Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: January 15, 1981
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 146
Networks: NBC
Genres: Drama, Crime

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Hill Street Blues(1981)

Let's be careful out there.

TMDB Rating: 7.6 (114 votes)

Overview

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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Season 1

17 episodes • 1981

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Hill Street Station	Jan 15, 1981
2	Presidential Fever	Jan 17, 1981
3	Politics as Usual	Jan 22, 1981
4	Can World War III Be An Attitude?	Jan 24, 1981
5	Double Jeopardy	Jan 31, 1981
6	Film at Eleven	Feb 7, 1981
7	Choice Cut	Feb 14, 1981
8	Up in Arms	Feb 21, 1981
9	Your Kind, My Kind, Humankind	Feb 28, 1981
10	Gatorbait	Mar 7, 1981
11	Life, Death, Eternity	Mar 14, 1981
12	I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin	Mar 21, 1981
13	Fecund Hand Rose	Mar 25, 1981
14	Rites of Spring (1)	May 19, 1981
15	Rites of Spring (2)	May 19, 1981
16	Jungle Madness (1)	May 26, 1981
17	Jungle Madness (2)	May 26, 1981

Season 2

18 episodes • 1981

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Hearts and Minds	Oct 29, 1981
2	Blood Money	Nov 5, 1981
3	The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue	Nov 12, 1981
4	The Second Oldest Profession	Nov 19, 1981
5	Fruits of the Poisonous Tree	Dec 3, 1981
6	Cranky Streets	Dec 10, 1981
7	Chipped Beef	Dec 17, 1981
8	The World According to Freedom	Jan 7, 1982
9	Pestolozzi's Revenge	Jan 14, 1982
10	The Spy Who Came in From Delgado	Jan 21, 1982
11	Freedom's Last Stand	Jan 28, 1982
12	Of Mouse and Man	Feb 11, 1982
13	Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement	Feb 18, 1982
14	The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded	Feb 25, 1982
15	Some Like it Hot-Wired	Mar 18, 1982
16	Personal Foul	Mar 25, 1982
17	The Shooter	May 6, 1982
18	Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers	May 13, 1982

Season 3

22 episodes • 1982

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Trial by Fury	Sep 30, 1982
2	Domestic Beef	Oct 7, 1982
3	Heat Rash	Oct 14, 1982
4	Rain of Terror	Oct 21, 1982
5	Officer of the Year	Oct 28, 1982
6	Stan the Man	Nov 4, 1982
7	Little Boil Blue	Nov 11, 1982
8	Requiem For a Hairbag	Nov 18, 1982
9	A Hair of the Dog	Nov 25, 1982
10	Phantom of the Hill	Dec 2, 1982
11	No Body's Perfect	Dec 9, 1982
12	Santaclaustraphobia	Dec 16, 1982
13	Gung Ho	Jan 20, 1983
14	Moon Over Uranus	Jan 27, 1983
15	Moon Over Uranus: the Sequel	Feb 3, 1983
16	Moon Over Uranus: the Final Legacy	Feb 10, 1983
17	The Belles of St. Marys	Feb 17, 1983
18	Life in the Minors	Feb 24, 1983
19	Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back	Mar 3, 1983
20	Spotlight on Rico	Apr 28, 1983
21	Buddy, Can You Spare a Heart?	May 5, 1983
22	A Hill of Beans	May 12, 1983

Season 4

22 episodes • 1983

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Here's Adventure, Here's Romance	Oct 13, 1983
2	Ba-bing, Ba-bing	Oct 20, 1983
3	The Long Law of the Arm	Oct 27, 1983
4	Death by Kiki	Nov 3, 1983
5	Doris in Wonderland	Nov 10, 1983
6	Praise Dilaudid	Nov 17, 1983
7	Goodbye, Mr. Scripps	Nov 24, 1983
8	Midway to What?	Dec 1, 1983
9	Honk if You're a Goose	Dec 8, 1983
10	The Russians Are Coming	Dec 15, 1983
11	Ratman and Bobbin	Jan 12, 1984
12	Nichols from Heaven	Jan 19, 1984
13	Fuchs Me? Fuchs You!	Jan 26, 1984
14	Grace Under Pressure	Feb 2, 1984
15	The Other Side of Oneness	Feb 9, 1984
16	Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow	Feb 16, 1984
17	The End of Logan's Run	Mar 1, 1984
18	The Count of Monty Tasco	Mar 8, 1984
19	Nutcracker Suite	Mar 15, 1984
20	Hair Apparent	May 3, 1984
21	Lucky Ducks	May 10, 1984
22	Eva's Brawn	May 17, 1984

Season 5

23 episodes • 1984

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Mayo, Hold the Pickle	Sep 27, 1984
2	Watt a Way to Go	Oct 4, 1984
3	Rookie Nookie	Oct 18, 1984
4	Fowl Play	Oct 25, 1984
5	Bangladesh Slowly	Nov 1, 1984
6	Ewe and Me, Babe	Nov 8, 1984
7	Blues for Mr. Green	Nov 15, 1984
8	Fuched Again	Nov 22, 1984
9	Low Blow	Nov 29, 1984
10	The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall	Dec 6, 1984
11	Last Chance Salon	Dec 13, 1984
12	Intestinal Fortitude	Jan 10, 1985
13	Of Human Garbage	Jan 17, 1985
14	Dr. Hoof and Mouth	Jan 24, 1985
15	Davenport in a Storm	Jan 31, 1985
16	Washington Deceased	Feb 7, 1985
17	Passage to Libya	Feb 14, 1985
18	El Capitan	Feb 21, 1985
19	The Life and Time of Dominic Florio Jr.	Mar 21, 1985
20	G.Q.	Mar 28, 1985
21	Queen for a Day	Apr 11, 1985
22	You're in Alice's	May 9, 1985
23	Grin and Bear It	May 16, 1985

Season 6

22 episodes • 1985

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Blues in the Night	Sep 26, 1985
2	Hacked to Pieces	Oct 3, 1985
3	Seoul on Ice	Oct 17, 1985
4	In the Belly of the Bus	Oct 24, 1985
5	Somewhere Over the Rambo	Oct 31, 1985
6	Oh, You Kid	Nov 7, 1985
7	An Oy for an Oy	Nov 14, 1985
8	Fathers and Huns	Nov 21, 1985
9	What Are Friends For?	Dec 5, 1985
10	The Virgin and the Turkey	Dec 12, 1985
11	Two Easy Pieces	Jan 9, 1986
12	Say It as It Plays	Jan 16, 1986
13	Das Blues	Jan 23, 1986
14	Scales of Justice	Jan 30, 1986
15	I Want My Hill Street Blues	Feb 6, 1986
16	Remembrance of Hits Past	Feb 13, 1986
17	Larry of Arabia	Feb 27, 1986
18	Iced Coffey	Mar 6, 1986
19	Jagga the Hunk	Mar 13, 1986
20	Look Homeward, Ninja	Mar 20, 1986
21	Slum Enchanted Evening	Mar 27, 1986
22	Come and Get It	Apr 3, 1986

Season 7

22 episodes • 1986

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Suitcase	Oct 2, 1986
2	A Case of Klapp	Oct 9, 1986
3	The Best Defense	Oct 16, 1986
4	Bald Ambition	Oct 30, 1986
5	I Come on My Knees	Nov 6, 1986
6	Say Uncle	Nov 13, 1986
7	Amazing Grace	Nov 27, 1986
8	Falling from Grace	Dec 2, 1986
9	Fathers and Guns	Dec 9, 1986
10	More Skinned Against Than Skinning	Dec 23, 1986
11	She's So Fein	Jan 6, 1987
12	A Wasted Weekend	Jan 13, 1987
13	City of Refuse	Jan 20, 1987
14	Der Roachenkavalier	Feb 3, 1987
15	Norman Conquest	Feb 10, 1987
16	Sorry, Wrong Number	Mar 3, 1987
17	The Cookie Crumbles	Mar 10, 1987
18	Dogsbreath Afternoon	Mar 17, 1987
19	Days of Swine and Roses	Mar 31, 1987
20	The Runner Falls on His Kisser	Apr 7, 1987
21	A Pound of Flesh	May 5, 1987
22	It Ain't Over Till It's Over	May 12, 1987

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