The Worst Episodes of Police Story

#1 Worst Episode
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6.3/10(43 votes)
#1 - The Cut Man Caper
S3:E510/28/1975
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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Director:Don Medford
Writer:Larry Brody
6.5/10(34 votes)
#2 - Ice Time
S4:E203/8/1977
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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Director:Robert Scheerer
Writer:John Sacret Young
7.1/10(60 votes)
#3 - Requiem for an Informer
S1:E410/9/1973
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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Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(88 votes)
#4 - The Cutting Edge
S3:E29/16/1975
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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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.1/10(36 votes)
#5 - Company Man
S3:E1212/19/1975
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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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.3/10(42 votes)
#6 - River of Promises
S5:E31/14/1978
Policeman Miguel Rataza works in area where illegal Hispanics encounter difficulties. Going undercover regarding green card scams and protesting unsafe conditions he finds himself falling in love with Rosalie, an undocumented worker.
Director:Lee H. Katzin
Writer:Michael Mann
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Director:Lee H. Katzin
Writer:Michael Mann

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7.3/10(41 votes)
#7 - The Execution
S2:E182/18/1975
Detectives attempt to solve a double execution-style shooting, which one victim manages to survive.
Director:Alexander Singer
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Alexander Singer
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(92 votes)
#8 - Fingerprint
S1:E213/12/1974
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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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Unknown
7.1/10(15 votes)
#9 - Hard Rock Brown
S4:E172/15/1977
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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Director:Alf Kjellin
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(44 votes)
#10 - To Steal a Million
S2:E162/4/1975
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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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(41 votes)
#11 - Fathers and Sons
S2:E410/1/1974
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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Director:Gary Nelson
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(36 votes)
#12 - Fifty Cents, First Half Hour -- One Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents All Day
S3:E171/30/1976
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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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(34 votes)
#13 - Breaking Point
S3:E1112/12/1975
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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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(34 votes)
#14 - Open City
S3:E223/12/1976
Vice Detectives Daley and Gentry are on a camping trip when they hear a woman scream in the distance, and a few minutes later, gunshots. Thus begins their investigation into Mob involvement in the pornography industry and snuff films.
Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(33 votes)
#15 - Vice: Twenty-Four Hours
S3:E1012/5/1975
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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Director:Lee H. Katzin
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(79 votes)
#16 - The Violent Homecoming
S1:E610/30/1973
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.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(24 votes)
#17 - Two Frogs on a Mongoose
S4:E310/12/1976
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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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(48 votes)
#18 - Sniper
S2:E172/11/1975
Detectives Calabrese and Thorpe try to catch a sniper before he, or she, strikes again.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(23 votes)
#19 - The Blue Fog
S4:E162/1/1977
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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Director:Michael O'Herlihy
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(41 votes)
#20 - War Games
S2:E203/4/1975
Detectives Gordy and Ballard go undercover in a white-supremacist gun club to bust a paranoid gun collector who specializes in illegal military munitions.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(40 votes)
#21 - Requiem for C.Z. Smith
S2:E29/17/1974
Charlie Czonka resurrects his alter ego, pimp CZ Smith, to catch a murderer who mutilates prostitutes.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(37 votes)
#22 - Trash Detail, Front and Center
S4:E611/16/1976
Lew Randle, head of the Special Investigations Team, comes back after vacation and is immediately engulfed in the investigations of several armed robberies. He has to buck department politics to take down the violent trio responsible.
Director:Seymour Robbie
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Seymour Robbie
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(58 votes)
#23 - Cop Killer
S6:E110/29/1988
A patrolman's guilt over the death of his partner leads him into a relationship with the dead man's widow.
Director:Larry Shaw
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Larry Shaw
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(49 votes)
#24 - Wyatt Earp Syndrome
S1:E203/5/1974
As an officer tracks down a rapist, his marriage dissolves in favor of his badge.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(43 votes)
#25 - The Losing Game
S3:E49/30/1975
Margaret Case moves from Juvenile to Narcotics, but her undercover work puts stress on her marriage to another cop.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown