The Best Episodes of The Octopus
Every episode of The Octopus ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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 tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Octopus" is "Episode 6", rated 8.3/10 from 89 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Episode 6" aired on 3/19/1984 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 3".
8.3/10 89 votes#1 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/1984
Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.
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8.3/10 47 votes
8.2/10 102 votes#3 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1989
Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.
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8.2/10 92 votes#4 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1989
Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.
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8.2/10 90 votes#5 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1989
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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8.2/10 64 votes#6 - Destiny
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/27/1986
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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8.2/10 69 votes#7 - Good and Evil
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1987
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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8.2/10 47 votes
8.1/10 113 votes#9 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/1984
Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.
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8.1/10 94 votes#10 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1989
Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.
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8.1/10 69 votes#11 - Paola
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1986
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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8.1/10 68 votes#12 - Friends in Common
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1986
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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8.0/10 69 votes#13 - Vengeance
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1986
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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8.0/10 68 votes#14 - Criminal Ambition
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/1986
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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8.0/10 62 votes#15 - To the South Again
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/1987
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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8.0/10 64 votes#16 - Episode 7
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/13/1987
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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7.9/10 62 votes#25 - Massacre
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/1987
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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