The WORST episodes of Nash Bridges

Every episode of Nash Bridges ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nash Bridges!

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.

Last Updated: 11/12/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Bear Trap
star
6.50
62 votes

#1 - Bear Trap

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2001

Nash and Joe help a Canadian Mountie track down a ring of poachers who are illegally selling bear gallbladders, which are supposedly valuable as medicine and as an aphrodisiac; Rachel fears she may be pregnant.

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
Crosstalk
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6.51
57 votes

#2 - Crosstalk

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1999

Nash and the SIU discover the Cell Phone Killer's intentions are to kill his doctor. Lonely Joe keeps having erotic dreams about Caitlin. Evan gets fired from his bartender job.

Directors: Steve De Jarnatt
Writer: Alan Ormsby
Road Work
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6.61
49 votes

#3 - Road Work

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1997

Nash and Joe have a task of escorting a secret key witness from the Witness Protection Program to San Francisco to testify in an important SIU-related case. They fall under gunfire. Nash realizes there's a leak somewhere on the prosecution's team. He enlists the help of Stacy to protect them until he can solve who it is and get the witness safely to San Francisco. Cassidy is stood up for a date and decides to go out with J.J. instead.

Knockout
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6.64
45 votes

#4 - Knockout

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1997

Nash's sister, Stacy, is robbed, forcing her to come out of the closet as a lesbian. Nash deals with his own secret romance with Nick's nurse Whitney. The fallout from these family revelations takes place while Nash tracks down a kinky couple responsible for the robberies.

Hit Parade
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6.64
45 votes

#5 - Hit Parade

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1996

Nash and Joe cut a deal with Carlos Casas, a gangland money launderer, offering him a new identity in exchange for his testimony.

The Counterfeiters
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6.67
49 votes

#6 - The Counterfeiters

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1997

Nash and the SIU uncover a counterfeitering group where the money is top-of-the-line Supernote quality. Moving in to bust the group, they discover a fake SIU gang impersonating the police. Cooperation becomes tense as suspicions abound over who and what to trust. In the interim, as Nick gets in over his head financially with his horse costs, Nash reluctantly agrees to work with Joe on an off-duty case searching for a Super Bowl ring. However, Nash and Joe soon find themselves impersonating a gay couple as the case develops differently than Nash anticipated.

Directors: Tucker Gates
Writer: Jed Seidel
25 Hours of Christmas
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6.73
48 votes

#7 - 25 Hours of Christmas

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1996

It's Christmas Eve, and Nash and his fellow cops are trapped at the SIU as they wrap up a murder investigation and a prostitution case. Joe borrows Nash's 'Cuda to get it detailed and freaks out when the car is stolen; Nash's personal gifts to Lisa and Whitney get mixed-up; personal crises abound as the cops deal with the Christmas holiday.

Directors: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Jed Seidel
Gun Play
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6.77
48 votes

#8 - Gun Play

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1997

After Cassidy is hit in the behind by a stray bullet at school, Nash and Joe go on the hunt for the shooter and the dealer who's putting guns into kid's hands. Due to earthquake repairs on his apartment, Nash and Nick have to take up residence with Lisa for a few days. It's here that Nash meets Freddie, the apple of Cassidy's eye, the pain in Nash's behind, and learns that Cassidy's decided not to go to college.

Directors: Whitney Ransick
Writer: John Wirth
Double Trouble
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6.78
49 votes

#9 - Double Trouble

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2000

Nash and Joe discover that someone is using their detective agency's name to stir up business for themselves, and that one of the impostor's clients is out to kill Nash. Survivor stars from the original season guest star (Dirk Been, Joel Klug, Gervase Peterson, Sean Kennif & Jenny Lewis)

Directors: Bradford May
Truth and Consequences
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6.84
74 votes

#10 - Truth and Consequences

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1999

When a controversial Latina actress is shot and killed, suspicion turns first to her former lover, then to a crazed stalker. Evan comes back to work after surgery, but Cassidy wants nothing to do with him. Caitlin moves in with Nash, and causes strife between her and Nick.

Writer: John Wirth
Lost and Found
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6.87
55 votes

#11 - Lost and Found

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1997

Nash and Joe help FBI Special Agent Katz recover a Suburban full of stolen FBI weapons. Joes sets Nash up on a blind date with his nanny.

Directors: Adam Nimoy
Writer: John Wirth
The Web
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6.88
48 votes

#12 - The Web

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1997

Nash busts computer hacker/robber, Andy, and discovers Andy's committed the crime because his wife has been kidnapped. The crew of crooks want Andy's hacker skills as their ransom. The SIU must work to save the woman and bring down the crew before their daring daytime robbery is successful. Meanwhile, Nash and Whitney finally consummate their relationship.

Directors: Fred Keller
Writer: Reed Steiner
Power Play
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6.88
49 votes

#13 - Power Play

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1999

Nash and Joe investigate a missing hockey goalie connected to the Russian Mafia with the help of kidnapper Tony B., who has lost all memory of the crime. Joe visits a fertility clinic when Inger decides she wants another child. Harvey and Evan shoot off the roof of the watch commander's brand new squad car and must get it fixed before he finds out.

Inside Out
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6.88
52 votes

#14 - Inside Out

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1997

Joe goes undercover inside State Prison to bring down a ruthless Mexican gang leader who put out a hit (from behind bars) on a SFPD undercover cop who had infiltrated the Mexican Mafia. Nash runs the investigation on the outside, hoping to fulfill a promise to the dead man's widow by catching the trigger man. Naturally he'll have to overcome the distraction caused by Nick, putting together his will, who discovers some long-forgotten wealth.

Directors: Neal Israel
Hardball
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6.91
55 votes

#15 - Hardball

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1998

Nash and Joe have to babysit Mickey Tripp (Paul Gleason), a motormouth shockjock, after a body armor-wearing assassin tries to kill him. Their search for the assassin is compounded by the fact that Nick has hired them on an off-duty case to find his softball team's star pitcher - a Salvadoran defector named Chus (Jose Canseco), who's on the run from the INS (Karl Malone). Caitlin babysits her roommate's kids.

Writer: John Wirth
The Javelin Catcher
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6.92
74 votes

#16 - The Javelin Catcher

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/1996

Nash, while investigating an apparent gang killing, discovers that the weapon used for the job is the Army's newly missing man-portable, antitank system: The Javelin. Nash is assisted in the investigation by Sandra McCormick whoose career is on the line if the Javelin is not recovered.

Directors: Colin Bucksey
Writer: Jed Seidel
Rampage
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6.92
52 votes

#17 - Rampage

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1997

Nash follows the trail of James and Lorraine, a thrill-seeking couple on a wild crime spree in San Francisco. Nash feels personally responsible for the fate of Lorraine when he discovers she is the daughter of a volatile SFPD Inspector. Nash's interaction with the young fugitive color his relations with Cassidy, who's semi-nude photo is splashed all over town in a racy safer sex poster.

Directors: Scott Brazil
Writer: Jed Seidel
High Impact
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6.94
72 votes

#18 - High Impact

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/12/1996

Nash Bridges and the SIU team respond to a bomb threat against Mayor Bobbie Werksman. In a tenement, they find the bomb, but accidently trigger the timer. Everyone rushes out in time as the bomb destroys the building. Nash is the last one to leave.

Directors: Greg Beeman
'Til Death Do Us Part
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7.10
31 votes

#19 - 'Til Death Do Us Part

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1996

Nash has to deal with the fact that Joe may have 72 hours to live after being exposed to a deadly virus while Nash & Joe investigate a drug theft from a research lab.

Directors: Greg Beeman
Writer: Carlton Cuse
Skirt Chasers
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7.16
77 votes

#20 - Skirt Chasers

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/5/1996

As a result of a pension dispute, Joe Dominguez is forced to rejoin the force, and he and Nash track down a heroin dealer.

Directors: Greg Beeman
Writer: Carlton Cuse
Missing Key
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7.17
40 votes

#21 - Missing Key

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/2000

A nurse who assists a plastic surgeon for the mob is murdered because she stole the before and after photos of altered mobsters. She passes a key to the hidden files to Joe, and Joe becomes a target of mobster Louis Fallon. Nick appears with Cassidy in her play, but suffers a bout of Alzheimer's. Harvey meets a new girl, but she is a former lesbian.

Directors: Robert Mandel
Writer: John Wirth
Rip Off
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7.18
44 votes

#22 - Rip Off

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1999

A small time getaway driver sets up two robbery gangs to rob each other, while he walks away with the loot and complete immunity. Evan is brought in for another chance in Joe's off-duty case concerning a kidnapped son who has had a gender change. The 'Cuda hood is graffitied, and Nash puts Boz Bishop on the case.

Directors: Jim Charleston
Genesis
star
7.22
115 votes

#23 - Genesis

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/29/1996

Nash Bridges, an Inspector in the San Francisco Police Department Special Investigations Unit (SIU), poses as an undercover computer chip buyer to bust a ring that stole $2 million worth of chips. Along with Evan Cortez, his young new partner, they exchange phoney city money with Ferguson, who has the chips; but Ferguson gets away.

Directors: Peter Werner
Writer: Carlton Cuse
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Vanishing Act
star
7.23
74 votes

#24 - Vanishing Act

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/26/1996

On the way to an undercover purchase of some heavy industrial equipment from some Russian gangsters, carrying $300,000 of the city's money, Inspector Harvey Leek vanishes. Has there been foul play? Or has Harvey pocketed the money? Nash Bridges has to find him before it's too late.

Directors: Kenneth Fink
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Hide and Seek
star
7.29
45 votes

#25 - Hide and Seek

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/5/1999

The Governor is missing, and Nash and Joe lead the ""off-the-record"" investigation into his disappearance. Caitlin, shut out, is determined to find out what he's up to. Joe and Inger attend a charity auction as a man's proxy to get on his good side, but overpay and get stuck with the art project.

Directors: Colin Bucksey
Writer: John Wirth
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