The Partners
Lennie Crooke and George Robinson are inept detectives teamed up to solve crimes. Captain Andrews is their exasperated boss, Sgt. Higgenbottom is a smarmy co-worker, and Freddy confesses to most of the neighborhood crimes.
- 1971-1972
- 1 season
- NBC
- Comedy
Lennie Crooke and George Robinson are inept detectives teamed up to solve crimes. Captain Andrews is their exasperated boss, Sgt. Higgenbottom is a smarmy co-worker, and Freddy confesses to most of the neighborhood crimes.
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
Here Comes the Fuzz
Sat, Sep 18, 1971 30 mins
Don Adams plays a police detective and his squad car partner is Rupert Crosse. In the first show, the partners are assigned to capture bank robbers.
Episode 2
Abra Cadaver
Sat, Sep 25, 1971 30 mins
Detectives Crooke and Robinson investigate a call from a woman who claims someone's trying to kill her, and find that there's less than meets the investigative eye.
Episode 3
The Prisoner of Fender
Sat, Oct 2, 1971 30 mins
Detectives. Crook and Robinson wind up in jail during their assignment to pick up hoodlum Tony Kelso.
Episode 4
Waterloo at Napoleon
Sat, Oct 9, 1971 30 mins
Detectives Lennie and George are assigned to apprehend a criminal dealing in hot money. But the man escapes and in the ensuing chaos they interfere in another investigation.
Episode 5
How Many Carats in a Grapefruit?
Sat, Oct 16, 1971 30 mins
A bag of grapefruit and a malfunctioning police siren plunge Crooke and Robinson into a series of misadventures while investigating the jewel robbery of the century.
Episode 6
Witness for the Execution
Sat, Oct 23, 1971 30 mins
A contract on Crooke's life prompts Capt. Andrews to remove him from duty and assign his partner to guard him.
Episode 7
To Catch a Crooke
Sat, Oct 30, 1971 30 mins
Bob Karvelas guest stars as a man with a compulsion to confess to every crime.
Episode 8
Requiem for a Godfather
Sat, Nov 6, 1971 30 mins
Episode 9
Take My Wife, Please
Sat, Nov 13, 1971 30 mins
Episode 10
Have I Got an Apartment for You!
Sat, Nov 27, 1971 30 mins
Episode 11
Our Butler Didn't Do It
Sat, Dec 4, 1971 30 mins
Episode 12
New Faces
Sat, Dec 11, 1971 30 mins
Episode 13
North Is Now South
Sat, Dec 18, 1971 30 mins
Lennie and George are caught in the middle of a feud between different factions of the mob. Trying to make arrests is further complicated by a change in the zoning laws.
Episode 14
Desperate Ours
Sat, Dec 25, 1971 30 mins
Episode 15
They Steal Cars, Don't They?
Sat, Jan 8, 1972 30 mins
Episode 16
Headlines for Higgenbottom
Fri, Jul 28, 1972 30 mins
Episode 17
Magnificent Perception
Fri, Aug 4, 1972 30 mins
Episode 18
Two or False
Fri, Aug 11, 1972 30 mins
Episode 19
Two in a Pen
Fri, Aug 25, 1972 30 mins
Episode 20
The 217 in 402
Fri, Sep 8, 1972 30 mins
In an attempt to protect an informer from a hit man, Lenny acts as a decoy by posing as a patient in a coma.