ABC canceled the series after one season due to mediocre ratings. When Burt Reynolds became a popular success in the early 1970s, which included the Oscar-nominated film "Deliverance (1972)" and his appearance on a highly-publicized 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold, CBS reran the series in 1973 and 1975 with great success.
Numerous segments were merged into two-hour television movies and aired in syndication in 1980 under various titles:
"The Killing Affairs", "The Lady Killers", "The Jealousy Factor", "The Relative Solution", "The Trouble With Women", "Murder, My Friend" and "Double Jeopardy" (a.k.a. "Once is Never Enough").
Ned Romero, who played Sgt. Joe Rivera, was the only series regular to appear in the original "Dan August" TV movie pilot "House on Greenapple Road (1970)."
Reynolds recalled, "I swore I'd never play a cop on TV because you can't make jokes or have a broad. You wind up loving your car a lot. I was halfway out the door when Quinn said the magic words - $15,000 a week."
In 1980, when Burt Reynolds was in the peak of his box office domination, episodes of this show (which originally only lasted one season) would play as TV-movies.