The Worst Episodes of The Commish

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

Director: Gwen Arner

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Tucker Gates

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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

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

Director: Kim Manners

Writer: Tammy Ader

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.

Director: Mark Sobel

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.

Director: Mark Sobel

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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

Director: Jonathan Sanger

Writer: N/A

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.

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Writer: N/A

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.

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

Director: Tucker Gates

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Win Phelps

Writer: N/A

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!

Director: Les Sheldon

Writer: N/A

Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

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Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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.

Director: Tucker Gates

Writer: N/A

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

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Writer: N/A

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

Director: Les Sheldon

Writer: N/A

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

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Writer: N/A

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

Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.

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Writer: N/A

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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The daughter of one of Tony's friends is missing so he and Paulie pose as porn film investors to found out the truth.

Director: Michael Zinberg

Writer: N/A

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

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