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The Best Episodes of Hill Street Blues Season 7

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 1 - Suitcase
    7.5/10(98 votes)

    #1 - Suitcase

    S7:E1

    Sid and Buntz wrestle with 80 lbs. of cocaine found in a suitcase at the site of a small plane crash; Goldblume looks into a suspected case of aspirin tampering; Belker goes under to look into a hotel owner scamming city housing chits from vagrants; Hill and Renko handle a domestic call concerning a woman abusing her invalid grandparents.

    Director:Stan Lathan
    Writers:David Milch, John Romano

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  2. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 2 - A Case of Klapp
    7.8/10(94 votes)

    #2 - A Case of Klapp

    S7:E2

    On his way to work, Hunter shoots a boy robbing a convenience store; Jablonski refuses to follow his doctor's orders about heart surgery ; the P.D.'s go on strike over job cuts by the city council; Belker struggles to protect senior citizens victimized by a violent mugger; and LaRue and Washington stake out a luscious young woman suspected of being a fence.

    Director:Scott Brazil
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  3. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 3 - The Best Defense
    7.4/10(86 votes)

    #3 - The Best Defense

    S7:E3

    Chaos reigns as the P.D.'s job action continues; Hunter faces his demotion and takes over as roll call sergeant for the ailing Jablonski; the detective LaRue tried to bust as a fence transfers to the Hill; Flaherty and Bates try to defuse a man who promises to blow himself up for money; and Joyce walks a tightrope as she tries to end the job action and cut a deal for her client that would put away the violent mugger.

    Director:John Patterson
    Writer:Robert Ward

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  4. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 4 - Bald Ambition
    7.6/10(85 votes)

    #4 - Bald Ambition

    S7:E4

    Goldblume is visited by an old friend, who is mugged and rejected by a publisher; Bernstein saves Joyce from an escaped prisoner and confesses he has a tremendous crush on her; Daniels warns Furillo that Calletano's station house is on the edge of a racial meltdown; and Russo loses an arrest in her undercover assignment because she slept with the subject.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 5 - I Come on My Knees
    7.7/10(83 votes)

    #5 - I Come on My Knees

    S7:E5

    Goldblume's friend freaks out and shoots a mugger and a cop; Calletano loses his command and threatens to take his story to the press; Sid moves in with Buntz for protection; and a premature vice cop spoils a massage parlor sweep.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:David Milch

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  6. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 6 - Say Uncle
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    #6 - Say Uncle

    S7:E6

    Buntz is in charge of efforts to protect a convicted mobster on his way to jail from a killer hired by his nephew; Russo's undercover places her in another sexually fraught position; LaRue and Washington bust a guy who confesses to several unsolved murders; Jablonski helps Belker bust a bus bandit; and Calletano resigns from the force.

    Director:Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writer:John Romano

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  7. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 7 - Amazing Grace
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #7 - Amazing Grace

    S7:E7

    Councilman Wade spends the day exposing and exploiting the crack problem on the Hill; Grace Gardiner returns as Sister Charity and recruits Flaherty; Belker goes under in a seafood joint serving soul food to locate drug traffickers; Goldblume receives an offer to publish Steve Merkur's book; and the manpower shortage delays Buntz' loan shark arrest and costs him part of his finger.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Robert Ward

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  8. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 8 - Falling from Grace
    7.8/10(83 votes)

    #8 - Falling from Grace

    S7:E8

    Daniels pushes Furillo to drop the Wade investigation; a literary agent offers Goldblume a chance to write his memoirs; Sister Charity works her old magic on Flaherty; and Buntz ties up his loan sharking sting by busting the shylock that cut off his finger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Terry Curtis Fox

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  9. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 9 - Fathers and Guns
    7.4/10(91 votes)

    #9 - Fathers and Guns

    S7:E9

    Furillo faces a moral and emotional dilemma when his father is shot. LaRue sets the health department on a restaurant owner. Belker has nightmares about nuclear destruction and helps a father find his child. A cemetery plot salesman solicits business at the station.

    Director:Edwin Sherin
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 10 - More Skinned Against Than Skinning
    7.7/10(84 votes)

    #10 - More Skinned Against Than Skinning

    S7:E10

    Racial tensions rise again when a white undercover officer shoots his black partner; a temporarily blind Buntz goes undercover with Belker as a beggar; Hill and Renko find several skinned bodies; and Joyce tries to defend a shopkeeper who has adapted Nazi paraphernalia as a deterrent against robbers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Black

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  11. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 11 - She's So Fein
    7.8/10(86 votes)

    #11 - She's So Fein

    S7:E11

    Belker wrecks a car belonging to LaRue's brother-in-law; a new public defender asks Washington for a date; and a dissatisfied client takes Davenport as a hostage.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Marjorie David

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  12. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 12 - A Wasted Weekend
    7.6/10(95 votes)

    #12 - A Wasted Weekend

    S7:E12

    Buntz reassures Officer McBride about her shooting of an armed robber; Goldblume is kidnapped while trying to start a short vacation; and Hill, Renko, and Jablonski take a disaster-prone hunting trip.

    Director:John Patterson
    Writer:David Mamet

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  13. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 13 - City of Refuse
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    #13 - City of Refuse

    S7:E13

    Hill almost starts a riot at a drug kingpin's funeral; Russo and Flaherty try to deal with an angry old deaf man; LaRue and Washington pass Sid off a chemist to keep a cocaine case from being dismissed; and Hunter gets back into action when Ballantine takes a hostage

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 14 - Der Roachenkavalier
    7.5/10(79 votes)

    #14 - Der Roachenkavalier

    S7:E14

    Buntz worries over the state of Furillo's marriage; LaRue and Washington get lots of help in their quest for a prize winning cockroach; Belker chases down a purse snatching dog; and Goldblume continues to buck the system when he releases a felon in direct contradiction of city council guidelines.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Christian Williams

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  15. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 15 - Norman Conquest
    7.9/10(87 votes)

    #15 - Norman Conquest

    S7:E15

    During his day in station command, Buntz mounts a campaign to confiscate $130,000 worth of illegal drugs; Belker busts a tough kid who bites and runs drugs; Scapizzi pushes Buntz to make time for his interior decorator girl friend; Russo and Flaherty bust a disowned snitch.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 16 - Sorry, Wrong Number
    7.7/10(87 votes)

    #16 - Sorry, Wrong Number

    S7:E16

    Goldblume and Furillo clash over using a former gang member to obtain evidence against a gang leader in a murder case; Renko's mounting family problems affect his work; Bates, Flaherty and Joyce try to reconcile a Latin gigolo with his lady friend.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 17 - The Cookie Crumbles
    7.9/10(82 votes)

    #17 - The Cookie Crumbles

    S7:E17

    Renko erupts in jealousy over Daryl Ann's business partner; Flaherty allows his feelings for Russo to interfere in a bust; Calletano returns to Hill Street when a Spanish speaking citizen is shot by a cop unable to understand him; and Kate McBride relives her father's death at an awards ceremony.

    Director:John Patterson
    Writer:Robert Ward

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  18. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 18 - Dogsbreath Afternoon
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #18 - Dogsbreath Afternoon

    S7:E18

    Buntz tracks down Belker's snitch as the whole station house works to find out who shot Mick; Renko is forced to be honest with Daryl Ann by a blackmailing hooker; and Russo and Flaherty stalk a reported lion.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 19 - Days of Swine and Roses
    7.8/10(85 votes)

    #19 - Days of Swine and Roses

    S7:E19

    A radio promotion spawns trouble for everyone; Hill and Renko are assigned to a computerized patrol car; Buntz helps Sid get out of an arm-breaking assignment for a shylock; Hunter's return to action as the EATer commander fizzles; and LaRue, Washington and Joyce work on opposite sides to protect the rights of a mentally disturbed young man and his frightened mother and sister.

    Director:John Patterson
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 20 - The Runner Falls on His Kisser
    7.6/10(86 votes)

    #20 - The Runner Falls on His Kisser

    S7:E20

    A football star gets caught in a Hill Street hooker sweep; Prunella returns to look for the missing Hunter; Furillo's brother asks for a loan; Belker has a rocky return to duty; and LaRue sets up a syndicate to bet on the departmental firearms competition.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 21 - A Pound of Flesh
    7.7/10(108 votes)

    #21 - A Pound of Flesh

    S7:E21

    The Hill faces renewed gang violence when Jesus' sister is apparently kidnapped on the eve of her wedding to a Gypsy Boy; LaRue experiences emotional highs and lows when a perp's gun misfires three times in his face; Hunter is found, but his survival came at a high cost; IAD Shipman pursues a case against Buntz concerning a missing kilo of cocaine.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Christian Williams

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  22. Hill Street Blues Season 7 Episode 22 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over
    8.6/10(127 votes)

    #22 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over

    S7:E22

    Sid and Furillo work to find out who is setting up Buntz while Daniels publicly vilifies him; LaRue decides to beat a TV crew doing a live broadcast from a gangster's cellar to the punch; Bates agrees to go out with Sal the plumber; rumors are flying about what will happen to the station house after a three-alarm fire guts it.

    Director:Stan Lathan
    Writers:David Milch, John Romano

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Suitcase" is the best rated episode of "Hill Street Blues" season 7. It scored 7.5/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Stan Lathan and written by David Milch, John Romano, it aired on 10/2/1986. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "A Case of Klapp".