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An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
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Episode 1 - Turpitude
Release Date: 1993-10-22Mayor Pugen kills a carjacker after the carjacker drops his weapon and Sheriff Brock must decide whether to press murder charges. When he does, the new district attorney has to choose how to prosecute... more
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Episode 2 - Duty Free Rome
Release Date: 1993-10-28Douglas Wambaugh appeals Mayor Pugen's murder conviction but the mayor spontaneously combusts. A Catholic couple who carry the genes for Hurler syndrome are tormented by the church's prohibition on co... more
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Episode 3 - Unlawful Entries
Release Date: 1993-10-29Kenny and Max respond to a report of a rape and find a man and woman fighting. Under pressure from Kenny, the man says that it was she who raped him. Following a probable cause hearing, Judge Bone adv... more
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Episode 4 - Under the Influence
Release Date: 1993-11-05Max lets a drunk driver continue the short distance to her home, but the woman is involved in an accident that leaves the other drive paralyzed. The situation is complicated by Wambaugh's advice to th... more
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Episode 5 - The Dancing Bandit
Release Date: 1993-11-12Jill and Zack are among the hostages taken by a group of bank robbers led by a deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) who calls herself "the Dancing Bandit." Jimmy works with the FBI to stop the standoff, but the... more
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Episode 6 - Dairy Queen
Release Date: 1993-11-26The town is divided when Jill and the Mayor back a sexy model to be the town's "Dairy Queen," but Sheriff Brock is more interested in the woman's apparently abusive husband and manager. Kimberly and M... more
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Episode 7 - Cross Examination
Release Date: 1993-12-03A young woman in a coma following a car accident is found to be four months' pregnant, despite being a virgin. When her father seeks an abortion to try to save her life, the town's Catholic and Protes... more
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Episode 8 - Strangers
Release Date: 1993-12-10Jill testifies for a man suffering from a rare neurological disorder that distorts vision after he is arrested for the shooting death of his brother. Dr. Vernon Leaky, a specialist on the condition, s... more
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Episode 9 - Blue Christmas
Release Date: 1993-12-17A locker search for drugs at the local high school leads to the arrest of Kimberly's best friend, Lisa Fenn. Meanwhile, a protected Federal witness turns up in Rome which leaves Sheriff Brock and his ... more
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Episode 10 - Paging Doctor God
Release Date: 1994-01-07Jill is arrested after she performs surgery on a woman whose Christian Science beliefs prohibit medical intervention. Zach wants to convert to Judaism because Jews do not believe in hell.
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Episode 11 - Guns 'R' Us
Release Date: 1994-01-14Matthew's attempts to get revenge for a humiliation by some high-school bullies by threatening them with a gun takes an unexpected turn, which lands one of them in the hospital and Matthew in jail for... more
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Episode 12 - Remote Control
Release Date: 1994-01-21Littleton and Wambaugh go head to head again in the courtroom as Wambaugh argues that his latest client, Timmy Hendricks, was predisposed to violence because of his exposure to television and movies. ... more
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Episode 13 - Abominable Snowman
Release Date: 1994-01-28Howard Buss's son Kevin will die without a heart transplant so Howard, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, seeks a court order to allow him the right to assisted suicide so he can give his heart to hi... more
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Episode 14 - Supreme Courting
Release Date: 1994-02-04Valentine's Day brings romance to many members of the community. Maxine helps Carter woo Stacy Halford, a local widow. Kimberly and her boyfriend find they have different attitudes regarding sexual-co... more
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Episode 15 - Divine Recall
Release Date: 1994-02-11A 25-year-old softcore pornographic video of Mayor Rachel Harris surfaces. The town clergy lead a movement to remove her from office. Howard Buss, as senior member of the town council, becomes acting ... more
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Episode 16 - Terms of Estrangement
Release Date: 1994-03-04Kimberly is kidnapped and held hostage by a man (Louis Gossett, Jr.) who wants revenge over her father, Sheriff Brock.
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Episode 17 - Squatter's Rights
Release Date: 1994-03-11A 500-pound woman confesses to murdering her husband by sitting on his head. Douglas Wambaugh is expelled from his synagogue and seeks a ruling in a Jewish religious court to be reinstated.
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Episode 18 - System Down
Release Date: 1994-04-01A high-profile murder trial in which the defendant is accused of murdering two police officers is transferred to Rome. Sheriff Brock winds up as the foreman of the jury that must decide the defendant'... more
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Episode 19 - Buried Alive
Release Date: 1994-04-08Max arrests Jill's father. The Brocks invite her to dinner in hopes of smoothing things over but end up confronting their own issues with each other as well.
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Episode 20 - My Left Shoe
Release Date: 1994-04-29The town learns of Father Gary Barrett's fetish for women's shoes following a fire in the church rectory. Matthew has been having sexual fantasies and he fears his sexual feelings are a sin.
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Episode 21 - Frosted Flakes
Release Date: 1994-05-06The parents of a boy dying of leukemia seek a court order to allow them to place the child in cryonic suspension.
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Episode 22 - Howard's End
Release Date: 1994-05-13Howard Buss' Alzheimer's disease worsens and his anguished son Kevin shoots him to death. Kevin is put on trial for murder.