A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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- Seasons
- 7
- Episodes aired
- 146
- Latest aired
- S07E22
- Total runtime
- 1d 4h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 January 1981 – May 1981 17 episodes
- Season 2 October 1981 – May 1982 18 episodes
- Season 3 September 1982 – May 1983 22 episodes
- Season 4 October 1983 – May 1984 22 episodes
- Season 5 September 1984 – May 1985 23 episodes
- Season 6 September 1985 – April 1986 22 episodes
- Season 7 October 1986 – May 1987 22 episodes
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S02E01 Hearts and Minds
October 29 · 49min find the promo
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A prostitute accuses a detective of blackmailing her for sex; Goldblume searches for a missing child; a former gang leader returns to the Hill as crusading social reformer; Belker busts a purse snatching orangutan and keeps in touch with an undercover rookie planted inside a volatile street gang; and Furillo and Esterhaus question their current romantic involvements.
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S02E02 Blood Money
November 5 · 48min find the promo
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Goldblume meets a lonely woman while driving a cab undercover; LaRue and Washington use a desperate snitch to solve a prostitute murder; Virgil reports on Hudson's takeover of the Black Arrow gang; and Furillo and Joyce meet socially after splitting up.
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S02E03 The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue
November 12 · 48min find the promo
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Hill and Renko handle a domestic call involving an old man threatening his neighbors with a shotgun; Hudson looks for the informer in his gang; and Joyce asks Furillo for advice about the Downey case.
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S02E04 The Second Oldest Profession
November 19 · 48min find the promo
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Bates loses a junkie prostitute through an error in judgement; Hudson beats up his lawyer after his release on bail; Furillo and Joyce reconsider their separation; and Esterhaus ends his friendship with Mac.
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S02E05 Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
December 3 · 49min find the promo
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Night court interferes with ""Monday Night Football"" as LaRue and Washington are accused of entrapping a mugger; Bates and Coffey look for gang members responsible for the drive-by shooting of a child; Fay announces that she's getting married again.
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S02E06 Cranky Streets
December 10 · 49min find the promo
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Hill covers for an old friend with personal problems who uses excessive force on an arrest; Coffey arrests an old family friend during a visit to his old neighborhood; Fay introduces her fiance; and negotiations breakdown between the police union and the city.
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S02E07 Chipped Beef
December 17 · 48min find the promo
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Furillo pushes Hill about his support of Nash; Belker goes under to catch a gang preying on automatic bank tellers; Fay's engagement ends abruptly; and a good samaritan faces arrest on old out of town warrants.
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S02E08 The World According to Freedom
January 7 · 48min find the promo
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Belker meets an eccentric calling himself ""Captain Freedom"" while on a stakeout; LaRue gets more than he bargained for as a cell plant when he overhears an arson suspect taunting an accused child molester; and Furillo issues an ultimatum to the gangs after a savage massacre in a local tavern.
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S02E09 Pestolozzi's Revenge
January 14 · 48min find the promo
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The Captain meets LaRue and Washington when he returns from a purse snatching; Renko (who has lost his service revolver) and Hill are rear-ended by a wedding party; Bates gets mad at Coffey when he stands her up for a breakfast date; Lou threatens again to remove his vending machines from the precinct house; Daniels tells Furillo to initiate a scam saloon in the South Ferry Precinct as a preemptive move against the corruption-seeking Sullivan Commission.
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S02E10 The Spy Who Came in from Delgado
January 21 · 48min find the promo
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Hunter uses pedigreed hounds to track wild city dogs; the scam saloon begins producing results, despite Captain Freedom's help; Fay fixates on cemetery plots; Frank becomes incresingly disgusted with his lawyer and Chief Daniels over the actions of the Sullivan Commission; and a suspicious Calletano learns the truth about a gorgeous new khaki officer.
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S02E11 Freedom's Last Stand
January 28 · 48min find the promo
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Bates plays in the interdepartmental poker finals; Fuchs refuses to help out one of his own men caught forging prescriptions; Henry goes undercover on a smash-and-grab purse snatching detail; Delgado admits he's afraid of testifying before the commission; Joyce chides Furillo for being naive about his supposed innocence protecting him against the commission; the scam saloon closes down after a gun battle; and a furious Furillo testifies before the commission and offers his resignation to Chief Daniels.
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S02E12 Of Mouse and Man
February 11 · 49min find the promo
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Joyce's fellow PD Pam Gilliam is gunned down; Hill's position as VP for the Black Officers' Coalition puts a strain on both him and Renko; Goldblume tries to deal with an abusive landlord; Fay threatens to bring WAD to the Hill; LaRue and Washington trade up from a cocaine dealer to a PCP lab.
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S02E13 Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement
February 18 · 48min find the promo
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Grace asks Esterhaus for help with a barking dog; LaRue suffers a crisis of confidence about the PCP lab bust and starts drinking; Renko's family problems hurt his performance at work; Hill antagonizes everyone in his efforts to recruit for the BOC; Goldblume resorts to force to deal with landlord Sosa; and Furillo tries in vain to hold onto Walter Harmon for the death of Pam Gilliam.
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S02E14 The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded
February 25 · 48min find the promo
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Hill has enough of the BOC pressures; Goldblume finds a witness in the Gilliam case who seems too good to be true; Furillo demotes LaRue to the police motor pool; and Joyce grows bitter when Walter Harmon is released and kills again.
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S02E15 Some Like It Hot-Wired
March 18 · 47min find the promo
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Goldblume is bitter over losing a promotion; Joyce walks out of court while defending a repeat offender; Renko learns his father is dying; a stakeout to find a con team shaking down johns proves dangerous; and Esterhaus' prize car is taken by a team of car thieves.
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S02E16 Personal Foul
March 25 · 48min find the promo
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Belker and Washington go undercover at a porno theater; Hill and Renko answer a domestic call concerning a suicidal man holding his wife and child hostage; a pickup basketball game between the cops and the gangs calls for full-scale negotiations.
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S02E17 The Shooter
May 6 · 48min find the promo
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Belker tries to renew his expired driver's license; Renko tries to take his father home from the hospital; LaRue rehabilitates himself with Furillo; and everyone follows the trail of the gun used to kill two officers during a burglary.
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S02E18 Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers
May 13 · 48min find the promo
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Renko's father takes a final trip around the city; Belker goes undercover to find out who has been knifing winos; and Joyce finds her faith restored as she defends a nice young man accused of rape whose alibi is reluctant to testify.