Every season of Police Story ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Police Story!

A special surveillance detail set up to catch criminals in the act finally nabs Slow Boy while he is robbing a supermarket.  Complications arise when the robber takes a hostage before the police can detain him.

Slow Boy (1)

Slow Boy (2)

Undercover cop Charlie Czonka tries to catch the big man behind a ring of prostitution, dope and extortion

Dangerous Games

A down-and-out addict becomes an informer for the bank robbery detail and wins the friendship of a cop.

Requiem for an Informer

Two partners on the police force start getting on each other's nerves after ten years together when one begins acting strange.

The Ten Year Honeymoon

A Mexican-American police sergeant who's been assigned to his original neighborhood leads the Juvenile Division in an attempt to head off a gang war.

The Violent Homecoming

An undercover cop nearly loses his life trying to crack a big-time drug-selling operation.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

The question of whether or not policewomen should be assigned to ride in patrol cars is brought to the head in a gun battle with two killers.

Collision Course

Sergeant Rick Calvelli works undercover in order to crack a phony credit card ring that plays dangerously.

Death on Credit

A beat cop has his newly established authority challenged when a wealthy girl he arrests avoids retribution in court.

The Big Walk

An unauthodox cop accidentally kills a fellow officer and is put under investigation by Internal Affairs.

Man on the Rack

A young police officer joins a special unit and must learn to cope with killing.

Line of Fire

The possibility of a conspiracy to murder cops creates a war between a black community and the police.

Chain of Command

When policeman Joe LaFrieda kills a member of an underworld family during a robbery attempt; a contract is put out on his life.

Countdown (1)

The police clash head-on with the Mob when a contract is taken out on Officer Joe LaFrieda's life.

Countdown (2)

A cop on the take devises a plan to save himself from disgrace.

Cop in the Middle

Two officers from Robbery-Homicide attempt to track down a killer of homosexuals who mutilates the bodies of his victims.

The Ripper

A young recruit from a rural community attempts to defy his background by completing the tough Police Academy training to become a cop.

Country Boy

Two detectives become emotionally involved in a case when a friend is the victim of a robber/rapist/murderer.

Big John Morrison

As an officer tracks down a rapist, his marriage dissolves in favor of his badge.

Wyatt Earp Syndrome

A police veteran in the Latent Prints Division is discouraged with his job until some unexpected combat gives him a new perspective.

Fingerprint

A police chief must overcome an assissination plot and political games in order to speak at a local meeting of police-haters.

Chief

The transfer of desk officer Lisa Beaumont to the vice squad leads to a series of explosive developments.

The Gamble

Arch Tatum is close to retirement and is teamed up with a head-strong young trainee who throws a curve for the long time vet.

A Dangerous Age

Requiem for C.Z. Smith

Robbery: 48 Hours

Fathers and Sons

A World Full of Hurt

Glamour Boy

Across the Line

Wolf

Love, Mabel

Explosion

Capt. Hook

Incident in the Kill Zone

Headhunter

Year of the Dragon (1)

Year of the Dragon (2)

To Steal a Million

Sniper

The Execution

The Man in the Shadows

War Games

The Witness

The Return of Joe Forrester

Officer Needs Help

The Cutting Edge

A Community of Victims

The Losing Game

On the trail of loan-company robbers, Tillis is forced to rely upon shifty informer Freddy. But the ""snitch"" is playing both ends down the middle and he's also stolen the expensive miniature voice transmitter entrusted to his care.

The Cut Man Caper

Face for a Shadow

The Test of Brotherhood

Empty Weapon

Little Boy Lost

Vice: Twenty-Four Hours

Breaking Point

Company Man

Spanish Class

Odyssey of Death (1)

Odyssey of Death (2)

The Other Side of the Fence

Fifty Cents, First Half Hour -- One Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents All Day

Firebird

The Long Ball

Eamon Kinsella Royce

Officer Dooly

Open City

Payment Deferred

Bought and Paid For

Two Frogs on a Mongoose

The Other Side of the Badge

Three Days to Thirty

Trash Detail, Front and Center

Thanksgiving

Monster Manor

Oxford Gray

The Jar (1)

The Jar (2)

Trial Board

Spitfire

Holly Green, a 19-year-old waitress is brutally beaten and raped by a pair of creeps, she then reluctantly helps bring her assailants to trial.

Nightmare on a Sunday Morning

The Malflores

The Blue Fog

Hard Rock Brown

End of the Line

One of Our Cops Is Crazy

Ice Time

The Six Foot Stretch

Prime Rib

Pressure Point

Stigma

River of Promises

Day of Terror, Night of Fear

The Broken Badge

A cop is consumed by guilt after innocent bystanders are killed in police shoot-outs.

No Margin for Error

The head of an undercover narcotics division assigns a young policeman to infiltrate a high-school drug ring.

A Chance to Live

A Cry for Justice

Career and personal pressures bring a vice investigator to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Confessions of a Lady Cop

Police officers deal with personal and professional dilemmas as they search Los Angeles for a highway killer.

The Freeway Killings

A patrolman's guilt over the death of his partner leads him into a relationship with the dead man's widow.

The Cop Killers

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV.  Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.

The Best Seasons of Police Story

The Best Seasons of Police Story

Season 5

Season 1

Season 2

Season 6

Season 4

Season 3