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17 Episodes 1988 - 1989
Episode 1
Tue, Oct 25, 1988 60 mins
A psychopath called "Angel" (Jenny Wright) picks Jack as her "kindred spirit." Tina: Kay Lenz. Rusty: Frank Papia. Flo: Catherine Keats. Devon: Wendy Kilbourne. "The John": Marque Gritta. "Bozo": John Eggold.
Episode 2
Tue, Dec 6, 1988 60 mins
Jack must avert a potential murder-suicide over the air when a distraught caller threatens to kill himself and the woman who rejected him. Hank: Ed O'Neill. Arden: Yvette Nipar. Deacon Bridges: Mykel T. Williamson. Devon: Wendy Kilbourne. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 3
Tue, Dec 13, 1988 60 mins
AIDS strikes close to Jack's heart when his former lover (Kay Lenz) tests positive for the disease after a one-night encounter with an infected man. Mike: Richard Cox. Kelly: Julia Montgomery. Ross: J.D. Lewis. Club Manager: Christopher Weeks. Sarah: Roxanne Elred.
Episode 4
Tue, Dec 20, 1988 60 mins
Jack guards a wounded cop (Patti D'Arbanville) struggling to remember the face of a hit man who killed her partner and a grand-jury witness. Rothwell: Peter Siiteri. Manny: Wallace Choy. Programmer: Helen Makras. Devon: Wendy Kilbourne. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 5
Tue, Jan 3, 1989 60 mins
Jack's trapped inside a bank during a robbery and tries to cool down the trigger-happy thieves, while outside, a media hotshot sensationalizes the situation. Zymak: Arthur Taxier. Kenneth: Charles Cioffi. Pete: Matt Clark. Tex: Will Bledsoe. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 6
Tue, Jan 10, 1989 60 mins
Jack conducts a live interview with a death-row inmate (Joe Spano) on the day of his execution, and the condemned man insists he's innocent of any capital crime. Warden: Jim Haynie. Sarah: Faine Alexander. Johnson: Robert Parnell. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 7
Tue, Jan 17, 1989 60 mins
A newspaper publisher uses his influence to get his murder-suspect son released, and a man with a veiled motive lures Jack into an investigation. Stanton: Peter Michael Goetz. Levon: Darrell Fetty. Mel: Richard Bradford. Brant: Jack Shearer. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 8
Tue, Jan 24, 1989 60 mins
War breaks out between the two kings of late-night radio: Jack and the abrasive Kingston Rivers (Mitchell Laurence), who'll stop at nothing to keep his audience. Kay: Alexa Hamilton. Maurice: Richard Romanus. Tijuana Miles: Wilma Bonet. Rambar: Chuck L. Hilbert.
Episode 9
Tue, Feb 7, 1989 60 mins
A penthouse pimp (Bud Cort) turns a runaway teenager into a high-priced prostitute, and she calls on Jack to help her escape from her life of vice. Dee Dee: Heather Fairfield. Kristin: Brenda Strong. Charlie: Joe Bellan. Emile: Martin Pistone. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 10
Tue, Feb 14, 1989 60 mins
Jack's father (Peter Boyle) shows up after an extended absence---all of Jack's adult life; Devon has a fierce argument with her father and he later suffers a heart attack. Mel King: Richard Bradford. Jo: Shera Danese. Alice King: Roberta Isgreen.
Episode 11
Tue, Feb 21, 1989 60 mins
Jack falls in love with a sultry nightclub singer (Audrey Landers), but she might be setting him up in a plot to murder her ex-husband. Sawyer: Roscoe Born. Eddie: Jeff O'Haco. Cullen: Denny Delk. Jerado: Jerado Carmona. Jack: Gary Cole. Devon: Wendy Kilbourne.
Episode 12
Tue, Mar 7, 1989 60 mins
Jack and a retired police inspector (George Murdock) secretly motivated by vengeance reopen a murder case that holds revelations for Devon. Becca: Eugenie Ross-Leming. Hilary King: Bonnie Bartlett. Ray: Cliff Reynolds. Brant: Jack Shearer. Bertha: Janice Fuller.
Episode 13
Tue, Mar 28, 1989 60 mins
Jack reaches out to an old friend (Leon Robinson) who's wallowing in the world of drugs. Bernard: Harrison Page. Atch: Guy Killum. Thelma: Royce Wallace. Dr. Church: Eloise B. Chitmon. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 14
Tue, Apr 4, 1989 60 mins
Jack must contend with the bitterness of his late partner's wife (Cecile Callan) as he tries to help her son deal with the grief he feels over his father's death. Ethan: Sasha Radetsky. Rusty: Frank Papia. Rachel: Anya Dubin. Tim Hurley: Geoffrey Bolt. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 15
Tue, Apr 11, 1989 60 mins
A seriously ill baby is kidnapped, and Jack joins the mother in a search for the infant, which leads them to a black market in babies. Rebecca: Donna Mitchell. Sally: Dedee Pfeiffer. Strangis: Jeffery King. Elton Strawberry: Michael Aron. Diego Rogers: Diego Chairs. Jack: Gary Cole.
Episode 16
Tue, May 2, 1989 60 mins
A thief commits a murder, and the blind woman (Meg Foster) who overheard the crime inadvertently gets hold of the millions in bonds the killer stole. Partridge: David Morse. Carlos: Roland Scrivner. Myron: Danny Teal. Crukshank: Joseph Knowland.
Episode 17
Tue, May 9, 1989 60 mins
Jack is implicated in a fatal shooting after a storekeeper (Harold Gould), fed up with being robbed, used an assault rifle because Jack encouraged him, he says, to "protect himself." Pierce: Paul Lieber. Bridges: Mykel T. Williamson. Stephanie: DeBorah Pryor.