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* TrueCompanions: Pete, Linc, and Julie start thinking of one another as family no later than the third episode.
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* TrueCompanions: Pete, Linc, and Julie start thinking of one another as family no later than the third episode. Captain Greer also joins in relatively short order.
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* TrueCompanions: Pete, Linc, and Julie start thinking of one another as family no later than the third episode.
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* CastTheExpert: In "Exit the Closer", the make-up man for Hardy's car dealer commercials is played by the series' real-life make-up man, Howard J. Smit.
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A [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film version]] was made in 1999 starring Creator/ClaireDanes, Creator/OmarEpps, and Creator/GiovanniRibisi, but was a box office disappointment.
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* DoesNotLikeGuns: One of the conditions for Pete, Linc and Julie working as cops is that they not be allowed to carry guns, to which Captain Greer agrees to. Subverted, in the first-season episode "A Reign of Guns", where Pete and Linc use guns to take down the villains.
** Also subverted somewhat in "Good Times Are Just Memories". The cop (Leif Erickson) who's the real killer hands his gun to a perplexed Pete and instructs him to train it on him, 'just like in the good old days'.
** Also subverted somewhat in "Good Times Are Just Memories". The cop (Leif Erickson) who's the real killer hands his gun to a perplexed Pete and instructs him to train it on him, 'just like in the good old days'.
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* CastTheExpert: In "Exit the Closer", the make-up man for Hardy's car dealer commercials is played by the series' real-life make-up man, Howard J. Smit.
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* ClearMyName: Pete is falsely accused of murder twice in the series, in "Run the Man Down", he's accused of killing an undercover cop he was once romantically involved with, and "Good Times Are Just Memories", he's accused of killing a police informant. Captain Greer is framed for being a dirty cop by a mobster in "Corbey".
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* DeathByFallingOver: A crooked cop accidentally kills his informant in "Good Times Are Just Memories", when he causes him to fall and hit his head on a rock.
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* ShoutOut: In the episode "Kristie", writer Rick Husky, a member of Elvis Presley's 'Memphis Mafia', named a character Jerry Schilling, after a fellow Mafia member (the guy who wrote the best-selling "Elvis: What Happened?" after Elvis died). Additionally, the Schilling character works for Bondelli's Nursery...this is a shout-out to Phil Bondelli, the Assistant Director of Mod Squad.
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* DawsonCasting: Despite the series' concept of featuring three "young, hip" cops able to identify with "young people", Pete and Linc were actually played by actors who turned 30 in 1970 and 1969, respectively - making them no younger than most mid-career cops. (Averted with Peggy Lipton, who was only 22 when the series started.)
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* BlindBlackGuy: Rollie in "When Smitty Comes Marching Home."
* BlindMusician: Linc goes to see a friend, Rollie, in "When Smitty Comes Marching Home," and Rollie, wearing pure black glasses, is playing a clarinet.
* BlindMusician: Linc goes to see a friend, Rollie, in "When Smitty Comes Marching Home," and Rollie, wearing pure black glasses, is playing a clarinet.
* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: In "When Smitty Comes Marching Home," a mynah bird helps to establish the scene of a murder -- a zoo.
* ShellShockedVeteran: At the beginning of "When Smitty Comes Marching Home," some cops try to arrest a man for murder, but he sees them as Vietnamese soldiers. His time in the army made him a close-quarters combat specialist, which doesn't work out well for the police.
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* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: In "When Smitty Comes Marching Home," some cops try to bring in a friend of Linc's on suspicion of murder, but he beats them up and runs off. Later on they get him, but he escapes and goes on a rampage to find the real killer (while the team is simultaneously investigating). In the end, he's exonerated and let go, though Greer does jokingly present him with a bill for a window he crashed through.
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* IdenticalStranger: In "A Double for Danger," a young woman who was helping the police as an informant is killed, and Julie looks exactly like her, so she takes her place.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In "A Time of Hyacinths," [[spoiler:it's never completely clear whether John Wentworth was still alive or was actually a ghost]].
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* ReactionaryFantasy
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: In "Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?", Linc fakes being insane to go undercover in an asylum where he suspects abuse and even murder are taking place.
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* PsychicPowers: Dr. Eric Santos in "The Girl in Chair Nine." Julie's convinced of his abilities, but the others (especially Greer) spend most of the episode thinking he's a PhonyPsychic. By the end, it seems clear he's the real deal.
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* CrashCourseLanding: Linc had to do this in "Real Loser" after he knocked the pilot of a small single-engine plane out (to keep the man from killing both of them in an insurance scam).
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* BadassPreacher: Father John Banks (Sammy Davis, Jr.), who takes down an armed thug twice his size in "Keep the Faith, Baby."
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* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:In "We Spy," the team is investigating a shady businessman, Endicott Farraday. They also meet his timid twin brother, Nelson, and at the end it turns out they're the same man.]]
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* CircusEpisode: "Color of Laughter, Color of Tears." A circus owned by an old friend of Greer's is sabotaged so the team works at the circus undercover to find the culprit.
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* TheBoxingEpisode: "The Comeback," featuring "Sugar" Ray Robinson.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: In "Can You Hear Me Now?", Walter, a friend of Linc's, is shown playing three games of chess simultaneously. He then shows Linc how to break a code a car-stealing ring was using.
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* SoulBrotha: Linc Hayes
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* SunglassesAtNight: Linc wore sunglasses a lot, including at night.
* SunglassesAtNight: Linc wore sunglasses a lot, including at night.
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* AbandonedMine: In "The Cave," the team takes refuge in one to escape a dust storm, but a man crazed by the death of his son in "the war" blows the entrance with dynamite, trapping them inside.
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* ReunionShow: 1979's ''Return of the Mod Squad'', where the Squad reunites to investigate an attack on now Deputy Chief Greer. It later turns out to be only a ruse for a revenge plot on the Squad itself.
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* DawsonCasting: Despite the series' concept of featuring three "young, hip" cops able to identify with "young people", Pete and Linc were actually played by actors who turned 30 in 1970 and 1969, respectively - making them no younger than most mid-career cops. (Averted with Peggy Lipton, who was only 22 when the series started.)
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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening credits always made it appear as if Captain Greer was some bad guy pursuing the heroes when he was in fact their benevolent boss.
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* TheFilmOfTheSeries: In 1999 (starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps and Giovanni Ribisi as Julie, Linc and Pete).
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''The Mod Squad'' is a television series that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews.
''The Mod Squad'' was a police drama that featured three young, hip crime fighters. "One White, One Black, One Blonde," was the promotional hype-line. The basic premise was that three young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc was arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her SanFrancisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counterculture and exposing criminals who prey on other kids. The show's premise centered on the three young officers using their youthful, hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigated.
''The Mod Squad'' is a television series that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews.
''The Mod Squad'' was a police drama that featured three young, hip crime fighters. "One White, One Black, One Blonde," was the promotional hype-line. The basic premise was that three young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc was arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her SanFrancisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counterculture and exposing criminals who prey on other kids. The show's premise centered on the three young officers using their youthful, hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigated.
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''The Mod Squad'' is a television series that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael
''The Mod Squad'' was a police drama that featured three young, hip crime fighters. "One White, One Black, One Blonde," was the promotional hype-line. The basic premise was that three young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc was arrested during the Watts riots; Julie ran away from her
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''The Mod Squad'' is a television series that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews.
''The Mod Squad'' was a police drama that featured three young, hip crime fighters. "One White, One Black, One Blonde," was the promotional hype-line. The basic premise was that three young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc was arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her SanFrancisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counterculture and exposing criminals who prey on other kids. The show's premise centered on the three young officers using their youthful, hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigated.
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!!''The Mod Squad'' contains examples of:
* BoxedCrook: The three primary heroes.
* ReactionaryFantasy
* SoulBrotha: Linc Hayes
* TokenTrio: Perhaps the prototypical example.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl
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''The Mod Squad'' is a television series that ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews.
''The Mod Squad'' was a police drama that featured three young, hip crime fighters. "One White, One Black, One Blonde," was the promotional hype-line. The basic premise was that three young people in trouble with the law (wealthy Pete stole a car; Linc was arrested during Watts riots; Julie ran away from her SanFrancisco prostitute mother) can avoid jail by infiltrating the counterculture and exposing criminals who prey on other kids. The show's premise centered on the three young officers using their youthful, hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigated.
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!!''The Mod Squad'' contains examples of:
* BoxedCrook: The three primary heroes.
* ReactionaryFantasy
* SoulBrotha: Linc Hayes
* TokenTrio: Perhaps the prototypical example.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl
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