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THE EXTORTIONIST
Original Airdate: Apr. 16, 1967
Synopsis. The first known outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the United States in nearly forty years puts Erskine on the trail of Tyler Cray (played by Wayne Rogers), a bigoted pharmacist who resents that his father (played by R.G. Armstrong) works for Mexican-American cattle rancher Ramon Avila (Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.). Determined to ruin Avila—and knowing that most of Avila’s money is invested in his cattle—Cray injects a blood sample of a bull infected with FMD into one of the rancher’s bulls and threatens to contaminate the entire herd unless Avila pays him $200,000.
LEARN MORE about “The Extortionist” in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more—about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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