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27. Gag Reel
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Bonus content from series DVD box set.
26. Roll Call: Looking Back On Hill Street Blues
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Bonus content from series DVD box set. Looking back on Hill Street Blues
25. Writers On the Hill
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Bonus content from series DVD box set. A discussion with Steven Bocho, Robert Crais, Jeffrey Lewis and Alan Richards about writing for the show.
24. Interviews With The Officers
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Bonus content from series DVD box set. Featuring cast members James B Sikking, Dennis Franz, Bruce Weitz, Charles Haid and Dennis Dugan
23. The History of Hill Street
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Bonus content from series DVD box set. Steven Bocho and others talk about the creation of the show
22. It Ain't Over Till It's Over
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A nighttime fire sweeps through the station. And Buntz knows fear for the first time when he is suspended on charges of stealing cocaine. He must learn who framed him for swiping evidence or lose the only thing that matters to him -- his job. Goldblume investigates a serial killer preying on prostitutes. LaRue, shifty as ever, plots to steal the spotlight from a headline-grabbing TV journalist who opens a gangster's private vault on live television. Hill is touched by a poor woman who remembers him from her childhood, and Bates finds true love in the unlikely form of Sal the plumber.
21. A Pound of Flesh
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After being buried alive for 11 days, Hunter is finally rescued -- and is advised by Furillo to avoid any references to the Donner party. Buntz is in dire trouble when Internal Affairs finds a pound of cocaine missing and a $17,000 stash in his apartment. Gang leader emeritus Jesus Martinez risks a city-wide war when his little sister opts to marry a rival gang member. Everybody's a critic when Goldblume publishes his "fictitious" short story about a police precinct. A defrocked Grace Gardner returns to dispense birth-control devices and indulge a flabbergasted Flaherty.
20. The Runner Falls on His Kisser
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The blues are empathetic toward Thomas Jackson, a famous pro-football star who stands to lose lucrative commercial endorsements when he is arrested for soliciting. A stir-crazy Belker returns to active duty and promptly gets a cake in the face when he goes undercover at a bakery. Furillo doesn't hesitate to lend $20,000 to his financially troubled brother. LaRue and Washington convince Sid the Snitch that trafficking in stolen merchandise is not nice. When Hunter is declared AWOL, one of his former lovers returns from Samoa to join the hunt.
19. Days of Swine and Roses
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Poor Renko only makes matters worse when he tries to reconcile with his wife, from whom he is separated, while a lonely Jablonski loses more than his pride in a moment of sexual temptation. A still-recovering Belker returns for the first time since his shooting. Washington and LaRue try to help reunite an abusive young man on medication with his resentful family. Hunter gathers the troops for a hostage siege but then encounters an unexpected hitch. Buntz makes scheming Sid the Snitch sell a prized possession to pay a debt.
18. Dogbreath Afternoon
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Buntz is a blur as he tries to link a credit card scam to the ambushing of Belker, who lies unconscious with a bullet lodged inoperably close to his spine. While the wounded Belker struggles for his life, the Hill teems with cops eager to find the shooter responsible, and Buntz leads the charge. When Buntz brutalizes a snitch, the Captain tries to bench him, but he continues searching for a female accomplice who got away. Meanwhile, Renko is blackmailed by a prostitute, and Hunter sweats bullets waiting for reinstatement as a lieutenant.
17. The Cookie Crumbles
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After a tragic shooting, former Captain Calletano returns, heading a Hispanic coalition threatening to file a civil suit, and the blame may fall on Furillo. Bates is knifed when backups Flaherty and Russo are too busy nuzzling each other to help. Renko is agitated with wife Daryl Ann's preoccupation with her new business partner just before they take an overnight trip. Hill and Renko prevent an angry musician from blowing away a noisy plastic clown at a fast-food stand, and Goldblume and Belker are at opposite ends of separate shooting incidents.
16. Sorry Wrong Number
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The mass slaying of a sleeping family forces an uneasy Goldblume to ask a young snitch to risk his life by setting up a lethal gang suspect. An agitated Renko is flushed with frustration when he becomes a human commode. Flaherty holsters his schoolboy infatuation with Russo long enough to arrest Ramon, a young Latin gigolo who's been selling off his jealous older lover's personal property. Belker and Russo team up to bust a drug dealer high on "positive thinking."
15. Norman Conquest
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Buntz is king of the Hill for a day when Furillo is away on business and, when the officers' overtime pay hinges on how much dope they can confiscate that day, he turns them loose in a wild spree to ring up $130,000 worth of contraband -- even if it means illegal seizures. As the blustery Buntz bluffs his way through his day of command, things sour when Davenport begins to see through his scheme. Ever-helpful Sid the Snitch hatches a dubious alternative plan for meeting the confiscation quota.
14. Der Roachenkavalier
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Goldblume is branded a "subversive" by the press when he appears on television and blames the department's bureaucratic new regulations for allowing a murderer to go free and kill again. When Buntz learns that Davenport is stepping out on Furillo, he starts checking up on her activities. While Goldblume agonizes over accidentally cutting loose the slayer Rivera, Hunter believes he is to blame, but coming clean will cost him his reinstatement as lieutenant. LaRue checks out his own roach motel to bag a cockroach big enough to win a radio contest.
13. City of Refuse
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Hill and Renko get down and dirty when they have to pitch in during a Sanitation Workers' strike -- until an emotional Hill loses control and nearly causes a riot during an infamous drug dealer's funeral. After his outburst, he receives an anonymous death threat which unifies his brother cops in his defense. Newcomers Russo and Flaherty become bosom buddies off the job. Ballantine comes unglued, takes a hostage and wants to draw a bead on former mentor Hunter. LaRue and Washington enlist smarmy Sid the Snitch as a bogus chemist to gain the evidence they need to convict a drug dealer.
12. A Wasted Weekend
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Some blues pack their gear for a long-awaited weekend of hunting bear and deer. However, Goldblume's plans to join them fall through when he is kidnapped and forced to dig his own remote grave. After leaving late and getting lost, the would-be nimrods (led by Jablonski) head for the Hills and suffer misadventures at every step. And while Goldblume is reduced to begging for his life, Buntz stays home and goes fishing for a female cop to run an undercover gig for him. He finds an unusual soulmate in Officer McBride, who's just killed a suspect.
11. She's So Fein
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Public Defender Davenport must plea-bargain for her life when she is taken hostage by a desperate suspect who holes up in a market with her and a wounded victim. Furillo dies a little himself while waiting to see if negotiator Goldblume can save her life. Inexperienced ADA Sharon Fein, carrying a gun in her purse for protection, is overcome and disarmed by Diaz, an angry client who thinks Davenport betrayed his confidence and intends to use Fein as his ticket out of jail. Belker is snared in bureaucratic red tape when he test drives and wrecks an uninsured used car while chasing a suspect.
10. More Skinned Against Than Skinning
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Furillo is sworn to silence and puts his word on the line in an attempt to placate his restive black officers -- especially Washington -- when a white cop kills his black partner under questionable circumstances while both are under secret investigation. Black and white cops polarize over whether the shooting will be hidden in a political cover-up, but Furillo cannot confide the truth to a doubting Washington until a corruption team submits its findings.
9. Fathers and Guns
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Furillo's conscience is in knots when he learns that his father's shooting death resulted not from robbery but suicide, and he considers disposing of the handgun. A kaleidoscope of memories washes over Furillo as he and Davenport hurry to his parents, too late to help his father, but not too late to preserve his memory. Belker is concerned about how a nuclear holocaust would affect his nuclear family, and he lobbies on the job for an ex-felon to keep his abandoned baby. When his car is towed, LaRue visits rodent pestilence on the offending Korean restaurant owner.
8. Falling From Grace
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While Sid the Snitch plays mother hen to him, a pained Buntz licks his wounds as he waits to bust the loan shark who clipped his finger the night before. A grandstanding City Councilman turns up the heat in his war with Furillo over drug arrests after killing a would-be thief. And when he announces that Washington, the arresting officer, has a record of codeine use, the accused detective and his partner, LaRue, go "mouse" hunting for a witness to the shooting. Young Flaherty is horrified when worldly Sister Chastity surrenders to passions of the flesh, namely his.
7. Amazing Grace
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Grace Gardner, the highly sexual former flame of Sgt. Esterhaus, returns to the police station as Sister Chastity, a nun who now seeks Furillo's aid in establishing a counseling center. Her return stirs passionate embers in unsuspecting officer Flaherty. The Captain seethes when a showboating Councilman ruins a drug crackdown. Buntz has a close shave while undercover with a vindictive loan shark who's determined to get his money -- and more. Hill and Renko arrest Parker Jones, a teenage pusher suspected of causing the death of his 10-year-old brother with an overdose.
6. Say Uncle
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Renko worries all day when a gypsy accidentally places the "Hundred-Demon Curse" on him, and LaRue is giddy about the glory he will get when a suspect he arrests admits to more than a dozen unsolved murders. Several blues are assigned to protect "Uncle John" Petruzzi, a cagey old mobster whose last day of freedom before he surrenders to begin his prison term is filled with death threats from crime associates and from a grieving young man who holds him responsible for his sister's overdose death. Undercover cop Tina Russo is forced to submit to a criminal's sexual advances.
5. I Come on My Knees
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It's the "Odd Couple" revisited when a grumbling Buntz lets oily Sid the Snitch bunk in his fleabag apartment to hide from a vengeful ex-con. Hill resents his temporary assignment with a white cop who refused to help a black officer in distress. Renko sweats bullets when his car is stolen and he is unwittingly sucked into an auto insurance scam. A wounded Calletano, his career hopes dashed, bitterly assails Furillo and considers airing his gripes in the Hispanic media. Goldblume reaches out to his friend, Stever Merker, a writer who may be sketching his own violent demise.
4. Bald Ambition
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Furillo is asked to help a proud Calletano head off a mutiny when his precinct officers are on the verge of a racial war among themselves, while the Hill Street Captain has to set a powerful criminal free as the result of female undercover cop Russo's actions. Again, the notorious Buntz is under suspicion when his prime snitch, Sid, unintentionally feeds him bad information which ultimately requires Buntz to babysit for the squeamish Sid. Hill makes a spectacular catch of a falling baby, prompting Renko to act as his press agent.
3. The Best Defense
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The blues use discretion in making borderline arrests when the jails overflow with perpetrators because of the Public Defenders' walkout. In the midst of the strike, the enterprising Paralegal Jesus Martinez saunters into the breach, offering the services of two wheezing senior attorneys. Hunter manfully accepts his demotion to calling roll. Rookie Officer Flaherty teams with Bates, while the equally new Tina Russo stirs LaRue's embers. And "Professor Explosion," a yammering, elderly demolitions expert, straps on some dynamite and lights up the lives of Hill and Renko.
2. A Case of Klapp
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Buntz tries to help Hunter, who's under fire when his off-duty shooting of an armed teenager marks him as a department scapegoat. The City Council proposes to cut the Public Defenders' work force by a third, and a conscience-wracked Davenport devises a way to slow down the judicial process, creating a zoo-like backlog of defendants. Jablonski fears for his career and his life on the eve of bypass surgery. And Belker is concerned about the safety of some old-timers who are being robbed of their social security checks.
1. Suitcase
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When a private plane carrying a massive stash of cocaine crashes, avaricious Sid the Snitch tries to coax Buntz into stealing it as a down payment on an uptown life, a scheme that leaves them praying for their lives. A poisoned aspirin scare has merchants up in arms. Hill and Renko help a tired young woman saddled with the care of her senile grandparents. Belker poses as a street dullard to investigate a boarding house scam that preys on bums and illegal aliens.
