Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1992 (90 min)
Murder has come to Rome,Wisconsin!
The small town of Rome, Wisconsin gets more excitement than it can handle when a famous rock band hits town just after the Tin Man is murdered during a production of "The Wizard of Oz."
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1992
Max's persistence at solving the case of a serial kidnapper leads to a dispute with the FBI.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1992
A circus midget wins sympathy with an animal-cruelty suit while a teacher with a brain tumor is forgotten.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1992
Brock takes a stand on ethics and the fate of Rome when the town's mayoral race opens up a Pandora's box of under-the-table dealings.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1992
Is Frank the potato man guilty of serial bathing? Rome struggles with misleading stereotypes and sexual harassment.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1992
Questions arise about a woman's death 10 years earlier, and Maxine investigates the possibility of murder instead of suicide.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1992
Kenny boxes with a former middleweight champ while Jill comes out fighting as a candidate for mayor.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1992
Jill and Zack discover an elderly woman dead and the evidence points to a mercy killing. Did a nun do the deed?
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1992
Jill's father brings along a much younger love interest on his Thanksgiving visit. Meanwhile, Wambaugh catches his wife cheating, and Kenny and Max share dinner.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1992
Brock and his team must read the fine print when a young wife's death could lead to a sizable insurance payoff for either her husband or her sister.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1992
Rome's Christmas pageant at a public school is ruled a violation of separation of church and state but another controversy unfolds with the arrest of a teacher.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1992
The Brock family returns from a Christmas Eve outing with plans to surprise Kimberly, but they're in for the real surprise.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1993
Unnerved when Kenny is shot during the investigation of a store break-in, Max botches the arrest of the prime suspect.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1993
When a woman is charged with killing the husband she is about to divorce, Wambaugh attempts to build a temporary insanity plea based on menopause.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1993
When a school friend gets pregnant, Kimberly tells her parents she thinks it resulted from incest.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1993
A dentist who hasn't disclosed his HIV infection has the town up in arms; Kenny takes flak for dating twins.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1993
Maxine recognizes the MO of a serial killer when she gets an odd response to a personal ad.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1993
Jill calls on her ex-fiancé, a leading neurosurgeon, to perform a fetal-tissue transplant that could cure a patient's Parkinson's disease.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1993
Carter's autopsy of a body reveals radiation scars (and cancer), leading him to believe that the man had witnessed a spaceship crash.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1993
Native Americans protesting a golf-course development on a burial ground take over the courthouse.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1993
Matthew discovers that Kimberly has kissed a girl; Maxine and Kenny compete for the post of undersheriff.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: May 6, 1993
Jill is frustrated when a blues vocalist takes ill and fails to appreciate medicine's ability to keep her alive.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1993
Mayor Pugen is caught between a Brock and a hard place when the Sheriff arrests him for murdering a disarmed carjacker, leaving him to rely on Wambaugh for his defense.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1993
Wambaugh appeals Mayor Pugen's conviction and uncovers a technicality that could secure a new trial.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1993
Things don't add up when a math teacher says he was a date-rape victim; Brock locks horns with a new mayor.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1993
Still reeling from her relationship with Dr. Shreve, Max allows a drunken driver to continue on home.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1993
A modern Robin Hood and her team prance into Rome to rob from the rich and give to the needy: local flood victims.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1993
Brock investigates the possibility that a model is the victim of spouse abuse. Meanwhile, some members of the community are having a cow over a local dairy's ad campaign featuring the model in racy shots.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1993
Some members of the community don't know what to believe when a woman pulled from a submerged vehicle is discovered to be pregnant---even though she is technically a virgin.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1993
A jury must decide if it's murder or a mistake after a man shoots and kills his own brother when the sibling enters his home in the middle of the night.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1993
The drug war comes to Rome in place of Santa: controlled substances are found on the high school campus and a federal witness turns up in town.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1994
Jill does her best to uphold the Hippocratic oath when she treats a Christian Scientist who has refused care and whose husband takes the fight to court.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1994
Embarrassed by a prank, Matthew tries to get even with some boys. Meanwhile, budget cuts hit the sheriff's department.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1994
The debate over crime reaches a fever pitch when the mayor moves forward with new legislation to curb violence.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1994
With his mind failing due to Alzheimer's, Howard Buss proposes that doctors harvest his heart for the transplant his son needs.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1994
Valentine's Day brings love and controversy to assorted age groups: Carter is smitten with a widow, Zack finds his first love, and Kimberly's boyfriend is too prudent.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1994
The mayor scolds a priest for giving a pep talk colored with religious ideals to a public school's hockey team.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1994
Sheriff Brock tries to remain professional when Kimberly is kidnapped---and his onetime partner is the prime suspect.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1994
When an obese woman confesses to murdering her husband, Max has some doubts about the motive.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1994
Sheriff Brock becomes the unlikely foreman of a jury deciding the case of an accused cop killer.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1994
A visit by Jill's father leads to a lively evening of therapy in the Brock household.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1994
Mayor Buss criticizes Father Barrett on public-access cable, prompting a lawsuit.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 6, 1994
The parents of a dying boy try to get the court's permission to use an unorthodox procedure to save the child's life.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 13, 1994
Howard Buss's Alzheimer's worsens, pushing his family to the breaking point.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1994
Sheriff Brock fears the worst when a teenager disappears. Meanwhile a teacher may be advocating creationism in a public school.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1994
DA Littleton prepares for a showdown with Wambaugh as the case against Brian Latham goes to trial.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1994
A Federal judge orders that 400 black students be bused to Rome's schools from Green Bay.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1994
Jill and Judge Nance reveal their personal frustrations in heated meetings.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1994
A social worker takes a girl from her mother, who practices witchcraft; Max and Kenny go to Ginny's to discuss the occult.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1994
A school report by Zachary hurts Jill's mayoral campaign just before the election.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1994
An ailing Wambaugh travels to Chicago for specialized treatment; an announcement by Kenny and Kimberly angers Brock.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1994
Wambaugh and Littleton present their arguments concerning the Latham case to the Supreme Court.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1994
Sentencing nears for Brian Latham, the drifter convicted of murder; Brock questions his own resolve as sheriff.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1994
Brock and his deputies search a dairy farm where Carter suspects genetic experiments are taking place.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1995
Sheriff Brock and his deputies investigate the death of a male massage therapist.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1995
The Frogman is at the center of controversy once again when his son tires of his antics and goes to court for emancipation.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1995
A surprise visit by Jimmy's ex-wife rocks the Brock household when the woman announces her plan to have another child.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1995
Max has a proposition for Kenny; Carter has a close encounter with a special woman.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1995
Jill and Jimmy must reconcile parental concerns with their professional duties when a convicted child molester chooses to live in Rome.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1995
Zack questions authority---including Brock's---when the "Dancing Bandit" is arrested upon returning to Rome to wish the boy a happy birthday.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1995
Brock looks outside his department for help in finding missing mayor Ed Lawson. Meanwhile, the town launches a search for a new mayor.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1995
Brock's renewed commitment to thorough police work leads to the discovery of a mercy killing.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1995
After Jill's criminal trial, Judge Bone is asked to rule on the validity of a law prohibiting physician-assisted suicide.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1995
A remorseful Zack has a religious experience that creates quite a stir in the town.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: May 5, 1995
A visit by Jimmy's attorney father creates tension in the Brock household.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: May 12, 1995
After a youth shoots Father Barrett during an attempted robbery, the mayor's decision to continue with a spring pageant draws fire from somber townsfolk.
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1995
Kimberly changes her college plans; a fire imperils Carter; and Mayor Bey proposes changes to the sheriff's uniforms.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1995
As a tornado threat looms over Rome, Wambaugh blows it while toasting his wife at his anniversary party; and Kenny's life nearly spins out of control.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1995
A doctor---who's also a TV personality---sets her sights on Jill's practice; cultural differences figure in the arrest of an immigrant.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1995
DA Littleton faces a figure from his past when two prison escapees make their way to Rome.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1995
Max is grilled in court after a tussle with a man dressed in a bratwurst costume. Meanwhile, Jill is suspicious when Kimberly visits Dr. Joey.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1995
Saturday night in Rome: Jill and Brock have the house to themselves when Matthew heads out to party with friends.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1995
Cryptic dreams after his brother's death lead Littleton to an epiphany. Meanwhile, Brock polkas with Mayor Bey; and Jill struggles to stay a step ahead at work amid personal turmoil.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1995
An animal-rights group that counts Kimberly as a member protests a pig-wrestling event at the town fair; and Dr. Joey becomes emotionally attached to a cancer patient.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1995
The death of a gay man during a papal parade in Rome, Wis., is thought to be a suicide---until an unlikely witness speaks out.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1996
Wambaugh and his son are on opposite sides of a murder trial involving a Jew accused of murdering a Nazi in 1943.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1996
Matthew is traumatized by a classmate's suicide, causing Jimmy to pay him extra attention. Meanwhile, difficulties in dissection class make Kimberly doubt her calling to study medicine.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1996
A blizzard hits Rome, stranding together the feuding Bone and Wambaugh, and forcing Jill to deal with Jimmy's ex-wife.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1996
Judge Bone is reunited with an old friend; Carter is shocked by a live wire; and Zack's heartstrings go zing over a young cellist.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1996
Misadventures in cyberspace: Zack creates a porno picture of his teacher that ends up on the World Wide Web, while Max finally meets the man she's been "chatting" with.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1996
Feelings long bottled up surface at Zack's party, which finds Jill enduring a mid-life crisis, and Wambaugh bristling over Bone's lack of respect.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1996
When Maxine's appointed interim mayor, her power goes to her head---and makes her the target of a misogynistic deejay, who's putting ugly thoughts into his listeners' minds.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1996
Laurie reveals that she bore her son for her gay brother and his lover, an announcement that brings their mother back into their lives.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1996
Sue and Carter, then Maxine and Kenny, announce their engagements; Myriam convinces Wambaugh to represent a widow charged with killing three of her husbands; Jill walks out on Jimmy.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1996
Jill's shot at coaching Zack's basketball team turns into an obsession---until Zack and his teammates take their parents to court to keep the adults from interfering.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1996
Myriam's relationship with a stockbroker devastates Wambaugh, who comes to suspect her new love is up to no good.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1996
An Amish woman raped by a Rome resident refuses to testify on religious grounds. When the alleged rapist strikes again, the second victim's parents sue the Amish community.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1996
Jimmy suspects the murder of a transient is linked to a teenager and his mentally handicapped brother.