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Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 5 - The Birthday Surprise
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    #1 - The Birthday Surprise

    S1:E5

    Vinnie nearly blows his cover when he becomes obsessed with finding out who killed his cousin, causing Frank to threaten him with dismissal. Frank desperately wants Vinnie to concentrate on nailing the Zaratzos, who are trying to arrange a drug smuggling deal with Sonny, because they killed one of Frank's agents.

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 6 - One on One
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    #2 - One on One

    S1:E6

    After several deals go sour, Sonny starts suspecting Vinnie may be a plant. Frank orders Vinnie to drop the case when he finds out the local police have an informer in Sonny's operations. Sid has Frank picked up and tortured, but Vinnie and undercover cop Karen Malloy rescue him. Karen's disappearance points the finger at Sid as the leak.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 7 - Prodigal Son
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    #3 - Prodigal Son

    S1:E7

    After his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still won't forgive him for his life of “crime.”

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writer:Carol Mendelsohn

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  4. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 8 - A Deal's a Deal
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    #4 - A Deal's a Deal

    S1:E8

    Sonny’s cruel punishment of a lounge singer who wants out of his contract triggers a cascade of events that leads to Vinnie’s being photographed with McPike — a photo that is to be delivered to Sonny.

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  5. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 9 - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    #5 - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    S1:E9

    Sonny’s impending marriage to a syndicate boss’ daughter begins a supposedly businesslike realignment of “families,” but Vinnie learns that the wedding is a pretext for a bloody gang war.

    Director:Zale Dalen
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 10 - No One Gets Out of Here Alive
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    #6 - No One Gets Out of Here Alive

    S1:E10

    An outraged Sonny Steelgrave accuses Vinnie of betraying him to his arch-rival, then realizes the devastating truth — that his paisan is an undercover Federal agent.

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  7. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 11 - Last Rites for Lucci
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    #7 - Last Rites for Lucci

    S1:E11

    In the aftermath of the Steelgrave case, Vinnie tries to vindicate himself of his lingering feelings of betrayal and disloyalty by risking his life to save an old friend from the Brooklyn neighborhood who has a contract out on him.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 12 - Independent Operator
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    #8 - Independent Operator

    S1:E12

    Vinnie’s assignment to check out a contract killer leads him into a huge global contraband syndicate — an operation that far exceeds the scope of the Steelgrave family — overlorded by brother and sister Mel and Susan Profitt.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  9. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 13 - Fascination for the Flame
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    #9 - Fascination for the Flame

    S1:E13

    Vinnie, now a bodyguard for the Profitts, gets his first trial by fire when Mel Profitt, the brilliant but paranoid overlord of an international crime empire, disrupts the wedding of an associate, who retaliates by kidnapping Susan.

    Director:William A. Fraker
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  10. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 14 - Smokey Mountain Requiem
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    #10 - Smokey Mountain Requiem

    S1:E14

    Vinnie tells Mel Profitt he is leaving to go home to New Jersey, but Mel offers him the biggest cocaine distribution network in the country — a plum that Vinnie feels is too juicy for any undercover cop to turn down.

    Director:Neill Fearnley
    Writers:David J. Burke, Hans Tobeason

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  11. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 15 - Player to be Named Now
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    #11 - Player to be Named Now

    S1:E15

    Mel’s desire to buy a baseball franchise is two-fold: he wants to play on it, and he wants to take it away from an old business associate who cheated him in a Mexican drug deal. When Mel’s former girlfriend shows up, begging for readmission to the Inner circle, he humiliates her, using her as a sexual pawn in a power game with a rival, but for Vinnie, forced to watch it happen, the worst is yet to come.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 16 - The Merchant of Death
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    #12 - The Merchant of Death

    S1:E16

    When some of his munitions contacts begin drying up, Mel decides to blackmail a French Deputy Minister of Defense into supplying him with the weapons he needs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Carol Mendelsohn

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  13. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 17 - Not For Nothing
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    #13 - Not For Nothing

    S1:E17

    Hiding out in Vancouver after the fall of the Steelgrave empire, Aldo Baglia sees a photo of Vinnie in the paper and decides to even the score, sending Vinnie into a coma from two serious gunshot wounds. Roger, using his CIA contact, tracks down Aldo.

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  14. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 19 - Blood Drive
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    #14 - Blood Drive

    S1:E19

    After rejecting an offer to finance a coup d'etat in the Caribbean, Mel Profitt becomes obsessed with a supposed voodoo death curse, and Vinnie, horrified, can only watch as Mel’s personality begins to disintegrate.

    Director:Kim Manners
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 20 - Phantom Pain
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    #15 - Phantom Pain

    S1:E20

    After Susan is arrested for Mel’s murder, Vinnie refuses McPike’s order to pull out of the Profitt case, because Susan, who has seemingly lost her grip on reality, has told him she is pregnant with his child.

    Director:Dennis Dugan
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 21 - Dirty Little Wars
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    #16 - Dirty Little Wars

    S1:E21

    With Mel and Susan Profitt undone, McPike begins dismantling their empire, but Vinnie demands to stay on the case to get to the bottom of Roger Lococco’s ties to a rogue CIA operation to stage a Caribbean coup d’etat.

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  17. Wiseguy Season 1 Episode 22 - Date With an Angel
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    #17 - Date With an Angel

    S1:E22

    Roger Lococco in effect signs his own death warrant by testifying to a Senate committee about a cabal within the U.S. intelligence community, but to back him up he needs Vinnie to testify as an O.C.B. operative — testimony that would end Vinnie’s career as an undercover agent.

    Director:Les Sheldon
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  18. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 1 - Going Home
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    #18 - Going Home

    S2:E1

    After resigning, Vinnie returns to his old neighborhood to try and get some peace after his life undercover, but is distressed to find white supremists are stirring up trouble. Daryl Elias is promoted to OCB director and orders Frank to either bring Vinnie back to work, or in for debriefing. After a synagogue is trashed, Pete speaks out against the white supremists and is then murdered in a hit and run accident, making Vinnie rejoin the OCB to find his killer.

    Director:Les Sheldon
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  19. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 2 - School of Hard Knox
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    #19 - School of Hard Knox

    S2:E2

    Vinnie hesitantly goes back to work for the OCB under the promise they will help find Pete's killer, but Daryl is more interested in getting his star agent to work on a ""real"" assignment. Ritchie digs himself in deeper with the Pilgrims of Promise when he uses Vinnie's car to help rob an armored car. Depressed over Pete's death, Vinnie turns to Angie for consolation, but they both agree they don't want to risk their special friendship by becoming lovers. Vinnie talks Daryl into giving him weapons to sell to the Pilgrims, then he throws the bust when he sees they have Ritchie with them. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 3 - Revenge of the Mud People
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    #20 - Revenge of the Mud People

    S2:E3

    Unbeknownst to Vinnie, his car was used in the robbery where an off-duty cop was killed, leading to his arrest and brutalization at the hands of the NYPD. Frank bails him out, then reluctantly lets Vinnie continue his pursuit of Knox Pooley. Vinnie tells Ritchie he's a cop and asks him to help him gather evidence against the Pilgrims. Vinnie goes to a Pilgrim rally and stumbles across the truck that was used to kill Pete, then agrees to a meet with Stan in the hopes of tying Pooley to it, leading to Stan and Ritchie's arrests. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 4 - Last of the True Believers
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    #21 - Last of the True Believers

    S2:E4

    Knox Pooley realizes Calvin is insane and kicks him out, causing Calvin to go off the deep end and take a famous black leader hostage. Richie becomes disenchanted when he realizes Pooley was only in it for the money. Paul Beckstead takes over as director of OCB when Daryl cracks under the pressure and is dismissed for making obscene phone calls. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:John Schulian

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  22. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 5 - Aria for Don Aiuppo
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    #22 - Aria for Don Aiuppo

    S2:E5

    Vinnie is questioned about his connection to Don Aiuppo, thus learning his mother is dating the retired mobster. Checking into it, he finds Rudy and Carlotta were in love as teenagers, then is stunned when Rudy proposes and she accepts. Mark digs up information showing that Rudy is in the country illegally and sets him up to be deported, not knowing it means that Carlotta will leave, too. At the last minute, Rudy changes places with his brother, Tito, who wants to return to Italy. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 6 - 7th Avenue Freeze Out
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    #23 - 7th Avenue Freeze Out

    S2:E6

    When garment manufacturer Eli Sternberg cannot get a loan to bail out his business, he turns to mobster Ricky Pinzolo for the money. David goes to the OCB for help when he finds out Eli is in debt to the mob. Vinnie meets with David, then reluctantly agrees to take the case, running into opposition from Eli, who doesn't want a hood working for him. Pinzolo demands that Vinnie keep him apprised of everything going on. Vinnie wins Eli's trust when he gets a delayed shipment released from customs.

    Director:Robert Iscove
    Writer:David J. Burke

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  24. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 7 - Next of Kin
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    #24 - Next of Kin

    S2:E7

    Eli impatiently awaits news from Sri Lanka, where a terrorist's bomb exploded at David's hotel. Vinnie is hit by a taxi, and Frank talks John Henry Raglin into taking over the case when he learns that Vinnie can't return to work for awhile. Eli speaks out against Pinzolo at a fund raising dinner. Pinzolo visits Vinnie in the hospital and Vinnie suggests his partner can take over for him, opening the door for Raglin. (source; http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Bill Corcoran
    Writer:John Schulian

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  25. Wiseguy Season 2 Episode 8 - All or Nothing
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    #25 - All or Nothing

    S2:E8

    Raglin follows Pinzolo's crooked trail into Chinatown, where a garment-worker's strike has snarled an important order for the Sternbergs. Meanwhile, Eli's niece Carole sews up her alliance with Pinzolo. Raglin tries to get Maxine Tzu to realize the strike isn't helping, and they end up in a tryst. (source: http://www.plasticcow.com/wiseguy)

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Birthday Surprise" is the worst rated episode of "Wiseguy". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Robert Iscove and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/8/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "One on One".