Sep 1991 - Jan 1996
6.8
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Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.
S5 Ep6
10.0
11th Jan 1996
While on the trail of an arsonist, the commish notices that all the clues point to the wife father's.
S5 Ep5
10.0
11th Jan 1996
While on the trail of an arsonist, the commish notices that all the clues point to the wife father's.
S5 Ep4
10.0
14th Dec 1995
During a high - profile serial murder case a old mentor of tony becomes involved with the case.
S5 Ep2
10.0
30th Nov 1995
Tony faces the biggest challenge of his career when an murder case from his past resurfaces.
S3 Ep7
10.0
13th Nov 1993
The Scali's babysitter accuses an Eastbridge high school quarterback of rape, Tony must investigate despite the mixed feelings of the community. Stan's ego is bruised when his girlfriend knocks out a man who punched Stan.
S5 Ep3
9.5
7th Dec 1995
During a high - profile serial murder case a old mentor of tony becomes involved with the case.
S5 Ep1
9.0
30th Nov 1995
Tony faces the biggest challenge of his career when an murder case from his past resurfaces.
S4 Ep13
9.0
14th Jan 1995
David is caught shoplifting, meanwhile Tony finds out an accident victim was in debt to a loan shark and that he was also a polygamist.
S3 Ep22
9.0
14th May 1994
The force must rally themselves after Stan's death in a car explosion. Tony feels particularly bad, because he can't forget that he was the one who assigned Stan to work on the Ross case in the first place. After promising Stan's parents that he will find the man who killed their son, Tony launches a full-scale war on Terry Ross, not realising that Ross has hired someone to take care of the Scali family once and for all.
S3 Ep16
9.0
26th Feb 1994
Tony and Rachel have a fight, and Tony begins throwing himself into his job. When Rachel is taken hostage in a bank robbery and also forced to go on the road, Tony tries his best to get her back, but the FBI soon assumes jurisdiction over the case, leaving Tony out of the loop.
S4 Ep2
8.7
1st Oct 1994
Tony's attempts at physical therapy are proving unsuccessful, and despite the love and support of his family he is beginning to lose hope that he will ever walk again, and is preparing to spend the rest of his life in the wheelchair. Cyd has the chance to take a job out of Eastbridge, but doesn't want to leave Tony in a noose. While she considers her decision, she continues to work on the Joe Ratowski murder case, which is looking more and more like an 'inside job'.
S4 Ep21
8.5
13th May 1995
While investigating the murder of his friend's daughter, tony gets help from a New York police officer.
S4 Ep5
8.5
22nd Oct 1994
While an officer who is posing as a crooked cop in order to expose a crime ring which be be the genuine article who has problems as tony also suspects him.
S1 Ep22
8.5
16th May 1992
Mike Cermak - star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect.
S4 Ep12
8.4
7th Jan 1995
Tony helps a man find his estranged family who entered and then left a witness protection program. The family are also hunted by a mob boss.
S3 Ep12
8.4
15th Jan 1994
Rachel's cousin Benny is a used car salesman, and Tony doesn't know what to believe when a case involving the murder of a young woman leads him right back to Benny's used car lots. When Tony realises that Benny is involved in drug smuggling, he gives Benny one last chance to explain himself.
S3 Ep4
8.4
16th Oct 1993
Someone close to David dies as a result of a drug overdose and he struggles to cope with the harsh realities of law enforcement when Tony's hand is forced by outside agencies. Officers Baker, Kelly and Rose go undercover at a burger joint.
S1 Ep19
8.4
4th Apr 1992
Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.
S1 Ep21
8.4
9th May 1992
Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.
S4 Ep16
8.3
16th Feb 1995
A serial sex-offender is found not guilty then later murdered. A prior victim's relative targets those he feels responsible for the failure to jail him.
S4 Ep3
8.3
8th Oct 1994
While investigating an armed robbery, Tony goes undercover and hires an escort to get some important information. He is shocked to see his friend Ralph's daughter, who is barely 18, show up, preparing to spend the night with him. Tony convinces her to get out of drugs and prostition and promises not to tell her father, but when tragedy strikes, Tony has no choice.
S4 Ep7
8.3
5th Nov 1994
A corrupt ex-officer that Tony imprisoned seeks revenge upon his release.
S4 Ep6
8.3
29th Oct 1994
While working on an embezzlement and a kinapping case Paulie starts to becomes to emotionally involved.
S4 Ep22
8.2
20th May 1995
Tony and Connie Muldoon close in on the serial killer, Connie's daughter might be the next victim.
S4 Ep20
8.2
30th Mar 1995
A hopeless teenager gets a help from Tony and Paulie.
S4 Ep19
8.2
23rd Mar 1995
Tony and Paulie take on a shady investment broker at his own game. All the while, Rachel and Tony are in emotional turmoil awaiting the results of Rachel's breast cancer test results.
S4 Ep17
8.2
2nd Mar 1995
While trying to solve a major gold robbery, Tony must rely on help from a conman.
S4 Ep14
8.2
2nd Feb 1995
A gangster who Tony's mother was dating is found killed. The main suspect is Tony's father.
S2 Ep5
7.0
31st Oct 1992
The town is in shock when a heart is cut from a corpse at the funeral home. Meanwhile the town believes a recluse taints halloween treats.
S2 Ep7
7.0
14th Nov 1992
Rachel redecorates. One of Tony's friends, who harbors a secret is a target from an escaped convict.
S2 Ep19
7.0
1st Apr 1993
When budget cuts hit the Eastbridge PD, the majority of officers call in sick. This leaves the remaining officers to tackle a series of "push-in" robberies. Rachel goes to a her school reunion without Tony, but instead of going by herself she accepts the offer to attend with an old school beau.
S2 Ep15
7.2
13th Feb 1993
David's behavior and school works deteriorates. A group of young men from a prep school commit a burglary and one of them suspiciously disappears.
S2 Ep18
7.2
13th Mar 1993
A man takes his ex-wife hostage, things are further complicated by the involvement of one Tony's officers. The psychic who found the ring Tony was giving to Rachel in a previous episode returns, but this time with a warning about Tony's planned anniversary dinner but, is there an ulterior motive?
S2 Ep20
7.2
1st May 1993
A new reality police show comes to town meanwhile a former movie star is implicated in her ex lover's murder.
S2 Ep6
7.2
7th Nov 1992
An old freind of Tony's is having marital trouble which could be causing deadly incidents.
S2 Ep14
7.2
6th Feb 1993
Tony hunts for a kidnapped infant who is seriously ill.
S1 Ep13
7.3
18th Jan 1992
Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.
S2 Ep8
7.3
21st Nov 1992
Rachel goes into labor, Tony is kept away due to a friends crisis.
S2 Ep9
7.3
5th Dec 1992
Rachel becomes the target of a killer when she witnesses a murder whilst grocery shopping.
S2 Ep2
7.3
3rd Oct 1992
Tony escapes from the kidnappers with the help of the porn producer and then they pursue a film entrpreneur.
S2 Ep10
7.3
12th Dec 1992
While Tony suffers from loss of sleep after becoming a father again he puzzles over the case of a rapist who has diplomatic immunity.
S2 Ep17
7.3
27th Feb 1993
Following on from the previous episode; Nick Collete seeks revenge and Tony continues his crusade to bring him to justice.
S3 Ep11
7.3
18th Dec 1993
When a donor heart meant for a sick little girl is stolen, Tony heads up a team of detectives bent on finding the heart before anything can happen to it or the little girl. The thief makes themself known when he contacts her desperate parents and demands a $75,000 ransom for the missing heart.
S2 Ep22
7.4
15th May 1993
Tony receives mysterious telephone calls from someone who can help solve a drug dealers murder. Rachel gets a good job offer that ultimately could mean a move to Buffalo.
S4 Ep8
7.4
12th Nov 1994
Tony uncovers a plot to frame an innocent man for the murder of a fellow patient at a mental institution.
S4 Ep18
7.4
9th Mar 1995
Tony and Paulie travel to Brooklyn to help investigate the reopening of the case of their fallen friend and officer.
S2 Ep12
7.4
2nd Jan 1993
Things are not going well for Tony; he's carjacked of his gift of a new car for Rachel, a patient from psychiatric hospital escapes, things are further complicated because the escapee is a master of disguise, Tony suffers with kidney stones, which means that he has to go to hospital leaving Cyd in charge. While he's in hospital he befriends a seriously ill young boy and helps him achieve his dream of becoming a police officer.
S1 Ep16
7.5
29th Feb 1992
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.
S2 Ep4
7.5
24th Oct 1992
Tony is astonished to discover a wealthy socialite is the proprietor of a prostitution ring. The socialite is murdered, but not before Tony's name is discovered in her rolodex of clients.
S3 Ep10
7.5
4th Dec 1993
Amanda Hannington Wallace, the wife of a local multi-millionaire, is found dead her her mansion. When the autopsy is performed, the coronor advises Tony that the death does not look like an accident.
S1 Ep14
7.6
8th Feb 1992
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.
S2 Ep3
7.6
10th Oct 1992
David is the only witness to a shooting involving his best friend and a bullying classmate. Tony pursues the case unaware of David's knowledge of the shooting. The victims father skeptical of police justice, plans to mete out his own. Tony arrives in time to stop a crime of vengeance.
S2 Ep13
7.6
16th Jan 1993
While Stan is having problems protecting Carmela from a curse, Tony thinks that a video dating service's client is a homicidal thief.
S3 Ep3
7.6
9th Oct 1993
After their decision regarding their careers Tony struggles to cope with his new job as a P.I. while Rachel finds it much easier to adjust. He also butts heads with his replacement so he reaches out to Cyd and for help.
S3 Ep6
7.6
6th Nov 1993
Tony's city-council pal won't vote for a Japanese businessman's purchase of prime Eastbridge real estate. In a second short story arch, juvenile delinquents rob a flower shop.
S2 Ep11
7.7
19th Dec 1992
A notorious mob boss retires to Eastbridge and in turn the crime rate rises.
S1 Ep1
7.7
28th Sep 1991
Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.
S1 Ep2
8.2
5th Oct 1991
The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.
S1 Ep3
7.9
12th Oct 1991
Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.
S1 Ep4
8.0
26th Oct 1991
After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family.
S1 Ep5
7.8
2nd Nov 1991
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.
S1 Ep6
8.2
2nd Nov 1991
Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.
S1 Ep7
7.7
9th Nov 1991
Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.
S1 Ep8
7.9
16th Nov 1991
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.
S1 Ep9
7.9
30th Nov 1991
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.
S1 Ep10
7.7
7th Dec 1991
A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge tradsients and homeless people - and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.
S1 Ep11
7.9
21st Dec 1991
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.
S1 Ep12
7.8
4th Jan 1992
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!
S1 Ep13
7.3
18th Jan 1992
Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.
S1 Ep14
7.6
8th Feb 1992
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.
S1 Ep15
7.9
22nd Feb 1992
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.
S1 Ep16
7.5
29th Feb 1992
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.
S1 Ep17
7.8
7th Mar 1992
After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.
S1 Ep18
8.0
21st Mar 1992
Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered.
S1 Ep19
8.4
4th Apr 1992
Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.
S1 Ep20
8.0
2nd May 1992
Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival.
S1 Ep21
8.4
9th May 1992
Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.
S1 Ep22
8.5
16th May 1992
Mike Cermak - star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect.
