Jessie
Jessie
TV ShowCanceled

Jessie

5.0 / 10
1984
1 season
11 episodes
DramaCrime

Jessie is an American 1984 ABC television police drama series starring Lindsay Wagner as a psychiatrist. It originated as a 1984 television movie. The series was based in part on the book "Psychologist with a Gun".

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  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    18-09-1984120m

    Dr. Jessie Hayden, a psychiatrist, begins a new job with the police department. She finds herself on a murderer's hit list when she realizes that he has been lying during an interv...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Lady Killer

    25-09-198460m

    Jessie jeopardizes her job to help a battered woman, while Ascoli pursues The Streak, a box-office bandit-turned-killer.

  • Ep 3

    3.Flesh Wounds

    09-10-198460m

    Jessie wants Kit Parnell, an undercover policewoman who is a former centerfold model, pulled off a case when she sees signs of extreme stress. Ascoli refuses to do it.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Long Fuse

    16-10-198460m

    A bomb blast at the health club used by Jessie's mother triggers a search by Jessie and Ascoli for a group of '60s radicals from the college that Jessie attended.

  • Ep 5

    5.McLaughlin's Flame

    23-10-198460m

    After being badly burned while on the job, a cop (Brauner) comes to terms with his predicament with the help of Dr. Hayden (Wagner).

  • Ep 6

    6.King of the Streets

    30-10-198460m

    King is a good veteran policeman, but his efforts to live up to his perfect image drive him over the edge despite Jessie's offers of help.

  • Ep 7

    7.In the Line of Duty

    13-11-198460m

    Cantwell, an innocent man, is framed by police officer Ben Grant who uses him as a tool to get a departmental promotion, The wronged man manages to get out on parole to seek reveng...

  • Ep 8

    8.Psychic Connection

    TBA

    When Captain Harding suggests using a psychic to help solve a series of murders, Ascoli reluctantly agrees.

  • Ep 9

    9.Valerie's Turn

    TBA

    Jessie becomes concerned about the high number of women dropouts from the police academy, and she and Ascoli train four of the remaining women cadets in self-defense.

  • Ep 10

    10.Trick of Fate

    TBA

    Jessie protects April, a teenage prostitute, who has witnessed a murder, but the woman won't reveal the killer's name - and he's out to silence her.

  • Ep 11

    11.Ties That Kill

    TBA

    After losing her policeman-husband, a woman turns to Lt. Ascoli for comfort, and Jessie learns a frightening secret withheld for many years by the dead man's former partner.

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