She's the Sheriff

While posing as Hildy's boyfriend during a stakeout, Max unexpectedly falls in love with her after they kiss in the line of duty. Max is enamored with Hildy after they pose as lovers during a stakeout.

Romantic sparks threaten to ignite when Hildy meets a public defender who is much younger. While working on a condominium time-share scam, Hildy suddenly finds herself under the investigative eye of a public defender who is much younger.

Hildy keeps an old high school friend from committing suicide, but then Hildy inadvertently complicates matters as they reminisce together.

Mishaps abound when Hildy works to prepare the department and the deputies for a surprise inspection.

During Hildy's first bid for reelection since being appointed Sheriff, unexpected trouble begins when her mother is arrested and jailed during a ""Save the Trees"" protest.

Max becomes so obsessed with showing his beautiful date to his doubting co-workers that he inadvertently ignores her.

Hildy engages in a battle-of-the-sexes with her deputies when they disagree on how Mulcahy should reconcile his wife after a fight, during which she threw him out of the house.

While working undercover as an actress at a music comedy audition, Hildy's long-forgotten dreams of stardom are reborn as she considers the benefits of life on stage.

Hildy tries to prove ""mother knows best"" when she battles with Kenny's baseball coach to be included in the annual Father-Son banquet.

While attempting to play Cupid to her friends Terry and Putnam, Hildy discovers that Terry's current boyfriend, Biff, is really Max in disguise.

Hildy's and the deputies' dreams of fame and riches end when the fighter in whom them invest turns out to be a ""lightweight.""

A ruthless criminal is gunning for Hildy after she witnesses a bank robbery.

At Hildy's fund-raiser for state representative-hopeful Jonathan Gagen, confusion reigns as the caterer is suspected of poisoning his creations and Gagen tirelessly attempts to convince Hildy that they were meant for each other.

Deputy Wiggins' soon-to-be-ex-wife pays a surprise visit to finish divorce arrangements, but his jealousy over her plans to marry a well-known professional athlete leads Wiggins to second thoughts about the divorce. A jealous streak surfaces in Deputy Wiggins, whose soon-to-be-ex-wife discloses plans to marry a well-known professional athlete.

Hildy convinces herself that she is too old as a landmark birthday approaches.

Hildy becomes popular with the media at the expense of her deputies' egos when she gets all the credit for a counterfeiting arrest which the guys masterminded, and which she actually hindered.

After she is mugged in broad daylight, Gussie's fear overcomes her and prevents her from leaving the house. Meanwhile, Max and Putnam don pantyhose and heels in a valiant, if not stylish, effort to apprehend the culprit.

When a psychiatrist is held in the Lakes County Sheriff's Department lockup, Hildy and her staff begin to question their own, as well as each other's, psychological motivations

Max's life becomes terrible when a wealthy real estate tycoon takes a romantic interest in Hildy in order to make Max miserable, thereby fulfilling his twenty-year vendetta against the man who befriended, and then rejected him as a child.

When Mulcahy's wife, Bubba Ann, thinks she is pregnant with their seventh child, Mulcahy is given an ultimatum: either he gets a vasectomy, or he is not allowed back in the bedroom.

Hildy attempts to fight her strong physical attraction to a handsome body builder who is less than brilliant, while her deputies bet on whether or not she will ask him out.

Romantic jealousy reigns as Jonathan Gagen fabricates an interest in Hildy's attractive new intern in order to prove to Hildy that she too is the victim of jealousy. At the same time, Putnam, who finds the young lady irresistible, plots the conquest of her heart.