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The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 11 of them aired.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01PilotSeptember 16, 1992—Debut: Three young men, each orphaned by crime, make up a police team specializing in violent crimes. Their first case: catch a murderer who
- S01E02The Widow MakerSeptember 23, 1992—The brother of a girl Matty's interested in tells him that there's a guy hassling her. So Matty goes to see him and the guy beats him up. At
- S01E0392 Seconds to MidnightSeptember 30, 1992—Raffi goes undercover to protect a little girl when her father is forced out of his retirement from crime by a robber planning a $2 million
- S01E04Family BusinessOctober 28, 1992—The guys must act quickly when a deranged explosives expert escapes from prison and targets Mile, the cope who put him behind bars for murde
- S01E05Phoenix RisingNovember 4, 1992—It's a family feud when the hats clash with a family of ex-terrorist that uses strong-arm tactics; an additional obstacle: saving the family
- S01E06TenNovember 11, 1992—Bad brothers blow away Buddy's buddy, leaving a young boy father less, so the Hats scramble to confront the hit man before they leave town.
- S01E07Rest in PeaceDecember 9, 1992—Buddy travels to Las Vegas as he tracks a mob boss he thinks murdered his natural father. But the killer is closer to home, as is someone wh
- S01E08Lifestyles of the Rich and InfamousJanuary 2, 1993—The squad must sharpen its skills to track down a twisted heir to a razor fortune who stalks a young female witness to his latest killing. M
- S01E09A Dog's LifeJanuary 9, 1993—Frustrated by a canine of detecting smuggled drugs, a drug lord puts a bounty on the dog's life. So the DEA sniffs out They Hat Squad to pro
- S01E10Dead Man WalkingJanuary 16, 1993—A mob hires a hit man to kill his son's girlfriend after she goes to the DA with potentially devastating information, and the Hats are calle
- S01E11The LiquidatorJanuary 23, 1993—A death-row inmate tips the Hats to a group of killer cops, so the squad must compile evidence against the miscreants before they wipe the b
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