| In November 1973, Harry lived in San Diego where, | | | | sometime adversary and sometime partner in crime |
| following his enforced retirement from the police, he | | | | fighting was Lt. Manny Quinlan (played by Henry |
| took up as a private detective in order to | | | | Darrow) of the San Diego Police Department. Manny |
| supplement his meager police pension. He had a | | | | would often help Harry, to the disgust of his bosses |
| house on the beach where he spent much of his | | | | and Harry always kept Manny up to speed with what |
| time alone working on his boat, The Answer. His | | | | he was up to. When Lt. Quinlan was killed off, during |
| other form of transport was a beat-up Austin MG | | | | February 1975, Harry moved briefly to Los Angeles, |
| which spent much of its time waiting for him to earn | | | | at the behest of a client, where he found himself |
| enough money to afford the spares needed to repair | | | | living in a neighbouring apartment to an air hostess |
| it. Thus, much of his detecting is done on foot or by | | | | called Betsy (played by Kathrine Baumann).Betsy was |
| bus or taxi.Harry's first case involved his being | | | | about to move to Santa Monica and Harry learnt that |
| employed by the guy who shot him who himself | | | | his San Diego home was being raised to the ground |
| needed protection from a killer. From then on, he | | | | so he too moved to Santa Monica and rented a place |
| was available for hire by anyone for just $100 per | | | | next door to Betsy. Betsy had a succession of |
| day plus expenses.The character portrayed by David | | | | roommates who wandered about the place wearing |
| Janssen was rather weary and downbeat and being | | | | little but bikinis and visited Harry whenever they felt |
| in some pain from his gunshot injury, was unable to | | | | like it. Following these was Sue, also an air hostess, |
| provide much by way of energetic combat with his | | | | (played by Farrah Fawcett-Majors a whole year |
| adversaries, whether unarmed or otherwise. The lack | | | | before she starred in Charlie's Angels) with whom |
| of a flashy motor-car, or even a functional one, | | | | Harry had his first steady relationship since he was |
| prevented the appearance of the normally obligatory | | | | divorced.Harry's professional foil in Santa Monica was |
| car chases but despite, or perhaps because of all this, | | | | Lt. Trench of the Santa Monica PD. Trench seemed |
| Harry O was a very popular character, who, like | | | | to actually quite like Harry but found him rather |
| Magnum PI, narrated the programs himself, in the | | | | infuriating, and so it was until the series wound up in |
| first person.At the beginning of the series his | | | | April 1976. |