She's the Sheriff

Sep 19, 1987

Hildy discovers the true meaning of trouble when Gussie gets a driver's license and collides with a reindeer statue.

Sep 26, 1987

Eva Gabor beeds help catching the person who stole her ruby. The perpetrator is a notorious jewel thief known as The Butterfly, a case that the late Sheriff Granger was working on.

Oct 3, 1987

Max gives Hildy advice in hopes to cause her early retirement, but his plan backfires and she nabs an international spy on her first day.

Oct 10, 1987

Rubin's father Frank visits and everyone is shocked to see that he is nothing like his son. Gussie takes a liking to him and Hildy's not pleased. When she puts her foot down, Gussie tells her she and Frank are going to live together.

Oct 17, 1987

Rubin spitefully enters Hildy's picture into a magazine called Loverboy, who expect her to pose for it. Also, a sheik fights for Hildy's affections.

Oct 24, 1987

A monkey is brought in on suspicion of drunk driving. Kenny blames someone at the station for breaking the front window. Rubin tries to get Hildy in trouble for animal abuse.

Oct 31, 1987

Hildy pulls all the stops to try to get a thank you out of Rubin after he moves in with her and her family and drives everyone to their breaking points.

Nov 7, 1987

Hildy is on a string of good luck which her mother calls 'The Golden Streak'.

Nov 14, 1987

After getting shot, Hildy's relatives visit and she recounts how she became sheriff with newly created flashbacks.

Nov 21, 1987

Hildy brings young shoplifter Percy into her home but isn't prepared when the delinquent convinces Kenny to run away.

Nov 28, 1987

Hildy goes undercover as a hooker and Rubin goes undercover as a john to bust a madam.

Dec 5, 1987

After some bad advice from Hildy, her sister Pauline divorces her husband and marries Rubin, who thinks she has money.

Dec 12, 1987

Down in the dumps after killing omeone on the job, Putnam wants to leave the force.

Dec 19, 1987

Hildy poses as a hitwoman to catch a killer.

Jan 2, 1988

For the first time since her husband's death by drunk driver, Hildy holds a dry New Year's Eve party. However, the punch is spiked.

Jan 9, 1988

Rubin brings in a magician who is plotting a jail escape, complete with press coverage. However, Rubin takes his wallet containing the lock picks. Kenny goes to spectate and Hildy finds the wallet, but doesn't want to break her son's belief.

Jan 16, 1988

After hearing that his wife is cheating on him, Crazy Ralphie holds the whole station hostage.

Jan 30, 1988

Rubin helps a destitute woman raise money... or is she really in need?

Feb 6, 1988

The deputies think Hildy is having an affair with her handyman.

Feb 13, 1988

Fed up with his antics, Hildy suspends Rubin from the force. But when he takes a temporary job at a trendy beauty salon, he is so popular with the customers that he announces he is quitting police work for good.

Dec 8, 1987

Rubin wrangles a mail-order bride for an eccentric man.

Feb 27, 1988

Hildy goes on her first date since her husband died.

Oct 8, 1988

While posing as Hildy's boyfriend during a stakeout, Rubin unexpectedly falls in love with her after they kiss in the spur of the moment.

Oct 15, 1988

While working on a condominium timeshare scam, Hildy suddenly finds herself under the investigative eye of a younger public defender.

Oct 22, 1988

Hildy prevents an old high school friend from committing suicide, but then she inadvertently complicates matters as they reminisce together.

Oct 29, 1988

Mishaps abound when Hildy works to prepare the department for a surprise state inspection.

Nov 5, 1988

During Hildy's first bid for reelection since being appointed, unexpected trouble begins when her mother is arrested and jailed during a 'Save the Trees' protest.

Nov 12, 1988

Rubin becomes so obsessed with showing off his beautiful date to his doubting colleagues that he inadvertently ignores her.

Nov 19, 1988

Hildy engages in a battle-of-the-sexes with her deputies when they disagree on how Mulcahy should reconcile his wife after a fight, during which she threw him out of the house.

Nov 26, 1988

While working undercover as an actress at a musical audition, Hildy's long-forgotten dreams of stardom are reborn as she considers the benefits of life on stage.

Dec 3, 1988

Hildy tries to prove 'mother knows best' when she battles with Kenny's baseball coach to be included in the annual father-son banquet.

Dec 10, 1988

While attempting to play Cupid to her friends Terry and Putnam, Hildy discovers that Terry's current boyfriend, Biff, is really Rubin in disguise.

Dec 17, 1988

Hildy's and the deputies' dreams of fame and riches end when the fighter in whom them invest turns out to be a 'lightweight'.

Jan 7, 1989

A ruthless criminal is gunning for Hildy after she witnesses a bank robbery.

Jan 14, 1989

At Hildy's fundraiser for state representative-hopeful Jonathan Gagen, confusion reigns as the caterer is suspected of poisoning his creations and Gagen tirelessly attempts to convince Hildy that they were meant for each other.

Jan 21, 1989

Deputy Wiggins' soon-to-be-ex-wife pays a surprise visit to complete divorce arrangements, but his jealousy over her plans to marry a well-known professional athlete leads Wiggins to second thoughts about the divorce.

Feb 4, 1989

Hildy convinces herself that she is too old as a landmark birthday approaches.

Feb 11, 1989

Hildy becomes popular with the media at the expense of her deputies' egos when she gets all the credit for a counterfeiting arrest which the guys masterminded, and which she actually hindered.

Feb 18, 1989

After she's mugged in broad daylight, Gussie's fear causes her to become agoraphobic. Meanwhile, Ruhin and Putnam don pantyhose and heels in a valiant, if not stylish, effort to apprehend the culprit.

Feb 25, 1989

When a psychiatrist is held in lockup, Hildy and the deputies begin questioning their own, as well as each other's, psychological motivations.

Mar 4, 1989

A wealthy real estate tycoon takes a romantic interest in Hildy in order to make Rubin miserable, thereby fulfilling his twenty-year vendetta against the man who befriended, and then rejected him as a child.

Mar 18, 1989

When Mulcahy's wife thinks she is pregnant with their seventh child, Mulcahy is given an ultimatum: either he gets a vasectomy, or he is not allowed back in the bedroom.

Mar 25, 1989

Hildy attempts to fight her strong physical attraction to a handsome—albeit less than brilliant—bodybuilder, while the deputies bet on the odds of her asking him out.

Apr 1, 1989

Romantic jealousy reigns as Gagen returns to fabricate an interest in Hildy's attractive new intern in order to prove to Hildy that she too is the victim of jealousy. At the same time, Putnam, who finds the young lady irresistible, plots the conquest of her heart.