

Sarge
1971–1972 · NBC · 60 min · 1 season
S01E14 · Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop
Wed, 12 Jan, 12:30 pm
A young man who wants to be a police officer but is too short.
About
Shattered emotionally after his wife is killed by an assassin's bullet meant for him, a veteran police sergeant enters the priesthood. Three years later he is ordained Father Samuel Patrick Cavanaugh and assigned to the Saint Aloysius Parish in San Diego, California. Still referred to as Sarge and using unorthodox methods, he attempts to solve mysteries in his troubled parish.
Episodes
- Special
The Badge or the Cross
Tue, 23 Feb· 120 minAfter his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife--and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead
- Special
The Priest Killer
Wed, 15 Sept· 120 minPolice Chief Ironside confined to a wheelchair and a former cop who is now a priest team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests.
- E01
A Terminal Case of Vengeance
Wed, 22 Sept· 60 minA dying old man plots a murder to settle an old score with a mobster.
- E02
Ring Out, Ring It
Wed, 29 Sept· 60 minClues in a prostitute's murder indicate that the killer may be the fiance of Sarge's old friend.
- E03
Psst! Wanna Buy a Dirty Picture?
Wed, 6 Oct· 60 minA guilt-ridden pornographer donates $13,000 to the church---just before he's murdered.
- E04
Identity Crisis
Wed, 13 Oct· 60 minCall her Jane Doe, she's a beautiful mental patient whose identity is a mystery. Sarge's only clues a rosary and a baffling link between a salesgirl and an alcoholic socialite.
- E05
A Push Over the Edge
Wed, 27 Oct· 60 minSarge tries to help a burned out police detective.
- E06
John Michael O'Flaherty Presents the Eleven O'Clock War
Wed, 3 Nov· 60 minAn local newscaster has only evil on his mind. Portrait of a rat ... Jack Cassidy plays TV-expose artist John Michael O'Flaherty, who launches a ruthless campaign to discredit Sarge. It's a law and order issue: is Sarge's ghetto youth program harboring a would-be murderer?
- E07
The Silent Target
Wed, 10 Nov· 60 minLeslie Nielsen plays a waterfront informer trapped between hoods and the law.
- E08
Quicksilver
Wed, 17 Nov· 60 minCarol Lawrence plays a widow who believes her Japanese husband's death was a murder somehow linked to World War II.
- E09
A Bad Case of Monogamy
Wed, 24 Nov· 60 minAn ex-con is determined to move back in with his former wife, even though she has remarried.
- E10
The Combatants
Wed, 1 Dec· 60 minWhen Sarge substitutes as a military chaplain, he probes a sergeant's vendetta against a hillbilly recruit.
- E11
A Company of Victims
Wed, 8 Dec· 60 minSarge becomes the target of a mysterious killer who can call his own shots.
- E12
A Party to the Crime
Wed, 29 Dec· 60 minSarge confronts evidence indicating he may have helped convict an innocent man.
- E13
An Accident Waiting to Happen
Wed, 5 Jan· 60 minA young priest is accused of hit and run murder while under the influence of alcohol. Sarge begins to suspect the "accident" was arranged.
- E14
Napoleon Never Wanted to Be a Cop
Wed, 12 Jan· 60 minA young man who wants to be a police officer but is too short.
Cast

George Kennedy
Father Samuel "Sarge" Cavanaugh

Ramon Bieri
Lt. Barney Verick, Chief of Detectives

Sallie Shockley
Valerie Cavanaugh

Harold Sakata
Kenji Takichi