"The Price of Anger" is a rather frustrating episode. First, like a bazillion other episodes of "Barnaby Jones", the person in trouble is one of J. R.'s friends. And, in the final seasons it seemed like being a friend of J. R., Barnaby or, especially, Betty was a guarantee you'd be dead, commit a murder or be accused of some crime! Second, and more importantly, the show ALMOST managed to have something interesting to say about race...but in the end, didn't.
When the show begins, Jedediah is talking with a school friend, Wes (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs)...a very important guy in this episode who we never heard of before and would never hear of again after this episode. The pair are supposed to get together later to study, but first Wes needs to work driving a cab. However, he picks up and odd and nervous guy and they appear to be followed. The guy has Wes drop him off and tells him to return for him. But when We arrives back, the man is dying...and a stupid woman seems to automatically assume the black Wes had attacked the dying man. There's more...including a plot involving $100,000....and it almost is an interesting story about race and racial profiling...but doesn't quite hit the mark.
By the way, if you do watch, look at the final scene where a guy comes up behind Barnaby and Jedediah and threatens to shoot them. Now he's probably about 6 feet away and manages to MISS when he shoots...most likely due to Barnaby's lightning quick reaction! How ridiculous.