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21 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 19, 1989
Killian's talk show turns into horror when a caller commits suicide on the air. Jack and Deacon Bridges discover that the dead man was a corrupt cop - and only one tragic factor in a police scandal..
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 26, 1989
A serial killer is stalking San Francisco. Known only as 'The Iceman', he uses Jack Killian's show to publicize his deeds. Would Jack allow him the air time if he knew the identity of the Iceman's ultimate target?
Episode 3
Tue, Sep 26, 1989
The call-in killer kidnaps Devon which brings Jack and Zymak back together. They work together to save Devon and to find the reason behind the killers.
Episode 4
Tue, Oct 24, 1989
A friend of Jacks has a son who is being kept alive by a life support machine. But the hospital refuses to turn it off. So Jack puts him on his show.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 31, 1989
The look of love may be on the face of Devon's admirer, but it's a face that cannot be seen. As this disturbed man's pursuit of her becomes more ingenious and more threatening, she finds that there is nowhere to hide.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 7, 1989
A group of community activists decide that they have had enough of the drug trade, but when they take on the dealers, Killian must decide where he stands.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 14, 1989
A telephone call takes Jack back to the last time he was with his ex-girlfriend, Tina Cassidy, as she approached the final stages of her painful battle against AIDS.
Episode 8
Tue, Nov 21, 1989
A woman who believes her husband is abusing their daughter decides to keep her away from him. When she's unable to prove her claim, the husband takes her to court and the judge orders her to reveal where her daughter is or be held in contempt. She chooses the latter and is placed in jail. She would there for over a year. Jack decides to let her talk on his show. Later she asks Jack to take her daughter in for awhile. When the judge learns of this he orders Jack to tell them where she is. He refuses and is facing a contempt charge too. So he tries to see if he can prove her claim.
Episode 9
Tue, Dec 5, 1989
Deacon Bridges asks Jack to help his girlfriend who is deep in gambling debts, but manages to finance her addiction by forging masterpieces - one of which has a fatal connection.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 19, 1989
A few days before Christmas a sick young girl sees a statue of the infant Jesus weep tears. The miracle is hailed with excitement but, as Killian discovers, the Christmas spirit isn't everywhere.
Episode 11
Tue, Jan 16, 1990
The devastating San Francisco earthquake is re-enacted as Jack and Billy help citizens connect with loved ones via the radio waves, Devon has a close encounter, and Zymak and his family re-unite under tense circumstances.
Episode 12
Tue, Jan 23, 1990
Killian takes an abandoned youth named Sylver Jenson under his wing, but the plot takes a twist when Sylver flies the coop and falls under the influence of a modern-day Fagin.
Episode 13
Tue, Feb 6, 1990
Jack takes on the exploitation of illegal immigrants in the sporting world when he decides to help a boxer who is be taken advantage by his promoter because he is an illegal alien.
Episode 14
Tue, Feb 20, 1990
A young woman is killed in a hit and run accident. Because her father is a prominent attorney, the police pull out all the stops. Zymack assigns the case to a Detective Slocum. At the same time the father, who is despondent and who knows Devon turns to her who asks Jack to talk about the incident on his show hoping that someone who knows something or even the one who did will come forward. Now the police learn what car struck the woman and it turns out to be the same car Devon owns. And when someone accidentally hits it leaving a mark that makes it appear to have been in an a collision and when Jack drives it, ans when the police see the damage they assume it's the one that struck the woman so Jack is arrested. While at the station, a female thief who was arrested and is waiting to be processed, is sitting next to Jack and tells her that he was picked up because they think he is the one who struck the woman. The thief then claims that Jack told her that he was the one who struck the girl. She then proceeds to get some more information that makes her story believable. Jack finds himself facing charges cause on the night of the incident he had the car and he has no alibi.
Episode 15
Tue, Feb 27, 1990
Jack's been indicted and is now facing charges of vehicular homicide. He sets to prove his innocence by trying to figure out how the thief who knows so much about the accident. And talks to someone who tells him how she could have done it. He speaks to someone who was there and the person recalls something which he thought was insignificant at the time. But Jack decides to use that info hoping it will lead him to the person who actually ran the girl down.
Episode 16
Tue, Mar 6, 1990
A young black man appears to have been beaten and when his parents ask him what happened he tells them that Zymack did it. Zymack denies doing it but can't prove he didn't. An outspoken minister stirs things up and Jack tries to find out the truth.
Episode 17
Tue, Mar 27, 1990
Ex-convict Blanchard is trying to stay clean, but some old friends are leading him astray. When he bursts into Killian's studio one night, Killian discovers that for some ex-convicts, the outside world can be more threatening than the prison they left behind.
Episode 18
Tue, Apr 3, 1990
Jack brother, Frankie calls him saying he's in trouble. So Jack goes to meet him but when he arrives, he sees his brother, playing with their father whom he doesn't know. Jack introduces them to each other. And his brother doesn't exactly welcome him with open arms. After telling Jack and their father what happened, their father deduces that someone is using him as a fall guy. So they try to clear Frankie. They run into a girl who's also caught up it, who joins them.
Episode 19
Tue, Apr 17, 1990
The security of the witness protection programme fails to work for a couple who informed on a Central American drug cartel. When they are tracked down by professional killers, Killian has to help them - having promised their safety.
Episode 20
Tue, May 1, 199060 mins
A guy Jack knows is trying to find his brother who is in Colombia and was taken captive by drug dealers. He goes through all the normal channels to find him but can't. So in an act of desperation, he abducts a Colombian official and demands his brother's whereabouts.
Episode 21
Tue, May 15, 1990
Jack reflects on his past and value as a midnight radio host. Jack contemplates his future at the radio station while struggling with the ghost of his wife. Meanwhile his radio station boss considers leaving the station with her love interest to sail around the world. While she reconciles her conflicting loyalties she reveals to Jack she is pregnant.