The Mod Squad
| The Mod Squad | |
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Created by | Bud "Buddy" Ruskin |
| Developed by | Tony Barrett Harve Bennett Sammy Hess |
| Starring |
Michael Cole Clarence Williams III Peggy Lipton Tige Andrews |
| Theme music composer | Earle Hagen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 123 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Aaron Spelling Danny Thomas |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Thomas-Spelling Productions |
| Distributor |
Worldvision Enterprises (1973-99) Paramount Domestic Television (1999-2006) CBS Paramount Domestic Television (2006-07) CBS Television Distribution (2007-present) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 24, 1968 – August 23, 1973 |
The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973. It stars Michael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.
The iconic counterculture police series earned six Emmy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America Award, and four Logies. In 1997, a 1970 episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
They were The Mod Squad ("One black, one white, one blonde"), the hippest and first young undercover cops on TV. Each of these characters represented mainstream culture's principal fears regarding youth in the era: long-haired rebel Pete Cochran was evicted from his wealthy parents' Beverly Hills home, then arrested and put on probation after he stole a car; Lincoln Hayes, who came from a family of 13 children, was arrested in the Watts riots, one of the longest and most violent actual riots in Los Angeles history; flower child Julie Barnes, the "canary with a broken wing," was arrested for vagrancy after running away from her prostitute mother's San Francisco home; and Captain Adam Greer was a tough but sympathetic mentor and who convinced them to form the squad.
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