Hill Street Blues Season 2

(1981) October - May | # of Episodes : 18

Ratings

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8.2

Series Details

Seasons: 7

Total Episodes: 146

Creators: Steven Bochco

Networks: NBC

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Jan 15, 1981

Recent Air Date: May 12, 1987

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

Website: Link

Production Companies: MTM Enterprises

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Main Cast

Daniel J. Travanti

Frank Furillo

Age : 84 | Popularity : 16%

Michael Conrad

Phil Esterhaus

Age : 58 | Popularity : 3%

James B. Sikking

Howard Hunter

Age : 90 | Popularity : 19%

Joe Spano

Henry Goldblume

Age : 77 | Popularity : 9%

Taurean Blacque

Neal Washington

Age : 82 | Popularity : 8%

Episodes

Episode 1

29 October 1981 - Hearts and Minds

A prostitute accuses a detective of blackmailing her for sex; Goldblume searches for a missing child; a former gang leader returns to the Hill as crusading social reformer; Belker busts a purse snatching orangutan and keeps in touch with an undercover rookie planted inside a volatile street gang; and Furillo and Esterhaus question their current romantic involvements.

Episode 2

05 November 1981 - Blood Money

Goldblume meets a lonely woman while driving a cab undercover; LaRue and Washington use a desperate snitch to solve a prostitute murder; Virgil reports on Hudson's takeover of the Black Arrow gang; and Furillo and Joyce meet socially after splitting up.

Episode 3

12 November 1981 - The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue

Hill and Renko handle a domestic call involving an old man threatening his neighbors with a shotgun; Hudson looks for the informer in his gang; and Joyce asks Furillo for advice about the Downey case.

Episode 4

19 November 1981 - The Second Oldest Profession

Bates loses a junkie prostitute through an error in judgement; Hudson beats up his lawyer after his release on bail; Furillo and Joyce reconsider their separation; and Esterhaus ends his friendship with Mac.

Episode 5

03 December 1981 - Fruits of the Poisonous Tree

Night court interferes with ""Monday Night Football"" as LaRue and Washington are accused of entrapping a mugger; Bates and Coffey look for gang members responsible for the drive-by shooting of a child; Fay announces that she's getting married again.

Episode 6

10 December 1981 - Cranky Streets

Hill covers for an old friend with personal problems who uses excessive force on an arrest; Coffey arrests an old family friend during a visit to his old neighborhood; Fay introduces her fiance; and negotiations breakdown between the police union and the city.

Episode 7

17 December 1981 - Chipped Beef

Furillo pushes Hill about his support of Nash; Belker goes under to catch a gang preying on automatic bank tellers; Fay's engagement ends abruptly; and a good samaritan faces arrest on old out of town warrants.

Episode 8

07 January 1982 - The World According to Freedom

Belker meets an eccentric calling himself ""Captain Freedom"" while on a stakeout; LaRue gets more than he bargained for as a cell plant when he overhears an arson suspect taunting an accused child molester; and Furillo issues an ultimatum to the gangs after a savage massacre in a local tavern.

Episode 9

14 January 1982 - Pestolozzi's Revenge

The Captain meets LaRue and Washington when he returns from a purse snatching; Renko (who has lost his service revolver) and Hill are rear-ended by a wedding party; Bates gets mad at Coffey when he stands her up for a breakfast date; Lou threatens again to remove his vending machines from the precinct house; Daniels tells Furillo to initiate a scam saloon in the South Ferry Precinct as a preemptive move against the corruption-seeking Sullivan Commission.

Episode 10

21 January 1982 - The Spy Who Came in From Delgado

Hunter uses pedigreed hounds to track wild city dogs; the scam saloon begins producing results, despite Captain Freedom's help; Fay fixates on cemetery plots; Frank becomes incresingly disgusted with his lawyer and Chief Daniels over the actions of the Sullivan Commission; and a suspicious Calletano learns the truth about a gorgeous new khaki officer.

Episode 11

28 January 1982 - Freedom's Last Stand

Bates plays in the interdepartmental poker finals; Fuchs refuses to help out one of his own men caught forging prescriptions; Henry goes undercover on a smash-and-grab purse snatching detail; Delgado admits he's afraid of testifying before the commission; Joyce chides Furillo for being naive about his supposed innocence protecting him against the commission; the scam saloon closes down after a gun battle; and a furious Furillo testifies before the commission and offers his resignation to Chief Daniels.

Episode 12

11 February 1982 - Of Mouse and Man

Joyce's fellow PD Pam Gilliam is gunned down; Hill's position as VP for the Black Officers' Coalition puts a strain on both him and Renko; Goldblume tries to deal with an abusive landlord; Fay threatens to bring WAD to the Hill; LaRue and Washington trade up from a cocaine dealer to a PCP lab.

Episode 13

18 February 1982 - Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement

Grace asks Esterhaus for help with a barking dog; LaRue suffers a crisis of confidence about the PCP lab bust and starts drinking; Renko's family problems hurt his performance at work; Hill antagonizes everyone in his efforts to recruit for the BOC; Goldblume resorts to force to deal with landlord Sosa; and Furillo tries in vain to hold onto Walter Harmon for the death of Pam Gilliam.

Episode 14

25 February 1982 - The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded

Hill has enough of the BOC pressures; Goldblume finds a witness in the Gilliam case who seems too good to be true; Furillo demotes LaRue to the police motor pool; and Joyce grows bitter when Walter Harmon is released and kills again.

Episode 15

18 March 1982 - Some Like it Hot-Wired

Goldblume is bitter over losing a promotion; Joyce walks out of court while defending a repeat offender; Renko learns his father is dying; a stakeout to find a con team shaking down johns proves dangerous; and Esterhaus' prize car is taken by a team of car thieves.

Episode 16

25 March 1982 - Personal Foul

Belker and Washington go undercover at a porno theater; Hill and Renko answer a domestic call concerning a suicidal man holding his wife and child hostage; a pickup basketball game between the cops and the gangs calls for full-scale negotiations.

Episode 17

06 May 1982 - The Shooter

Belker tries to renew his expired driver's license; Renko tries to take his father home from the hospital; LaRue rehabilitates himself with Furillo; and everyone follows the trail of the gun used to kill two officers during a burglary.

Episode 18

13 May 1982 - Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers

Renko's father takes a final trip around the city; Belker goes undercover to find out who has been knifing winos; and Joyce finds her faith restored as she defends a nice young man accused of rape whose alibi is reluctant to testify.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Scott Brazil Anthony Yerkovich Michael Vittes Sascha Schneider Walon Green David Milch Grant Tinker David Anspaugh Gregory Hoblit David Latt
	Executive Producer	Steven Bochco Michael Kozoll
Writing	Writer	Jacob Epstein Peter Silverman Michael Kozoll
Sound	Music	Mike Post
Department	Role	Name

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