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Hollywood Beat
1985 5.0 (1 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ABC

Hollywood Beat

Overview

Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter, and John Matuszak. The series aired Saturday night at 8:00 p.m Eastern time. A pair of undercover cops, Nick McCarren (Jack Scalia) and Jack Rado (Jay Acovone) cruise the filthy, neon-lit streets of Hollywood, looking for crime in all the right places as rock music blares in the background.

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Seasons

Season 1 (1985)

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20 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1985-09-21

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.

Runtime: 120 min
Episode 2: King of Diamonds
1985-09-28

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Double Exposure
1985-10-05

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: No Place to Hide
1985-10-12

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Across the Line
1985-10-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Baby Blues
1985-11-09

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Long Weekend
1985-11-16

Protecting a witness in a trial of an underworld boss, McCarren and Rado begin to suspect corruption in high places.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Fast Hustle
1985-11-23

Information can be bought on the waterfront, though such information can be dangerous indeed to the man who holds it.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Siege

A motorcycle gang lays siege on the Hollywood police station and demands the release of gang leader Tito's brother, who is in prison for murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Let's Have Lunch

One should never plan a vacation in Captain Biddle's hearing an open invitation to a particularly dangerous assignment. Special guest star Leigh McCloskey acts as Eddie Cooper who makes Nick and Jack lose their holiday. After solving a tricky case involving an armed gunman, the undercover cops feel they want to get away from it all. However, Captain Biddle now assigns them the task of acting as bodyguards for Eddie.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Dead Heat
1985-12-14

Breaking up a high-stakes poker game, McCarren and Rado flush out an undercover cop— and a lead to a counterfeiting ring.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Girls, Girls, Girls

Two young Texans go on a crime spree in Hollywood. As though their complicated love-lives were not trouble enough, McCarren and Radio are bedeviled by a pair of reckless thugs from Texas with a hankering for notoriety.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Connections
1985-12-28

Officers McCarren and Rado pursue a pair of renegade drug enforcement officers. Rado and McCarren help a young model and her brother who have become embroiled in drug dealing. A powerful kingpin wants them for a package they carry.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Out in the Cold

CIA, KGB, and a couple of honest-to-goodness cops add up to trouble for Rado and McCarren — indeed, red faces abound. So who's the double agent, and what about the Internal Revenue claim for back taxes?

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Unproduced

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Unproduced

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: (unknown title)

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Unproduced

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: (unknown title)

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Unproduced

Runtime: 60 min

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