The Commish: Season 1

Episode 1: In the Best of Families 1991-09-28 | 60 min Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.

Episode 2: Do You See What I See? 1991-10-05 | 60 min The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

Episode 3: The Poisoned Tree 1991-10-12 | 60 min Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.

Episode 4: Nothing to Fear But ... 1991-10-26 | 60 min After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family.

Episode 5: A Matter of Life or Death (1) 1991-11-02 | 60 min Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City.

Episode 6: A Matter of Life or Death (2) 1991-11-02 | 60 min Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.

Episode 7: Behind the Storm Door 1991-11-09 | 60 min Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

Episode 8: The Hatchet 1991-11-16 | 60 min Tony butts heads with both a tough cop who is overzealous in his handling of criminals, and a hard-nosed management consultant hired by the city in a cost-cutting effort.

Episode 9: Two Confessions 1991-11-30 | 60 min Tony is doubly stymied when identical twins both initially confess to the same murder, then, in a surprise about-face, accuse each other of the crime. Also, Arnie finds romance with a kindred soul, a phone-sex operator named Gloria.

Episode 10: Commissioner's Ball 1991-12-07 | 60 min A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge tradsients and homeless people - and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.

Episode 11: No Greater Gift 1991-12-21 | 60 min During the holiday season, Tony investigates the murder of an elderly woman allegedly killed in her home during a Christmas burglary; matches wits with a mugger, and defends a homeless woman who's been sleeping in the manger of a Holy Family creche.

Episode 12: The Fourth Man 1992-01-04 | 60 min After Commissioner Scali's friend and colleague, Chief of Detectives Irv Wallerstein, is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant!

Episode 13: Charlie Don't Surf 1992-01-18 | 60 min Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

Episode 14: Skeletons 1992-02-08 | 60 min A mugging triggers a woman's repressed mernosy of her brother's murder, which she witnessed as a child. The suspect, free for the past 35 years, is tracked to the unlikeliest of hiding places by Tony and a visiting friend, L.A. homicide detective Paulie Pentangeli.

Episode 15: The Wicked Flee 1992-02-22 | 60 min After seeing his mother killed by a stranger, a boy withdraws deep into himself, prompting a sympathetic Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.

Episode 16: True Believers 1992-02-29 | 60 min The unwelcome appearance in Eastbridge of white supremacists leads to a murder, with the suspicion soon arising that one or more of Tony's associates may be implicated.

Episode 17: Officer April 1992-03-07 | 60 min After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.

Episode 18: Sex, Lies, and Kerosene 1992-03-21 | 60 min Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered.

Episode 19: Judgement Day 1992-04-04 | 60 min Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.

Episode 20: Shoot the Breeze 1992-05-02 | 60 min Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival.

Episode 21: Video Vigilante 1992-05-09 | 60 min Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.

Episode 22: The Puck Stops Here 1992-05-16 | 60 min Mike Cermak - star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect.

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