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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Police Story Season 1 Episode 22 - Chief
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Chief

    S1:E22

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Police Story Season 1 Episode 23 - The Gamble
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - The Gamble

    S1:E23

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

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Police Story Season 5 Episode 8 - A Cry for Justice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - A Cry for Justice

    S5:E8

    Police detectives investigate the shotgun shooting of a police officer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Police Story Season 5 Episode 9 - Confessions of a Lady Cop
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Confessions of a Lady Cop

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Police Story Season 5 Episode 10 - The Freeway Killings
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    #5 - The Freeway Killings

    S5:E10

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

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Police Story Season 6 Episode 3 - The Watch Commander
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - The Watch Commander

    S6:E3

    The wife of a veteran cop becomes increasingly concerned over her husband's intense devotion to his men and duty.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Police Story Season 6 Episode 4 - Burnout
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Burnout

    S6:E4

    Self-doubts about a failed romance and a friend's suicide begin to take their toll on an emotionally distraught vice cop.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Police Story Season 6 Episode 5 - Monster Manor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Monster Manor

    S6:E5

    A scheme to turn an old mansion into a haven for party animals snares misfit cops in a prostitution and drug sting.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:John Sacret Young

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  9. Police Story Season 3 Episode 5 - The Cut Man Caper
    6.2/10(42 votes)

    #9 - The Cut Man Caper

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Larry Brody

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  10. Police Story Season 4 Episode 20 - Ice Time
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    #10 - Ice Time

    S4:E20

    Vice Detective Dave Tackleberry takes on a second job (to pay for his teenage daughter's figure skating development) at the same time he and his partner Det. Wurster try to bust a pimp specializing in underage girls.

    Director:Robert Scheerer
    Writer:John Sacret Young

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  11. Police Story Season 3 Episode 12 - Company Man
    6.9/10(34 votes)

    #11 - Company Man

    S3:E12

    Married Det. Dave Hansen, under pressure from Internal Affairs, must decide whether to continue working for "the company" (LAPD), or stop seeing his school-teacher girlfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Police Story Season 1 Episode 4 - Requiem for an Informer
    7.0/10(52 votes)

    #12 - Requiem for an Informer

    S1:E4

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

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Police Story Season 2 Episode 18 - The Execution
    7.0/10(37 votes)

    #13 - The Execution

    S2:E18

    Detectives attempt to solve a double execution-style shooting, which one victim manages to survive.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Police Story Season 4 Episode 3 - Two Frogs on a Mongoose
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Two Frogs on a Mongoose

    S4:E3

    Manny and Deke are on the narcotics squad, investigating a double shooting at a dry cleaning shop, when they get a tip that the shop owner is in business dealing drugs with a man called Mongoose.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Police Story Season 3 Episode 2 - The Cutting Edge
    7.1/10(81 votes)

    #15 - The Cutting Edge

    S3:E2

    Ed Peebles has 30 years on the force, and after his longtime partner retires he loses his direction, both on the job and in his personal life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Police Story Season 4 Episode 13 - Spitfire
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Spitfire

    S4:E13

    Detectives try to track down the two remaining robbers who participated in a tire store holdup that resulted in the deaths of an employee and one of the robbers. Their investigation leads them to a large illegal weapons operation.

    Director:Seymour Robbie
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Police Story Season 4 Episode 17 - Hard Rock Brown
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Hard Rock Brown

    S4:E17

    LAPD Narcotics detectives work with a Mexican counterpart to try to break up the operation run by the Alvarez brothers, which is flooding the market with Mexican heroin known as "hard rock brown."

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Police Story Season 2 Episode 2 - Requiem for C.Z. Smith
    7.2/10(36 votes)

    #18 - Requiem for C.Z. Smith

    S2:E2

    Charlie Czonka resurrects his alter ego, pimp CZ Smith, to catch a murderer who mutilates prostitutes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Police Story Season 3 Episode 10 - Vice: Twenty-Four Hours
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Vice: Twenty-Four Hours

    S3:E10

    Pairs of vice detectives spend a day trying to bust a violent pimp, a bookie, and a man who wants to hire a hit man to kill his wife.

    Director:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Police Story Season 3 Episode 11 - Breaking Point
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    #20 - Breaking Point

    S3:E11

    Vince Della Maggiori has to investigate when a patrolman shoots a man in his hotel room, and the stories he is given don't add up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Police Story Season 4 Episode 16 - The Blue Fog
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    #21 - The Blue Fog

    S4:E16

    Veteran Detective Jack McGraw is given the unsavory task of investigating Vice detectives suspected of taking bribes from the Chinese crime family running an illegal gambling operation.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Police Story Season 1 Episode 21 - Fingerprint
    7.3/10(85 votes)

    #22 - Fingerprint

    S1:E21

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

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Police Story Season 2 Episode 4 - Fathers and Sons
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    #23 - Fathers and Sons

    S2:E4

    Members of the Serbian community are being gunned down and the police have few leads. Sgt. Wilson decides to use officer Joe Basic, an ethnic Slav, in an undercover situation. Joe learns his father Andrea is a possible target.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Police Story Season 2 Episode 16 - To Steal a Million
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #24 - To Steal a Million

    S2:E16

    Detectives Grosser and Hyland know a big hotel heist is about to happen. They know who's involved, but they don't know which hotel or how to catch the thieves red-handed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Police Story Season 3 Episode 17 - Fifty Cents, First Half Hour -- One Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents All Day
    7.3/10(34 votes)

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

    S3:E17

    While trying to box in an armed bandit who specializes in stealing cars and robbing attendants at parking lots, Detectives Hacker and Barnes are assigned a homicide case.

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Chief" is the worst rated episode of "Police Story". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/19/1974. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Gamble".