NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Jungle Madness (1)
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/26/1981
Neal continues to investigate the Weeks shooting, despite pressure from the Chief to drop it because of the bad publicity; LaRue goes from one shady scam to another as he tries to raise money; Belker's sham fence operation nets a surprise; Shirrett Anders leaves her children again; Furillo warns LaRue to get help for his drinking problem after he ruins a drug bust; and Joe Coffey, Lucy's new partner, is shot.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Jungle Madness (2)
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/26/1981
Neal continues to investigate the Weeks shooting, despite pressure from the Chief to drop it because of the bad publicity; LaRue goes from one shady scam to another as he tries to raise money; Belker's sham fence operation nets a surprise; Shirrett Anders leaves her children again; Furillo warns LaRue to get help for his drinking problem after he ruins a drug bust; and Joe Coffey, Lucy's new partner, is shot.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich
7.2/1086 votesLoading...#3 - Grin and Bear It
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/1985
Belker's drycleaners undercover catches Dugan, who offers them Joe Keenan and a major ring of police corruption; Furillo copes with the results of the random drug test; Goldblume wrestles with Gina's estate; Hill and Renko spend the day escorting Officer McBear.
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Writer: Mark Frost, David Milch
7.2/1081 votesLoading...#4 - Fathers and Huns
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1985
Belker's undercover at a bookie joint gets him involved in a protest against Nazis parading through the precinct; Furillo angers the chief and many others with his hard line pursuit of a senile drug king on trial for a relatively minor sale; Hill's father drifts into town claiming to be dying; and Jablonski tries to mediate between a priest and a scrap metal dealer.
Director: Stan Lathan
Writer: Walon Green
7.4/1098 votesLoading...#5 - Bangladesh Slowly
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1984
Jablonski deals with a woman who has lost her cat; Renko suffers after a TV newswoman exposes his fondness for doughnuts; LaRue looks very bad to IAD after shooting Caroline Reynolds' former lover; Goldblume pushes to tie Buttman to the hooker killing; Washington fumes over the firing of Garfield; everyone tries a new Bengali restaurant.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Steven Bochco, David Milch
7.4/1083 votesLoading...#6 - Davenport in a Storm
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1985
New ADA Davenport faces opposition when she decides to prosecute three white teens for the death of a young black athlete; Furillo's car accident starts an investigation into illegal gun sales by Al DiPiano; and Mayo has a date with Chief Daniels.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: Mark Frost, David Milch
7.4/1095 votesLoading...#7 - The Life and Time of Dominic Florio Jr.
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/1985
An anti-abortion agitator sends a woman into premature labor; Jablonski can't get his 300 game sanctioned by the Bowling Congress; LaRue and Washington tape a home security video; Fay and Garibaldi resent Goldblume's relationship with Gina Srignoli.
Director: John Patterson
Writer: Mark Frost, David Milch
7.4/1079 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.5/10110 votesLoading...#9 - Rookie Nookie
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1984
Furillo calls Goldblume off the murder investigation of his wife's rapist; Bates has problems with an insolent rookie; Mayo and Garibaldi bust a bogus cable TV installer; Belker goes undercover in a chicken suit and is plagued by a mime; and Hunter insults a female khaki officer, who barricades herself in the john.
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Writer: Steven Bochco, David Milch
7.5/1090 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.5/1086 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.5/1089 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1073 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.6/1082 votesLoading...#14 - Fuched Again
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1984
An assassination attempt against Mayor Cleveland during the rededication of the Monarch Theater opens up a nest of corruption in Daniels' office; several officers catch the ""blue flu"" and head for Las Vegas with Belker, who wins $5000 on a free spin; Vera Horvath continues to hound Stan; and Hill and Renko try to settle a dispute involving a stolen lottery ticket.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Steven Bochco, Mark Frost, David Milch
7.6/1080 votesLoading...#15 - Of Human Garbage
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/1985
The garbage business undercover continues; Officer Perez rescues a family from a burning building; a Federal witness is kidnapped; and Fay reports the suspicious chairside technique of dentist Ted Rose.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Mark Frost, David Milch
7.6/1094 votesLoading...#16 - Dr. Hoof and Mouth
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1985
Belker temporarily moves into Hunter's RV; Joyce introduces a new PD to the Hill before leaving to become an ADA; LaRue gloats over the videotape evidence of Mayo's undercover visit to Dr. Ted Rose; Fabian's mother reclaims him; and Hill and Renko deal with a man who has several outstanding warrants and who has just lost his whole family to a hit and run driver.
Director: John Patterson
Writer: N/A
7.6/1095 votesLoading...#17 - El Capitan
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1985
Calletano takes over command while Furillo attends an encounter group for precinct captains and their superiors; Hill and Renko get hold of some suspicious tea; Hunter's RV is stolen by a fugitive father and son; Goldblume is bemused by his new relationship with Gina Srignoli.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: David Milch
7.6/1083 votesLoading...#18 - An Oy for an Oy
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1985
Sgt. Jablonski risks his own money to catch a pair of confidence men; Sgt. Belker acts as a courier for a pair of devious Hasidic jewelry merchants; and Captain Calletano reacts badly when Buntz accuses a lazy Polk Avenue officer of dumping vagrants in Hill Street precinct.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1092 votesLoading...#19 - Iced Coffey
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1986
Bates agonizes over identifying Coffey's killer; Hunter uncovers an unexpected thief in the station; a prostitute sells out Jesus and Attorney Brown in a bribery scandal; and Belker's harassed by an overzealous security guard.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: Robert Ward, Dick Wolf, Robert Schlitt
7.6/1079 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.6/1080 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.7/10175 votesLoading...#22 - Choice Cut
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1981
Hector Ruiz takes hostages again, this time at a supermarket; LaRue and Washington try to connect the gun that shot Hill and Renko with addict Eddie Hoban; and Cynthia Chase uses the hostage scene to stir up the local merchants.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10168 votesLoading...#23 - Your Kind, My Kind, Humankind
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1981
The Dekker Avenue Merchants Association continues helping the police; Eddie Hoban finds himself out in the cold; Hill, Renko and Belker all have personal problems; Furillo tries to help a confused Santini decide what to do; and LaRue asks Cynthia Chase along on a dull stakeout that suddenly heats up.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich
7.7/1096 votesLoading...#24 - Hair Apparent
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1984
Garibaldi tries to save himself some money by doing some unofficial police work for a guy whose car he rearended; Belker is left exposed on his latest undercover by agents from another agency; and the mayor's gang appointee to the Youth Commission comes under fire for favoritism.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Michael I. Wagner, Karen Hall
7.7/1090 votesLoading...#25 - Low Blow
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1984
Jablonski's female nemesis comes to the Hill for a final showdown; the vacationers are stranded in Las Vegas with Myrna Schnitz; Furillo has to persuade Biff Lowe to help incriminate the Berlettas; and the Cisco Kid returns as an Indian and takes Fay hostage.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Mark Frost, David Milch
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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
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"Jungle Madness (1)" is the worst rated episode of "Hill Street Blues". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Corey Allen and written by Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich, it aired on 5/26/1981. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Jungle Madness (2)".