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Hardball

When they play, they play for keeps.

  • 1989 – 1990
  • Ended
  • Crime · Action & Adventure
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.0/10

Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran cop who is forced to take a desk job or retire. Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year old hotshot Kaczierowski who follows his own set of rules when dealing with criminals. The pair are soon at odds over their respective methods of law enforcement. HARDBALL is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC during the 1989-1990 television schedule.

Latest: Season 1 · 1989

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  1. E1. Till Death Do Us Part

    Sep 21, 1989 · 60m

    Charlie faces a desk job but gets a reprieve, he is teamed with a new young partner and despite their differences must protect a witness, a mobster's wife, whom Charlie knows too well. Charlie: ""I stopped thinking in '69 and started doing.""

  2. E2. The Silver Scream

    Sep 28, 1989 · 60m

    Charlie and Kaz work as technical advisors on a film and wind up protecting the star, an actress whose attacker has just recently been paroled.

  3. E3. The One Armed Bandit

    Oct 13, 1989 · 60m

    Charlie and Kaz are in Las Vegas visiting Charlie's friend who owns a casino-hotel. Kaz's discovery of the bullet-ridden corpse of a pickpocket, followed by gunfire in the showroom cut their vacation short. It seems the Russian comic is really a defected physicist wanted by the KGB.

  4. E4. Which Witch is Which?

    Oct 27, 1989 · 60m

    Charlie is a having a string of bad ""coincidences."" A witch in a retirement home says that one of nurses there will be the next in a series of kidnap-murders. When Kaz and Charlie arrive, they wind up thwarting an attack by a trio in black robes.

  5. E5. The Cleveland Indian

    Nov 3, 1989 · 60m

    A Native American is in search of his great-grandson who's spent time in an institution other than the one wrote about. The great-grandson is also wanted by his friends from the bank job and by his parole officer, all who have 1.2 million reasons for getting in contact with him.

  6. E6. The Fighting 52nd

    Nov 10, 1989 · 60m

    Charlie, the ""Rainmaster,"" attends the reunion of his old Vietnam Army unit; however one of the members is murdered. The man wanted to talk to Charlie about something before the reunion; Charlie and Kaz discover that other members are acting as a freelance mercenary unit. This unit's latest plan is to take the life of a South American leader.

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