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Sarge

Season 1 1971 - 1972

  • 1971-02-23T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 1h
  • 15h (15 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Crime, Drama
Samuel "Sarge" Cavanaugh is a priest at the St. Aloysius Parish in San Diego, California. He is known as Sarge because of his police background of working for nine years as a homicide detective in the area in which he tries to help out with guidance to his parishioners in their struggle to cope with the problems of a metropolitan environment.

15 episodes

Series Premiere

1971-02-23T01:00:00Z

1x01 The Badge or the Cross

Series Premiere

1x01 The Badge or the Cross

  • 1971-02-23T01:00:00Z1h

After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife--and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead.

1x02 A Terminal Case Of Vengeance

  • 1971-09-22T00:00:00Z1h

Sarge attempts to prevent a murder when one of his parishioners learns he has only a few months to live and decides to use the time to avenge a humiliating incident of years ago.

1971-09-29T00:00:00Z

1x03 Ring Out, Ring It

1x03 Ring Out, Ring It

  • 1971-09-29T00:00:00Z1h

Sarge may be a priest, but his mind is still that of a cop. When he meets Dan, the groom-to-be of one of his parishioners, there's something familiar about the face. When Dan, who is having his own subliminal flashes, disappears, Sarge starts a full-scale investigation that leads, as you knew it would from the beginning, to a happy end.

1x04 Pss! Wanna Buy A Dirty Picture

  • 1971-10-06T00:00:00Z1h

A guilt-ridden pornographer donates $13,000 to the church---just before he's murdered.

1971-10-13T00:00:00Z

1x05 Identity Crisis

1x05 Identity Crisis

  • 1971-10-13T00:00:00Z1h

Sarge is ministering to the spiritual needs of mental patients when he becomes intrigued by a Jane Doe, who insists she is dead, a wealthy socialite who was the victim of drowning.

1971-10-27T00:00:00Z

1x06 A Push Over the Edge

1x06 A Push Over the Edge

  • 1971-10-27T00:00:00Z1h

Sarge is only peripherally involved in a strange story of a maniac murderer who steals his victims' left shoes, and Lt. Edmonds, the overworked cop who has had one case too many.

Flahery is an overly ambitious newsman who lands Sarge in trouble with a sensational documentary about the priest's labor in the ghetto.

1971-11-10T01:00:00Z

1x08 Silent Target

1x08 Silent Target

  • 1971-11-10T01:00:00Z1h

In trouble on a bad-check charge, longshoreman Joe Drake is approached by the police to square the account by serving as a paid informant in a waterfront investigation

1971-11-17T01:00:00Z

1x09 Quicksilver

1x09 Quicksilver

  • 1971-11-17T01:00:00Z1h

A Japanese man has committed hara-kari. Only the man was a Catholic and Sarge believes he would not have committed a ritualistic suicide. The priest finds the killing that has something to do with a sunken World War II ship.

1971-11-24T01:00:00Z

1x10 A Bad Case of Monogamy

1x10 A Bad Case of Monogamy

  • 1971-11-24T01:00:00Z1h

Tom Flynn is an ex-convict who, upon his release from prison, is determined to renew life with his former wife, who has since remarried.

1971-12-01T01:00:00Z

1x11 The Combatants

1x11 The Combatants

  • 1971-12-01T01:00:00Z1h

An acting chaplain of a military base, Sarge takes a hand in what he considers the undue harassment of recruit Coopersmith.

1971-12-08T01:00:00Z

1x12 A Company of Victims

1x12 A Company of Victims

  • 1971-12-08T01:00:00Z1h

A series of attempts on the life of Sarge has Chief of Detectives Barney Verick working around the clock in a a desperate attempt to capture an elusive would-be killer.

1971-12-29T01:00:00Z

1x13 A Party to the Crime

1x13 A Party to the Crime

  • 1971-12-29T01:00:00Z1h

A man fresh out of prison, makes threats against Sarge, the patrolman who arrested him. So Sarge starts investigating the old case and the trail befuddles him.

Season Finale

1972-01-05T01:00:00Z

1x14 An Accident Waiting to Happen

Season Finale

1x14 An Accident Waiting to Happen

  • 1972-01-05T01:00:00Z1h

Father Burke, a young priest, is accused of hit and run murder while under the influence of alcohol. Sarge begins to suspect the "accident" was arranged.

Bitter over his failure to meet the police department's physical requirements, Michael Grear, a young man, flaunts the law and ends up accused of murder.

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