Episode list

Officers Webster and Owens desperately try to find a Saturday Night Special handgun that has been involved in multiple shootings, including a homicide, before anyone else gets hurt.

Mike gets a new partner he shares a lot of common interest with. But Luke is a man obsessed, blurring the lines between law and vengeance. When Mike fears he'll become just like him, he quits. Terry pleads with him to change his mind. Mike realizes he is a good cop.

A young couple is afraid to go to the police after the child that they illegally adopted is kidnapped by his biological parents.

An acquaintance from Jill's hometown comes looking to be a model or actress. She hooks up with an "agent" who gets her a lead in a Porto film. But Angel has a health problem that could endanger her.

An officer is shot and killed by a man who assaulted a woman in her home. Officer Webster isn't sure if the man they've arrested for the crime is the right man even though the victim and three officers at the scene positively identify him. The Rookies must discover if it's a case of mistaken identity.

Terry respond to a call about man with a gun holding some people captive. Terry tries to talk to the man but SWAT shows up and they take over. Terry tells the leader, Lt. Harrelson that he thinks he can talk to the man but Harrelson says he's taking over and they bust in and shoot the man. Terry thinks he could have talked the man out. Ryker then informs them that they need to take some SWAT training and when Terry learns he will have to be under Lt. Harrelson he asks Ryker is he can be excluded. But Ryker says it's mandatory. And when he meets the man he continues to question his methods.

Ryker meets a young woman who has been arrested for hooking. The young woman becomes hysterical and attempts to kill herself in lockup. Ryker rescues her and gets her to the hospital in time. His squad suspects she reminds him of his daughter. The problem is her sleazy con artist criminal boyfriend, Vic. He needs a favor which requires her to try to manipulate Ryker. Vic is forced by a powerful thug to get an inmate (Barney Dell) transferred to a hospital. Ryker naively obliges. Dell is promptly killed in the hospital.

A young mentally - challenged man witnesses a murder. Cliff's dream is to be a policeman. In the meantime, the killers keep an eye on Cliffy, while prejudiced neighbors want him to move out.

On a rainy night, Jill has a car accident and is rescued by a young man who claims to be a doctor. She has temporary amnesia, but dreams of Mike. Meanwhile, Chris and Terry are put on the lookout for an escaped mental patient who fancies himself a doctor.

Lt. Ryker befriends the son of an arrested burglar, only to be taken hostage by the boy's escaped father.

When a youth leaps to his death, the Rookies enlist the aid of another kid to trace the drug source.

A gang of thieves and gun runners take Terry hostage to trade for their hospitalized leader. Mike is seriously wounded during the arrest. The leader attempts to break out. How will Terry survive?

Terry pursues two young men who gave an unidentified 19-year-old girl drugs which subsequently led to her death in a car accident.

After Jill Danko and one of the doctors from the hospital are taken hostage at the women's prison farm, officers Danko, Webster, Owens, and Lt. Ryker are called in to diffuse the situation.

Chris is wounded on duty and Hank witnesses it but he is afraid to come forward for fear of harm to either him or his family.

A female officer is partnered with a male officer who encounter a gang of jewelry store robbers who kill the male officer. The female officer is blamed for the male officer's death and given the nickname Death Lady.

A child at the hospital where Jill works is in critical condition and is about to be operated on. And they need a lot of blood for the operation. Fortunately there a sufficient supply in the blood bank. Jill is passing by when she's a guy take the blood out of the cooler. Jill asks him what is he doing, he then knocks her out and takes the blood. The guys upon learning what happened tries to find the blood because the child needs. They are told that who stole it plans to sell it. So the press learns about this and announces how much the blood could be worth. So the guys who stole thinking the man whom they stole it for is short changing them decides to take some of it back till the man sells it and gives them a cut.

Officers Owens and Danko track down the man who raped Owens's sister. But the tables are turned on Officer Owens when the rapist claims police brutality during his arrest. Meanwhile Kim Owens struggles to cope with her feelings and her faith after the attack.

A repentant ex-con out on parole is tracked down by his former associates to aid in a robbery.

A gang leader from Terry's old neighborhood runs him down in a speeding car. Loyalty within the gang is strained as Terry is still well regarded in the community and none want to see him die or their gang brother jailed.

A rookie officer (John Ritter) is unsure if he can live up to his father's super cop image. He trips and takes down a world class hired killer leading the assassin to make the rookie his next target.

Terry and Chris become locked in the sweltering heat of a local department store over night during a stand off with three armed criminals.

Chris and Terry remember seeing the same girl at the scenes of several Sunday bombings terrorizing the city.

Terry and Chris bust a drug operation, but the drug organization uses an elaborate scheme to get their heroin back, involving a pretty girl to con Chris out of information on a scheduled transfer. The heist is successful and Chris investigates the girl to discover if she was in on it or was also being used.

A veteran cop whose partner is killed during a robbery attempt steals some of the money to improve his home life.

A man, put in prison for 18 years for a crime he didn't commit, vows revenge on the men who sent him there; guest Robert Lansing.