The Best Episodes of Picket Fences Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(205 votes)

   #1 - Picket Fences

   S1:E19/18/1992

   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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   7.8/10(138 votes)

   #2 - The Green Bay Chopper

   S1:E29/25/1992

   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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   7.7/10(120 votes)

   #3 - Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town

   S1:E310/2/1992

   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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   7.6/10(104 votes)

   #4 - The Autumn of Rome

   S1:E410/16/1992

   The candidates in the upcoming mayoral election are using such outrageous smear campaigns that Sheriff Brock considers running for Mayor himself.

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   7.8/10(111 votes)

   #5 - Frank the Potato Man

   S1:E510/23/1992

   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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   7.7/10(107 votes)

   #6 - Remembering Rosemary

   S1:E610/26/1992

   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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   7.6/10(94 votes)

   #7 - The Contenders

   S1:E710/30/1992

   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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   7.7/10(104 votes)

   #8 - Sacred Hearts

   S1:E811/6/1992

   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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   8.3/10(118 votes)

   #9 - Thanksgiving

   S1:E911/13/1992

   Jill's father arrives in Rome with his new 26-year-old girlfriend. Wambaugh finds his wife in bed with another man.

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    7.7/10(87 votes)

    #10 - The Snake Lady

    S1:E1012/4/1992

    Max, Brock, and Kenny investigate the mysterious death of a woman who may or may not have committed suicide.

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    8.3/10(102 votes)

    #11 - Pageantry

    S1:E1112/11/1992

    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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    7.9/10(96 votes)

    #12 - High Tidings

    S1:E1212/18/1992

    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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    7.6/10(91 votes)

    #13 - Frog Man

    S1:E131/8/1993

    Kenny is seriously wounded by the Frog Man, a burglar who leaves live frogs at the site of his crimes.

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    8.5/10(113 votes)

    #14 - Bad Moons Rising

    S1:E141/15/1993

    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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    7.9/10(103 votes)

    #15 - Nuclear Meltdowns

    S1:E151/22/1993

    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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    8.0/10(99 votes)

    #16 - The Body Politic

    S1:E162/5/1993

    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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    8.5/10(120 votes)

    #17 - Be My Valentine

    S1:E172/12/1993

    Deputy Max goes undercover when a response to her personal ad leads her to believe that she is being targeted by a serial killer known as "Cupid."

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    8.1/10(84 votes)

    #18 - Fetal Attraction

    S1:E184/1/1993

    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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    7.7/10(78 votes)

    #19 - Sightings

    S1:E194/8/1993

    Carter believes a sheriff who mysteriously disappeared 38 years earlier may have been killed by radiation emitted by an Unidentified Flying Object.

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    7.9/10(86 votes)

    #20 - Rights of Passage

    S1:E204/15/1993

    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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    7.4/10(100 votes)

    #21 - Sugar and Spice

    S1:E214/29/1993

    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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    7.9/10(84 votes)

    #22 - The Lullaby League

    S1:E225/6/1993

    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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