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The Best Episodes of The Commish

Every episode of The Commish ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Commish!

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...
Genres:DramaComedy
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Witches of Eastbridge" is the best rated episode of "The Commish". It scored 8.4/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by David Nutter and written by N/A, it aired on 10/31/1992. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hidden".

  • The Witches of Eastbridge
    8.4/10100 votes
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    #1 - The Witches of Eastbridge

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1992

    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.

    Director: David Nutter

    Writer: N/A

  • Hidden
    8.4/1026 votes
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    #2 - Hidden

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sleep of the Just
    8.3/1095 votes
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    #3 - Sleep of the Just

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1992

    While Tony suffers from loss of sleep after becoming a father again he puzzles over the case of a rapist who has diplomatic immunity.

    Director: David Nutter

    Writer: N/A

  • Bank Job
    8.3/1086 votes
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    #4 - Bank Job

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/1994

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Do You Trust?
    8.3/1076 votes
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    #5 - Who Do You Trust?

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1994

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trial
    8.3/1077 votes
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    #6 - The Trial

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Brooklyn
    8.3/1082 votes
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    #7 - Brooklyn

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1995

    Tony and Paulie travel to Brooklyn to help investigate the reopening of the case of their fallen friend and officer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kid
    8.3/1076 votes
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    #8 - The Kid

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1995

    A hopeless teenager gets a help from Tony and Paulie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wicked Flee
    8.2/1090 votes
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    #9 - The Wicked Flee

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1992

    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.

    Director: Kim Manners

    Writer: N/A

  • Guns & Sons
    8.2/1092 votes
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    #10 - Guns & Sons

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1992

    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.

    Director: Kim Manners

    Writer: N/A

  • Witness
    8.2/1082 votes
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    #11 - Witness

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1992

    Rachel becomes the target of a killer when she witnesses a murder whilst grocery shopping.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sight Unseen
    8.2/1085 votes
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    #12 - Sight Unseen

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/1993

    A rapist is targeting blind female college students. Rachel makes an investment in art.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • All That Glitters
    8.2/1097 votes
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    #13 - All That Glitters

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1993

    Stan's fiance, Monica is implicated in assisting in a robbery. Tony discovers Monica was previously in trouble with the law before with her old boyfriend. Meanwhile, Rachel puts Tony on a health plan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Iceman Cometh
    8.2/1087 votes
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    #14 - The Iceman Cometh

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/1994

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nancy with the Laughing Face
    8.2/1078 votes
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    #15 - Nancy with the Laughing Face

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1994

    While working on an embezzlement and a kinapping case Paulie starts to becomes to emotionally involved.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lady Vanishes
    8.2/1077 votes
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    #16 - The Lady Vanishes

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1994

    An old student of Rachel's starts hinting that he saw his stepmother commit murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Johnny Club
    8.2/1076 votes
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    #17 - The Johnny Club

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Poisoned Tree
    8.1/10102 votes
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    #18 - The Poisoned Tree

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1991

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

    Director: Tucker Gates

    Writer: Robert Cochran

  • Officer April
    8.1/1091 votes
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    #19 - Officer April

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1992

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Judgement Day
    8.1/1094 votes
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    #20 - Judgement Day

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/1992

    Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shoot the Breeze
    8.1/1087 votes
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    #21 - Shoot the Breeze

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1992

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

    Director: Les Sheldon

    Writer: N/A

  • Adventures in the Skin Trade (2)
    8.1/1096 votes
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    #22 - Adventures in the Skin Trade (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1992

    Tony escapes from the kidnappers with the help of the porn producer and then they pursue a film entrpreneur.

    Director: Michael Zinberg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Two Faces of Ed
    8.1/1087 votes
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    #23 - The Two Faces of Ed

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1992

    An old freind of Tony's is having marital trouble which could be causing deadly incidents.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sharp Pinch
    8.1/1081 votes
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    #24 - The Sharp Pinch

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1993

    Tony hunts for a kidnapped infant who is seriously ill.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Cadet's Society
    8.1/1084 votes
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    #25 - Dead Cadet's Society

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1993

    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.

    Director: James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: N/A