Episode
Hill Street Blues: Fuched Again
Overview
An assassination attempt against Mayor Cleveland during the rededication of the Monarch Theater opens up a nest of corruption in Daniels' office; several officers catch the ""blue flu"" and head for Las Vegas with Belker, who wins $5000 on a free spin; Vera Horvath continues to hound Stan; and Hill and Renko try to settle a dispute involving a stolen lottery ticket.
Details
- Series
- Hill Street Blues
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1984-11-22
Episode context
Fuched Again is Episode 8 in Season 5 of Hill Street Blues. It aired on 1984-11-22.
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Episode 7: Blues for Mr. Green
Belker plans to accompany a prisoner to Las Vegas.
Mayo and Garibaldi follow a juvenile murder suspect who has threatened witnesses.
Bobby Hill faces an IRS audit and gets tips from Ray Calletano. LaRue and Washington catch a guy with stolen airline ticket forms.
Joyce works with a burned out P.D. on the defense of Escobedo and Munoz on assault charges.
Coffey and Bates bust a young black boy for shoplifting.
Episode 9: Low Blow
Jablonski's female nemesis comes to the Hill for a final showdown; the vacationers are stranded in Las Vegas with Myrna Schnitz; Furillo has to persuade Biff Lowe to help incriminate the Berlettas; and the Cisco Kid returns as an Indian and takes Fay hostage.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: Ewe and Me, Babe
Furillo feels pressure from the press and Chief Daniels to clear up the shooting death of the Reverend Booker Simons; Joe Keenan interferes on the Hill in pursuit of some renegade Colombian drug dealers; Joyce tries to help a very young hooker straighten out; LaRue and Washington are forced to move early on a chop shop where Belker is undercover; Fay endangers the Simons investigation by revealing information to the victim's wife; Hill and Renko find a dead man and a live sheep in a compromising position; and Jesus (Martinez) rises again.
Episode 10: The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall
Mayo and Garibaldi investigate when Councilman Detweiler's mother shoots an intruder; Hill and Renko catch a notorious loan shark with over $300 in outstanding parking fines; a distraught man threatens to set fire to his wife and child; and Belker is kidnapped and abused by a group of winos.
Episode 5: Bangladesh Slowly
Jablonski deals with a woman who has lost her cat; Renko suffers after a TV newswoman exposes his fondness for doughnuts; LaRue looks very bad to IAD after shooting Caroline Reynolds' former lover; Goldblume pushes to tie Buttman to the hooker killing; Washington fumes over the firing of Garfield; everyone tries a new Bengali restaurant.
Episode 11: Last Chance Salon
Renewed gang feuding involves a small local grocery store and its owners; Belker takes his anger about Robin's decision to stop seeing him out on his frightened informant during a beauty parlor undercover; Garibaldi cuts corners to help a young hooker and in his night school class; and Furillo must work against Daniels to head off a major gang battle.
Episode 4: Fowl Play
Rookie Swann kills himself after the initiation party at the Kubiak Lodge; LaRue tells Furillo about his night with a murder victim's wife; another hooker is killed by a copycat murderer; and the lieutenants quarrel over a government study grant.
Episode 12: Intestinal Fortitude
Belker, LaRue and Washington go undercover as garbagemen to investigate a protection racket; Fay tries to help an elderly rape victim identify her assailants; Hill runs for PBA representative; and Mayo gets proof that the hispanic rape suspect can speak English.
Episode 3: Rookie Nookie
Furillo calls Goldblume off the murder investigation of his wife's rapist; Bates has problems with an insolent rookie; Mayo and Garibaldi bust a bogus cable TV installer; Belker goes undercover in a chicken suit and is plagued by a mime; and Hunter insults a female khaki officer, who barricades herself in the john.
Episode 13: Of Human Garbage
The garbage business undercover continues; Officer Perez rescues a family from a burning building; a Federal witness is kidnapped; and Fay reports the suspicious chairside technique of dentist Ted Rose.
Episode 2: Watt a Way to Go
Goldblume takes the law into his own hands when his ex-wife Rachel is raped and refuses to press charges; Belker's undercover at the Stratford Hotel ends with Calletano and the Fimpels taken hostage; Hunter tries to defend an EATer's callous remarks during the taking of a sniper; and Joyce continues to work for Celestine's life.
Episode 14: Dr. Hoof and Mouth
Belker temporarily moves into Hunter's RV; Joyce introduces a new PD to the Hill before leaving to become an ADA; LaRue gloats over the videotape evidence of Mayo's undercover visit to Dr. Ted Rose; Fabian's mother reclaims him; and Hill and Renko deal with a man who has several outstanding warrants and who has just lost his whole family to a hit and run driver.