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The Best Episodes of The Octopus

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The Best Episodes of The Octopus

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who...
  1. Background image for Episode 6
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #1 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Episode 5
    8.3/10(55 votes)

    #2 - Episode 5

    S5:E5

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Episode 1
    8.2/10(122 votes)

    #3 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Episode 4
    8.2/10(100 votes)

    #4 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.2/10(98 votes)

    #5 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    Cattani hides the truth about his daughters disappearance from his wife and colleagues while at the same time fighting opposition in his work place.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.2/10(54 votes)

    #6 - Episode 3

    S5:E3

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Episode 2
    8.1/10(111 votes)

    #7 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Episode 3
    8.1/10(102 votes)

    #8 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.

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  10. Background image for Episode 4
    8.1/10(51 votes)

    #9 - Episode 4

    S5:E4

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Man of the Letters
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #10 - The Man of the Letters

    S6:E3

    The hideout of Tani Cariddi in deep Africa becomes known - and again, the retired detective and the retired criminal must come to grips with violent action in Europe.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Paola
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Paola

    S2:E1

    Police Inspector Cattani fights a losing battle to save his loved daughter's sanity, after what she suffered (see "La Piovra", original mini-series). He loses her, and his only trusted magistrate in the fight against The Octopus.

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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Friends in Common
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Friends in Common

    S2:E2

    Cattani is approached by the Number 2 of his best friend in Rome to conspire against him, and ends up fighting for his life in prison, against thugs who are friends of his worst enemy. Cattani must swallow his pride, and recurs to the lustful Contessa who has other friends in common.

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  14. Background image for Return to Rome
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Return to Rome

    S2:E3

    Cattani's love life is as confused as his behaviour; he sleeps with the enemy, and is recruited to ITALA, the cultural association for the study of the ancestral popular traditions of Italy, The Octopus by another name.

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  15. Background image for Vengeance
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Vengeance

    S2:E4

    It leaves an acrid taste in Cattani's mouth, as he loses yet another important ally, and severes his ties with the beautiful Contessa, when he wakes up fire in enemy ground.

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  16. Background image for Criminal Ambition
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Criminal Ambition

    S2:E5

    Cattani's major achievement so far leaves him without friends in Rome; his former teacher explains between whiskeys how easy it is for an intelligent man to fall into criminal ambition.

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  17. Background image for Destiny
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Destiny

    S2:E6

    Cattani's takes one year leave without pay from his desk job at the Intelligence Services, and then destiny presents him with a couple of revenge opportunities against the tandem of corrupt politicians and mafia expatriates, again at heavy personal cost.

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  18. Background image for Good and Evil
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Good and Evil

    S3:E1

    After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.

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  19. Background image for No Escape
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - No Escape

    S3:E2

    Cattani uses a TV interview to reveal he found out about one of The Octopus telephone numbers. That is enough to spread havoc in the criminal rang, but the mafia leaves the American investigators no escape.

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  20. Background image for Thirsting for Vengeance
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Thirsting for Vengeance

    S3:E3

    Cattani falls in love with Giulia, but his inquest does not go far, until Giulia's father dies, and her grandfather takes hold of the family bank again.

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  21. Background image for Refuge
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Refuge

    S3:E4

    The Antinari bank is backing the illegal arms deal, trusted friends and servants may not be what they seem, and Cattani is undecided between personal vendetta and life in a monastery.

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  22. Background image for Massacre
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Massacre

    S3:E5

    Anna Antinari gets hold of documents that are essential for the arms deal, and trusts her life and that of her child daughter Greta to the good monks who were already hosting Cattani. For the mafia in liaison with a member of parliament, monastery walls are no protection against a new massacre.

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  23. Background image for To the South Again
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - To the South Again

    S3:E6

    Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.

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  24. Background image for Episode 7
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Episode 7

    S3:E7

    Giulia reconciles with her grandfather Nicola, and her second meeting with chief inspector Corrado Cattani is yet a probe for his loyalty to duty. One man ends a life of power tragically; the other hangs desperately to life because, as Giulia says, "He lost; and quite a lot!"

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  25. Background image for Episode 1
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Episode 1

    S4:E1

    No description available

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  26. Background image for Episode 2
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Episode 2

    S4:E2

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 6" is the best rated episode of "The Octopus". It scored 8.3/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/19/1984. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 5".