7.3/10306 votesLoading...#1 - Episode 1
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2001
No description available
Director: Luigi Perelli
Writer: N/A
7.3/1014 votesLoading...#2 - Episode 2
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2001
No description available
Director: Luigi Perelli
Writer: N/A
7.4/1012 votesLoading...#3 - Episode 2
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/1998
No description available
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Writer: N/A
7.6/1027 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1028 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1025 votesLoading...#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
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7.6/1016 votesLoading...#7 - Episode 2
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1997
No description available
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Writer: N/A
7.7/1065 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1057 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1027 votesLoading...#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
7.7/1026 votesLoading...#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
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7.7/1026 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10323 votesLoading...#13 - Episode 1
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1997
No description available
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Writer: N/A
7.8/1068 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1064 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1063 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1028 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#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
7.8/1026 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10285 votesLoading...#20 - Episode 1
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/1998
No description available
Director: Giacomo Battiato
Writer: N/A
7.9/1064 votesLoading...#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
7.9/1036 votesLoading...#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
7.9/1030 votesLoading...#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
7.9/1034 votesLoading...#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
8.0/1070 votesLoading...#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
The Worst Episodes of The Octopus
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Episode 1" is the worst rated episode of "The Octopus". It scored 7.3/10 based on 306 votes. Directed by Luigi Perelli and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Episode 2".