcher out of her life once and for all. Fletcher, positive that Ben will not be able to allow Sylvia to marry without seeing her one last time, stakes out the reception in hopes of catching Ben.

Original title : White Elephants Don't Grow on Trees
First Aired : 01.10.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 20.04.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Michael Caffey
Writing credits : Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Karl Lucas (Superintendent), Ed Begley Jr. (Attendant), Victoria Carroll (Waitress), Elizabeth Harrower (Aunt Marge), William Wintersole (Manager), Read Morgan (Tucker), Mitch Vogel (Jud Yeomen), Ross Martin (Eddie Yeoman), Larry J. Black (Auctioneer)

The Story : A salvage dealer offers Ben a hiding place in the back of his disabled truck while Fletcher is in pursuit. After Fletcher leaves Ben helps the man repair the truck and deliver the salvage cargo -- World War I surplus gas canisters that are leaking and could explode at any moment. The salvage company, however, is owned by Arthur Maitland, and Fletcher is at the plant, waiting for Ben to arrive.

Original title : Reflections on a Lost Tomorrow
First Aired : 08.10.1970 (USA)(ABC)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Robert Hamner
Cast : Walt Davis (Arnie), Alice Borden (Waitress), Gene O'Donnell (Moderator), Philip Bourneuf (Paul Hubner), David Brian (Arthur Maitland), Rosemary Forsyth (Anne Koster), Jack Albertson (Dr. Walter Koster), Treva Frazee (Mother)

The Story : Dr. Walter Koster has spent 20 years researching his theory about the connection between hemoglobin and the aging process. Ben sees him on TV and gets a job at the clinic where Dr. Koster and his daughter, also a doctor, work. Ben believes that if Dr. Koster is successful Arthur Maitland will no longer hunt him, so he confides in the doctor about his blood. Dr. Koster attempts to synthetically reproduce the unique qualities in Ben's blood but the experiment fails. Frustrated and tempted by Maitland's offer of a multimillion dollar grant, Koster turns Ben over to Maitland. Koster's daughter, who has become romantically interested in Ben, seeks to help Ben escape from Maitlaind's men, who have Ben in a straight jacket and guarded in a locked office while Maitland prepares for his coveted transfusion.

Original title : The Legacy
First Aired : 15.10.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 04.05.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Robert Douglas
Writing credits : Dan Ullman, Wanda Duncan, Robert Duncan
Cast : Michael Vandever (Jensen), Armand Alzamora (Martinez), Manuel Padilla, Jr. (Luis), Mario Alcalde (Ramos), Susan Howard (Annie Williams), Filipe Turich (Rodriguez), Chuck Taylor (Smith)

The Story : A teacher gives Ben a ride to escape from Maitland's hounds. Her star pupil is a Chicano boy who lives with his grandfather in an illegal mining camp. Ben and the teacher take the boy home to find his grandfather dying from typhoid fever. The mine foreman, who is only interested in money, refuses to send for medical help for those exposed to the disease. Maitland's men trace Ben to the camp and show up just as the boy begins to show symptoms of typhoid.

Original title : The Rainbow Butcher
First Aired : 22.10.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 27.04.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Nicholas Webster
Writing credits : Jack Turley
Cast : Vic Morrow (Sheriff Dan W. Wheeler), Collin Wilcox (Clarice Evans), Jerry Ayres (Charley), Byron Mabe (Deputy Collis), Jimmy Bracken (Donny Evans), Tani Guthrie (Martha (as Tani Phelps))

The Story : A dishonest sheriff jails Ben on trumped-up traffic charges. In order to work off the $50 fine imposed on him, Ben will have to spend 25 days on a work detail building a lodge for the sheriff. A woman befriends Ben after he fixes her car (on the sheriff's orders), and she offers to help him escape if he will retrieve a file the sheriff has on her. Ben gets the file, but the woman backs out of her end of the deal after Ben witnesses an inmate's murder at the hands of the sheriff. When Ben refuses to leave the town forgetting what he saw, the sheriff decides to make Ben the next "accidental death" victim at the work site.

Original title : Man on a Punched Card
First Aired : 29.10.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 18.05.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Don Weis
Writing credits : Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Ford Lile (Deputy), Dave Willock (Brockaw), Hal Riddle (Morton), Karen Arthur (Betty), Lori Busk (Bonita Kerwin), Barry Cahill (Dr. Joe Lacey), Lee Patterson (Duane Hollenbeck), Lynda Day George (Terry Kerwin), Jim Wagerman (Attendant)

The Story : Two engaged computer technicians serve as Fletcher's newest weapon in hunting Ben. They have developed a program that can analyze information about Ben and predict his next move -- with alarming accuracy. To the man Ben is nothing but statistics to feed into his computer so he can earn $1000 a day from Maitland Industries for his services. His finacee, however, leaves the project to help Ben escape from Fletcher. Her daughter is critically ill, so she offers to destroy the computer records on Ben and his brother in exchange for a transfusion to save her daughter's life. Fletcher searches her apartment and discovers this information. With the hospital surrounded, Ben has to trust the woman, the doctor whom Fletcher strong-armed for information, and the computer technician who feels his fiancee jilted him in order to escape from Fletcher and erase the database on Jason Richards.

Original title : White Horse, Steel Horse
First Aired : 05.11.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 11.05.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Gene L. Coon, Stephen Kandel, Gene L. Coon
Cast : Frederic Gavlin (Mort), John Pickard (I) (Katcher), Robbie Porter (Robert Allison), Warner Anderson (Judge Atkins), Steve Oliver (Nat King), John Dehner (George Allison), Bill Burton (Ray)

The Story : Ben, one of a number of hired laborers on a farm, witnesses a sheriff accidentally shot by a couple of workers who are upset over withheld wages. The farm owner organizes an "Honor Posse" to hunt down the men. Ben runs, not because he had part in the shooting but because he got word that Fletcher is nearby. The posse captures Ben and the man who shot the sheriff. The farm owner, a friend of the sheriff, implicates Ben in the crime because Ben worked on the getaway motorcycles just before the incident. When the sheriff dies Ben is charged with the murder, which temporarily keeps him out of Fletcher's hands. Ben's options are to allow Fletcher to take him from the posse and into Maitland's custody, or to face the angry posse leader who is more than happy to kill to ensure the dead sheriff receives "justice".

Original title : The Queen's Gambit
First Aired : 12.11.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 08.06.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Robert Douglas
Writing credits : Stephen Kandel
Cast : Jayne Brechenridge (Girl), James O'Hara (Benson), Dom Tattoli (Casey), Karl Swenson (Dom DiLorenzo), Nico Minardos (Simon Brent), Lee Meriwether (Sigrid Bergen), Joe Thomas (Man)

The Story : A woman's car breaks down near Ben as he stands hitchhiking. He fixes her car, then uses it to escape when he spots the ubiquitous black car nearby. The woman whose car he repaired is friendly, offering Ben a place to stay and a job. Too friendly, in fact, but Ben only realizes that after he is shot with a tranquilizer and whisked away to a remote country. The woman, he discovers, works for his captor. The younger but equally ruthless billionaire holding Ben (who is thought dead thanks to a staged car accident that Fletcher witnesses) wants to tap the immortality in Ben's veins. Ben tries to bribe one of the guards, but the guard turns up dead. Ben has only two people to turn to in hope for escape: the hematologist who performed the blood transfusion, and the woman who led him into the trap initially, but she admits to Ben that she has lied to him from the beginning.

Original title : By Gift of Chance
First Aired : 19.11.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 25.05.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Irving J. Moore
Writing credits : Stephen Kandel, Ken Trevey
Cast : Paul Nickles (Peters), Art Lewis (Portland Bill), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Garland Colley), Michael Conrad (Monte Loomis), Jacqueline Scott (Alpha Henderson), Don Haggerty (Danson)

The Story : While hiding out in a Mexican border town Ben is shot in an alley altercation. Fletcher shows up in the alley moments after a fellow American gets Ben off the street. The two return to America as part of a group of illegal workers. They are put to work on a tomato farm run by a cruel foreman. Ben recovers quickly from his gunshot, but the foreman has already had a visit from Fletcher and he assures Ben that he will call Fletcher if Ben causes any trouble. The foreman stands to gain half the farm from the widowed owner if a good crop of tomatoes gets to market on time. He will stop at nothing to accomplish this, including endangering the workers by exposing them to an illegal pesticide.

Original title : Dead Man, Dead Man
First Aired : 03.12.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 01.06.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Allen Baron
Writing credits : William Wood
Cast : Lee Stanley (Deputy Barry), Lal Baum (Frye), John Garwood (Tom McWade), Byron Keith (Dave Holley), Henry Beckman (Dr. Kinneson), Joan Hotchkis (Helen Stoner), Kem Dibbs (Bryer)

The Story :

Original title : Paradise Bay
First Aired : 10.12.1970 (USA)(ABC)
Director : Don Weis
Writing credits : Dan Ullman, Benjamin Masselink, Stephen Kandel, Benjamin Masselink
Cast : Ronnie Rondell Jr. (Ralph), Don Diamond (Warren Harron), Aron Kincaid (Pete Cameron), Scott Brady (Frank Brady), Howard Duff (Arthur Cameron), Tisha Sterling (Julie/Nancy Dudley), Joe Hooker (Eddie)

The Story :

Original title : The Return
First Aired : 17.12.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 13.04.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Michael Caffey
Writing credits : Robert Specht
Cast : John Gallaudet (Ralph), William Benedict (Player), Ford Rainey (Sheriff Billy), Ted Knight (Dr. Arliss), Marlene Clark (Carol Carver), Martine Bartlett (Mrs. Adkins), Harry Townes (Roy Adkins), Richard Ward (I) (Joe Carver), Patience Cleveland (Nurse)

The Story : The search for Jason leads Ben east to Ohio to look up the man who gave the two boys shelter when they ran away from the orphanage. Ben is set to leave town but he hears his friend's name on the radio news. The man has been arrested for an assault, a charge that could escalate to murder if the injured college student dies. Ben knows that his blood will save the young man's life. He suspects Dr. Pierce's phone is tapped, but he phones anyway to prove what he has said about his blood to the doctor treating the comatose man. Fletcher is indeed listening, and soon Ben is cornered in a phone booth. Ben has one request of Fletcher: he wants to warn his friend that the comatose student's father is en route with a gun. Fletcher's refuses, shooting Ben with a tranquilizer dart and whisking him away.

Original title : To the Gods Alone
First Aired : 31.12.1970 (USA)(ABC) - 06.04.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Leslie H. Martinson
Writing credits : Ken Trevey
Cast : Barry Sullivan (Jordan Braddock), Lynn Loring (Grace Lee Canby), Bruce Dern (Luther Seacombe), Robert Sampson (Check Hutchins), Peggy Rea (Mrs. Strom)

The Story : Fletcher has Ben. Trapped in a cabin during a snowstorm, Ben and his captor have nothing to do but talk. Ben is curious about Fletcher's desire to work for people like Maitland, which leads the two to recollect about Jordan Braddock, Fletcher's previous employer. Braddock's last encounter with Ben was in Florida, where a "friend" of Ben's notified Fletcher of Ben's whereabouts in exchange for money. Ben manages to escape in the limousine with the critically ill Braddock. Ben offers only to get Braddock to a doctor, a task that proves difficult because of the country locale with lack of phones.

Original title : Sanctuary
First Aired : 07.01.1971 (USA)(ABC) - 15.06.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Michael Caffey
Writing credits : William Eastlake
Cast : Fred Lerner (Delgado), Don 'Red' Barry (Reese), Iron Eyes Cody (Djanni), Paul Picerni (Klabo), Sal Mineo (Tsinnajinni), Allan Gibbs (Espargo)

The Story : Ben's latest escape from Fletcher takes him onto an Indian reservation. His transportation is not very reliable -- a dune buggy he almost finished repairing before fleeing in it. Three young Indians on horseback offer to help Ben -- for money. Ben falls down an embankment and is thought dead by the youths, but the tribal elder thinks otherwise and orders them to bring Ben back. Ben recovers and sets about trying to repair the dune buggy, having to improvise because there are no mechanic tools. Fletcher's men spot the dune buggy's tracks and move in. Firing tear gas into the compound, they grab Ben and head away from the reservation with the youths in pursuit on horseback.

Original title : Brother's Keeper
First Aired : 14.01.1971 (USA)(ABC) - 22.06.1972 (FRANCE)(ORTF 1)
Director : Charles R. Rondeau
Writing credits : Wanda Duncan, Robert Duncan, Stephen Kandel, Wanda Duncan, Robert Duncan
Cast : Marj Dusay (Allison Richards), Tom Stewart (Assistant), Michael Masters (Dalby), James B. Sikking (Administrator), Michael Strong (Jason Richards), Frank Orsatti (Heavy)

The Story : Ben has located a man named Jason Richards who once lived in an orphanage. Ben may have found his brother, but before he can introduce himself Fletcher shows up with an offer of $20,000 in exchange for a six-month stint at the National Research Institute. Ben must try to talk Jason out of surrendering to Fletcher.