Hot Shots

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 13
Original Language EN

Hot Shots (1986)

⭐ 3.0 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 13 Episodes 🏷️ Crime, Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Hot Shots was a short-lived Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBS in the United States in 1986, and CTV in Canada in 1987. The series, produced by CTV for the CBS Late Night block of crime drama series, starred Dorothy Parke and Booth Savage as Amanda Reed and Jake West, crime journalists for the tabloid magazine Crime World. The cast also included Paul Burke, Clark Johnson, Heather Smith and Mung Ling. Only twelve episodes of the show were produced. Its producers went on to create Diamonds the following year.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Star

Amanda and Jake find themselves involved with politics and the entertainment world after the death of a colleague.

E2 Bluebeard's Inn

Jake and Amanda find themselves in a frightening ghost story after a world-famous hotelier dies on the eve of buying a supposedly haunted inn.

E3 Warriors

Jake and Amanda investigate the disappearance of Broderick's old Army buddy, although all clues point to a soldier who had been killed years earlier.

E4 All in the Game

A game show contestant, all set to become the biggest cash prize winner in game show history, is electrocuted on stage. Jake and Amanda investigate.

E5 To Bee or Not to Bee

Bees sting their keeper, a writer, and his lover to death. Jake and Amanda investigate.

E6 Accidental Victims

Jason and Amanda face a series of ups and downs when they investigate a double murder in an elevator car. They investigate the death of an innocent victim of a drug-related slaying.

E7 Cut Off in His Prime

Amanda and Jason investigate the death of a rock star's band member.

E8 Absent Minded

Jake and Amanda find that the cold-blooded murder of a shoe magnate is not the open-and-shut case it appears to be.

E9 Tails You Lose

Dorothy Parke, as Jake and Amanda, encounters an internationally renowned master thief while collecting a set of bearer bond engraving plates—and a CrimeWorld cover story.

E10 Writ of Habeas Corpse

Jake and Amanda aim to find out if a famous lawyer's death plunge was a suicide.

E11 The Family Jules

Broderick, Jake, Amanda, and Pendleton are sent to look into acquiring the property when Facade, a distinguished literary magazine, is put on the market. But they become involved in family intrigue, blackmail and homicide.

E12 Roll Over, Agatha Christie

Amanda and Jake spend a fun-filled weekend at a murder mystery resort.

E13 Riot

Amanda is taken hostage during a prison riot at a women's detention facility.