5. Song of the Wild West   
Community Score
8.4 Great
First aired: 10/17/1984

The guys' latest assignment is reunite a broken family. Evelyn Higgins left her husband Tim and baby daughter 
Sarah in search of a career in music and Tim never forgave her for it, even going as far as telling their daughter 
that her mother has died. Evelyn had a fairly successful career after changing her name to Patsy Maynard, but 
guilt and sorrow over her past life have led her to become a lush and a has-been who can only get gigs playing 
small honkey-tonk bars. She is set to play one such place right outside her old hometown and her daughter eagerly 
comes to see her, having no idea that the singer is her mother. Sarah shares her mother's love of music and wants 
to be a professional country singer, against the wishes of her father who fears losing his daughter the same way he
 lost his wife. Jonathan and Mark go to work in the bar/casino where Patsy sings. Through a little investigative work, 
Mark discovers that the owner of the place is a crook who is rigging every game. Jonathan finds out that the former 
owner lost the place in one of Nick's crooked games and died of a broken heart, while his wife Trudy stayed on as 
cook because she had nowhere else to go.

Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff
Director: Victor French
Guest star: Chip Johnson (Harry Harris), Jerry Hardin (Tim Higgins), Clifton James (Nick Claybourne), Joan Kjar 
(Trudy Swenson), Ronee Blakley (Patsy Maynard), J.S. Young (Man), Michele Greene (Sara Higgins)