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The Best Episodes of Hill Street Blues Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 1 - Hearts and Minds
    7.9/10(138 votes)

    #1 - Hearts and Minds

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Gregory Hoblit
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  2. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 2 - Blood Money
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #2 - Blood Money

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Gregory Hoblit
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  3. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 3 - The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue
    8.2/10(133 votes)

    #3 - The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:David Anspaugh
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  4. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 4 - The Second Oldest Profession
    8.4/10(151 votes)

    #4 - The Second Oldest Profession

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  5. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 5 - Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
    8.0/10(134 votes)

    #5 - Fruits of the Poisonous Tree

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 6 - Cranky Streets
    8.1/10(145 votes)

    #6 - Cranky Streets

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Randa Haines
    Writer:Robert Crais

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  7. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 7 - Chipped Beef
    8.0/10(129 votes)

    #7 - Chipped Beef

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 8 - The World According to Freedom
    8.6/10(179 votes)

    #8 - The World According to Freedom

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Jeff Bleckner
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 9 - Pestolozzi's Revenge
    7.8/10(120 votes)

    #9 - Pestolozzi's Revenge

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Randa Haines
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Michael I. Wagner

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  10. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 10 - The Spy Who Came in From Delgado
    7.9/10(127 votes)

    #10 - The Spy Who Came in From Delgado

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco, Michael I. Wagner

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  11. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 11 - Freedom's Last Stand
    8.7/10(167 votes)

    #11 - Freedom's Last Stand

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Gregory Hoblit
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco, Michael I. Wagner

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  12. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 12 - Of Mouse and Man
    7.9/10(121 votes)

    #12 - Of Mouse and Man

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco, Michael I. Wagner

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  13. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 13 - Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement
    7.9/10(122 votes)

    #13 - Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Michael I. Wagner

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  14. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 14 - The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded
    7.8/10(115 votes)

    #14 - The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Michael I. Wagner

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  15. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 15 - Some Like it Hot-Wired
    7.9/10(121 votes)

    #15 - Some Like it Hot-Wired

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco, Michael I. Wagner

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  16. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 16 - Personal Foul
    7.9/10(133 votes)

    #16 - Personal Foul

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:David Anspaugh
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  17. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 17 - The Shooter
    8.1/10(112 votes)

    #17 - The Shooter

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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  18. Hill Street Blues Season 2 Episode 18 - Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers
    8.1/10(108 votes)

    #18 - Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Gregory Hoblit
    Writers:Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Hearts and Minds" is the best rated episode of "Hill Street Blues" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 138 votes. Directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Anthony Yerkovich, Steven Bochco, it aired on 10/29/1981. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Blood Money".