A beloved local man is killed during a stage production of The Wizard of Oz. Suspicion initially falls on the town pharmacist when the sheriff learns the dead man was having an affair with the pharmacist's daughter. The dead man's wife confesses but her confession is suppressed in court. She is then murdered and the Sheriff's department discovers that she and the pharmacist conspired to kill her husband and then the pharmacist killed her.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Deborah Tucker, Kelly Connell, Dabbs Greer, Richard Schiff, Roy Brocksmith, Michael Keenan
After a child brings a severed human hand to school for show and tell, the Sheriff's department teams with the FBI to pursue a serial kidnapper, the "Green Bay Chopper", who severs the right hands of his victims.
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Directed by Michael PressmanGuest stars Fyvush Finkel, Stephen Brown, Kelly Connell, Elisabeth Moss, Sam Anderson, Michael Keenan, Kristen Lowman, BoJesse Christopher
Max falls for a dwarf who rides into town on an elephant, which the dwarf says was being abused at a circus. Jill tells Kimberly's favorite teacher, Mr. Pankow, that he has a brain tumor.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Patti Yasutake, Kelly Connell, Michael Keenan, Peter Frechette, Steve Lanza
A rash of break-ins leads to an investigation of a "serial bather". Suspicion initially centers on "Frank the Potato Man", a vagrant who, it is learned, was tried for aggravated rape 15 years earlier.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Jerry Hardin, Roy Brocksmith, Michael Keenan, David Proval, Peter Frechette
When a catatonic housemaid utters the word "murder" after a decade of not speaking, the Sheriff's department learns that the "suicide" of a beloved town figure a decade prior was actually a homicide.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Michael Keenan, Robert Cornthwaite, BoJesse Christopher
Town doctor Jill Brock, fed up with the mayor's failure to address women's issues, declares herself a write-in candidate in the upcoming mayoral election. Deputy Kenny Lakos arrests a former boxing world champion and convinces him to engage in a charity match before extradition to New Jersey.
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Guest stars Fyvush Finkel, Michael Keenan, Concetta Tomei
An elderly patient is murdered at a nursing home. A "singing serial mercy-killing" nun is arrested, sparking controversy over the ethics and legality of euthanasia.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Dabbs Greer, Roy Brocksmith, Robert Cornthwaite, Jason Beghe
A rabbi seeks to block the town from staging a religiously-themed Christmas pageant on public property. The town is shocked to learn that beloved teacher Louise Talbot, scheduled to play the Virgin Mary in the pageant, is a post-operative transsexual.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Dabbs Greer, Elisabeth Moss, Roy Brocksmith, Michael Keenan, Kristen Lowman
When the Brock family inadvertently finds Kimberly having sex with her 19-year-old boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Jimmy wants to prosecute him for statutory rape. A man claiming to be Santa Claus takes Max and dispatcher Ginny hostage and Jimmy tries to talk him down.
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Guest stars Fyvush Finkel, Cristine Rose, Elisabeth Moss, BoJesse Christopher
When Alice Freeman is charged with murder in the death of her husband, Wambaugh defends her by claiming insanity as the result of menopause. Brock's son, Matthew, begins to experience puberty.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Jason Beghe, Ann Morgan Guilbert
When her friend becomes pregnant, Kimberly fears that she is the victim of incest. However, the man purporting to be her father is actually her husband and they are involved in a polygamous relationship. Max investigates a religious sect that engages in animal sacrifice. Guest Stars: Liz and Jean Sagal
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Beghe, Kristen Lowman, Larry Hankin
A fugitive doctor seeks a court order to allow him to keep his brain-dead wife on life support to allow her to bring her pregnancy to term. The mayor fires the town dentist for refusing to disclose that he is HIV-positive. Guest Stars: Liz and Jean Sagal
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Keenan, Robert Cornthwaite, Kristen Lowman
Jill enlists her former fiancé to perform a fetal transplant on a patient with Parkinson's disease over the objections of the town hospital. Jimmy feels threatened when he catches Jill and her former fiancé exchanging a kiss
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Denis Arndt, Michael Keenan, Concetta Tomei
A group of heavily armed Chippewa Indians declares war on Rome, seizes, and barricades the courthouse. Ginny stages a protest when Jill begins administering growth hormones to a short boy. Matthew takes on the school bully.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Michael Keenan
Kimberly and her best female friend exchange a few kisses during a sleepover, leading to rumors that Kimberly is a lesbian. She turns to her birth mother, who had a lesbian affair in college, for advice.
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Guest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Cristine Rose, Michael Keenan, BoJesse Christopher
Max delivers a baby and begins adoption procedures when the natural mother disappears. Jill transplants a pig's liver into a blues vocalist after the woman collapses on stage. Guest star: Della Reese.
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Directed by Michael PressmanGuest stars Ray Walston, Fyvush Finkel, Kelly Connell, Della Reese, Bill Henderson
