The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of B.J. and the Bear (1978), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt as he was on B.J.'s show, but he is still trying to make a buck by cooking up schemes or hoping to be given the reward money for property he recovers or criminals he apprehends. He is foiled either by the bumbling antics of his deputy, Perkins, or the integrity of his other deputy, Birdie Hawkins. During the show's second season, the naive Governor, who was visiting Orly, was impressed by Lobo's unorthodox methods, appoints him to his crime fighting task force and sends Lobo, Perkins, and Birdie to Atlanta. Now the chief of detectives, whom Lobo reports to, is incredulous as how Lobo can help him, especially after meeting Perkins, so he doesn't assign them to anything important. So Lobo has to steal or grab a case on his own and hopes that the Chief will be impressed. Hildy, the chief's secretary, doesn't think that Lobo can do any good, but offers help if it means that she can go out into the field. About the only support they get is from Brandy and Peaches, two ambitious detectives, who occasionally work with Lobo, although they're more interested in snagging the credit for themselves.
- 1979-1981
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- Comedy
Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of B.J. and the Bear (1978), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt as he was on B.J.'s show, but he is still trying to make a buck by cooking up schemes or hoping to be given the reward money for property he recovers or criminals he apprehends. He is foiled either by the bumbling antics of his deputy, Perkins, or the integrity of his other deputy, Birdie Hawkins. During the show's second season, the naive Governor, who was visiting Orly, was impressed by Lobo's unorthodox methods, appoints him to his crime fighting task force and sends Lobo, Perkins, and Birdie to Atlanta. Now the chief of detectives, whom Lobo reports to, is incredulous as how Lobo can help him, especially after meeting Perkins, so he doesn't assign them to anything important. So Lobo has to steal or grab a case on his own and hopes that the Chief will be impressed. Hildy, the chief's secretary, doesn't think that Lobo can do any good, but offers help if it means that she can go out into the field. About the only support they get is from Brandy and Peaches, two ambitious detectives, who occasionally work with Lobo, although they're more interested in snagging the credit for themselves.
Season 2 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
The Dirtiest Girls in Town
Tue, Dec 30, 1980 60 mins
Lobo, Perkins and Birdie are tapped to serve on the governor's special task force in Atlanta, where the boys try to win the respect of their skeptical new colleagues by cracking the department's most difficult case: a credit card rip-off racket operating out of a nightclub featuring lady mud wrestlers.
Episode 2
The Girls with the Stolen Bodies
Tue, Jan 6, 1981 60 mins
Perkins is hospitalized with a bottom full of buckshot and is dismayed to discover that a number of his fellow patients undergoing minor surgeries are dying and disappearing.
Episode 3
The Fastest Women Around
Tue, Jan 13, 1981 60 mins
The fastest women around are a ring of beautiful lady car thieves terrorizing Atlanta and baffling the police. Lobo, Perkins and Birdie go undercover as a competing ring to discover the kingpin, but will their scheme be scuttled by the suspicious Chief Carson and Hildy?
Episode 4
Macho Man
Tue, Jan 20, 1981 60 mins
Birdie's college chum Michael is murdered and Birdie is arrested as the prime suspect. Lobo and Perkins commit to helping their friend clear his name and capture the real killer, a task that calls for Birdie to go undercover as a nude model for Macho Man Magazine.
Episode 5
Airsick - 1981
Tue, Feb 3, 1981 60 mins
Sheriff Lobo and deputies are on board a plane for a prisoner transfer. But there is also a bomber on board who wants to hijack the plane.
Episode 6
Coeds with Sticky Fingers
Tue, Feb 10, 1981 60 mins
A baby-sitting agency in Orly County is actually a front for a burglary ring.
Episode 7
Sex and the Single Cop
Tue, Feb 17, 1981 60 mins
A man the Governor knows commits a crime and is arrested. The Governor calls Lobo and tells him, he knows the man wouldn't have done the crime if he wasn't forced to. So Lobo looks into things and thinks the man may have been blackmailed into doing it. And the learn that he was at a sex clinic. So Lobo, Perkins and Birdie decide to go there and find if that's where it all began. But they need wives to come with them. So they ask Peaches and Brandy who are paired with Birdie and Perkins respectively. HIldy offers to be Lobo's wife and they go without informing the Chief.
Episode 8
Another Day, Another Bomb
Tue, Feb 24, 1981 60 mins
Television legend Sid Caesar plays a friendly bomber who likes to make big noises, which is only one of the problems facing Lobo, Birdie and Perkins. The mother of a baby taken into custody kidnaps her son and Chief Carson at gunpoint, leaving the boys to contend with an obnoxious social worker, a gullible reporter, a suspicious Peaches and Brandy and a riled Hildy.
Episode 9
The French Follies Caper
Tue, Mar 3, 1981 60 mins
The puzzling theft of Perkins' hat puts Lobo, Birdie and Perkins on the path to cracking a bigger case involving embezzled funds and attempted murder by the impresario of a French Follies revue.
Episode 10
Bang, Bang... You're Dead!
Tue, Mar 24, 1981 60 mins
Perkins becomes the first person courageous (or clueless) enough to testify against mob hitman Ernie "One Shot" Kelbow. When the assassin is sprung on bail he comes gunning for Perkins. Can Lobo, Birdie and Hildy keep their friend out of the hitman's crosshairs?
Episode 11
The Cowboy Connection
Tue, Mar 31, 1981 60 mins
To uncover a gem smuggling ring threatening country singer Kitty Rhinestone, Birdie, Brandy, Peaches and Hildy go undercover as the country band "Birdie and the Belle Girls."
Episode 12
What're Girls Like You Doing in a Bank Like This?
Tue, Apr 7, 1981 60 mins
Perkins is moonlighting as a security guard in a bank that is held up by two beautiful, machine gun-wielding women. Among their hostages are a wounded Chief Carson and a distraught Hildy.
Episode 13
Lobo and the Pirates
Tue, Apr 21, 1981 60 mins
Perkins' romantic entanglement with a crooked music executive threatens to blow the cover off the department's investigation of a record pirating operation.
Episode 14
The Roller Disco Karate Kaper
Tue, Apr 28, 1981 60 mins
Perkins stumbles into a kidnap-blackmail plot while picking up the Chinese take-out. The head of a corrupt charity is holding hostage the brother of its former bookkeeper who has proof of embezzlement. Freeing the prisoner won't be easy with a karate-chopping bodyguard in the way.
Episode 15
Keep on Buckin'
Tue, May 5, 1981 60 mins
A rodeo clown's drug dealing threatens the lives and the love between a group of Orly-native rodeo riders and their wives. A paternal Lobo intervenes personally and professionally, with an able assist from Perkins and Birdie. Final episode of the series.