The Mod Squad
Genre	Police Drama
Running time	1 hour
Creator(s)	Bud Ruskin
Starring	Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 24, 1968–August 23, 1973
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IMDb profile

The Mod Squad was a television police drama from executive producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas in the United States, that ran on ABC from 1968-1973. Executive producer is a role in the entertainment industry that is sometimes difficult to define clearly. ... Aaron Spelling in 1999 following the Beverly Hills, 90210 wrap-up party Aaron F. Spelling (April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006) was a American film and television producer. ... Danny Thomas (January 6, 1914 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor of Lebanese Maronite descent. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

It was a police show that featured "hip" young crime fighters: one African-American, one street kid, and one blonde woman. The demographic indexing involved in the casting was intended to appeal to the newly recognized counter-culture in the US. The basic cop-show was updated with young, troubled investigators, who were, in the premise of the show, offered work fighting crime as an alternative to being incarcerated themselves. The show's primary gimmick centered on the three cops using their youthful, hippie personas as a guise to get close to the criminals they investigated. The show was moderately popular, running for five years, airing 123 episodes. Tige Andrews (Captain Greer), Michael Cole (Pete Cochran), Peggy Lipton (Julie Barnes), and Clarence Williams III (Linc Hayes) starred. During its run, the show portrayed a multicultural society and dealt with issues of racial politics, drug culture, and counter-culture. An African American (also Afro-American or Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to sub-saharan Africa. ... Dancing Hippies Berkeley, California 1969 By Robert Altman Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, is a term commonly used to refer to some of the disaffected youth of the 1960s and early 1970s. ... U.S. actress who was born on August 30, 1947, in New York City to a Jewish-American father and an Irish-born mother who was also Jewish. ... Clarence Williams III (born August 21, 1939) is an American actor. ... During the 1960s the term underground acquired a new meaning in that it referred to members of the so-called counterculture, i. ...

The show was loosely based on Police Officer Bob Ruskin's experiences in the late 1950's as a squad leader for undercover narcotics cops, though it took almost 10 years after he wrote a script for the idea to be given the greenlight by ABC television studios. The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ... To greenlight a project, in the context of the movie business, is to formally approve production finance, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production and, barring disasters, principal photography. ...

There is a rumor that the name proposed for the series by ABC executives, who didn't like the name, was the decidedly non-hip "The Young Policemen."

The Mod Squad, a 1999 film, attempted to update the show's premise, making the young detectives more "edgy". The Mod Squad is a 1999 film directed by Scott Silver. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

External links

• The Mod Squad at the Internet Movie Database
• tv.com
• Unofficial Mod Squad fan site