Hot Pursuit - Season 1

First aired: 9/22/1984 12 episodes

Episodes

1. Pilot

Aired: 9/22/1984

An automotive engineer who has been framed for murder is rescued from police custody by her husband; they flee to New Orleans, beginning a cross-country odyssey to avoid the law and the real killers.

2. Steel Trap

Aired: 9/29/1984

Jim is captured by local police after a high-speed car chase; Kate turns to an enterprising 12-year-old boy for help in eluding the authorities. The officer relates Jim to the runaway Kate and decides to arrest her too, but she manages to escape.

3. Riding High

Aired: 10/6/1984

Jim and Kate pose as ranchers to help a racehorse jockey who's been urged to fix an upcoming race; meanwhile, Shaw zeroes in on the fugitive couple. A horse farm is where Jim and Kate are staying, where they find some respite from their assailants. However, a news crew threatens this tranquility by forcing them to appear on a coast-to-coast telecast that Dawson and Estelle watch. The pair learns that a female jockey at the ranch is addicted to amphetamines in the meantime.

4. Goodbye... I Love You

Aired: 10/13/1984

Kate and Jim seek refuge with an old Army buddy of Jim's who suffers flashbacks in which he sees Kate as the traitorous woman he once loved. At an Army installation, Jim and Kate turn to an army friend for help, not realizing that the man is still traumatized by traumatic wartime memories that drive him crazy. Because of his mistrust, another base officer starts looking into Jim and Kate.

5. Home is Where the Heart Is (1)

Aired: 10/20/1984

Jim's sister is convalescing in a hospital after suffering a stroke. The will to see her puts Jim’s life in jeopardy. Kate is told that she's pregnant and decides to run away.

6. Home is Where the Heart Is (2)

Aired: 10/27/1984

Jim searches for the mysteriously vanished Kate while she tries to survive in a forest where Shaw is stalking her.

7. Gillian

Aired: 11/3/1984

Jim and Kate agree to help a young woman locate her missing fiance while she offers to track Kate's double in Seattle.

8. Portrait of a Lady Killer

Aired: 12/14/1984

Falsely convicted of murder, the fugitive Kate Wyler kidnaps Estelle Modrian the auto mogul who framed her, and tries to extract information in an abandoned warehouse.

9. Identity Crisis

Aired: 12/21/1984

The Wylers discover that Kate's lookalike recently worked at a carnival, so Kate "returns" to the job to learn more about her.

10. Dead Game

Aired: 12/28/1984

Jim and Katy arrive to a small town and play as singles in order to ward off suspicions. Some townspeople are suddenly falling sick because of the water poisoned by the toxic waste dumped from the chemical plant where Katy is working.

11. Twilight Home

Aired: 7/26/1985

Jim and Kate are given lodgings in a home for the elderly. They discover that the old people who live there are being cheated off their pensions by a gang of well-dressed crooks.

12. The Okay Chorale

Aired: 8/2/1985

Kate and Jim get jobs at a bar called "The Pony Espresso". Jim works as a barman while Kate serves as an electrician. They meet a duo, husband and wife, of country singers. Kate and Jim both find jobs at a bar called "The Pony Espresso." Jim works as a bartender while Kate takes on the role of the electrician. They meet a couple who are husband and wife and happen to be country singers. As they get to know each other, Kate discovers that the woman is facing serious sexual health issues.