The Devlin Connection (Season 1)

Brian and Nick (Episode 1)

Writer: Cliff Gould

Air date: 1982-10-02

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Former US military officer Brian Devlin now works as a freelance private detective, and learns that he has a son he never knew about. Remorseful, Brian sets out to find him; he meets Nick Corsello and assists him to begin his job as a private eye by offering him a job at his PI firm. Initially reluctant to work alongside his long-lost father, Nick comes to respect the veteran investigator.

Lady on the Billboard (Episode 2)

Writer: Howard Rodman

Air date: 1982-10-09

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Nick's date with a beautiful fashion model is broken when the model is murdered.

Love, Sin and Death at Point Dume (Episode 3)

Air date: 1982-10-16

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: After two women are murdered back to back after frequenting a singles bar, Brian and Nick investigate to follow clues and try to find a motive and a connection to the killer.

The Corpse in the Corniche (Episode 4)

Air date: 1982-10-23

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Nick finds a dead body in the trunk of Brian's convertible. He must find a way to prove his father's innocence as well as investigate the murder.

The Absolute Monarch of Ward C (Episode 5)

Air date: 1982-10-30

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: While on a case, Nick runs into a mental patient who may be the long-lost heir to a vast fortune worth millions.

The French Detective (Episode 6)

Air date: 1982-11-06

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A French con artist/crook hides out from his "associates" in a Napa Valley monastery and deceives Brian with some "authetic" wine bottles.

Of Nuns and Other Black Birds (Episode 7)

Air date: 1982-11-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A woman claims to be the daughter of a wealthy who passed away recently. She hires Nick to help her prove her claim. And the man's wife hires Brian to prove she's a fraud.

Ring of Kings, Ring of Thieves (Episode 8)

Air date: 1982-11-27

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Brian and Nick investigate the origins of an ancient ring which brings out a series of bizarre characters looking to steal it, and someone wanting to kill for it.

Arsenic and Old Caviar (Episode 9)

Air date: 1982-12-04

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: While on a live television show, a killer begins poisoning the competing chefs at the Grand Prix de Cuisine. Brian snoops around to track down the killer while Nick decides to go undercover as one of the new chefs.

Claudine (Episode 10)

Air date: 1982-12-11

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Nick investigates the whereabouts of an ingenious gang of thieves and is glad to provide protection for a lady named Claudine who claims to have connections to the gang. But things go awry when the lady is in fact a female impersonator.

Allison (Episode 11)

Air date: 1982-12-18

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Nick is hired by Allison Odell, the secretary of a construction company commissioned to find a man by whom she is constantly threatened and bothered.

Erica (Episode 12)

Air date: 1982-12-25

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Erica Jordan, the daughter of a German who died in the 1950s after a top-secret operation is resolved to avenge the death of her mother.

Jennifer (Episode 13)

Writer: Frank Furino

Air date: 1982-12-31

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Nick and Brian are hired by a writer named Robert Hutton who claims that his wife, Jennifer's behavior changes every year on the first anniversary of her first husband's death.