Season 1
Episodes
1. Pilot
1985-09-21
McCarren and Rado may be cops, but they have a soft spot for Hollywood's shady characters. There's a caped eccentric named Captain Crusader and a lovable bag lady known as Lady Di. This is a place where prostitutes possess hearts of gold and the police sport perfect teeth. Their supervisor, Capt. Biddle (Edward Winter), is a strict martinet who often critiques their methods. However, they have the support of George Grinsky, an openly gay former football star who runs a rundown diner called “La Cage aux Grease." McCarren and Rado are on the trail of a dangerous individual targeting the street community. The homeless are being beaten and burned, prostitutes are turning up dead, and tensions are rising.
2. King of Diamonds
1985-09-28
Gideon King, a washed-out private detective, witnesses a jewelry store robbery; the robbers stash the loot in the trunk of a car, then flee in a second vehicle.
3. Double Exposure
1985-10-05
What started as an attempt to catch a graffiti artist gets a gipsy's curse thrown on it and turns into a murder investigation when a photographer drops out of the sky onto the hood of Rado's car.
4. No Place to Hide
1985-10-12
The undercover detectives try to protect a woman from a robbery accomplice she has "fingered” as a killer.
5. Across the Line
1985-10-19
Rado is haunted by an unsolved murder case, whose memories are triggered as he and McCarren track a notorious drug dealer to Beverly Hills.
6. Baby Blues
1985-11-09
An AWOL Marine gets sympathy from McCarren despite or even because of the attentions of a couple of MPs trying to bring him in. Not to mention a missing girlfriend.
7. The Long Weekend
1985-11-16
Protecting a witness in a trial of an underworld boss, McCarren and Rado begin to suspect corruption in high places.
8. Fast Hustle
1985-11-23
Information can be bought on the waterfront, though such information can be dangerous indeed to the man who holds it.
9. Siege
Unknown air date
A motorcycle gang lays siege on the Hollywood police station and demands the release of gang leader Tito's brother, who is in prison for murder.
10. Let's Have Lunch
Unknown air date
One should never plan a vacation in Captain Biddle's hearing an open invitation to a particularly dangerous assignment. Special guest star Leigh McCloskey acts as Eddie Cooper who makes Nick and Jack lose their holiday. After solving a tricky case involving an armed gunman, the undercover cops feel they want to get away from it all. However, Captain Biddle now assigns them the task of acting as bodyguards for Eddie.
11. Dead Heat
1985-12-14
Breaking up a high-stakes poker game, McCarren and Rado flush out an undercover cop— and a lead to a counterfeiting ring.
12. Girls, Girls, Girls
Unknown air date
Two young Texans go on a crime spree in Hollywood. As though their complicated love-lives were not trouble enough, McCarren and Radio are bedeviled by a pair of reckless thugs from Texas with a hankering for notoriety.
13. Connections
1985-12-28
Officers McCarren and Rado pursue a pair of renegade drug enforcement officers. Rado and McCarren help a young model and her brother who have become embroiled in drug dealing. A powerful kingpin wants them for a package they carry.
14. Out in the Cold
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CIA, KGB, and a couple of honest-to-goodness cops add up to trouble for Rado and McCarren — indeed, red faces abound. So who's the double agent, and what about the Internal Revenue claim for back taxes?
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