O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American

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 television crime drama

Police procedural

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 broadcast by CBS

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 during the 1971-72 television season

1971-72 United States network television schedule

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. Jack Webb

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's Mark VII Limited

Mark VII Limited

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 packaged the program for Universal Television

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. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the producer.

Synopsis

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury starred David Janssen

David Janssen

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 (whose company co-produced the show with Mark VII) as the title character, Treasury Agent Jim O'Hara. Jim O'Hara was a county sheriff from Nebraska

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 whose wife and child died in a fire, and to cut all ties with his past life, he put an application in with the United States Department of the Treasury

United States Department of the Treasury

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; the Department accepted him. As a "T-Man," O'Hara was available for assignment to any of the various law enforcement

Police

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 agencies which were then part of the Department, all of which cooperated in this positive portrayal of their various organizations, much in the manner of the Los Angeles Police Department

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 with Webb's Dragnet

Dragnet (series)

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and Adam-12

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. These included the Secret Service

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, the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service

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, the then-Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of IRS, and the then-Customs Bureau

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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. O'Hara sometimes worked undercover and sometimes overtly. Janssen was the series' only regular, as he was given a different assignment at the start of each weekly episode

Episode

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.

O'Hara marked the first Mark VII show to run a full hour in length; all of Webb's previous efforts (excepting the TV-movie pilot for Dragnet 1967) ran in half-hour episodes. It was also one of the few he did not package for NBC

NBC

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. The show failed in the Nielsen ratings

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 against ABC

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's Partridge Family and Room 222

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and ended after a one-season run. Reruns were later shown on the A&E Network

A&E Network

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 in the 1990s and on Retro Television Network

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 in the 2000s.

Episode list

Episode #	Production Code	Episode Title	Airdate
Pilot	???	"Operation: Cobra"	April 2, 1971
1	101	"Operation: Big Store"	September 17, 1971
2	102	"Operation: Bandera"	September 24, 1971
3	103	"Operation: Stolen Bonds"	October 1, 1971
4	104	"Operation: Bribery"	October 8, 1971
5	105	"Operation: Time-Fuse"	October 15, 1971
6	106	"Operation: Offset"	October 22, 1971
7	107	"Operation: Heroin"	October 29, 1971
8	108	"Operation: Spread"	November 5, 1971
9	109	"Operation: Deadhead"	November 12, 1971
10	110	"Operation: Hijack"	November 26, 1971
11	111	"Operation: Crystal Springs"	December 3, 1971
12	112	"Operation: Payoff"	December 10, 1971
13	113	"Operation: Moonshine" (with Sherry Boucher Sherry Boucher Sherry Lynn Boucher, or Sherry Boucher-Lytle , is a former American actress who was once married to actor George Peppard. She is now a Realtor in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. She is a younger sister of actress Savannah Smith Boucher.Boucher was born in Springhill in northern Webster... )	December 17, 1971
14	114	"Operation: XW-1"	January 7, 1972
15	115	"Operation: Lady Luck"	January 14, 1972
16	116	"Operation: Deathwatch"	January 21, 1972
17	117	"Operation: White Fire"	January 28, 1972
18	118	"Operation: Dorias"	February 4, 1972
19	119	"Operation: Rake-Off"	February 11, 1972
20	120	"Operation: Mr. Felix"	February 18, 1972
21	121	"Operation: Good Citizen"	March 3, 1972
22	122	"Operation: Smoke Screen"	March 10, 1972

Award nomination

Year	Award	Result	Category
1972	Golden Globe Award Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...	Nominated	Best TV Show - Drama