As of July 2026, Hill Street Blues Season 2 aired in 1981 with 18 episodes — streaming now on Disney Plus. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Hill Street Blues Season 2

1981 18 Episodes Drama · Crime ⭐ 8/10

Hill Street Blues Season 2 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available on . The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 127 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Daniel J. Travanti's performance alone is worth the time investment. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Hill Street Blues Season 2 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The plotting gives Hill Street Blues Season 2 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Season 2 of Hill Street Blues includes 18 episodes. It aired from October 1981 to May 1982. This season stars Daniel J. Daniel J. Travanti and Michael Warren lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1981. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Hill Street Blues Season 2 passes that test consistently. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

If you cannot walk away from a good mystery, Hill Street Blues Season 2 will keep you hooked. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Daniel J. Travanti anchors it, but the writing does the real work. If you are going to commit to one crime drama this month, make it this one.

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🎬 Hill Street Blues Season 2 — Episode Guide

E1
Hearts and Minds
1981-10-29
A prostitute accuses a detective of blackmailing her for sex; Goldblume searches for a missing child; a former gang leader returns to the Hill as crusading social reformer; Belker busts a purse snatching orangutan and keeps in touch with an undercover rookie planted inside a volatile street gang; an...
E2
Blood Money
1981-11-05
Goldblume meets a lonely woman while driving a cab undercover; LaRue and Washington use a desperate snitch to solve a prostitute murder; Virgil reports on Hudson's takeover of the Black Arrow gang; and Furillo and Joyce meet socially after splitting up.
E3
The Last White Man on East Ferry Avenue
1981-11-12
Hill and Renko handle a domestic call involving an old man threatening his neighbors with a shotgun; Hudson looks for the informer in his gang; and Joyce asks Furillo for advice about the Downey case.
E4
The Second Oldest Profession
1981-11-19
Bates loses a junkie prostitute through an error in judgement; Hudson beats up his lawyer after his release on bail; Furillo and Joyce reconsider their separation; and Esterhaus ends his friendship with Mac.
E5
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
1981-12-03
Night court interferes with ""Monday Night Football"" as LaRue and Washington are accused of entrapping a mugger; Bates and Coffey look for gang members responsible for the drive-by shooting of a child; Fay announces that she's getting married again.
E6
Cranky Streets
1981-12-10
Hill covers for an old friend with personal problems who uses excessive force on an arrest; Coffey arrests an old family friend during a visit to his old neighborhood; Fay introduces her fiance; and negotiations breakdown between the police union and the city.
E7
Chipped Beef
1981-12-17
Furillo pushes Hill about his support of Nash; Belker goes under to catch a gang preying on automatic bank tellers; Fay's engagement ends abruptly; and a good samaritan faces arrest on old out of town warrants.
E8
The World According to Freedom
1982-01-07
Belker meets an eccentric calling himself ""Captain Freedom"" while on a stakeout; LaRue gets more than he bargained for as a cell plant when he overhears an arson suspect taunting an accused child molester; and Furillo issues an ultimatum to the gangs after a savage massacre in a local tavern.
E9
Pestolozzi's Revenge
1982-01-14
The Captain meets LaRue and Washington when he returns from a purse snatching; Renko (who has lost his service revolver) and Hill are rear-ended by a wedding party; Bates gets mad at Coffey when he stands her up for a breakfast date; Lou threatens again to remove his vending machines from the precin...
E10
The Spy Who Came in from Delgado
1982-01-21
Hunter uses pedigreed hounds to track wild city dogs; the scam saloon begins producing results, despite Captain Freedom's help; Fay fixates on cemetery plots; Frank becomes incresingly disgusted with his lawyer and Chief Daniels over the actions of the Sullivan Commission; and a suspicious Calletano...
E11
Freedom's Last Stand
1982-01-28
Bates plays in the interdepartmental poker finals; Fuchs refuses to help out one of his own men caught forging prescriptions; Henry goes undercover on a smash-and-grab purse snatching detail; Delgado admits he's afraid of testifying before the commission; Joyce chides Furillo for being naive about h...
E12
Of Mouse and Man
1982-02-11
Joyce's fellow PD Pam Gilliam is gunned down; Hill's position as VP for the Black Officers' Coalition puts a strain on both him and Renko; Goldblume tries to deal with an abusive landlord; Fay threatens to bring WAD to the Hill; LaRue and Washington trade up from a cocaine dealer to a PCP lab.
E13
Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement
1982-02-18
Grace asks Esterhaus for help with a barking dog; LaRue suffers a crisis of confidence about the PCP lab bust and starts drinking; Renko's family problems hurt his performance at work; Hill antagonizes everyone in his efforts to recruit for the BOC; Goldblume resorts to force to deal with landlord S...
E14
The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded
1982-02-25
Hill has enough of the BOC pressures; Goldblume finds a witness in the Gilliam case who seems too good to be true; Furillo demotes LaRue to the police motor pool; and Joyce grows bitter when Walter Harmon is released and kills again.
E15
Some Like It Hot-Wired
1982-03-18
Goldblume is bitter over losing a promotion; Joyce walks out of court while defending a repeat offender; Renko learns his father is dying; a stakeout to find a con team shaking down johns proves dangerous; and Esterhaus' prize car is taken by a team of car thieves.
E16
Personal Foul
1982-03-25
Belker and Washington go undercover at a porno theater; Hill and Renko answer a domestic call concerning a suicidal man holding his wife and child hostage; a pickup basketball game between the cops and the gangs calls for full-scale negotiations.
E17
The Shooter
1982-05-06
Belker tries to renew his expired driver's license; Renko tries to take his father home from the hospital; LaRue rehabilitates himself with Furillo; and everyone follows the trail of the gun used to kill two officers during a burglary.
E18
Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers
1982-05-13
Renko's father takes a final trip around the city; Belker goes undercover to find out who has been knifing winos; and Joyce finds her faith restored as she defends a nice young man accused of rape whose alibi is reluctant to testify.

🎭 Cast of Hill Street Blues Season 2

Daniel J. Travanti
Daniel J. Travanti
Frank Furillo
Michael Warren
Michael Warren
Robert Hill
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz
Mick Belker
Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad
Phil Esterhaus
James B. Sikking
James B. Sikking
Howard Hunter
Joe Spano
Joe Spano
Henry Goldblume
Taurean Blacque
Taurean Blacque
Neal Washington
Kiel Martin
Kiel Martin
J.D. LaRue
Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas
Lucille Bates
Barbara Bosson
Barbara Bosson
Fay Furillo

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