7.4/1092 votes#1 - Suitcase
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1986
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
Writer: David Milch, John Romano
7.8/1088 votes#2 - A Case of Klapp
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1986
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
7.4/1081 votes#3 - The Best Defense
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1986
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
7.6/1080 votes#4 - Bald Ambition
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1986
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1078 votes#5 - I Come on My Knees
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1986
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
7.8/1080 votes#6 - Say Uncle
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1986
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
7.9/1084 votes#7 - Amazing Grace
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1986
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
7.8/1080 votes#8 - Falling from Grace
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 12/2/1986
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: N/A
Writer: Terry Curtis Fox
7.4/1087 votes#9 - Fathers and Guns
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1986
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: N/A
7.7/1081 votes#10 - More Skinned Against Than Skinning
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1986
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: N/A
Writer: David Black
7.7/1080 votes#11 - She's So Fein
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1987
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
7.5/1090 votes#12 - A Wasted Weekend
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1987
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
7.6/1071 votes#13 - City of Refuse
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1987
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: N/A
7.5/1074 votes#14 - Der Roachenkavalier
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1987
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
7.8/1080 votes#15 - Norman Conquest
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1987
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1081 votes#16 - Sorry, Wrong Number
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1987
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: N/A
7.8/1077 votes#17 - The Cookie Crumbles
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/1987
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
7.9/1081 votes#18 - Dogsbreath Afternoon
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/1987
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: N/A
7.7/1080 votes#19 - Days of Swine and Roses
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1987
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: N/A
7.6/1081 votes#20 - The Runner Falls on His Kisser
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1987
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10103 votes#21 - A Pound of Flesh
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1987
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
8.5/10120 votes#22 - It Ain't Over Till It's Over
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1987
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
Writer: David Milch, John Romano
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A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:NBC
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Suitcase" is the best rated episode of "Hill Street Blues" season 7. It scored 7.4/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Stan Lathan and written by David Milch, John Romano, it aired on 10/2/1986. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "A Case of Klapp".