1 Season
26 Episode
T.H.E. Cat - Season 1 Episode 1 To Kill a Priest
Outside a cathedral, which is like a giant fortress, armed police are standing guard. Captain McAllister, chomping on a big cigar, takes Cat inside, and explains, ""They call him the Fisherman's Priest, he blesses them and their boats."" A while back, extortionists started demanding $5 per fisherman, per week. That's $5,000 a week-- a quarter of a million dollars a year; several fishermen were killed. The good priest told his flock not to pay, now the priest is marked for death; there have been 3 attempts on his life in the last month. The good priest doesn't want police protection, instead relying on some fishermen, like former champion wrestler ""Mighty Joe"" Slavic. The priest has a patch over his right eye, he explains to Cat: ""acid."" Cat goes outside, and using his grappling hook and rope, makes a dramatic top-story entrance and punches out Slavic, and throws a knife narrowly missing the priest's head-- proving to the good priest that he needs protection. The man in black tell
- Year: 1967
- Country:
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
- Studio: NBC
- Keyword: san francisco, california, nightclub, bodyguard, ex-con
- Director: Harry Julian Fink
- Cast: Robert Loggia, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Carricart
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