Dewey Gleason, a master of disguise, conducts a series of lucrative and surreptitious thefts while inspiring fear in his own henchmen, and when Los Angeles police officers "Hollywood Nate" Weiss and Dana Vaughn pursue a prowler who is preying on women, two surfer cops named Flotsam and Jetsam stumble upon a vast, high-tech criminal scheme.

Ohio native Taylor Henning works as an assistant to a Hollywood studio executive while trying to find her own success, and she tries to stay in touch with her true self while learning how to navigate a social scene full of treachery and deceit.

Hollywood detective Toby Peters agrees to help world-famous magician Harry Blackstone find out who is trying to ruin the magician's career, but as the body count rises, Toby begins to wonder if he is in over his head.

Claire and Paul move to Hollywood where Paul's career as a comedy writer takes off, leaving him little time at home, and Claire, inept at caring for their new baby alone, hires Lola as a nanny, and the fifty-two-year-old mother of five, who is working in the U.S. to help her family in the Philippines, takes over the care of young William and sets out to patch the rifts in her employers' marriage.

UCLA film archivist Valentino discovers priceless reels of film, as well as a dead body, in the basement of his newly acquired movie palace, and must help the police solve the murder if he has any hoping of saving the reels from being destroyed.

Antwan, a coyote, befriends Buddy, an aging movie-star pooch, poses as a dog to move in with a human family, and finds himself giving his new pal advice when Buddy decides to eschew humans and take a walk on the wild side.