A bloody crime scene is all that's left when Lieutenant Dan August arrives to investigate the disappearance of a Los Angeles housewife. This made-for-TV movie was the first pilot for a Dan August television series.
Dan August doesn't believe a race car driver's plunge into the ocean is an accident.
Racial tensions run high after a Mexican-American child is killed in a bus crash.
After a 16-year-old dies of a heroin overdose, Dan August tries to find the seller before more children die.
A rich philanthropist, who paid for Dan August's college education, has been murdered.
Dan August tries to get an ex-priest to violate the confessional of a killer.
A militant black leader is accused of murdering the sister of a white councilman.
A newspaper columnist reveals who he thinks committed the murder of his daughter.
The president of a local workers' union is murdered, and evidence points to another union bigwig.
The wife of a close friend of the police chief is a prime suspect in a murder.
A colleague thinks a murder suspect is one of Dan August's closet friends.
Dan August investigates the murder of a military police officer who was trying to take a deserter into custody.
A college president is murdered following the dismissal of a trouble-making professor.
A Senate candidate's psychiatrist is murdered.
The wife of a multi-millionaire is the prime murder suspect of her lover.
The list of suspects keeps shrinking in Dan August's rape/murder case.
The assistant district attorney's wife is murdered.
Claiming self defense, a judge takes the life of an alleged assassin.
Dan August investigates the rape and murder of a young woman who had been receiving obscene telephone calls.
An automobile test driver is accused of killing his former boss.
Dan August's friend is murdered during a robbery.
A decorated veteran is murdered, and there are multiple suspects and numerous motives.
A woman is found murdered, and the investigation leads to her former employer.
Dan August searches for the person who lethally drugged a boxer.
Dan August investigation of a group of revolutionaries leads to the suspect's lover.
Someone wants a doctor dead.
Police Chief Untermeyer is now the "chief" suspect of a socialite's murder.
A Theatrical combination of 'Bullet for a Hero', and 'Trackdown'
Compilation movie of 2 episodes, 'When the Shouting Dies' and 'The Worst Crime'. In this episode of the murder mystery series, a police detective must cope after he learns that his friend is a murderer. A student also discovers that his fencing teacher is involved in a killing.
Burt Reynolds as a cop investigating two ladies suspected of murder. Derived from the series. Norman Fell, Barry Sullivan. Joan: Brooke Bundy. Britain: Robert Fuller. Jennifer: Sherry Lansing. Untermeyer: Richard Anderson. Rivera: Ned Romero. Katy: Ena Hartman.
In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after drinking poisoned whiskey and the rape and murder of a young woman.
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