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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.

Genres:DramaCrime
Networks:Rai 1Rai 2

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "The Octopus" is "prima puntata", rated 7.3/10 from 305 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "prima puntata" aired on 1/10/2001 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "seconda puntata".

  • prima puntata
    7.3/10 305 votes

    #1 - prima puntata

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2001

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • seconda puntata
    7.3/10 14 votes

    #2 - seconda puntata

    Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2001

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • seconda puntata
    7.4/10 12 votes

    #3 - seconda puntata

    Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/1998

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trap
    7.6/10 27 votes

    #4 - The Trap

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1992

    Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Return to Sicily
    7.6/10 28 votes

    #5 - Return to Sicily

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1995

    Several characters return to the little town where, years ago, the police commissary Cattani was set up and murdered by the Mafia.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Inquest
    7.6/10 25 votes

    #6 - The Inquest

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 3/13/1995

    The local television channel, owned by Olga Camastra, puts the blame of her husband's death on Silvia Conti's harsh interrogation of the old man. Saverio's ascension to power seems unstoppable: he masters over Nuzzio with his superior intelligence, and helps him escape an ambush; the Barrotti gang is massacred by Nuzzio's men; and he breaks and enters into the countess's palace, frightening her, and demanding the names list.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • seconda puntata
    7.6/10 16 votes

    #7 - seconda puntata

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1997

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Escape
    7.7/10 63 votes

    #8 - No Escape

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Episode 1
    7.7/10 56 votes

    #9 - Episode 1

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 8/14/1990

    Judge Silvia Conti and Davide Licata are in a quest for vengeance against the Mafia.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Look Out for Saverio
    7.7/10 27 votes

    #10 - Look Out for Saverio

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 3/12/1995

    Saverio comes home to reunite with Nuzzio against the higher powers of the Mafia, but these are alert and after him, after torturing his mistress in St. Petersburg. Also after him, is his wife, still under the protection of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Killing Attempt
    7.7/10 26 votes

    #11 - The Killing Attempt

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1995

    Silvia is blamed for another strange death, the young commissary Breda is sent away to his hometown far north - something he had requested before he was into this case - and their only witness, Sara, is pressed by a police inspector and the new prosecutor to deny her earlier testimony.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sentence
    7.7/10 26 votes

    #12 - The Sentence

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/1995

    The killing attempt worked almost to perfection, and more blood runs in the streets. Silvia Conti's life is spared due to the intervention of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard, who decided against Nuzzio's opinion that she would be more valuable to them alive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • prima puntata
    7.7/10 323 votes

    #13 - prima puntata

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1997

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Return to Rome
    7.8/10 67 votes

    #14 - Return to Rome

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1986

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Thirsting for Vengeance
    7.8/10 62 votes

    #15 - Thirsting for Vengeance

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Refuge
    7.8/10 61 votes

    #16 - Refuge

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/13/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Core
    7.8/10 28 votes

    #17 - The Core

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 12/6/1992

    Licata is tempted by the General directing the Government's "nucleous of operations and investigations (NOI)", a secret service built to do the dirty anti-crime jobs that the police can't do.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Secret is Revealed
    7.8/10 36 votes

    #18 - A Secret is Revealed

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/1992

    The detective exposes and destroys the man who secretively had taken the place of the octopus's head - but the crime will not stop, because the criminal's son escapes with enough power to restart it all.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Barrottii Gang
    7.8/10 26 votes

    #19 - The Barrottii Gang

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1995

    Sara and Biagio, her brother, create an extortion gang, named after the village's suburbs where they live. They are taking the "business" out of Nuzzio's hands.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • prima puntata
    7.8/10 285 votes

    #20 - prima puntata

    Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/1998

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Massacre
    7.9/10 62 votes

    #21 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Killing Attempt
    7.9/10 36 votes

    #22 - The Killing Attempt

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/1992

    Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man of the Letters
    7.9/10 30 votes

    #23 - The Man of the Letters

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/1992

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Codename: West
    7.9/10 34 votes

    #24 - Codename: West

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1992

    A desperate chase is given by The Core and two countries magistrates to catch the new drug lords that are aiming at deluging drugs into Europe's Eastern countries from a former Nazi concentration camp in the West.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Vengeance
    8.0/10 69 votes

    #25 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A