
The Rookies
Directed by Leonard Horn, Harry Falk, Gene Nelson, Fernando Lamas, Georg Stanford Brown, Earl Bellamy, Ralph Senensky, Bruce Bilson, William Crain, Philip Leacock, Richard Benedict, William F. Claxton, Lou Antonio, Jerry Jameson, Barry Shear, Randal Kleiser, Jud Taylor, George McCowan, Edward M. Abroms, Ivan Dixon, Lee Philips, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Starring Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Bruce Fairbairn, Kate Jackson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Michael Ontkean
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StressedThe Rookies is an American police procedural series created by Rita Lakin that originally aired on ABC from September 11, 1972, to March 30, 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD).
- Original language
- English
- Created by
- Rita Lakin
- Screenplay
- William Blinn, Robert Hamner, Larry Brody, Daniel B. Ullman
- Cast
- Kate Jackson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Michael Ontkean
Updated October 29, 2026
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