Freebie and the Bean

Episode 01

The Seduction of the Bean

Dec 6, 1980 · 60 min

Walker and Delgado pursue a building contractor who secures business with the help of a seductive "sales" staff.

Episode 02

Health Nuts

Dec 13, 1980 · 60 min

The two sergeants pose as patients at a shady clinic to find out how a robbery team is getting inside information.

Episode 03

Pilot

Dec 20, 1980 · 60 min

Freebie and The Bean are two cops who couldn't catch a cold, let alone a crook. Starring Tom Mason as Freebie and Hector Elizondo as the Bean. Flip dialogue and fast action sequences are the trademark, and in the pilot episode, Freebie and the Bean take to the streets of San Francisco, dead set on finding a live witness for a Grand Jury. Freebie and the Bean work against a deadline, in more ways than one, when the D.A.'s star witness turns up dead, and they quickly have to thread the underworld to find another witness to testify against notorious loan shark Willie Scudder.

Episode 04

Flying Aces

Dec 27, 1980 · 60 min

Freebie has to fly a plane while on the trail of cocaine smugglers. Unfortunately, he only learnt how to take off — not land!

Episode 05

Highway Robbery

Jan 10, 1981 · 60 min

When a friend of Freebie and the Bean is framed on a charge of hijacking trucks, they are determined to prove his innocence even if it means taking to the road themselves. Freebie and the Bean make an unlikely team of teamsters when they go undercover as truck drivers to get the lowdown on a gang of hitchhikers.

Episode 06

Tee-Off for Two

Jan 17, 1981 · 60 min

Freebie and the Bean go undercover as a couple of country club members and almost cash in on their chips, for good, when they infiltrate a crooked poker racket run by loan sharks at the posh Meadow Oaks Club. Freebie and the Bean take up golf in their pursuit of the leader of a gambling ring who cheats and then blackmails his victims.

Episode 07

Lover, Come Back

Jan 24, 1981 · 60 min

The duo search for the star witness in a murder case against a big-time gangster.During his search for a witness, Sgt. Dan Delgado encounters Rita Valdez, an old flame. As they reminisce, he is taken aback when she reveals that he is the father of her 11-year-old son.

Episode 08

A Pair of Pirates

— · 60 min

Freebie and The Bean are pursuing a millionaire shipping owner who deliberately sinks his own freighter after removing its valuable cargo, all in an attempt to claim the insurance money.

Episode 09

Follow the Leader

— · 60 min

Freebie's favourite uncle foils our two heroes' search for the loot from a million-dollar robbery, and it begins to look like Uncle Frank may be wanting the haul for himself.