A divorcee and former friend seeks help from Det. Smith when she finds her daughter's marijuana cache in their apartment. Cindy Smith becomes involved in a marijuana arrest made by her detective father.
Chad must reconcile his ideals with personal anxieties: a young man he sent to jail has paid his debt to society--and is now interested in Chad's daughter.
Det. Sgt. Smith is concerned about little Maria Sanchez, son Brian's friend, when his information leads to the arrest of the girl's brother, her only relative.
Det. Chad Smith leaves home for an apparently routine day's work, not realizing he is headed for a dangerous rendezvous.
When hippies set up housekeeping down the street, Chad is cast in the role of reluctant spokesman for his irritated neighbors.
Knowing he will be a special target at a stakeout, Chad Smith goes out of his way to show his love for his family.
Chad becomes involved in the search for a runaway teenager because his daughter, Cindy, is worried about her friend. Acting more as a father than a police officer, Chad meets Lynn's wealthy parents and learns the girl cares nothing about material possessions.
Betty Smith lets a man identifying himself as Chad's old Army buddy into the house to wait for her husband. Chad learns he's a murderer recently out of prison.
While Chad is recuperating from injuries received during the arrest of two robbery suspects, Betty talks him into taking a safe job at the station.
Brian becomes friends with Dan Mills, an old-time lawman, who is being evicted by the "landgrabbers." At least, that's how the tyke sees it and he has lots of problems reconciling the way things were in the Old West with the way they are today — especially when dad seems to be siding with the bad guys.
Lisa, a former sweetheart of Chad's seeks his help when her teenage son is found in a crashed stolen vehicle.
Although Chad has reservations about his new partner, he invites him home for dinner where a romance develops between Cindy and the man.
When vandals wreck his high school classroom, Bob tells his father that he wouldn't fink even if he knew who did it.
Chad is offered a safe job with better pay at a propitious time: he's recuperating from injuries received while serving a warrant.
Chad is assigned to a narcotics investigation that concerns him personally as well as professionally. He tries to track down a narcotics pusher at Brian's elementary school.
Chad Smith is looking forward to a gourmet dinner that Cindy, his daughter, is preparing for his and Betty's 21st wedding anniversary. But a bomb threat at police headquarters changes his plans.
Det. Smith identifies a man who fled the scene of a killing, and the suspect's wealthy father hires a famous criminal lawyer for the defense.
Cindy and Bob believe their father is two-timing their mother when they see him drive off in a flashy car with an attractive woman.
Chad befriends Peggy Manners, a former movie star, an alcoholic living on skid row who he discovers in a police line-up, and when the family hears about it, they bring her to the house to help rehabilitate her.
Det. Smith gets a day off following a successful all-night stakeout, but the leisurely day he and his family plan for themselves is complicated by problems.
Pressured by Brian to attend his school's parents' night, Chad swaps duty with a detective and he is killed while working with Chad's partner.
Mac is a truck driver who saves Brian's life and sparks a touchy problem for Chad: his son's rescuer may be a wanted criminal.
Moonlighting as a bodyguard to finance home improvement, Chad becomes suspicious of his wealthy charge.
When two policemen are shot, the sole witness, Barbara Jo Wyman, doesn't want to get involved But when she later believes she's being followed by the killer, she asks for Chad’s help.
Chad asks friend's father to trust his daughters. He learns Cindy is double-dating on an overnight trip with another couple.
Chad and his partner investigate the bombing of an underground newspaper which is read by the Smith children.
When a classmate of Chad's at the Police Academy is appointed commissioner, he offers Chad the job of his executive assistant.
Profile of two cops: Chad, who's learned to handle the pressure, and his young partner, who's so wound up he's ruining his marriage.
Chad Smith gives up his Christmas vacation so that a fellow detective can go on his honeymoon. Then Chad learns that his youngsters are leaving home for the holidays so that he and his wife can have a second honeymoon.
Bob Smith's enthusiasm for police work is dampened when he becomes involved in a shootout as part of his Explorer Scout training.
Det. Smith is framed by a woman when he goes to her apartment seeking information about her boyfriend, a jewel thief.
Det. Sgt. Chad Smith has to make a difficult decision while in a crowded supermarket during a robbery.
Investigating the robbery of an armed truck in which the guard is killed, Chad recognizes the driver as a former policeman.
Chad comes to the assistance of a San Francisco cop who is looking for a runaway, his own daughter.
Chad's assignment to a series of robberies keeps him on a lengthy stakeout while wife Betty is busy as the PTA talent show chairman.
Chad becomes suspicious of a wealthy police rookie who is dating his daughter Cindy.
Chad and Betty are out for the evening, a belated birthday celebration for her, and one of the older kids is to sit with little Brian. Only Brian fibs, and winds up alone, being very brave because he's 8 — until it's time to put the lights out and he discovers he's still a kid.
Chad and Betty visit their hometown, Philadelphia, after an absence of 25 years when Chad is sent there to pick up a prisoner.
Chad and Betty are at first pleased when daughter Cindy becomes romantically involved with a clean-cut youth who plans a law enforcement career, but then change their minds.
