Episodes cast for
"Hill Street Blues" (1981) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Year: 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Hill Street Station

15 January 1981
Captain Furillo summons the heads of the various local gangs in an attempt to ensure their peaceful "cooperation" during a visit by the President of the United States.

Season 1, Episode 2: Presidential Fever

17 January 1981
The President of the United States wants to visit the Hill, and the precinct has to deal with how to make it happen.

Season 1, Episode 3: Politics as Usual

22 January 1981
Things heat up between the gangs on the hill as the president plans his walking tour.

Season 1, Episode 4: Can World War III Be an Attitude?

24 January 1981
Hill Street finds the precinct under siege when the gangs react to the president canceling his walking tour. Hill and Renko arrest a car thief who has a knack for fixing things around the station. Frank asks Joyce to represent LaRue who is facing bribery charges.

Season 1, Episode 5: Double Jeopardy

31 January 1981
Davenport begins to assist Furillo and Washington in their attempt to clear Larue's name. They probe deep into Macafee's personal life but are having difficulty finding anything dirty on him. 'Operation Duckling' puts many of the officers in drag as they go undercover to apprehend the St. James Park rapist. After responding to a call on a jumper Henry has a flat tire in a bad neighborhood and is harassed by a gang of youths and Phil is beginning to show signs of weariness trying to keep up with two women.

Season 1, Episode 6: Film at Eleven

7 February 1981
Furillo agrees to let a local news crew film the precinct. Belker brings in a suspect who believes that he is Dracula. Washington and LaRue capture a woman who is in possession of the gun that shot Hill and Renko.

Season 1, Episode 7: Choice Cut

14 February 1981
Frank is forced to deal with a hostage situation at a grocery store. The precinct continues to investigate the shooting of Hill and Renko.

Season 1, Episode 8: Up in Arms

21 February 1981
Renko gets upset when the lie detector test for his shooting suspect comes up inconclusive. Esterhaus meets with a criminal that he helped put away. Furillo feels that the news crew is to blame for convincing local merchants form a crime watch union.

Season 1, Episode 9: Your Kind, My Kind, Humankind

28 February 1981
LaRue asks a television reporter to go with him on a stakeout. Furillo has trouble finding a home for the juvenile who held up a grocery store. Renko begins to exhibit bizarre behavior. After witnessing his partner's death, Santini has second thoughts about being a police office

Season 1, Episode 10: Gatorbait

7 March 1981
Furillo considers leaving the station to run for commander. Renko and Hill investigate the murder of a 15-year old prostitute. LaRue and Washington decide to play a practical joke on Hunter.

Season 1, Episode 11: Life, Death, Eternity

14 March 1981
Frank risks a promotion to commander by pursuing an investigation that links a city councilman from another district to the murder of a prostitute. Belker is harassed by a new anti-Semetic cop.

Season 1, Episode 12: I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin

21 March 1981
Furillo continues to push the investigation of a well-respected city councilman even after it become apparent that it will cost him a promotion. LaRue's dream for a business gets destroyed. Hunter gets Chief Daniel's approval to use an "urban tank". Belker considers a transfer.

Season 1, Episode 13: Fecund Hand Rose

25 March 1981
Furillo angrily agrees to use his men to protect corrupt cop turned informant Ralph Macafee from a possible assassination attempt. Esterhaus has second thoughts about his upcoming marriage to Cindy after Grace Gardner pays him a visit at the station house.

Season 1, Episode 14: Rites of Spring

19 May 1981
An undercover narc with a history of racism is accused of shooting an unarmed black man. LaRue's drinking starts to affect his job performance. Hill goes out of his way to help a woman who neglected her children. Goldblume's son lands in the hospital.

Season 1, Episode 15: Jungle Madness

26 May 1981
Washington unearths evidence to clear vicious racist narcotics cop Charlie Weeks in a back alley shooting of a black youth while Furillo clashes with Chief Fletcher Daniels over the investigation. LaRue's alcoholism undermines his ability to do his job and causes his life to fall apart. Hill comes down hard on a teenage mother who continually neglects her two children. Bates and her new partner Coffey get to know each other better.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Hearts and Minds

29 October 1981
Furillo has mixed feelings about Jesse John Hudson, a powerful ex-gang leader who's just been released from jail who claims he wants to do good for his old community. However, word on the street is that Hudson is out to reclaim his old turf. Meanwhile, various police officers search the neighborhood for a missing seven-year-old boy and Belker arrests an orangutan purse snatcher.

Season 2, Episode 2: Blood Money

5 November 1981
Furillo suspects that Jesse John Hudson is behind the theft of a cache of weapons. Washington investigates the murder of a prostitute. Belker and Goldblume work undercover as cab drivers. Hunter takes Grace Gardner on a date to an art gallery exhibit.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue

12 November 1981
Goldblume does his best to maintain order after angry old man Mr. Popovich shoots a local boy dead and barricades himself in his home. Belker demands that Furillo pull the gung-go Virgil Brooks from his current assignment before Jesse John Hudson discovers that he's really an undercover cop.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Second Oldest Profession

19 November 1981
Bates makes an error in judgment when she allows a junkie prostitute to shoot up prior to arresting her only to have the hooker nearly die from an overdose. Furillo demands that Davenport become more open about their romantic relationship.

Season 2, Episode 5: Fruits of the Poisonous Tree

3 December 1981
LaRue and Washington are accused of entrapment. A ten-year-old girl gets shot and killed by a fourteen-year-old street gang member. Grace Gardner informs Esterhaus that she might be pregnant.

Season 2, Episode 6: Cranky Streets

10 December 1981
Coffey has to arrest a guy who was a longtime friend of his family. Hill has to cover for an old friend who has a tendency for using excessive force. Renko gets in hot water after playing a tasteless practical joke on a female officer in training.

Season 2, Episode 7: Chipped Beef

17 December 1981
Frank decides to attend a dinner for Fay's new love interest. Renko stands up for a guy who has a warrant out for his arrest after the guy saves his life. Belker goes undercover to catch ATM robbers. Hill and the other cops' account of what happened with Nash are questioned.

Season 2, Episode 8: The World According to Freedom

7 January 1982
Following a gruesome murder perpetrated by a gang at a night club, Furillo is determined to take any means necessary to find the people responsible. Belker runs in a guy who thinks that he is a superhero. LaRue goes undercover inside a holding cell to try and get a confession.

Season 2, Episode 9: Pestolozzi's Revenge

14 January 1982
Furillo risks perjury after he's subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating police corruption. Renko gets upset when his service revolver is stolen. Captain Freedom reappears to thwart a robbery.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Spy Who Came in from Delgado

21 January 1982
Hill, Renko, and Belker work undercover at a seedy downtown salon. Calletano becomes suspicious about a new attractive office assistant who is less than qualified for the position. Davenport recommends a lawyer for Frank in the corruption-seeking Sullivan Commission. Hunter uses hounds to try and find wild dogs running around in the city.

Season 2, Episode 11: Freedom's Last Stand

28 January 1982
An angry Furillo testifies a second time before a grand jury for the Sullivan Commission on police corruption. Goldblume goes undercover in drag to catch a purse snatcher. Bates represents the Hill in a high stakes poker game against rival departments. Captain Freedom meets an untimely end when he attempts to stop a gang of armed robbers.

Season 2, Episode 12: Of Mouse and Man

11 February 1982
A public defender is brutally murdered. Hill is elected as VP of the Black Officers' Coalition. LaRue and Washington nab a cocaine dealer who has knowledge of a large PCP lab.

Season 2, Episode 13: Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement

18 February 1982
Renko gets upset at Hill for temporarily leaving him to head up the Black Officer's Coalition. On the eve of a huge PCP lab bust, LaRue turns to the bottle. Furillo learns that a suspect in the murder of a district attorney may go free due to a technicality.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded

25 February 1982
Goldblume finds a witness in the DA murder cases that seems way too good to be true. Furillo considers kicking LaRue of the force after he almost ruined a major bust by showing up drunk. Hill quits the Black Officers Coalition. Belker feels over the hill after being outrun by a suspect.

Season 2, Episode 15: Some Like It Hot-Wired

18 March 1982
Esterhaus is up in arms after his car is stolen. Washington believes that LaRue has changed after seeing him for the first time since his demotion. Hill, Renko, and Goldblume go undercover to catch a scheme perpetrated by prostitutes and phony cops. Davenport has a meltdown in court.

Season 2, Episode 16: Personal Foul

25 March 1982
Belker and Washington go undercover at an adult movie theater. A man who recently lost his job holds his wife and son hostage inside their apartment. Goldblume's wife asks him for a divorce. The precinct plans an exhibition basketball game between the officers and the gang members.

Season 2, Episode 17: The Shooter

6 May 1982
Furillo, Goldblume, and Washington try to track down the owner of a gun that killed one officer and seriously injured another. Renko learns that his father only has days to live.

Season 2, Episode 18: Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers

13 May 1982
Belker goes undercover as a wino to nab a killer. Davenport puts her and Frank's vacation on hold to defend a man accused of rape who she believes is innocent. After Renko's dad dies, the car with his body is stolen and chased in hot pursuit around the city. Washington pleads to Furillo to get LaRue back as a partner.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Trial by Fury

30 September 1982
Furillo faces pressure from the public when when two young men are run in for raping and murdering a nun during a church robbery. Belker stands up for a gay prostitute. Calletano is worried about a tax audit.

Season 3, Episode 2: Domestic Beef

7 October 1982
Furillo risks a backlash after voting one of his peers guilty of improperly managing his precinct. Washington and LaRue both apply for same position outside the precinct. Belker and Goldblume go undercover as ice cream men.

Season 3, Episode 3: Heat Rash

14 October 1982
An action movie star asks to follow Belker. Bates and Coffey arrest a guy who thinks he is an ET. Hunter tells Furillo that he may have cancer. Furillo looks into an allegation made against his precinct by a disgraced captain who committed suicide. Hill and Renko make a drunk driving arrest on a councilman that is quickly overturned by Chief Daniels.

Season 3, Episode 4: Rain of Terror

21 October 1982
LaRue and Washington investigate two policemen suspected of stealing. Furillo blackmails Chief Daniels to get Goldblume reinstated. Gennaro accompanies Belker on an undercover drug deal. Renko is unhappy with his birthday present- a call girl set up by Hill and Coffey.

Season 3, Episode 5: Officer of the Year

28 October 1982
Calletano lets his anger get the best of him when accepting the award for Hispanic Officer of the Year. Belker goes undercover at a massage parlor that is linked to prostitution. Furillo's son runs away from home. Bates is upset when Davenport undermines her testimony on the witness stand. Renko gets mad when an assault victim, on the advice of her lawyer, decides not to press charges.

Season 3, Episode 6: Stan the Man

4 November 1982
Davenport is held at knife-point by a suspect in the booking area. Larue and another office argue over who will make an undercover bust. Fearing that his apartment will be torn down, an elderly man threatens to jump to his death from the top of a building. When Belker goes to the bank to be approved for a loan, he gets more action than he bargained for.

Season 3, Episode 7: Little Boil Blue

11 November 1982
Belker goes undercover to try and catch a guy who is using homeless people to commit insurance fraud. Renko gets in hot water after he asks a hospital intern to lie about a patient being dead on arrival. Fearing that it will hurt his chances of being elected to office, Daniels tries to get Furillo to cover up the details of the murder of a dirty cop. Coffey tries to get through to a Vietnam vet suffering from post-traumatic stress who snaps and takes people hostage.

Season 3, Episode 8: Requiem for a Hairbag

18 November 1982

Season 3, Episode 9: A Hair of the Dog

25 November 1982
Belker goes undercover at a pawn shop after getting tip from Eddie Gregg, who wants to be a snitch. LaRue and Washington have difficulty get an autopsy from an overworked coroner. Chief Daniels forces Furillo to open an investigation on the kidnapping of the governor's dog. Faye gets put in jail for contempt of court after arguing a traffic ticket.

Season 3, Episode 10: Phantom of the Hill

2 December 1982
Esterhaus decides to propose to Grace. Martinez claims to know the whereabouts of the governor's kidnapped dog but wants something in return. Teresa breaks up with Renko and has her eyes set on Coffey. A homicide charge against a key suspect is put in jeopardy when the coroner accidentally cremates the body of the victim. The mysterious "Phantom of the Hill" continues to terrorize people from the sewers.

Season 3, Episode 11: No Body's Perfect

9 December 1982
Belker, LaRue and Washington finally bust Sid. After hearing that Esterhaus was turned down in his marriage proposal to Grace, Calletano fixes him up with a girl whose visa expires. Wally's competence as a coroner is questioned at a pre-hearing trial. Renko attacks Coffey after spotting him with his ex-girlfriend. Hill tries to counsel a rookie cop whose confidence is shaken.

Season 3, Episode 12: Santaclaustrophobia

16 December 1982
On Christmas Eve, Washington tries to make amends with the widow of a liquor store owner that he accidentally killed during a robbery three months ago. Hill's deadbeat father stops by the station to pay him a visit. Belker goes undercover as Santa Claus and has to deal with a fresh street kid who knows he is a cop.

Season 3, Episode 13: Gung Ho

20 January 1983
Bates is upset at Coffey for getting her a stripper for her birthday. Belker and two rookie cops go undercover at an arcade. Several suspects are questioned about a deadly armed robbery.

Season 3, Episode 14: Moon Over Uranus

27 January 1983
Renko is demoted to traffic cop duty after a minor violation. Goldblume is unable to do much for a woman who fears her boyfriend. A veteran officer whose daughter is raped goes off the deep end.

Season 3, Episode 15: Moon Over Uranus: The Sequel

3 February 1983
Furilo and Daniels clash over a crime sweep on the streets. Renko is declared a hero after rescuing children from a burning building. A woman who fears her boyfriend lashes out at Goldblume and a judge for allowing him to go free. Hill confronts a bully undercover cop who attacked Renko.

Season 3, Episode 16: Moon Over Uranus: The Final Legacy

10 February 1983
Calletano tries to look younger by wearing a toupee. Tataglia asks Bates for advice on a possible romance with Belker. Furillo is ordered by the court to shut down the crime operation on the streets. A case of gang members harassing a local store owner causes Goldblume to lose his temper.

Season 3, Episode 17: The Belles of St. Marys

17 February 1983

Season 3, Episode 18: Life in the Minors

24 February 1983

Season 3, Episode 19: Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back

3 March 1983
Davenport takes Furillo up on his offer to get married. Hill, Renko and Bates go undercover on a bus. Belker works to try and get his mind off his deceased father. Coffey takes a lie detector test to prove he is innocent of killing a prisoner. LaRue gets Vic a gig at a seedy nightclub.

Season 3, Episode 20: Spotlight on Rico

28 April 1983

Season 3, Episode 21: Buddy, Can You Spare a Heart?

5 May 1983

Season 3, Episode 22: A Hill of Beans

12 May 1983

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Here's Adventure, Here's Romance

13 October 1983
Following a deadly shooting at a gay bar, an off-duty cop, who is the only witness, is reluctant to come forward for fear that his homosexuality will become public. A guy impersonating the "Cisco Kid" is arrested twice for causing a disturbance. Faye is depressed about having to go through her pregnancy alone.

Season 4, Episode 2: Ba-Bing, Ba-Bing

20 October 1983

Season 4, Episode 3: The Long Law of the Arm

27 October 1983

Season 4, Episode 4: Death by Kiki

3 November 1983

Season 4, Episode 5: Doris in Wonderland

10 November 1983

Season 4, Episode 6: Praise Dilaudid

17 November 1983

Season 4, Episode 7: Goodbye, Mr. Scripps

24 November 1983
Chief Daniels' campaign for mayor hits a turning point. Members of the precinct attend the funeral of the boy who was accidentally shot by Perez. Furillo consoles Perez and his family. Hill and Renko arrest a mentally ill man who believes that he is running for mayor and is causing disturbances.

Season 4, Episode 8: Midway to What?

1 December 1983