The Commish

Seasons

1991

Canada

7.1

TV-14

Tony Scali is the police commissioner of a city where solutions often require creativity. Tony's calmness and intellect are far more useful to him than guns or brute force in his fight against crime.

Episode List

S1 • E1

In the Best of Families

Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.

S1 • E2

Do You See What I See

The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

S1 • E3

The Poisoned Tree

Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.

S1 • E4

Nothing to Fear But Fear...

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family

S1 • E5

A Matter of Life or Death: Part 1

Tony starts the review process to become New York police commissioner while investigating the disappearance of two of his police officers.

S1 • E6

A Matter of Life or Death: Part 2

Tony discovers who is responsible for the disappearance of two of his police officers and a new New York police commissioner is named.

S1 • E7

Behind the Storm Door

Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

S1 • E8

The Hatchet

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 • E9

Two Confessions

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 • E10

The Commissioner's Ball

A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge transients and homeless people -- and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.

S1 • E11

No Greater Gift

An elderly woman is killed in her home during the Christmas season and Tony discovers what really happened.

S1 • E12

The Fourth Man

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 • E13

Charlie Don't Surf

Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

S1 • E14

Skeletons

Tony investigates a 35-year-old murder with the help of an old friend who pays him a visit.

S1 • E15

The Wicked Flee

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 • E16

True Believers

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 • E17

Officer April

After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.

S1 • E18

Sex, Lies and Kerosene

Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered.

S1 • E19

Judgement Day

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 • E20

Shoot the Breeze

Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival.