Under Suspicion
Under Suspicion
TV ShowEnded

Under Suspicion

7.5 / 10
1994
1 season
18 episodes
Drama

Under Suspicion is an American television police drama set in Portland, Oregon. It was created by Jacqueline Zambrano. Its episodes were broadcast on the CBS network from September 16, 1994 to March 10, 1995. Though short-lived, the show premiered to fairly strong reviews, which praised lead Karen Sillas's performance and observed that the show functioned as a kind of Americanized Prime Suspect. Filming occurred in Portland, with views of the South Park Blocks and Willamette River.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    16-09-199460m

    Det. Rose ""Phil"" Phillips, a detective with Portland Oregon's police homicide squad, is appointed the Women's Coordinator, raising hackles among her co-workers. But she soon beco...

  • Serial Killer (1)

    2.Serial Killer (1)

    23-09-199460m

    Now undermanned in the homicide division due to the death of Fusco and LeBlanc, and the arrest of the third officer, Phil is on the case of an apparent serial killer, who leaves a...

  • Ep 3

    3.Serial Killer (2)

    30-09-199460m

    All the evidence seems to point to Judge Friedlander, but Phil comes dangerously close to badgering him and endangering her career, and possibly her life, in pursuit of the seri...

  • Ep 4

    4.Child Molester (1)

    07-10-199460m

    Shane Fusco's best friend is kidnapped while she and Shane walk through the park, and Phil is soon involved (more than she should be) questioning Shane about the events, and invest...

  • Ep 5

    5.Child Molester (2)

    14-10-199460m

    When Shane's friend Rita turns up murdered, Phil, with the help of Beck, and another new detective by the name of Papadakis must investigate the murder from the pieces of evidence....

  • Ep 6

    6.Wife Abuse/Murder (1)

    28-10-199460m

    While Phil and Beck are in a restaurant, Phil spots a husband abusing his wife, so Phil threatens to bust him. And when the wife turns up dead, Phil is out for blood.

  • Ep 7

    7.Wife Abuse/Murder (2)

    04-11-199460m

    As Phil closes in on Garfield as his wife's killer, the husband's famous defense attorney Martin Fox turns the tables: he exposes Phil's affair with Vitelli in the press and allege...

  • Ep 8

    8.Street Kid Arson/Murder Story

    11-11-199460m

    When a body is discovered in the rubble of a torched warehouse, Phil and the detectives focus their investigation on a group of street kids living nearby, and at least one kid name...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Retarded Witness

    18-11-199460m

    A pregnant woman is hit in a drive-by shooting, and Phil's only witness is a mentally retarded man, who happens to have a photographic memory.

  • Ep 10

    10.Father/Daughter Murder

    01-12-199460m

    When a business man turns up in his bed, dead by a shootgun blast, all evidence seems to point to his daughter, who can't remember the night of the murder, but who does claim her f...

  • Ep 11

    11.Sex Harassment/Corruption Case

    06-01-199560m

    Phil takes on a female officer's sexual-harassment case against a city official. But when the case becomes an Internal Affairs investigation, and Phil is pulled from the case, it m...

  • Ep 12

    12.Koreatown Murder

    13-01-199560m

    Racial tensions complicate Beck's and Phil's investigation of the murder of a Korean spa owner who had been acquiring real estate in a predominantly black neighborhood.

  • Ep 13

    13.Holy Suspect

    20-01-199560m

    The suspects in the murder of a newspaper reporter include a priest who once served time for manslaughter, but who now claims to be redeemed and repents by running a halfway house.

  • Ep 14

    14.A Haunting Case

    27-01-199560m

    Lt. Schwarz leads the investigation into a brutal murder that closely resembles a disturbing case he handled 25 years earlier, in which the suspect got off on a technicality.

  • Ep 15

    15.Hostage Standoff

    03-02-199560m

    While doing a profile of Phil and generally being annoying and getting in the way, a TV reporter and her cameraman jeopardize a murder investigation, and then get themselves held a...

  • Ep 16

    16.Kinky Murder

    24-02-199560m

    Phil's investigation into the grisly murder of a seemingly demure school teacher reveals surprising facts about her personal life.

  • Ep 17

    17.Cop Killing

    03-03-199560m

    Phil has her hands full running the station in Lt. Schwarz's absence, while the detectives investigate the mob-style murder of a police officer, encountering FBI interference along...

  • Ep 18

    18.Wrongful Shooting

    10-03-199560m

    Clarke fatally shoots the brother of a murder suspect, prompting a promise of retribution from the real suspect. And tempers flare at the station when Internal Affairs questions th...

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