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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. #1 Worst Episode
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    Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 3 - Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town
    0.0/10(123 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 4 - The Autumn of Rome
    0.0/10(107 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 5 - Frank the Potato Man
    0.0/10(114 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 6 - Remembering Rosemary
    0.0/10(110 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 7 - The Contenders
    0.0/10(97 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 8 - Sacred Hearts
    0.0/10(107 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 10 - The Snake Lady
    0.0/10(89 votes)

    #7 - The Snake Lady

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 11 - Pageantry
    0.0/10(105 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 12 - High Tidings
    0.0/10(100 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 13 - Frog Man
    0.0/10(93 votes)

    #10 - Frog Man

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 14 - Bad Moons Rising
    0.0/10(118 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 15 - Nuclear Meltdowns
    0.0/10(107 votes)

    #12 - 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

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 17 - Be My Valentine
    0.0/10(123 votes)

    #13 - 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."

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 18 - Fetal Attraction
    0.0/10(86 votes)

    #14 - 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

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 19 - Sightings
    0.0/10(81 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 20 - Rights of Passage
    0.0/10(87 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Picket Fences Season 1 Episode 22 - The Lullaby League
    0.0/10(86 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Michael Pressman
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 1 - Turpitude
    0.0/10(78 votes)

    #18 - Turpitude

    S2:E1

    Mayor Pugen kills a carjacker after the carjacker drops his weapon and Sheriff Brock must decide whether to press murder charges. When he does, the new district attorney has to choose how to prosecute the case.

    Director:Michael Pressman
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 2 - Duty Free Rome
    0.0/10(65 votes)

    #19 - Duty Free Rome

    S2:E2

    Douglas Wambaugh appeals Mayor Pugen's murder conviction but the mayor spontaneously combusts. A Catholic couple who carry the genes for Hurler syndrome are tormented by the church's prohibition on contraception. Max's therapist attempts to manipulate her into a sexual relationship and she has him arrested.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 3 - Unlawful Entries
    0.0/10(63 votes)

    #20 - Unlawful Entries

    S2:E3

    Kenny and Max respond to a report of a rape and find a man and woman fighting. Under pressure from Kenny, the man says that it was she who raped him. Following a probable cause hearing, Judge Bone advises the district attorney and Wambaugh to reach a plea bargain. The woman gets a year sentence, suspended, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault. Local businesswoman Rachel Harris is sworn in as mayor and she and Jimmy clash over her plans for his office. Max's former therapist manipulates her into dropping charges and they enter into a sexual relationship.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 4 - Under the Influence
    0.0/10(66 votes)

    #21 - Under the Influence

    S2:E4

    Max lets a drunk driver continue the short distance to her home, but the woman is involved in an accident that leaves the other drive paralyzed. The situation is complicated by Wambaugh's advice to the drunk driver to drink some Scotch to "calm her nerves," and Max's relationship with her therapist. The mayor accuses Jimmy of having problems with having a woman as his boss.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 5 - The Dancing Bandit
    0.0/10(112 votes)

    #22 - The Dancing Bandit

    S2:E5

    Jill and Zack are among the hostages taken by a group of bank robbers led by a deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) who calls herself "the Dancing Bandit." Jimmy works with the FBI to stop the standoff, but the group proves far craftier than anyone expected.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 6 - Dairy Queen
    0.0/10(64 votes)

    #23 - Dairy Queen

    S2:E6

    The town is divided when Jill and the Mayor back a sexy model to be the town's "Dairy Queen," but Sheriff Brock is more interested in the woman's apparently abusive husband and manager. Kimberly and Matthew work on a documentary called "A Day in the Life of a C-Cup," but Kimberly finds herself considering drastic options after seeing how people treat her.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 7 - Cross Examination
    0.0/10(70 votes)

    #24 - Cross Examination

    S2:E7

    A young woman in a coma following a car accident is found to be four months' pregnant, despite being a virgin. When her father seeks an abortion to try to save her life, the town's Catholic and Protestant clergy intervene, citing possible divine causation. Matthew tells Zack that there is no Santa Claus.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Picket Fences Season 2 Episode 9 - Blue Christmas
    0.0/10(66 votes)

    #25 - Blue Christmas

    S2:E9

    A locker search for drugs at the local high school leads to the arrest of Kimberly's best friend, Lisa Fenn. Meanwhile, a protected Federal witness turns up in Rome which leaves Sheriff Brock and his force concerned. Also, Carter has a melancholy reunion with his brother when he arrives in Rome for the funeral of their mother.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town" is the worst rated episode of "Picket Fences". It scored /10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/2/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Autumn of Rome".