Cannon

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 5
Total Episodes 123
Original Language EN

Cannon (1971)

Created by Edward Hume
⭐ 3.4 / 5 (43 votes) 🎬 5 Seasons 📼 123 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Action & Adventure 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

Seasons & Episodes

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E1 Salinas Jackpot

Dressed as rodeo clowns, two men rob a rodeo. Cannon is summoned to figure out what's going on, after authorities spend six weeks and come up with nothing.

E2 Death Chain

If it isn't one thing, it's another: a bank manager's mistress is killed, and Cannon finds that's not the end of it.

E3 Call Unicorn

Unexpected overhead in the trucking business as costly loads are hijacked, and private detectives murdered.

E4 Country Blues

A wry tale with a twang and a twist: was the country singer's plane crash accidental or not?

E5 Scream of Silence

The son of a gubernatorial candidate is kidnapped.

E6 Fool's Gold

A deceptive premise: small town citizens harbor a thief on the promise of a cut.

E7 The Girl in the Electric Coffin

The latest thing is a runaway on the lam.

E8 Dead Pigeon

A perfect frame for a cop.

E9 A Lonely Place to Die

A murder is witnessed, but the body disappears.

E10 No Pockets in a Shroud

A newly-discovered heir comes home, and finds you can't get blood from a stone, and you can't take it with you.

E11 Stone Cold Dead

A closed case gets reopened and leads to further consequences.

E12 Death Is a Double Cross

A bridegroom's father-in-law suspects him.

E13 The Nowhere Man

Should the weapons manufacturer be judged by its bookeeper?

E14 Flight Plan

Cannon helps a supposed political refugee.

E15 Devil's Playground

A policeman injured in a payroll robbery asks Cannon for help.

E16 Treasure of San Ignacio

A bad day at the track leaves a race car driver with a taste for vengeance.

E17 Blood On the Vine

Mike Tampa, a vineyard owner in northern California, has been the victim of three murder attempts. After the third attempt, his secretary calls on Cannon, secretly, because Mike has stubbornly refused to do anything.

E18 To Kill a Guinea Pig

Prison doctor and experimental pressures.

E19 The Island Caper

An ex-con is blackmailed into crime.

E20 A Deadly Quiet Town

Larry Bolinger, a charismatic young man, cons the youth of a quiet town into his cult.

E21 A Flight of Hawks

A pilot's apparent suicide leads to plans for a military putsch by a predatory flock.

E22 The Torch

Heat and light: a textile manufacturer is suspected of arson and murder in the death of his wife and the destruction of his factory.

E23 Cain's Mark

Murder will out; an under-the-counter arms merchant is unmasked.

E24 Murder By Moonlight

A young prisoner is forced to do the bidding of a gang boss.

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