Joe Bash

Season 1

1986 · 6 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Pilot

   28 Mar 1986

   Police officer Joe Bash has endured the night tour for more than nine months, in the 33rd Precinct of the N.Y.P.D., and he complains of a vitamin deficiency for lack of sunlight. With tonight's foot patrol he is assigned a new partner, eager rookie Willie Smith, whom he soon must extricate from a tenement building filled with angry New Yorkers.

2. 2

   2. Feinbaum

   4 Apr 1986

   Joe is faced with a test of conscience when an old woman dies alone in her dirty, packrat apartment, and he is the one who discovers her fortune, a paper bag filled with bills totaling 60,000 dollars.

3. 3

   3. unknown title

   11 Apr 1986

   Joe refuses a Sunday dinner invitation from Willie, his partner. Then the officers encounter a problem with Abe Feinbaum, who orders a meal at a midnight eatery in NYC but cannot pay for it, and cannot remember where he lives.

4. 4

   4. unknown title

   25 Apr 1986

   Officer Smith recognizes Joe's date as a hooker. Also, the two policemen are caught in a sting by the precinct's Integrity Control Officer.

5. 5

   5. unknown title

   2 May 1986

   Police Captain Charles Taylor, 20 years ago, was the beat partner of Joe Bash. On his way to the top he took advantage of a lot of people, starting with Joe. Now on the eve of Taylor's promotion to Inspector, he insists that Joe deliver a few words to a banquet, about their early days on the force. Then Joe realizes he has the opportunity to trash the Captain's reputation in front of a live audience.

6. 6

   6. unknown title

   10 May 1986

   Lorna the hooker presents Joe with an ultimatum. Joe may continue to have sex with her, but he must stop paying for it.