Picket Fences: Season 1

A rash of break-ins leads to an investigation of a... More "serial bather". Suspicion initially centers on "Frank the Potato Man", a vagrant who, it is learned, was tried for aggravated rape 15 years earlier.

When a catatonic housemaid utters the word "murder" after a... More decade of not speaking, the Sheriff's department learns that the "suicide" of a beloved town figure a decade prior was actually a homicide.

Town doctor Jill Brock, fed up with the mayor's failure... More 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.

An elderly patient is murdered at a nursing home. A... More "singing serial mercy-killing" nun is arrested, sparking controversy over the ethics and legality of euthanasia.

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

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

A rabbi seeks to block the town from staging a... More 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.

When the Brock family inadvertently finds Kimberly having sex with... More 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.

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

When Alice Freeman is charged with murder in the death... More of her husband, Wambaugh defends her by claiming insanity as the result of menopause. Brock's son, Matthew, begins to experience puberty.

When her friend becomes pregnant, Kimberly fears that she is... More 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

A fugitive doctor seeks a court order to allow him... More 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

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

Jill enlists her former fiancé to perform a fetal transplant... More 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

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

A group of heavily armed Chippewa Indians declares war on... More 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.

Kimberly and her best female friend exchange a few kisses... More 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.

Max delivers a baby and begins adoption procedures when the... More natural mother disappears. Jill transplants a pig's liver into a blues vocalist after the woman collapses on stage. Guest star: Della Reese.