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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5
Year: 1991  |  1992  |  1993  |  1994  |  1995  |  1996


Season 1


"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.

Season 1, Episode 1: In the Best of Families

Original Air Date—28 September 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 2 -- The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

Season 1, Episode 2: Do You See What I See

Original Air Date—5 October 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester. Meanwhile, it's Rachel's birthday and Tony has forgotten to get her what she wants most -- tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Poisoned Tree

Original Air Date—12 October 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 4 -- After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family.

Season 1, Episode 4: Nothing to Fear But Fear...

Original Air Date—26 October 1991

Season 1, Episode 5: A Matter of Life or Death: Part 1

Original Air Date—26 October 1991

Season 1, Episode 6: A Matter of Life or Death: Part 2

Original Air Date—2 November 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

Season 1, Episode 7: Behind the Storm Door

Original Air Date—9 November 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 8 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Hatchet

Original Air Date—16 November 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 9 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 9: Two Confessions

Original Air Date—30 November 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell. Also, Rachel's brother "helps" Tony and Rachel look for a larger house.
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Season 1, Episode 10: The Commissioner's Ball

Original Air Date—7 December 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 11 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 11: No Greater Gift

Original Air Date—21 December 1991

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 12 -- After Commissioner Scali's friend and colleague, Chief of Detectives Irv Wallerstein, is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obessed with finding the assailant!

Season 1, Episode 12: The Fourth Man

Original Air Date—4 January 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

Season 1, Episode 13: Charlie Don't Surf

Original Air Date—18 January 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 14 -- A mugging triggers a woman's repressed memory of her brother's murder, which she witnessed as a child.

Season 1, Episode 14: Skeletons

Original Air Date—8 February 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 15 -- 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.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Wicked Flee

Original Air Date—22 February 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 16 -- The unwelcome appearance in Eastbridge of white supremacists leads to a murder, with the suspicion soon arising that one of more Tony's associates may be implicated.

Season 1, Episode 16: True Believers

Original Air Date—29 February 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 17 -- After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign. Meanwhile, a beautiful businesswoman seeks men for a "hot cops" beefcake calendar-and some of Scali's men apply.

Season 1, Episode 17: Officer April

Original Air Date—7 March 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 18 -- Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered

Season 1, Episode 18: Sex, Lies and Kerosene

Original Air Date—21 March 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.

Season 1, Episode 19: Judgement Day

Original Air Date—4 April 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 20 -- Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival. Also, Tony's performing skills are put on display when he appears in an amateur talent show.

Season 1, Episode 20: Shoot the Breeze

Original Air Date—11 April 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 21 -- Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.

Season 1, Episode 21: Video Vigilante

Original Air Date—9 May 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 1: Episode 22 -- Mike Cermak -- star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect. Meanwhile, Tony and Rachel must make a momentous decision: whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Puck Stops Here

Original Air Date—16 May 1992

Season 2


"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 1 -- Commissioner -- and expectant father -- Tony Scali suddenly finds his own life on the line after he infiltrates a New York pornographic teenage film ring.

Season 2, Episode 1: Adventures in the Skin Trade: Part 1

Original Air Date—26 September 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Commissioner Scali, kidnapped and seemingly destined for sudden death, narrowly escapes his fate with the help of an unsuspected ally -- porno movie producer Cyd Palmer.

Season 2, Episode 2: Adventures in the Skin Trade: Part 2

Original Air Date—3 October 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Tony's son David is shocked when his friend Jason shoots Brad Harris, the school bully. What follows is a crisis of conscience: David is torn between his loyalty to Jason and his responsibility to his father, the police commissioner.

Season 2, Episode 3: Guns and Sons

Original Air Date—10 October 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 4 -- When Mary O'Grady, one of Eastbridge's most prominent and politically powerful socialities, is murdered, it is discovered she has been running a call girl service and, surprisingly, one name on her list of clients is Commissioner Scali!

Season 2, Episode 4: The Rolodex Madame

Original Air Date—24 October 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 5 -- As Halloween approaches, a heart is cut from the body of a corpse at a funeral home. Because of a local history of tainted trick-or-treat candy, concerned Eastbridge parents pressure Tony to protect their children from the suspect, an eccentric recluse.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Witches of Eastbridge

Original Air Date—31 October 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Tony is torn when a series of life-threatening incidents occur in Eastbridge and the only link appears to be Ed Mize, an old, mild-mannered friend currently experiencing marital difficulties.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Two Faces of Ed

Original Air Date—7 November 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Tony, distraught when it appears that Phil Reid, one of his best men, may be targeted for revenge by a dangerous escaped convict, is further upset upset when he discovers that Phil's family harbors a dark secret.

Season 2, Episode 7: Escape

Original Air Date—14 November 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Rachel's in labor and about to give birth at any minute with only Cyd to support her because Tony is literally out on a ledge trying to stop a troubled, older cop, who is a friend, from jumping.

Season 2, Episode 8: A Time to Be Born

Original Air Date—21 November 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 9 -- While grocery shopping, Rachel runs head-on into a robbery-murder suspect -- and becomes the target of the killer's threats.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Witness

Original Air Date—5 December 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Although Tony's new baby daughter, Sarah, is giving him many a sleepless night, he is nevertheless determined to outwit a serial rapist.

Season 2, Episode 10: Sleep of the Just

Original Air Date—12 December 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 11 -- A notorious New York rackateer relocates to Eastbridge during the holiday season. Tony, who is all for peace on earth, now has to be more immediately concerned with peace on his own turf, especially after the incidence of crime.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Frame

Original Air Date—19 December 1992

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 12 -- After Tony's expensive new automobile is stolen from him at gunpoint, he and Cyd clash over the best way to capture Eastbridge's busiest carjackers.

Season 2, Episode 12: Stoned

Original Air Date—2 January 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 13 -- Tony joins a video-dating service when he suspects one of his clients is a murderous thief. Also, Stan tries to protect Carmela from a calirvoyant's curse.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Heart Is a Lonely Sucker

Original Air Date—16 January 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 14 -- Commissioner Scali and his team of officers pull out all stops as they try to beat the clock in a desperate search for the kidnapper of a very sick baby.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Sharp Pinch

Original Air Date—23 January 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Tony suspects foul play when a member of a commando-like squad of elite prep-school students -- perpetrators of a series of break-in thefts -- disappears. Also, David's behavior takes a turn for the worse following the arrival of baby Sarah.

Season 2, Episode 15: Dead Cadet's Society

Original Air Date—13 February 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 16 -- When Nick Colette, the hot-headed son of a "retired" mobster Tommy Colette, joins forces with his father, Eastbridge's crime troubles start.

Season 2, Episode 16: Family Business

Original Air Date—20 February 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 17 -- Following the death of his gangster son in a police shootout, mobster Tommy Colette vows to kill Tony Scali himself.

Season 2, Episode 17: Out of Business

Original Air Date—27 February 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 18 -- One of Tony's men, Danny Nolan, goes ballistic when Joe Lund, the gun-wielding ex-husband of the woman Dan's been seeing, takes her hostage. Also, Tony imagines himself, like Julius Caesar, surrounded by conspirators.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Ides of March

Original Air Date—13 March 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 19 -- When the majority of Tony's officers stage a sick-out in the wake of a wage dispute, Eastbridge becomes an open city for crime.

Season 2, Episode 19: Blue Flu

Original Air Date—1 April 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 20 -- Stella Stevens guest stars as a reclusive former movie queen -- and one of Tony's all-time fim favorites -- who is implicated in the real-life murder of her lover.

Season 2, Episode 20: Eastbridge Boulevard

Original Air Date—1 May 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 21 -- Tony sets out to trap a serial rapist whose victims are young blind women. Meanwhile, Rachel makes a surprising investment in art.

Season 2, Episode 21: Sight Unseen

Original Air Date—8 May 1993

"The Commish" (1991): Season 2: Episode 22 -- After Tony's expensive new automobile is stolen from him at gunpoint, he and Cyd clash over the best way to capture Eastbridge's busiest carjackers.

Season 2, Episode 22: Anti-Commish

Original Air Date—15 May 1993

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Suffer the Children: Part 1

Original Air Date—25 September 1993

Season 3, Episode 2: Suffer the Children: Part 2

Original Air Date—2 October 1993

Season 3, Episode 3: Scali, P.I.

Original Air Date—9 October 1993

Season 3, Episode 4: Burned Out Case

Original Air Date—16 October 1993

Season 3, Episode 5: The Set-Up

Original Air Date—23 October 1993

Season 3, Episode 6: Rising Sun

Original Air Date—6 November 1993

Season 3, Episode 7: Hero

Original Air Date—13 November 1993

Season 3, Episode 8: Dying Affection

Original Air Date—20 November 1993

Season 3, Episode 9: All That Glitters

Original Air Date—27 November 1993

Season 3, Episode 10: Mansion

Original Air Date—4 December 1993

Season 3, Episode 11: A Little Heart

Original Air Date—18 December 1993

Season 3, Episode 12: Benny

Original Air Date—15 January 1994

Season 3, Episode 13: Keeping Secrets

Original Air Date—22 January 1994

Season 3, Episode 14: Dog Days

Original Air Date—5 February 1994

Season 3, Episode 15: Father Eddie

Original Air Date—12 February 1994

Season 3, Episode 16: Bank Job

Original Air Date—24 February 1994

Season 3, Episode 17: Romeo and Juliet

Original Air Date—12 March 1994

Season 3, Episode 18: Security

Original Air Date—19 March 1994

Season 3, Episode 19: Dead Drunk

Original Air Date—2 April 1994

Season 3, Episode 20: The Letter of the Law

Original Air Date—30 April 1994

Season 3, Episode 21: Sergeant Kelly

Original Air Date—7 May 1994

Season 3, Episode 22: The Iceman Cometh

Original Air Date—14 May 1994

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Against the Wind: Part 1

Original Air Date—24 September 1994

Season 4, Episode 2: Against the Wind: Part 2

Original Air Date—1 October 1994

Season 4, Episode 3: Working Girls

Original Air Date—8 October 1994

Season 4, Episode 4: Born in the USA

Original Air Date—15 October 1994

Season 4, Episode 5: Who Do You Trust

Original Air Date—22 October 1994

Season 4, Episode 6: Nancy with the Laughing Face

Original Air Date—29 October 1994

Season 4, Episode 7: Revenge

Original Air Date—5 November 1994

Season 4, Episode 8: Head Case

Original Air Date—12 November 1994

Season 4, Episode 9: The Lady Vanishes

Original Air Date—19 November 1994

Season 4, Episode 10: Ghost

Original Air Date—4 December 1994

Season 4, Episode 11: A Christmas Story

Original Air Date—17 December 1994

Season 4, Episode 12: Hidden

Original Air Date—12 January 1995

Season 4, Episode 13: The Johnny Club

Original Air Date—14 January 1995

Season 4, Episode 14: The Golden Years

Original Air Date—2 February 1995

Season 4, Episode 15: The Trial

Original Air Date—9 February 1995

Season 4, Episode 16: Accused

Original Air Date—9 February 1995

Season 4, Episode 17: Cry Wolfe

Original Air Date—2 March 1995

Season 4, Episode 18: Brooklyn

Original Air Date—9 April 1995

Season 4, Episode 19: Letting Go

Original Air Date—23 March 1995

Season 4, Episode 20: The Kid

Original Air Date—30 March 1995

Season 4, Episode 21: Off Broadway: Part 1

Original Air Date—13 May 1995

Season 4, Episode 22: Off Broadway: Part 2

Original Air Date—20 May 1995

Season 5


The Commish: Season 2: Season 5: Episode 1 -- Clip: Faint/opening sequence

Season 5, Episode 1: In the Shadows of the Gallows

Original Air Date—30 November 1995

Season 5, Episode 2: Father Image: Part 1

Original Air Date—7 December 1995

Season 5, Episode 3: Father Image: Part 2

Original Air Date—14 December 1995

Season 5, Episode 4: Redemption

Original Air Date—11 January 1996

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