Hollywood Beat

1. E1. Pilot

   Sep 21, 1985 · 120m

   McCarren and Rado may be cops, but they have a soft spot for Hollywood's shady characters. There's a caped eccentric named Captain Crusader and a lovable bag lady known as Lady Di. This is a place where prostitutes possess hearts of gold and the police sport perfect teeth. Their supervisor, Capt. Biddle (Edward Winter), is a strict martinet who often critiques their methods. However, they have the support of George Grinsky, an openly gay former football star who runs a rundown diner called “La Cage aux Grease." McCarren and Rado are on the trail of a dangerous individual targeting the street community. The homeless are being beaten and burned, prostitutes are turning up dead, and tensions are rising.

2. E2. King of Diamonds

   Sep 28, 1985 · 60m

   Gideon King, a washed-out private detective, witnesses a jewelry store robbery; the robbers stash the loot in the trunk of a car, then flee in a second vehicle.

3. E3. Double Exposure

   Oct 5, 1985 · 60m

   What started as an attempt to catch a graffiti artist gets a gipsy's curse thrown on it and turns into a murder investigation when a photographer drops out of the sky onto the hood of Rado's car.

4. E4. No Place to Hide

   Oct 12, 1985 · 60m

   The undercover detectives try to protect a woman from a robbery accomplice she has "fingered” as a killer.

5. E5. Across the Line

   Oct 19, 1985 · 60m

   Rado is haunted by an unsolved murder case, whose memories are triggered as he and McCarren track a notorious drug dealer to Beverly Hills.

6. E6. Baby Blues

   Nov 9, 1985 · 60m

   An AWOL Marine gets sympathy from McCarren despite or even because of the attentions of a couple of MPs trying to bring him in. Not to mention a missing girlfriend.

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