The Rookies/A Test of Courage

A Test of Courage
Season 3, Episode 11
Airdate	December 2, 1974
Written by	Rick Husky
Directed by	William Crain
Produced by	Rick Husky
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The Rookies — Season Three

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A Test of Courage is the eleventh episode of the third season of The Rookies, and the fifty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Georg Stanford Brown (Officer Terry Webster), Sam Melville (Officer Mike Danko), Bruce Fairbairn (Officer Chris Owens), Kate Jackson (Jill Danko)

and Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Lt. Eddie Ryker)

Guest Starring: David Soul (Johnny Dane), David Canary (Esposito), Victor Mohica (Schilling)

and David Huddleston (Reverend Kavanagh)

Co-Starring: Laurie Burton (Lisa Dane), Arthur Adams (Sonny West)

Featuring: Peter Carew (Dr. Davidson), Grant Owens (Ambulance Attendant), Mark Edward Hall (Patrick), Stanley Clay (Football Boy)

Plot Overview

A fellow officer and close friend of Terry's is critically wounded trying to prevent an armed robbery and may lose a leg as a result. Terry tries to balance his pursuit of the armed robbers and helping his friend, who's grown bitter and refuses help from anyone, including his own family and friends.

Trivia

The Show

Writer Rick Husky was a close friend of Elvis Presley and a member of Elvis's entourage, the "Memphis Mafia". He would often use the names of fellow Mafia members in his scripts, like Jerry Schilling, whose name was not only used for a character in this episode, but also episodes of Mod Squad and Streets of San Francisco that Husky scripted. Additionally, Husky also used two more Mafia members' names, in this episode, Joe Esposito and Sonny West, and one of the gun stores that gets robbed is on Presley Boulevard.