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The Best Episodes of Nash Bridges

Every episode of Nash Bridges ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Nash Bridges!

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Hot Prowler" is the best rated episode of "Nash Bridges". It scored 8.6/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/9/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Smash and Grab".

  • Hot Prowler
    8.6/10105 votes
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    #1 - Hot Prowler

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1998

    Nash and Joe are on the trail of a Prowler who is terrorizing San Francisco and kills a member of Nash's S.I.U. team. When Nick springs for dinner at a Hawaiian restaurant, Joe's son J.J. chips his tooth on a piece of poi; Joe and Nick conspire to get a settlement from the restaurant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Smash and Grab
    8.6/1072 votes
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    #2 - Smash and Grab

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1999

    Nash and company foil a jewelry heist ring posing as firemen. Nash hits a pedestrian and gets sued. But Caitlin has misplaced Nash's auto insurance bill, and he blames Caitlin.

    Director: Robert Mandel

    Writer: Shawn Ryan, Glen Mazzara

  • Quack Fever
    8.5/1065 votes
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    #3 - Quack Fever

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2001

    Nash begins to believe that a 17-year-old boy involved in the Southeast Asian drug trade may be his missing brother's son; Cassidy starts dating a plastic surgeon and considers getting breast implants.

    Director: Scott Brazil

    Writer: N/A

  • Get Bananas
    8.4/1076 votes
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    #4 - Get Bananas

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1999

    Evan puts himself under suspicion after he takes $40,000 of drug money during a bust; Nash and the SIU take down a drug dealer. Nash and Joe guard a chimpanzee, while Jake Cage goes undercover as an animal extremist.

    Director: Scott Brazil

    Writer: N/A

  • Jackpot (2)
    8.4/1098 votes
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    #5 - Jackpot (2)

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2000

    Nash and Joe arrive in Las Vegas, and locate assassin Roy McNeer's hotel room. His food is still warm, as Nash and Joe spot McNeer in a casino. Nash and Joe give chase, but are held up by the hotel security guards, as McNeer escapes. Nash and Joe check into the hotel - Pepe is the concierge. They locate McNeer's girl, Vivienne Reed, and she agrees to tell Joe if McNeer calls her. The truck full of half a billion in laundered cash is hijacked. The two thugs contact Tony B to ransom the truck for $50,000. Tony B and the SIU meet them and get the truck back. Harvey, Evan, Officer Ronnie and Tony B go to Las Vegas with the truck full of money. Jake Cage shows up in Las Vegas too, with orders from Caitlin and the Mayor's Office to bring back Nash. But Jake agrees to help Nash instead after an altercation. Nash meets with Ellen Holiday. She fills Nash in on the rest of the DEA investigation. Jimmy Z works for a drug king pin coming in from Shanghai - they have ordered the hit on Police Chief

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Carlton Cuse, John Wirth

  • Sacraments
    8.3/1073 votes
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    #6 - Sacraments

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1998

    When the ruthless high school dropouts go on the crime spree, Nash's search for the couple leads him into an underworld of heavy metal rock and satanic worship. As the intensity of the crimes increases, Nash must race against time to stop the desperate duo before they murder all the enemies on their ""grudge list."" ; Stacy and Nash meet Nick's long-lost love from the war years; Joe finds Evan and Cassidy in a compromising situation.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Carlton Cuse, John Wirth

  • Resurrection
    8.3/1074 votes
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    #7 - Resurrection

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/1999

    Nash must stop a sniper terrorizing the city by shooting victims at random. A rat infestation forces Joe to confront his ""landlord,"" Nash, about the problem. Evan proposes to Cassidy, but in the wake of a serious traffic accident, Cassidy is left fighting for her life.

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Pump Action
    8.3/1083 votes
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    #8 - Pump Action

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/1999

    Nash and Joe are plunged into the underground world of steroid-crazed body builders when they investigate the murders of three body builders. Nash and Caitlin struggle to define their relationship as Cassidy struggles to get her feet back on the ground after her accident.

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Angel of Mercy
    8.3/1073 votes
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    #9 - Angel of Mercy

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/1999

    Nash and the SIU must re-open a serial killer's case file when a body is discovered and it appears to be Angel's. Bonnie, Harvey's ex-wife, returns with an interesting proposition. Joe and Caitlin square off as rival soccer coaches when their teams enter the playoffs.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: N/A

  • Frisco Blues
    8.3/1068 votes
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    #10 - Frisco Blues

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1999

    Handcuffed Skip Osaka jumps out the back of the moving 'Cuda. Nash and Joe give chase. Skip runs up a fire escape onto a power line. The line breaks, and Skip falls through a window. Nash and Joe place him in the trunk of the 'Cuda, and bring him to the SIU. A surprised Nash, Joe and Harvey discover the SIU barge is being towed away by a tugboat. The Head of the MCD, Reuben Banks, drives up and informs Nash the SIU has been temporarily shut down. The SIU is disbanded by MCD: Nash and Joe are assigned to Park Detail, Harvey to Homicide, Evan to Traffic, and Caitlin to Vice. At the Civic Center Park, Nash and Joe meet Colonel Culpepper, drug addict/transient, and Phil, the phony Vietnam veteran. The Colonel is shot dead in the park. Harvey and his new partner, Inspector Riley Webber, investigate the murder. Evan and Cassidy have set a wedding date. Harvey is best man, and he plans the bachelor party. Nash and Nick are informed, and Nash gives his blessing. Father Nick gives Cassidy her g

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Goodbye Kiss
    8.3/1074 votes
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    #11 - Goodbye Kiss

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/1999

    Nash and Joe meet Lyle who tells them the secret location the SIU barge has been towed to. Joe returns Lyle's chihuahua Ginger who has been held hostage in return for the info. A truck deliberately rams into a van containing three prisoners. Nash and Joe arrive at the accident scene, with Nash figuring out that a phony paramedic van has taken the three prisoners in a successful escape attempt. Nash, Joe, Harvey and Evan arrive at the empty and disconnected SIU. The Mayor has granted a one week reprieve pending the Police Commission hearing. If Nash and company catch the three escaped prisoners, the SIU will be saved. Head of MCD Reuben Banks daughter Gina's immunity deal is also dependent upon the return of one of the escaped prisoners - Gina's former boyfriend, Jimmy ""Shank"" Brasher. The other two escapees are Darnell Galloway and Elliot Wong. Gina is kidnapped by Brasher. Jake Cage of Fugitive Recovery is already on the case, beating Nash to interview Mr. Footman, owner of the stolen

    Director: Paul Abascal

    Writer: N/A

  • Cop Out
    8.3/1072 votes
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    #12 - Cop Out

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2000

    Wearing his brother's uniform as a motorcycle cop and impersonating a police officer, a deranged man imagines and talks to his dead brother. Nash adjusts to his break-up with Caitlin; Nick fails his driving test; Cassidy asks Evan for help to move back into a Berkeley apartment.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Heist
    8.3/1075 votes
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    #13 - Heist

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2000

    Nash goes undercover to stop a high-end heist artist. Joe helps a restaurant critic who receives death threats; Evan is back in the SIU; Caitlin takes an administrative job within the department; and Harvey helps out a troubled 12 year old boy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Something Borrowed
    8.3/1072 votes
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    #14 - Something Borrowed

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2001

    Nash's former lover Tamara Van Zant forges his name on a marriage license and claims to be married to him in order to protect herself from a thug out to kill her; Nick pretends to be romantically involved with a lesbian friend to deflect suspicion from the woman's son, a high-profile gangster from Philadelphia.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: John Wirth, Michael Norell

  • Fair Game
    8.3/1071 votes
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    #15 - Fair Game

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2001

    A serial killer who picks up passengers in a cab and then murders them stalks the city; Cassidy struggles with whether she wants to continue to be a cop.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: N/A

  • Til Death Do Us Part
    8.2/10107 votes
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    #16 - Til Death Do Us Part

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1996

    Nash has to deal with the fact that Joe may have 72 hours to live after being exposed to a deadly virus while Nash & Joe investigate a drug theft from a research lab.

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: Carlton Cuse

  • Out of Chicago
    8.2/10108 votes
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    #17 - Out of Chicago

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/1997

    Hot on the trail of a murderous criminal from Chicago, Nash teams up with a KAREN DECKER, a cop from the Windy City who's in every way his equal: smart, competent-and yes, sexy. Sparks fly between them as they track down the visiting villain together -until, that is, Nash learns his newfound partner is not as perfect as she's led him to believe. Joe, meanwhile, hires a pet psychologist to cure what ails Nick's racehorse, Mr. Woody.

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: N/A

  • Revelations
    8.2/10100 votes
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    #18 - Revelations

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1997

    When a reporter is murdered while covering the new ""French Connection"", Nash comes face-to-face with a startling revelation - his brother, a Vietnam MIA, thought dead for the last 24 years, may be alive and in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Lisa's sister, Lynette, arrives to house-sit at Lisa's indefinitely.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: N/A

  • Patriots
    8.2/1082 votes
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    #19 - Patriots

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/1998

    Nash gets involved with Irish terrorists, as well as his ex-wife Kelly (Serena Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, Joe looks after a party-minded Arabian prince awaiting a heart transplant.

    Director: Deran Sarafian

    Writer: Shawn Ryan

  • High Fall
    8.2/1082 votes
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    #20 - High Fall

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1998

    Nash discovers his life savings is gone when his accountant invests in a deal cooked up by "Bombshell" Tamara Van Zant. While trying to remodel the bathroom himself, Joe burns down his house and takes Nash up on his offer to move into Lisa's. Nick decides to take scuba lessons.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Carlton Cuse, John Wirth

  • Overdrive
    8.2/1077 votes
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    #21 - Overdrive

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1998

    An innocent man is scheduled for an execution. Nash, working the entire case from the 'Cuda, must bring the true killer to justice before the midnight deadline. Lucia's bullying of a schoolmate forces Joe and Inger to attend conflict resolution therapy, which only leads to more conflict.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Shawn Ryan

  • Mystery Dance
    8.2/1074 votes
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    #22 - Mystery Dance

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1998

    Nash finds himself defending Caitlin when she's the main suspect for a murdered CIA agent connected to her mysterious past. Joe begins working out with the trainer from hell. Cassidy and Nick enter a tango dance contest.

    Director: Perry Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • Hide and Seek
    8.2/1063 votes
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    #23 - Hide and Seek

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/5/1999

    The Governor is missing, and Nash and Joe lead the ""off-the-record"" investigation into his disappearance. Caitlin, shut out, is determined to find out what he's up to. Joe and Inger attend a charity auction as a man's proxy to get on his good side, but overpay and get stuck with the art project.

    Director: Colin Bucksey

    Writer: N/A

  • Vendetta
    8.2/1072 votes
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    #24 - Vendetta

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/23/1999

    An ex-cop is released from jail and seeks revenge on Caitlin who put him there. Nash teams up with Caitlin to capture him. Joe and Inger continue their efforts to become pregnant, discovering how difficult it is. Harvey and Evan go underground as wealthy conventioneers at a ritzy hotel bar to catch a follow-home robber.

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: Jed Seidel

  • Crash & Burn
    8.2/1071 votes
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    #25 - Crash & Burn

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/1999

    Four robbers storm into a check-cashing outlet. They release tear gas grenades and rob the place. Nash, Joe, Harvey, and Evan respond to the silent alarm. Three robbers (who all turn out to be women) dump the cash into a getaway car (driven by another woman) and leave on foot. Harvey and Evan run into the getaway car, but let it go, not knowing that the robbers are women. Nash and Joe confront the fourth robber. Nash shoots him dead through the eye hole in his gas mask. The dead robber is Adrian Beltran; stolen is 100,000 dollars. The MO (modus operandi) is similar to a North Beach robbery crew from four years ago, who are now all in prison. Nash suspects Anthony Warrick, who ratted out the original crew. But Warrick retains heavy-duty lawyer Denise, and Warrick is clean with no connection to the dead man. While Harvey and Evan surveil Warrick, another robbery goes off. A trace of the tear gas grenades leads to Bunker Bob, but he only identifies the dead Adrian Beltran. A study of the

    Director: Jim Charleston

    Writer: N/A