A Hollywood private investigator heads up an elite detective agency staffed with talented misfits who don't fit into the conventional world of law enforcement. Navarro and his team see the seedy underbelly of Hollywood's glitz and glamour and must deal with their own personal issues, often demons from previous careers. The entire line of action centers on the agency and its investigations into particular situations that are either unlawful or otherwise embarrassing for their Tinsel Town celebrity clients.
The city of San Francisco is pushed into a state of terror and fear as a deranged murderer stalks the city. The police are baffled by the case and are led to extremes by a lunatic whose victims all have something in common: their hearts have been skillfully and surgically removed. Meanwhile, across town, a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
Win Garano, an Apache nicknamed "Geronimo", is working for Monique "Money" Lamont, in the Boston DA's department. Lamont is running for Governor of Massachusetts, using the concept of "at risk" to try to gain votes, saying that everyone is at risk from crime, but when she becomes governor it will be the criminals who will be at risk. To promote her political campaign, she re-opens and assigns Garano to a cold case concerning the murder of a 90-year-old woman 35 years previously, demonstrating to voters that she can clear up old crimes as well as new ones.
At New York's Mountview General Hospital, widow Janet Haley faints from exhaustion and malnutrition after intern Dr. Jimmie Kildare treats her for a burn from a pleating machine. Meanwhile, chief surgeon Dr.
Ellen Jessman returns from a skiing vacation and Steve Keiver is awaiting her at the airport in his pal Harry's taxi. Keiver wants to marry Ellen, but as an insurance investigator, he makes little money. Keiver's boss Manston cannot extend him a raise but mentions how the recovery of some stolen furs would save the company from paying a $10,000 claim.
Barbara Cummings returns to Britain following the death of her estranged, wealthy father who is believed to have committed suicide. It is expected that the bulk of the estate will pass to his business partner. However, when the will is read she is given most of the money as a gesture of reconciliation by her father.
A security expert Kyle Western (Weathers) begins working for the high-profile gangster Lou Jordan (Williams), who is an antique-car enthusiast. When Jordan shoots dead an intruder one evening, Western is pressured into taking the fall, in return for a large cash sum, to which Western hopes will enable him to buy Napa Valley land as an upright citizen. Soon after Jordan murders his own attorney in front of Western's eyes.
Chicago mob boss Rocca manages to get Lester Gillis sprung from jail in Joliet. His motive is to have Gillis kill a labor organizer, but Gillis refuses, preferring to work with Rocca's gang on robberies instead. He meets mob moll Sue Nelson and they start a relationship.
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, the crusty senior diagnostician at New York's Blair General Hospital, has a severe disagreement with a pupil, intern James Kildare, over a suspected case of Q fever. He decides to teach his stubborn assistant a lesson in dealing with the emotional causes of his patients' ills, as well as the physical.
Teenager Barbara Vining has an unrequited crush on her Latin-language teacher, Stephen Barlow and goes to his house for private tutoring. Barlow's wife Kay notices Barbara's infatuation and cruelly confronts her. Barbara, who is humiliated, runs out of their house.
A crime thriller and family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty, where music, love, hope and tragedy collide.
A Chicago cop is dismissed from the force unfairly and needs to clear his name. Accused of theft, he goes after people who committed the crime. Now that he is out of the force, he is not bound by the rules as he goes after the drug lord (played by Joe Spinnell).
His portion of the loot from a recent heist squandered, minor-league criminal Frank Harper talks his boss, Flood, into a more lucrative project: on the weekend before a Monday payday, break into a San Felipe, California bank, which will be holding a million-dollar payroll for the Marine Base at Camp Pendleton. Flood plans the operation, sending his moll Kay with Frank to become established in the community at San Felipe and to lay the groundwork for the heist. As a means to do this, Frank buys a local gas station and garage, and he and Kay—posing as a married couple—move into a house nearby.
Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan) teams up with three other professional women to investigate a serial killer who targets brides on their honeymoon. While trying to solve the biggest case of her career, she finds herself falling for her partner (Gil Bellows) and battling a life-threatening illness.
Former gangster Joe Gray, a World War II hero, now leads a respectable life. When he is summoned to appear before a grand jury to testify against organized-crime activities, his former mobster colleagues try to stop him.
Gully Mercer (Mick Rossi) leads a group of pro-league criminals (Robert Miano, Aaron Gallagher, Jorge A. Jiminez, and Val Kilmer) in the city of Toronto. They plan a seemingly "foolproof" heist for a lazy high-class hotel on New Year's Eve, set to take place at exactly 2:22 A.M.
Mr. Tucker, proprietor of a Los Angeles coffee house, hires three down-on-their-luck classic beatnik patrons: out-of-work actor John Mapes; struggling writer Ray Miller; and George Leland, the wayward son of movie star Rita Leland, to participate in an armored car robbery to take place during a four-hour stopover in Chicago during the trio's train trip from Los Angeles to New York. John's worried wife Jeanne joins him on the train, concerned about his not having had a job in more than a year.
In London, a cover girl model is found dead, dressed and posed as she appeared on the front cover of Wow magazine. The police uncover the connection, and learn from the magazine's owner, Johnny Mason, an archaeologist who has just inherited the magazine from his uncle, that another recently deceased girl also posed for the magazine. Investigating, the police discover that three cover girls have died, and find that each died of an overdose and dressed in the same outfit in which they appeared in the magazine.
A young girl, Juanita, finds her parents killed in a voodoo ritual on a distant tropical island. She escapes with her life, but when she reaches adulthood, she feels compelled to return to the island, bringing her daughter and a nanny who takes care of the child. Once there, she goes to stay with her uncle who lives on the island.
Eddie Darrow (Tony Curtis) works for American gangster Barney Pendleton, who sends him to Macao to find a woman, Christine Lawrence, and bring her back to the United States. Aware of a previous romantic attraction between the two, Pendleton tells his thug Chalmer to follow Eddie on the trip, just in case. At a nightclub and casino, Eddie saves the owner, Justin Keit, from some Chinese men attacking him.
Three black revolutionaries (Anthony Bottom, Albert "Nuh" Washington, and Herman Bell) gun down two New York City police officers. The self-styled terrorists elude the law and conviction for their crime. Assistant District Attorney, Robert Tanenbaum, the man responsible for bringing the three killers to justice, leads a tireless nationwide investigation that moves to San Francisco, New Orleans and Mississippi and finally back to a climax in a New York City courtroom.
A burglar (Tony Danza) plans a bank heist in a small town on Christmas Eve, but experiences a change of heart after he takes a job playing Santa Claus.
