7.2/10225 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10146 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10144 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10167 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10147 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10113 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.4/10110 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.5/10190 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.5/10160 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.5/10141 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10133 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10121 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10135 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10112 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.6/10230 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.6/10199 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.6/10201 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.6/10196 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.6/10172 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.6/10173 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.6/10169 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.6/10169 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.6/10143 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.6/10148 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.6/10157 votesLoading...#25 - A Wrenching Experience
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/15/1997
3 Latino men shoot another, who's walking with his girlfriend, in what looks to be a gang related feud. Martinez and Medavoy search for the killer of a man in a car repair shop. Russell and Kirkendall investigate the death of a baby, while in the care of a child-minder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of NYPD Blue
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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 225 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".