
Picket Fences
An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
Picket Fences
An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
Picket Fences
An aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.

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Episode 1: All Roads Lead to Rome
Featurette from Season 1 DVD featuring David E. Kelley and the cast

Episode 1: Picket Fences
A beloved local man is killed during a stage production of The Wizard of Oz. Suspicion initially fal...

Episode 2: The Green Bay Chopper
After a child brings a severed human hand to school for show and tell, the Sheriff's department team...

Episode 3: 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...

Episode 4: The Autumn of Rome
The candidates in the upcoming mayoral election are using such outrageous smear campaigns that Sheri...

Episode 5: Frank the Potato Man
A rash of break-ins leads to an investigation of a "serial bather". Suspicion initially centers on "...

Episode 6: Remembering Rosemary
When a catatonic housemaid utters the word "murder" after a decade of not speaking, the Sheriff's de...

Episode 7: The Contenders
Town doctor Jill Brock, fed up with the mayor's failure to address women's issues, declares herself...

Episode 8: Sacred Hearts
An elderly patient is murdered at a nursing home. A "singing serial mercy-killing" nun is arrested,...

Episode 9: Thanksgiving
Jill's father arrives in Rome with his new 26-year-old girlfriend. Wambaugh finds his wife in bed wi...

Episode 10: The Snake Lady
Max, Brock, and Kenny investigate the mysterious death of a woman who may or may not have committed...

Episode 11: Pageantry
A rabbi seeks to block the town from staging a religiously-themed Christmas pageant on public proper...

Episode 12: High Tidings
When the Brock family inadvertently finds Kimberly having sex with her 19-year-old boyfriend on Chri...

Episode 13: Frog Man
Kenny is seriously wounded by the Frog Man, a burglar who leaves live frogs at the site of his crime...

Episode 14: Bad Moons Rising
When Alice Freeman is charged with murder in the death of her husband, Wambaugh defends her by claim...

Episode 15: Nuclear Meltdowns
When her friend becomes pregnant, Kimberly fears that she is the victim of incest. However, the man...

Episode 16: The Body Politic
A fugitive doctor seeks a court order to allow him to keep his brain-dead wife on life support to al...

Episode 17: Be My Valentine
Deputy Max goes undercover when a response to her personal ad leads her to believe that she is being...

Episode 18: Fetal Attraction
Jill enlists her former fiancé to perform a fetal transplant on a patient with Parkinson's disease o...

Episode 19: Sightings
Carter believes a sheriff who mysteriously disappeared 38 years earlier may have been killed by radi...

Episode 20: Rights of Passage
A group of heavily armed Chippewa Indians declares war on Rome, seizes, and barricades the courthous...

Episode 21: Sugar and Spice
Kimberly and her best female friend exchange a few kisses during a sleepover, leading to rumors that...

Episode 22: The Lullaby League
Max delivers a baby and begins adoption procedures when the natural mother disappears. Jill transpla...

Episode 1: Turpitude
Mayor Pugen kills a carjacker after the carjacker drops his weapon and Sheriff Brock must decide whe...

Episode 2: Duty Free Rome
Douglas Wambaugh appeals Mayor Pugen's murder conviction but the mayor spontaneously combusts. A Cat...

Episode 3: Unlawful Entries
Kenny and Max respond to a report of a rape and find a man and woman fighting. Under pressure from K...

Episode 4: Under the Influence
Max lets a drunk driver continue the short distance to her home, but the woman is involved in an acc...

Episode 5: The Dancing Bandit
Jill and Zack are among the hostages taken by a group of bank robbers led by a deaf woman (Marlee Ma...

Episode 6: Dairy Queen
The town is divided when Jill and the Mayor back a sexy model to be the town's "Dairy Queen," but Sh...

Episode 7: Cross Examination
A young woman in a coma following a car accident is found to be four months' pregnant, despite being...

Episode 8: Strangers
Jill testifies for a man suffering from a rare neurological disorder that distorts vision after he i...

Episode 9: Blue Christmas
A locker search for drugs at the local high school leads to the arrest of Kimberly's best friend, Li...

Episode 10: Paging Doctor God
Jill is arrested after she performs surgery on a woman whose Christian Science beliefs prohibit medi...

Episode 11: Guns 'R' Us
Matthew's attempts to get revenge for a humiliation by some high-school bullies by threatening them...

Episode 12: Remote Control
Littleton and Wambaugh go head to head again in the courtroom as Wambaugh argues that his latest cli...

Episode 13: Abominable Snowman
Howard Buss's son Kevin will die without a heart transplant so Howard, suffering from Alzheimer's di...

Episode 14: Supreme Courting
Valentine's Day brings romance to many members of the community. Maxine helps Carter woo Stacy Halfo...

Episode 15: Divine Recall
A 25-year-old softcore pornographic video of Mayor Rachel Harris surfaces. The town clergy lead a mo...

Episode 16: Terms of Estrangement
Kimberly is kidnapped and held hostage by a man (Louis Gossett, Jr.) who wants revenge over her fath...

Episode 17: Squatter's Rights
A 500-pound woman confesses to murdering her husband by sitting on his head. Douglas Wambaugh is exp...

Episode 18: System Down
A high-profile murder trial in which the defendant is accused of murdering two police officers is tr...

Episode 19: Buried Alive
Max arrests Jill's father. The Brocks invite her to dinner in hopes of smoothing things over but end...

Episode 20: My Left Shoe
The town learns of Father Gary Barrett's fetish for women's shoes following a fire in the church rec...

Episode 21: Frosted Flakes
The parents of a boy dying of leukemia seek a court order to allow them to place the child in cryoni...

Episode 22: Howard's End
Howard Buss' Alzheimer's disease worsens and his anguished son Kevin shoots him to death. Kevin is p...

Episode 1: Survival of the Fittest
A local girl disappears and Sherriff Brock suspects her boyfriend, Brian Latham, is involved. Meanwh...

Episode 2: Systematic Abuse
District Attorney Littleton and defense lawyer Douglas Wambaugh prepare for the upcoming murder tria...

Episode 3: The Bus Stops Here (1)
A Wisconsin Federal judge orders that 400 black students from the Green Bay ghetto be bused to Rome'...

Episode 4: Enemy Lines (2)
Jill and Judge Nance air their feelings in a heated face-to-face exchange after she is arrested when...

Episode 5: Cold Spell
After a young girl spray paints a pentacle on a wall at school, Sheriff Brock removes her from the c...

Episode 6: Elective Conduct
Jill's mayoral campaign is damaged when Zach writes a school report filled with racist content, whic...

Episode 7: Rebels with Causes
Wambaugh accompanies Jill Brock to Chicago where he receives a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at Ch...

Episode 8: May It Please the Court
Wambaugh realizes the dream of a lifetime when he presents oral arguments before the Supreme Court.

Episode 9: For Whom the Wind Blows
While Brian Latham continues to proclaim his innocence, Kenny and Max review the evidence of the cas...

Episode 10: Away in the Manger
Carter Pike suspects that bizarre genetic experiments are being carried out on cows at a remote farm...

Episode 11: Freezer Burn
A masseur known for giving erotic massages to many female residents of the town is found dead in his...

Episode 12: Frog Man Returns
The Frog Man's son tires of his father and goes to court for emancipation. Meanwhile, Zach is injure...

Episode 13: Mr. Seed Goes to Town
Jimmy Brock's ex-wife, Lydia, visits unexpectedly and brings with her an unusual request — she wants...

Episode 14: Close Encounters
Carter pronounces a woman dead after she collapses while singing, but she later "wakes up" in the mo...

Episode 15: When in Rome
When a child molester moves to Rome after spending 16 years in prison it causes big problems for the...

Episode 16: Heroes and Villains
The hearing impaired Dancing Bandit is arrested when she visits Zach on his birthday. Federal author...

Episode 17: Changing of the Guard
Jimmy goes outside of his department to get the help he needs to find Ed Lawson, who is wanted for m...

Episode 18: Without Mercy
Jimmy consults Jill when a terminal cancer patient dies of a morphine overdose.

Episode 19: Final Judgement
When Jill is found guilty of physician-assisted suicide, Wambaugh insists that Judge Bone put the is...

Episode 20: Saint Zach
When Zach develops stigmata-like sores on his hands, his friends believe he has healing powers, and...

Episode 21: Upbringings
Jimmy's father, Walter Brock (played by James Coburn), pays an unexpected visit and asks Jimmy to ta...

Episode 22: The Song of Rome
After Father Gary Barrett is shot and killed during a robbery at the church, Mayor Bey proposes hold...

Episode 1: A Change of Season
Kimberly surprises her parents with her plans to attend medical school out of state. Carter Pike's h...

Episode 2: Reap the Whirlwind
The Wambaughs have an argument on their 50th anniversary as a tornado threatens the town. Jimmy and...

Episode 3: Pal Joey
A former talk show host, Dr. Joanna "Joey" Diamond (Amy Aquino) joins Jill's medical practice. Kenny...

Episode 4: Bloodbrothers
District Attorney John Littleton's convict brother escapes from prison and makes his way to Rome.

Episode 5: Dog Eat Dog
Maxine is in trouble after she shoots a man wearing a bratwurst costume. Meanwhile, Jill assumes Kim...

Episode 6: Heart of Saturday Night
It is Saturday night in Rome, and the townspeople are looking at various ways to spend the evening....

Episode 7: Down the Tubes
Jill considers tubal ligation. Brock must dance the polka with the Mayor for charity. Haunted by the...

Episode 8: This Little Piggy
Kimberly is arrested for protesting pig-wrestling at the town fair.

Episode 9: Witness for the Prosecution
During a celebration welcoming the Pope to town, someone opens fire, and a man is killed. The victim...

Episode 10: Dem Bones
The skeleton of a Nazi sympathizer is found and suspicion falls on Jacob Levine, the son of a Jewish...

Episode 11: Bloodlines
Matthew is deeply depressed after a friend commits suicide and Jimmy takes him on a trip in order to...

Episode 12: Snow Exit
A blizzard hits town, stranding Jill and Kimberly in a bar where Lydia is making her singing debut....

Episode 13: My Romance
After being struck by a falling power line, Carter sees his deceased grandfather Bob while he is cli...

Episode 14: The Z Files
Zack inserts his teacher's face in a pornographic video and his friend uploads it to the Internet. M...

Episode 15: Bottled
Jill's emotions take control as the family celebrates Zack's 13th birthday.

Episode 16: Winner Takes All
Jill fills in as the school's interim basketball coach when the regular coach collapses during a gam...

Episode 17: Dante's Inferno
Maxine Stuart meets with opposition when she fills in as mayor and enacts some unpopular policies an...

Episode 18: Forget Selma
When Wambaugh learns that Miriam has a new man in her life, he suspects that the man must have an ul...

Episode 19: To Forgive is Divine
When an Amish girl is raped, she refuses to testify against her rapist due to her religious beliefs....

Episode 20: Liver Let Die
Jimmy learns he might have a cancerous growth on his liver. At the same time, he investigates the mu...

Episode 21: Bye-Bye, Bey-Bey
It is the christening of Mayor Bey's baby, Michael, but the Rome residents are flabbergasted when La...

Episode 22: Three Weddings and a Meltdown
In the final episode, Carter inadvertently proposes to Sue after she gets her wires crossed. Neverth...
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