
David Janssen
Harry Orwell


TV SERIES
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Harry Orwell

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01Harry tries to find out what happened to an AWOL sailor, his only clue being a single shoe mailed to the man's sister, who sells her furniture in order to hire him.
02A retired admiral asks Harry to find his missing young wife, but did she drown in a boating accident or did she just decide to leave him?
03Harry tries to protect an abrasive architect who refuses to believe that someone is trying to kill him after he witnessed a murder.
04A priest comes to Harry for help after a murderer confesses to him that he may kill again.
05Harry is looking for a man who could give a kidney transplant to his daughter, but so are two hired killers.
06When a friend's son is framed for an underworld murder, Harry's only witness is a blind teenager.
07To investigate an escaped mental patient's claim that she is being held prisoner, Harry checks himself into a mental institution.
08When a girl is found shot to death, Harry's simple divorce case turns into a murder investigation.
09The death of a man who asked Harry for protection is but the latest in a series of apparently psychic murder predictions by a blind author, all of which have come true.
10The police ask Harry to guard a murder witness who refuses to believe that her life is in danger.
11Harry investigates the murder of a young friend who was framed for drug dealing after trying to buy 40 acres of ranch land.
12Harry now finds himself framed for murder, so he solicits Manny Quinlan's help in finding out who is behind the corporation that is buying up the ranch land.
13An old friend asks Harry to follow her husband, an accountant whose mysterious behavior suggests that he is having an affair.
14Harry is stranded at a woman's desert home, where one member of her family is killing off all the other potential heirs.
15A woman hires Harry to find her boyfriend, who has disappeared after she helped him steal $25,000 worth of bonds from her employer.
16A puzzling client is a young man just out of a mental institution who claims he shot his drunken brother to protect his sister-in-law, but the sister-in-law knows nothing about a shooting and the brother is very much alive.
17Harry discovers that the blues trumpeter who stole his car is just out of prison and being pursued by several people, including a hit man.
18Harry's client is a deaf-mute janitor charged with arson and murder after a building burns down.
19An aspiring actor persuades Harry to protect him from a former syndicate boss who is convinced the young man killed his daughter.
20A criminology student seems less interested in proving his innocence of two sex murders than in observing Harry's investigative technique.
21Manny Quinlan, Harry's old friend on the San Diego police force, is murdered when he comes to Los Angeles to take his addicted niece back home.
22Harry hits the city's grubbier streets in a search for his client's daughter, a teen-age drug addict who saw a narcotics dealer murder her addict boyfriend.