Picket Fences: Season 2

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Season Details & Credits

CBS | Season Premiere Date: October 22, 1993

Starring: Fyvush Finkel, Kathy Baker, Adam Wylie

Summary: From award winning producer David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal", "The Practice" and "Boston Legal") comes Picket Fences, a story of a small town sherrif trying to maintain the town & his family.Sherrif James Brock (Tom Skerrit) is trying to maintain the small town of Rome, Wisconin. His wife Jill (Kathy Baker) is the doctor of the town, daughterFrom award winning producer David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal", "The Practice" and "Boston Legal") comes Picket Fences, a story of a small town sherrif trying to maintain the town & his family.Sherrif James Brock (Tom Skerrit) is trying to maintain the small town of Rome, Wisconin. His wife Jill (Kathy Baker) is the doctor of the town, daughter Kimberley (Holly Marie Combs), from a previous marriage of Jimmy, is the level headed student growing up in Rome. Jimmy and Jill have two other children, Matthew (Justin Shenkarow) and Zach (Adam Wylie).Trying his best to keep the town in order, Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston) rules the court room and while he doesn't always stick to the law, he does what is best for the town. Making Judge Bone's job harder is lawer Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel), a friend of Judge Bone but an enemy in the court room. Wambaugh goes to extreme lengths to win the case, but he is after all a character!Also around in the town of Rome are D.A John Littelon (Don Cheadle), a straight man for the antics of Wambaugh, the strange Medical Examinor Carter Pike (Kelly Connel) and deputy's Max and Kenny an on & off couple.The town of Rome never ran smoothly though, with a revolving door of mayors along with cows giving birth to humansand an array of people found dead in freezers.While the show was adored by critics, it never quite found great ratings on CBS and was cancelled after 4 seasons. Creator David E. Kelley left his post as Executive Producer after season 3, which brought a different style of show during season 4 - returning only to write 2 stand out episodes that year. Some have suggested this is why the show met its demise when Kelley left. Also the show does reach a fitting conclusion but it comes rather rushed as it was believed the show would be coming back for season 5. Picket Fences remains a class show and now with the first season recently released on DVD you can enjoy it all over again! … Expand

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E22. Howard's End
Air Date: May 13, 1994
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S2:E21. Frosted Flakes
Air Date: May 6, 1994
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S2:E20. My Left Shoe
Air Date: April 29, 1994

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Ken Tucker

Jun 10, 2013

Nowadays, in just about every episode-and they're all either written or cowritten by Kelley-a serious controversy is raised, debated heatedly, and then smothered in overwrought speechifying. What all this suggests is that, festooned with its high honors and low ratings, Picket Fences represents the triumph of middlebrow intellectualism in current television. It is a show that's always Tackling Major Themes whenever it's not trying to achieve the sort of sweet whimsy meant to disguise the fact that this is one of the most profoundly humorless series ever made. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 22, 1995
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 23, 1994
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 22, 1993
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  S2:E22. Howard's End
  Air Date: May 13, 1994
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  S2:E21. Frosted Flakes
  Air Date: May 6, 1994
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  S2:E20. My Left Shoe
  Air Date: April 29, 1994
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  S2:E19. Buried Alive
  Air Date: April 8, 1994
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  S2:E18. System Down
  Air Date: April 1, 1994
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  S2:E17. Squatter's Rights
  Air Date: March 11, 1994
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  S2:E16. Terms of Estrangement
  Air Date: March 4, 1994
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  S2:E15. Divine Recall
  Air Date: February 11, 1994
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  S2:E14. Supreme Courting
  Air Date: February 4, 1994
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  S2:E13. Abominable Snowman
  Air Date: January 28, 1994
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  S2:E12. Remote Control
  Air Date: January 21, 1994
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  S2:E11. Guns 'R' Us
  Air Date: January 14, 1994
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  S2:E10. Paging Doctor God
  Air Date: January 7, 1994
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  S2:E9. Blue Christmas
  Air Date: December 17, 1993
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  S2:E8. Strangers
  Air Date: December 10, 1993
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  S2:E8. Strangers
  Air Date: December 9, 1993
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  S2:E7. Cross Examination
  Air Date: December 3, 1993
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  S2:E6. Dairy Queen
  Air Date: November 26, 1993
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  S2:E5. The Dancing Bandit
  Air Date: November 12, 1993
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  S2:E5. The Dancing Bandit
  Air Date: November 11, 1993
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  S2:E4. Under the Influence
  Air Date: November 5, 1993
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  S2:E3. Unlawful Entries
  Air Date: October 29, 1993
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  S2:E2. Duty Free Rome
  Air Date: October 28, 1993
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  S2:E1. Turpitude
  Air Date: October 22, 1993
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 18, 1992