This is a list of episodes from the second season of Cannon.
| Cannon | |
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| Season 2 | |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 13, 1972 – March 21, 1973 |
| Season chronology | |
Broadcast history
editThe season originally aired Wednesdays at 10:00-11:00 pm (EST).
Episodes
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 25 | 1 | "Bad Cats and Sudden Death" | Philip Leacock | Robert Lewin | September 13, 1972 | |
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Cannon attempts to clear a friend on murder charges, but the more he uncovers, the worse it looks. | ||||||
| 26 | 2 | "Sky Above, Death Below" | George McCowan | Hal Sitowitz | September 20, 1972 | |
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Cannon's only witness to a murder is a fugitive draft dodger. | ||||||
| 27 | 3 | "Bitter Legion" | Michael O'Herlihy | George Bellak | September 27, 1972 | |
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Cannon plays dirty to keep a Vietnam veteran on the straight and narrow. | ||||||
| 28 | 4 | "That Was No Lady" | George McCowan | Dick Nelson | October 4, 1972 | |
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A lawyer puts her life at stake when she defends suspects in a robbery. | ||||||
| 29 | 5 | "Stakeout" | Leo Penn | Harold Gast | October 11, 1972 | |
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A crooked ex-cop's daughter is set up in a robbery - and all the witnesses and police forensic scientists and detectives refuse to cooperate. | ||||||
| 30 | 6 | "The Predators" | George McCowan | Arthur Heinemann | October 18, 1972 | |
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A coyote trap connects a dead man to smugglers. | ||||||
| 31 | 7 | "A Long Way Down" | George McCowan | Stephen Kandel | October 25, 1972 | |
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Cannon searches a hospital for clues when drugs are stolen and a murder is committed. | ||||||
| 32 | 8 | "The Rip Off" | George McCowan | Douglas Day Stewart | November 1, 1972 | |
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When Cannon's apartment is burglarized, his pursuit of the thief leads him to discover thefts at an airport. | ||||||
| 33 | 9 | "Child of Fear" | David Lowell Rich | Robert W. Lenski | November 15, 1972 | |
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A wealthy rancher is missing, and his foolish wife allows her private security force to have free rein over her ranch. | ||||||
| 34 | 10 | "The Shadow Man" | Robert Douglas | Robert Lewin | November 22, 1972 | |
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A woman says her husband fell off a cliff, but the body is gone - along with a fortune in bonds. | ||||||
| 35 | 11 | "Hear No Evil" | Charles S. Dubin | Robert W. Lenski | November 29, 1972 | |
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Cannon investigates when a convicted wiretapper seems to have taken up blackmailing. | ||||||
| 36 | 12 | "The Endangered Species" | Robert Douglas | Del Reisman | December 13, 1972 | |
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A friend of Cannon's is charged with murder - and the real killer is his attorney. | ||||||
| 37 | 13 | "Nobody Beats the House" | Herbert Hirschman | Meyer Dolinsky | December 20, 1972 | |
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A gambler in debt is given an ultimatum: pay or die. | ||||||
| 38 | 14 | "Hard Rock Roller Coaster" | Charles S. Dubin | S : Bill S. Ballinger; T : Meyer Dolinsky | January 3, 1973 | |
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A smuggler (Fritz Weaver) uses Cannon to find a cache of diamonds. | ||||||
| 39 | 15 | "The Dead Samaritan" | Jerry Jameson | S : Robert Van Scoyk; T : Stephen Kandel | January 10, 1973 | |
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In a faux pas episode, a good Samaritan saves a woman from which has the appearance of an assault in broad daylight in front of 11-15 witnesses (Cannon claims there were only 4), and the Samaritan is charged with murder. | ||||||
| 40 | 16 | "Death of a Stone Seahorse" | William Wiard | Anthony Lawrence | January 17, 1973 | |
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A murderer attempts to frame his mentally-unstable sister for his crime. | ||||||
| 41 | 17 | "Moving Target" | Lawrence Dobkin | Worley Thorne | January 31, 1973 | |
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An author is targeted for murder when he starts writing a fake autobiography of a billionaire. | ||||||
| 42 | 18 | "Murder for Murder" | Herschel Daugherty | Arthur Heinemann | February 7, 1973 | |
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Cannon follows a teacher bent on revenge after his daughter dies at a jet-set party. | ||||||
| 43 | 19 | "To Ride a Tiger" | Virgil W. Vogel | Robert W. Lenski | February 14, 1973 | |
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An ex-con's lawyer disappears after winning a case. | ||||||
| 44 | 20 | "Prisoners" | Charles S. Dubin | Robert Lewin | February 21, 1973 | |
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A young man's plot to extort money from his father backfires. | ||||||
| 45 | 21 | "The Seventh Grave" | John Badham | E. Arthur Kean | February 28, 1973 | |
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Cannon's search for a murderer is clouded by a lab worker altering the evidence. | ||||||
| 46 | 22 | "Catch Me If You Can" | William Hale | Douglas Day Stewart | March 7, 1973 | |
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A psychopathic killer asks Cannon for help. | ||||||
| 47 | 23 | "Press Pass to the Slammer" | Leo Penn | Meyer Dolinsky | March 14, 1973 | |
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Cannon must solve a murder before a columnist is sent to prison. | ||||||
| 48 | 24 | "Deadly Heritage" | Seymour Robbie | Robert Lewin | March 21, 1973 | |
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A friend of Cannon's searches for her stepson, who had been abandoned by her husband years ago. | ||||||