Reasonable Doubts

1991 - 1993 TV-14 1h 00m 7.4

A drama about the working relationship between Assistant DA Tess Kaufman, a prosecutor sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb, an old-fashioned cop with a "bust-the-perps" attitude.

Chicago police detective Dicky Cobb turns in some crooked cops and finds himself persona non grata in the department. He is reassigned as an investigator for assistant D.A. Tess Kaufman, partly due to the fact that she is deaf and he can sign. Tess works for District Attorney Arthur Gold, a slick opportunist. Dicky investigates her cases, with the frequent help of Detective Earl Gaddis, a chain-smoking cop who is the only one on the force Dicky still gets along with. Tess is assisted by her faithful translator, Ben Douglass. Her ex-husband, Bruce Kaufman, continues to make life unhappy for her by involving her in his insensitive schemes. Dicky is romantically involved first with Kay Lockman, a cop's daughter who runs a bar, and later with defense attorney Maggie Zombro, with whom he often conflicts in court.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Pilot

1. Pilot

Aired: Sep 26, 1991

A Detective and an ADA meet in a courtroom. The deaf ADA finds that he can "s...

Episode 2 Hard Bargains

2. Hard Bargains

Aired: Sep 27, 1991

Tess and Dicky handle the case of a mentally ill man who attacked a neighbor....

Episode 3 Making Dirt Stick

3. Making Dirt Stick

Aired: Oct 4, 1991

Dicky and Tess search for new evidence to nail a murderer released on a techn...

Episode 4 Daddy's Little Girl

4. Daddy's Little Girl

Aired: Oct 18, 1991

Dicky's stuck with an inadmissible confession when a woman confesses to murde...

Episode 6 The Silent Treatment

6. The Silent Treatment

Aired: Nov 1, 1991

Tess is tough on a deaf man accused of attempted murder, and Dicky becomes in...

Episode 7 Tangled up in Blue

7. Tangled up in Blue

Aired: Nov 8, 1991

Bruce's move on Kay shakes things up with Tess; and a date-rape incident prom...

Episode 8 Aftermath

8. Aftermath

Aired: Nov 15, 1991

Kay tries to cope with the rape, harassment by the police and the impending t...

Episode 9 One Woman's Word

9. One Woman's Word

Aired: Nov 29, 1991

Kay is as much on trial as the defendant, but with the support of Tess and Di...

Episode 10 Graduation Day

10. Graduation Day

Aired: Dec 5, 1991

Det Cobb can't win for losing when he hits it off with his new girlfriend's (...

Episode 11 Pure Gold

11. Pure Gold

Aired: Dec 13, 1991

A fatal hit-and-run case involving a politician puts Gold on the spot, and ca...

Episode 13 The Shadow of Death

13. The Shadow of Death

Aired: Jan 17, 1992

Gold's uncle, who's opposed to capital punishment, defends a psycho-killer ag...

Episode 14 The Discomfort Zone

14. The Discomfort Zone

Aired: Feb 4, 1992

Tess finds out her secret admirer is a key figure in a case; Dicky pressures ...

Episode 15 Fish out of Water

15. Fish out of Water

Aired: Feb 11, 1992

Dicky Cobb is hit from all sides, including a fellow cop (Richard Grant), whe...

Episode 16 Burning Desire

16. Burning Desire

Aired: Mar 3, 1992

Tess's prosecution of the young neo-Nazi is roughed up by Judge Booth. Meanwh...

Episode 17 Love Is Strange

17. Love Is Strange

Aired: Mar 17, 1992

Tess starts the wheels turning in the neo-Nazi case, but Judge Booth's obsess...

Episode 20 Home to Roost

20. Home to Roost

Aired: Sep 8, 1992

Maggie provides a spirited defense of a battered woman accused of murder in a...

Episode 21 Change of Plans

21. Change of Plans

Aired: Sep 15, 1992

A public defender provides a weak defense for a Mexican immigrant couple accu...

Info about Reasonable Doubts

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres: Drama, Crime