As of July 2026, Picket Fences Season 1 aired in 1992 with 22 episodes — streaming now on Disney Plus. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Picket Fences Season 1

1992 22 Episodes Drama · Comedy ⭐ 8/10

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Picket Fences Season 1 is available on right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 55 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Tom Skerritt is the obvious draw, but the whole ensemble earns its laughs. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Picket Fences Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Picket Fences Season 1 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Season 1 of Picket Fences includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1992 to May 1993. This season stars Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker and Costas Mandylor. Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1992. The timing in Picket Fences Season 1 is precise enough that even the throwaway lines land on a second watch. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

Picket Fences Season 1 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Tom Skerritt is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

📡 Where to Watch Picket Fences Season 1

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🎬 Picket Fences Season 1 — Episode Guide

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...

The Green Bay Chopper

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.

Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town

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.

The Autumn of Rome

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

Frank the Potato Man

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.

Remembering Rosemary

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Bad Moons Rising

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.

Nuclear Meltdowns

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 Sa...

The Body Politic

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

Be My Valentine

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."

Fetal Attraction

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

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

Rights of Passage

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.

🎭 Cast of Picket Fences Season 1

Tom Skerritt

Kathy Baker

Costas Mandylor

Costas Mandylor

Lauren Holly

Holly Marie Combs

Holly Marie Combs

Justin Shenkarow

Justin Shenkarow

Adam Wylie

Zelda Rubinstein

Zelda Rubinstein

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