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The Worst Episodes of NYPD Blue

Every episode of NYPD Blue ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of NYPD Blue!

Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"I Love Lucy" is the worst rated episode of "NYPD Blue". It scored 7.2/10 based on 231 votes. Directed by Kathy Bates and written by N/A, it aired on 4/22/1997. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bad Rap".

  • I Love Lucy
    7.2/10231 votes
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    #1 - I Love Lucy

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/1997

    2 male transvestites, previous acquaintances of Russell's make a complaint against a boyfriend. The parents of an old school friend of Kirkendall's accuse their daughter of theft.

    Director: Kathy Bates

    Writer: N/A

  • Bad Rap
    7.2/10150 votes
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    #2 - Bad Rap

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1997

    Rap star 'Daddy Kool' is shot but refuses to cooperate with the police, to catch the shooter. Lt. Fancy is accused, by a uniform cop, of setting him up to rob a drugs dealer. Medavoy gets a proposition.

    Director: Matthew Penn

    Writer: Thad Mumford

  • What a Dump!
    7.3/10150 votes
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    #3 - What a Dump!

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1997

    A dead woman, found in an alley appears to be another in a series of brutal rapes. Simone and Sipowicz investigate. The rest of the squad tries to find out why shots fired from a bus injured a woman and a child.

    Director: Perry Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • Burnin' Love
    7.4/10168 votes
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    #4 - Burnin' Love

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/1996

    A girl's body is found, burned, in an abandoned basement. Information from the husband of the girl's best friend points to a Russian, who had tried to date her, but had been refused. Simone puts together a scenario, involving the husband and 2 of his associates. Medavoy gets some overtime, on bodyguard duty and gets lucky in the card school.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Unembraceable You
    7.4/10152 votes
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    #5 - Unembraceable You

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1996

    Simone and Sipowicz investigate a street shooting when witnesses name a man who is supposed to be in jail. Macey, a young man who was previously in the care of Lt. Fancy, is caught carrying drugs. Medavoy meets with more disappointment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's to Die For
    7.4/10111 votes
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    #6 - It's to Die For

    Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2003

    A woman survives the serial killer's attack, and her account prompts the detectives to focus on Carlin, his partner, and a bodyguard; Medavoy and Jones investigate when an off-duty officer kills a man; and McDowell comforts Russell during a biopsy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Torah! Torah! Torah!
    7.5/10192 votes
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    #7 - Torah! Torah! Torah!

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1995

    An ill man is accused of killing his sister, but Simone suspects otherwise. Meanwhile, Medavoy and Sipowicz go under cover to recover a stolen Jewish icon. Sipowicz struggles to keep a secret.

    Director: Donna Deitch

    Writer: N/A

  • A Tushful of Dollars
    7.5/10161 votes
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    #8 - A Tushful of Dollars

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/1996

    Russell gets a lawyer for her mother. Simone and Sipowicz investigate the shooting of a known mobster's son. Suspicion falls on his younger brother, but the father interferes with the search. Medavoy and Russell get a call to where a woman has been shot, while in bed. Her son tells Russell that he got a message, from his step-father, confessing to the shooting. His rich step-father's lawyer makes difficulties.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • You're Under a Rasta
    7.5/10138 votes
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    #9 - You're Under a Rasta

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1998

    A drug-dealer's wife is found shot and their safe emptied. Simone and Sipowicz take the case. Russell and Kirkendall put themselves in the firing line. Meanwhile, Medavoy and Martinez get a call to investigate the body of a dead prostitute, found dumped in the garbage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Twin Petes
    7.5/10144 votes
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    #10 - Twin Petes

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1998

    A series of armed robberies at ATM Cashpoints leads Simone and Russell to a suspect. His mother knows where he is but refuses to help. Medavoy gets confused when a man blames his identical twin brother for a sex assault.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Show and Tell
    7.5/10134 votes
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    #11 - Show and Tell

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1999

    Russell is still struggling with the loss of Simone and enlists Kirkendall's help. ADA Costas looks for ways to get Freddie Asuncion and clear Luis Suarez's name. The whole squad is involved when a supermarket is robbed and an off-duty cop is killed. When the FBI and Internal Affairs become involved, it opens old wounds for Sipowicz and Sorenson.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raphael's Inferno
    7.5/10122 votes
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    #12 - Raphael's Inferno

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/2/1999

    A 9 year-old girl is found dead inside a locked basement, the supervisor is the only key-holder, but he has an alibi. Sipowicz and Sorenson have to solve the whodunit. Medavoy and Martinez help an old man to trace the person who swindled him out of 8000 dollars. Sorenson's sister comes to visit him. Dolores father turns up at the squad room.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Oh Golly Goth
    7.5/10137 votes
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    #13 - Oh Golly Goth

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 3/6/2001

    Danny could be in big trouble for roughing up a suspect. Detective Connie McDowell joins the team for the day.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Everyone Into the Poole
    7.5/10114 votes
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    #14 - Everyone Into the Poole

    Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/2001

    Jones and Medavoy investigate the murder of a Chinese restaurant owner. An IRS agent claims to have been kidnapped and released, but Sipowicz and Sorenson doubt his story.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Porn Free
    7.5/10112 votes
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    #15 - Porn Free

    Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2003

    The detectives investigate the strangulation death of a former porn star; a thirteen-year-old boy holds the key in implicating his father in his mother's murder; and the jury reaches a verdict in the Captain Fraker trial.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Zeppo Marks Brothers
    7.6/10230 votes
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    #16 - Zeppo Marks Brothers

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/1994

    When a material witness to a drug hit turns up dead, Sipowicz and Kelly's investigation leads them to two brothers who have also planned a hit on Kelly's ex-wife, Laura. Sipowicz must perform uniform-detail in a dress uniform way too small.

    Director: Michael M. Robin

    Writer: N/A

  • Cop Suey
    7.6/10199 votes
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    #17 - Cop Suey

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1994

    Kelly investigates the death of an undercover cop in Chinatown, and to do so he must accept help from a prominent Chinese gang leader. Meanwhile, Sipowicz finds out that a former abuse case he had worked on has escalated into homicide; and Medavoy and Donna’s relationship is revealed after Lt. Fancy catches them in the act, leading to Fancy warning the precinct against interoffice relationships.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • You Bet Your Life
    7.6/10202 votes
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    #18 - You Bet Your Life

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1994

    Sipowicz and Simone are assigned to the case of a pregnant woman who was murdered and the only charred remnants remain, which means there are few clues for the detectives to go by. Meanwhile, Sipowicz grows increasingly concerned when a close friend, Dan Breen, is badly beaten by his mentally handicapped son, Danny.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Don We Now Our Gay Apparel
    7.6/10197 votes
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    #19 - Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/1995

    Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of a gay bar proprietor and have transsexual Candace La Rue as a material witness. Dan Breen decides to visit his mentally disturbed son, Danny, despite Sipowicz warning him not to do so. Elsewhere, Medavoy investigates a fortune telling scam after a woman is conned out of her life savings; and Lt. Fancy’s wife goes into labor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Big Happy Family
    7.6/10174 votes
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    #20 - One Big Happy Family

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1995

    Simone and Sipowicz get a break in a rape case when a man fitting the assailants description is seen in the station. Russell has to resolve her families domestic problems. Meanwhile, Martinez, on his first day back, gets some disappointing news from Lesniak.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curt Russell
    7.6/10174 votes
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    #21 - Curt Russell

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1995

    Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of an Indian woman, found strangled in her locked car. Medavoy and Martinez arrest a man acting strangely and find he's involved in a credit card scam. Lesniak and Russell team up to trap a gun dealer. Simone gets over-protective and makes Russell angry.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sorry, Wong Suspect
    7.6/10170 votes
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    #22 - Sorry, Wong Suspect

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/1996

    A young girl is found stabbed, in Chinatown. Suspicion falls on the ex-boyfriend. Simone & Sipowicz Investigate. Martinez & Lezniak have to investigate a robbery, together, despite the bad feeling between them. Medavoy moves into the bunk-room.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Nutty Confessor
    7.6/10170 votes
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    #23 - The Nutty Confessor

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/1996

    Martinez and Lezniak's relationship takes a step forward. Simone and Sipowicz are called to a bloody murder scene with satanistic overtones. A doctor is mugged and shot on a visit to his secretary's apartment. Russell and Medavoy feel the wrath of his wife's anger.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Caulksmanship
    7.6/10148 votes
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    #24 - Caulksmanship

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/1996

    Russell wakes up in Jimmy Leiry's bed and doesn't know what happened. There's been a strangling in a mainly Polish community. A man is found shot dead, in a quiet neighbourhood. Everybody knows him, but nobody saw anything.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tom and Geri
    7.6/10153 votes
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    #25 - Tom and Geri

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1997

    A man, found hanging, places suspicion on a precinct PAA. 2 rival groups of manual workers confront each other and one of them is killed.

    Director: Adam Nimoy

    Writer: N/A