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The Best Episodes of Picket Fences

An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.

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  1. Background image for Be My Valentine
    8.5/10(115 votes)

    #1 - Be My Valentine

    S1:E17

    Deputy Max goes undercover when a response to her personal ad leads her to believe that she is being targeted by a serial killer known as "Cupid."

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Bad Moons Rising
    8.4/10(110 votes)

    #2 - Bad Moons Rising

    S1:E14

    When Alice Freeman is charged with murder in the death of her husband, Wambaugh defends her by claiming insanity as the result of menopause. Brock's son, Matthew, begins to experience puberty.

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  3. Background image for Pageantry
    8.3/10(100 votes)

    #3 - Pageantry

    S1:E11

    A rabbi seeks to block the town from staging a religiously-themed Christmas pageant on public property. The town is shocked to learn that beloved teacher Louise Talbot, scheduled to play the Virgin Mary in the pageant, is a post-operative transsexual.

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    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #4 - Thanksgiving

    S1:E9

    Jill's father arrives in Rome with his new 26-year-old girlfriend. Wambaugh finds his wife in bed with another man.

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  5. Background image for The Body Politic
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #5 - The Body Politic

    S1:E16

    A fugitive doctor seeks a court order to allow him to keep his brain-dead wife on life support to allow her to bring her pregnancy to term. The mayor fires the town dentist for refusing to disclose that he is HIV-positive. Guest Stars: Liz and Jean Sagal

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  6. Background image for Fetal Attraction
    8.0/10(83 votes)

    #6 - Fetal Attraction

    S1:E18

    Jill enlists her former fiancé to perform a fetal transplant on a patient with Parkinson's disease over the objections of the town hospital. Jimmy feels threatened when he catches Jill and her former fiancé exchanging a kiss

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  8. Background image for Picket Fences
    7.9/10(200 votes)

    #7 - Picket Fences

    S1:E1

    A beloved local man is killed during a stage production of The Wizard of Oz. Suspicion initially falls on the town pharmacist when the sheriff learns the dead man was having an affair with the pharmacist's daughter. The dead man's wife confesses but her confession is suppressed in court. She is then murdered and the Sheriff's department discovers that she and the pharmacist conspired to kill her husband and then the pharmacist killed her.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Nuclear Meltdowns
    7.9/10(102 votes)

    #8 - Nuclear Meltdowns

    S1:E15

    When her friend becomes pregnant, Kimberly fears that she is the victim of incest. However, the man purporting to be her father is actually her husband and they are involved in a polygamous relationship. Max investigates a religious sect that engages in animal sacrifice. Guest Stars: Liz and Jean Sagal

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    7.9/10(82 votes)

    #9 - The Lullaby League

    S1:E22

    Max delivers a baby and begins adoption procedures when the natural mother disappears. Jill transplants a pig's liver into a blues vocalist after the woman collapses on stage. Guest star: Della Reese.

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  11. Background image for Heart of Saturday Night
    7.9/10(63 votes)

    #10 - Heart of Saturday Night

    S4:E6

    It is Saturday night in Rome, and the townspeople are looking at various ways to spend the evening. Matthew cruises the town with his friends. Jimmy and Jill make an attempt at romance. Judge Bone and Wambaugh play poker, but one of the men in their group drops dead. Note- In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 96 on it's '100 Greatest Episodes of All Time' list.

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  12. Background image for The Green Bay Chopper
    7.8/10(133 votes)

    #11 - The Green Bay Chopper

    S1:E2

    After a child brings a severed human hand to school for show and tell, the Sheriff's department teams with the FBI to pursue a serial kidnapper, the "Green Bay Chopper", who severs the right hands of his victims.

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  13. Background image for Frank the Potato Man
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    #12 - Frank the Potato Man

    S1:E5

    A rash of break-ins leads to an investigation of a "serial bather". Suspicion initially centers on "Frank the Potato Man", a vagrant who, it is learned, was tried for aggravated rape 15 years earlier.

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  14. Background image for High Tidings
    7.8/10(93 votes)

    #13 - High Tidings

    S1:E12

    When the Brock family inadvertently finds Kimberly having sex with her 19-year-old boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Jimmy wants to prosecute him for statutory rape. A man claiming to be Santa Claus takes Max and dispatcher Ginny hostage and Jimmy tries to talk him down.

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  15. Background image for Rights of Passage
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    #14 - Rights of Passage

    S1:E20

    A group of heavily armed Chippewa Indians declares war on Rome, seizes, and barricades the courthouse. Ginny stages a protest when Jill begins administering growth hormones to a short boy. Matthew takes on the school bully.

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  16. Background image for Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town
    7.7/10(117 votes)

    #15 - Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town

    S1:E3

    Max falls for a dwarf who rides into town on an elephant, which the dwarf says was being abused at a circus. Jill tells Kimberly's favorite teacher, Mr. Pankow, that he has a brain tumor.

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  17. Background image for The Snake Lady
    7.7/10(85 votes)

    #16 - The Snake Lady

    S1:E10

    Max, Brock, and Kenny investigate the mysterious death of a woman who may or may not have committed suicide.

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    7.7/10(76 votes)

    #17 - Sightings

    S1:E19

    Carter believes a sheriff who mysteriously disappeared 38 years earlier may have been killed by radiation emitted by an Unidentified Flying Object.

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  19. Background image for Bye-Bye, Bey-Bey
    7.7/10(53 votes)

    #18 - Bye-Bye, Bey-Bey

    S4:E21

    It is the christening of Mayor Bey's baby, Michael, but the Rome residents are flabbergasted when Laurie announces that she had the baby for her brother Jerry and his lover Gordy, who plan to raise the baby in the town. The Beys' estranged mother Christine, who turned her back on her children because she was deaf and he was gay, turns up and announces she is taking them all to court to get custody of her grandson. Tension brews in Rome as the people take sides on the issue and a campaign begins to have Laurie removed as Mayor, resulting in Jerry and Gordy being attacked at the supermarket by a vicious homophobic gang. Despite attempts by the prosecution to discredit the men and prove their lifestyle is unsuitable to raise a child in, Judge Bone ultimately rules in their favor and allows them to keep baby Michael, saying he does not feel they pose a threat to the boy. The court case over, Mrs. Bey leaves Rome again under a cloud, and Laurie is emotional as she leaves the baby in the care of his two dads.

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  20. Background image for The Autumn of Rome
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #19 - The Autumn of Rome

    S1:E4

    The candidates in the upcoming mayoral election are using such outrageous smear campaigns that Sheriff Brock considers running for Mayor himself.

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  21. Background image for Remembering Rosemary
    7.6/10(105 votes)

    #20 - Remembering Rosemary

    S1:E6

    When a catatonic housemaid utters the word "murder" after a decade of not speaking, the Sheriff's department learns that the "suicide" of a beloved town figure a decade prior was actually a homicide.

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  22. Background image for The Contenders
    7.6/10(92 votes)

    #21 - The Contenders

    S1:E7

    Town doctor Jill Brock, fed up with the mayor's failure to address women's issues, declares herself a write-in candidate in the upcoming mayoral election. Deputy Kenny Lakos arrests a former boxing world champion and convinces him to engage in a charity match before extradition to New Jersey.

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  23. Background image for Sacred Hearts
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #22 - Sacred Hearts

    S1:E8

    An elderly patient is murdered at a nursing home. A "singing serial mercy-killing" nun is arrested, sparking controversy over the ethics and legality of euthanasia.

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    7.6/10(89 votes)

    #23 - Frog Man

    S1:E13

    Kenny is seriously wounded by the Frog Man, a burglar who leaves live frogs at the site of his crimes.

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  25. Background image for Three Weddings and a Meltdown
    7.6/10(62 votes)

    #24 - Three Weddings and a Meltdown

    S4:E22

    In the final episode, Carter inadvertently proposes to Sue after she gets her wires crossed. Nevertheless, he is a man of his word and they announce their engagement to the people of Rome. Their sudden decision to wed prompts Kenny and Max to do the same, although they later begin to experience cold feet. Digging in her friend Selma's backyard, Myriam Wambaugh discovers human remains and Selma goes on trial for murder. Persuaded to defend her by his ex-wife, Wambaugh manages to get her off and passion erupts again for Doug and Myriam, who decide to get remarried in a triple ceremony with Carter & Sue and Kenny & Max. Meanwhile, the Brocks' marriage is in serious trouble, with Jill feeling they have come to the end of the line. She moves in with Joey to do some thinking and Jimmy is left to do the same. At the wedding, the three happy couples tie the knot and the wedding fever gets to Jimmy and Jill, who make up and get back together. As the cast gather for a group photo in their wedding finery, the series ends.

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  26. Background image for Bloodbrothers
    7.5/10(53 votes)

    #25 - Bloodbrothers

    S4:E4

    District Attorney John Littleton's convict brother escapes from prison and makes his way to Rome.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Be My Valentine" is the best rated episode of "Picket Fences". It scored 8.5/10 based on 115 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/12/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bad Moons Rising".