She's the Sheriff
She's the Sheriff is an American sitcom created by Dan Guntzelman and Steve Marshall. Aired in syndication for two seasons from September 1987 to April 1989, the series stars Suzanne Somers as Hildy Granger, a young woman whose husband, the sheriff of fictional Lakes County, Nevada, is killed by a drunk driver. Now widowed with two teenage children to support, Hildy accepts the county commissioner's offer to appoint her as sheriff, despite her lack of relevant experience. The show focuses on her efforts to handle the daily problems of locals and tourists, while learning to work with her four deputies. In particular, Hildy has routine disagreements with Max Rubin, who sees her undeserving of the job.
Seasons
1. All in a Day's Work
Air Date: 1987-09-19
Hildy discovers the true meaning of trouble when Gussie gets a driver's license and collides with a reindeer statue.
2. Butterfly Is Free
Air Date: 1987-09-26
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.
3. Unsafe at Any Speed
Air Date: 1987-10-03
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.
4. A Little Romance
Air Date: 1987-10-10
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.
5. Lover Boy
Air Date: 1987-10-17
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.
6. Monkey Business
Air Date: 1987-10-24
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.
7. Max Moves In
Air Date: 1987-10-31
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.
8. Poker Fever
Air Date: 1987-11-07
Hildy is on a string of good luck which her mother calls 'The Golden Streak'.
9. Hildy Gets Shot
Air Date: 1987-11-14
After getting shot, Hildy's relatives visit and she recounts how she became sheriff with newly created flashbacks.
10. Child's Play
Air Date: 1987-11-21
Hildy brings young shoplifter Percy into her home but isn't prepared when the delinquent convinces Kenny to run away.
11. Call Me Madam
Air Date: 1987-11-28
Hildy goes undercover as a hooker and Rubin goes undercover as a john to bust a madam.
12. The Perils of Pauline
Air Date: 1987-12-05
After some bad advice from Hildy, her sister Pauline divorces her husband and marries Rubin, who thinks she has money.
13. A Hero
Air Date: 1987-12-12
Down in the dumps after killing omeone on the job, Putnam wants to leave the force.
14. The Feds
Air Date: 1987-12-19
Hildy poses as a hitwoman to catch a killer.
15. New Year's Eve
Air Date: 1988-01-02
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.
16. The Great Escape
Air Date: 1988-01-09
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.
17. Hostage
Air Date: 1988-01-16
After hearing that his wife is cheating on him, Crazy Ralphie holds the whole station hostage.
18. All Alone
Air Date: 1988-01-30
Rubin helps a destitute woman raise money... or is she really in need?
19. Hildy, the Homewrecker
Air Date: 1988-02-06
The deputies think Hildy is having an affair with her handyman.
20. Hair
Air Date: 1988-02-13
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.
21. Dinsmore's Wedding
Air Date: 1987-12-08
Rubin wrangles a mail-order bride for an eccentric man.
22. Hildy's First Kiss
Air Date: 1988-02-27
Hildy goes on her first date since her husband died.
1. A Not So Fatal Attraction
Air Date: 1988-10-08
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.
2. Hildy's Public Defender
Air Date: 1988-10-15
While working on a condominium timeshare scam, Hildy suddenly finds herself under the investigative eye of a younger public defender.
3. A Friend in High Places
Air Date: 1988-10-22
Hildy prevents an old high school friend from committing suicide, but then she inadvertently complicates matters as they reminisce together.
4. Have a Nice Day
Air Date: 1988-10-29
Mishaps abound when Hildy works to prepare the department for a surprise state inspection.
5. Gussie Behind Bars
Air Date: 1988-11-05
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.
6. Max's Ten
Air Date: 1988-11-12
Rubin becomes so obsessed with showing off his beautiful date to his doubting colleagues that he inadvertently ignores her.
7. Mulcahy Gets Kicked Out
Air Date: 1988-11-19
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.
8. Dream the Implausible Dream
Air Date: 1988-11-26
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.
9. Father-Son Banquet
Air Date: 1988-12-03
Hildy tries to prove 'mother knows best' when she battles with Kenny's baseball coach to be included in the annual father-son banquet.
10. Love Hurts
Air Date: 1988-12-10
While attempting to play Cupid to her friends Terry and Putnam, Hildy discovers that Terry's current boyfriend, Biff, is really Rubin in disguise.
11. Down for the Count
Air Date: 1988-12-17
Hildy's and the deputies' dreams of fame and riches end when the fighter in whom them invest turns out to be a 'lightweight'.
12. Midnight Run
Air Date: 1989-01-07
A ruthless criminal is gunning for Hildy after she witnesses a bank robbery.
13. Tastes Great, Less Killing
Air Date: 1989-01-14
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.
14. Divorce, Wiggins Style
Air Date: 1989-01-21
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.
15. Forever Young
Air Date: 1989-02-04
Hildy convinces herself that she is too old as a landmark birthday approaches.
16. The Teflon Sheriff
Air Date: 1989-02-11
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.
17. The Mother Mugger
Air Date: 1989-02-18
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.
18. I'm Okay, You're All Crazy
Air Date: 1989-02-25
When a psychiatrist is held in lockup, Hildy and the deputies begin questioning their own, as well as each other's, psychological motivations.
19. Max Gets Trumped
Air Date: 1989-03-04
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.
20. You Always Hurt the One You Love
Air Date: 1989-03-18
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.
21. Me Tarzan, You Hildy
Air Date: 1989-03-25
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.
22. Kissing Cousins
Air Date: 1989-04-01
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.
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Rating
5.0/10
Release Date
1987-09-19
Episodes
44 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Lorimar Telepictures