Saturday, May 19, 2007

Mod Squad

Mod Squad TV Series

Casts:
  • Michael Cole as Pete Cochran
  • Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes
  • Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes
  • Tige Andrews as Capt. Adam Greer

Mod Squad action thriller tv series created and based on true experience of former LA Police Officer Bud Ruskin in 1950s, the series was a police drama featuring three young hippie crime-fighters in not typical crime drama shows incorporate ideas mostly made 'contemporary' with simple fashion and technology, but the show worked because of its redefined clothes, styles, language, attitudes and timing of one black, one white and one blonde casts.

Tough Undercover Agent Captain Adam Greer working to bust drug rings among youth and catch crime-lords, on his sympathetic manner he recruited three hippie dropped out from their straight society and were on probation; African-American Afroed ghetto Linc Hayes arrested on riot, blonde Julie Barnes daughter of San Francisco prostitute stalk-away and arrested for vagrancy and Pete Cochran caught after stealing a car. He made them special youth squad undercovers to infiltrate youth subcultured/counter-cultured, criminals who prey teenagers and deal against drugs and racial politics.

Mod Squad completed 123 1-hour episodes in total of 4 seasons aired from September 1968 to August 1973 on ABC.


Mod Squad DVD