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Tony Scali is the police commissioner in a small town, where solutions to difficult situations often require considerable creativity. Tony's easygoing manner and clever intellect are much more useful to him than weapons or brute force in his fight against crime.

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+ Series 5

+ Episode 4 - Redemption
Aired - 11 January 1996

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While on the trail of an arsonist, the commish notices that all the clues point to the wife father's. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - Father Image (2)
Aired - 14 December 1995

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During a high - profile serial murder case a old mentor of tony becomes involved with the case. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Father Image (1)
Aired - 07 December 1995

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During a high - profile serial murder case a old mentor of tony becomes involved with the case. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - In the Shadow of the Gallows
Aired - 30 November 1995

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Tony faces the biggest challenge of his career when an murder case from his past resurfaces. Add your review
+ Series 4

+ Episode 22 - Off Broadway (2)
Aired - 20 May 1995

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Tony and Connie Muldoon close in on the serial killer, Connie's daughter might be the next victim. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 21 - Off Broadway (1)
Aired - 13 May 1995

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While investigating the murder of his friend's daughter, tony gets help from a New York police officer. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 20 - The Kid
Aired - 30 March 1995

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A hopeless teenager gets a help from Tony and Paulie. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 19 - Letting Go
Aired - 23 March 1995

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Tony and Rachel are in emotional turmoil awaiting results of Rachel's breast cancer test results. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 18 - Brooklyn
Aired - 09 March 1995

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A murder of a fellow cop, make Tony and Paulie travel to Brooklyn to help investigate the case. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 17 - Cry Wolf
Aired - 02 March 1995

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While trying to solve a major gold robbery, Tony must reply for help from a con man. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 16 - The Trial
Aired - 16 February 1995

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Tony dreams of a film noir mystery, mean while a man holds a mock trail. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 15 - Accused
Aired - 09 February 1995

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Tony is accused of sexual harassment by an computer technician. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 14 - The Golden Years
Aired - 02 February 1995

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A gangster who Tony's mother was dating is found killed. The main suspect is Tony's father. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 13 - The Johnny Club
Aired - 14 January 1995

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David is caught shoplifting, mean while Tony finds out that a accident victim was in debt to a loan shark. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - Hidden
Aired - 07 January 1995

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A mob boss keeps watch over Tony who is helping a man find his wife and son and also while he is protecting witnesses who saw a gang slaying. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - A Christmas Story
Aired - 17 December 1994

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An old friend of Tony gets his life back on track with help from a retirement hotel resident. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - Ghost
Aired - 03 December 1994

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Tony was forced to suspend a cop when the cop was found guility for the unprovoked killing of a thief. Things gets stranger when Tony sees the thief alive. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - The Lady Vanishes
Aired - 19 November 1994

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An old student of Rachel starts hinting at people that his seem his stepmother commit murder. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - Head Case
Aired - 12 November 1994

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Tony uncovers a plot to frame an innocent man for a murder of a patient which he didn't commit, because of his discovery Tony gets drugged and held in a psychiatric clinic. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - Revenge
Aired - 05 November 1994

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A corrupt ex-officer that Tony imprisoned seeks revenge upon his release. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - Nancy with the Laughing Face
Aired - 29 October 1994

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While working on an embezzlement and a kinapping case Paulie starts to becomes to emotionally involved. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - Who Do You Trust?
Aired - 22 October 1994

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While an officer who is posing as a crooked cop in order to expose a crime ring which be be the genuine article who has problems as tony also suspects him. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - Born in the USA
Aired - 15 October 1994

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Isaac and Grace Caldwell are illegal immigrants who own and operate a small electrical shop. After they witness a murder, Tony has to convince the two to testify, which he does by promising them citizenship. They agree, happy that the child Grace is carrying can be born in America, but joy turns to tragedy when Isaac is shot. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - Working Girls
Aired - 08 October 1994

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While investigating an armed robbery, Tony goes undercover and hires an escort to get some important information. He is shocked to see his friend Ralph's daughter, who is barely 18, show up, preparing to spend the night with him. Tony convinces her to get out of drugs and prostition and promises not to tell her father, but when tragedy strikes, Tony has no choice. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Against the Wind (2)
Aired - 01 October 1994

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Tony's attempts at physical therapy are proving unsuccessful, and despite the love and support of his family he is beginning to lose hope that he will ever walk again, and is preparing to spend the rest of his life in the wheelchair. Cyd has the chance to take a job out of Eastbridge, but doesn't want to leave Tony in a noose. While she considers her decision, she continues to work on the Joe Ratowski murder case, which is looking more and more like an 'inside job'. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - Against the Wind (1)
Aired - 24 September 1994

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After being struck with a ball, Tony is hospitalized and it looks like he is going to be permanently paralyzed. But his family refuses to give up on him, and enlists the help of physiotherapist Dan Boylan to help him walk again. With Tony out of commission, Cyd is put in charge of the murder investigation of officer Joe Ratowski. Add your review
+ Series 3

+ Episode 22 - The Iceman Cometh
Aired - 14 May 1994

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The force must rally themselves after Stan's death in a car explosion. Tony feels particularly bad, because he can't forget that he was the one who assigned Stan to work on the Ross case in the first place. After promising Stan's parents that he will find the man who killed their son, Tony launches a full-scale war on Terry Ross, not realising that Ross has hired someone to take care of the Scali family once and for all. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 21 - Sergeant Kelly
Aired - 07 May 1994

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More than anything Stan wants to become a sergeant, but the sergeant's test isn't the only obstacle in his way. He also needs to prove that he can follow a case from start to finish. Tony assigns him to the case of drug dealer Terry Ross, which he figures won't be that hard for Stan. Stan soon falls for Gail, Terry's estranged wife, and starts to think everything will be okay. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 20 - The Letter of the Law
Aired - 30 April 1994

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Rachel is surprised when Abby Davenport is violently opposed to her daughter Linda being featured in a picture spread, and soon after that, the two disappear. When Tony catches up with them, Abby reveals that her real name is Marcia Daniels, and that she and Linda are on the run from Linda's father, who sexually molested her, but who, thanks to influential connections, has legal custody. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 19 - Dead Drunk
Aired - 02 April 1994

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When Joe Thompson's wife is killed by a drunk driver leaving him with an eight-year-old daughter, the investigation leads to prominent surgeon Harris Clark, who has a history of drunken driving. Clark gets off on a technicality, and when he is found dead, suspicion turns to Thompson. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 18 - Security
Aired - 19 March 1994

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Although Tony promises round-the-clock protection to a homeowner after a devastating break-in, they can't trust the police, and decide to get a security system of their own. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 17 - Romeo and Juliet
Aired - 12 March 1994

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After the body of Gary Ellis is found, the case soon leads Tony to Gideon Ellis, the father of David's boyfriend Sheri. Tony demands that David stop seeing Sheri, but David rebels, and he and Sheri run off together. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 16 - Bank Job
Aired - 26 February 1994

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Tony and Rachel have a fight, and Tony begins throwing himself into his job. When Rachel is taken hostage in a bank robbery and also forced to go on the road, Tony tries his best to get her back, but the FBI soon assumes jurisdiction over the case, leaving Tony out of the loop. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 15 - Father Eddie
Aired - 12 February 1994

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When a young Puerto Rican, Marco Espinoza, is found next to the corpse of his former girlfriend, he is arrested and charged with her murder. Father Baxter begs Tony to help and convinces Tony that Marco was unconscious at the time of the victim's death, but when Baxter admits to Tony that he is Marco's father, Tony can't trust the priest's word about Marco's whereabouts. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 14 - Dog Days
Aired - 05 February 1994

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Cyd finds the body of a young woman who appears to have died from an overdose of angel dust, but the only witness is a young man named Billy, who the opposing side ridicules because of his physical and mental handicaps. Further investigations lead the cops to a number of recently missing dogs. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 13 - Keeping Secrets
Aired - 22 January 1994

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The recent beatings of many members of the homosexual community prompts Hank Radovich to come out to his fellow officers, none of which are very accepting of the news. While investigating the beatings, John Hibbs is himself taken hostage and beaten, and although he was initially disdainful of Hank's sexual preference, he learns to accept his partner and friend. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - Benny
Aired - 15 January 1994

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Rachel's cousin Benny is a used car salesman, and Tony doesn't know what to believe when a case involving the murder of a young woman leads him right back to Benny's used car lots. When Tony realises that Benny is involved in drug smuggling, he gives Benny one last chance to explain himself. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - A Little Heart
Aired - 18 December 1993

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When a donor heart meant for a sick little girl is stolen, Tony heads up a team of detectives bent on finding the heart before anything can happen to it or the little girl. The thief makes themself known when he contacts her desperate parents and demands a $75,000 ransom for the missing heart. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - Mansion
Aired - 04 December 1993

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Amanda Hannington Wallace, the wife of a local multi-millionaire, is found dead her her mansion. When the autopsy is performed, the coronor advises Tony that the death does not look like an accident. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - All That Glitters
Aired - 27 November 1993

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Stan's fiance, Monica is implicated in assisting in a robbery. Tony discovers Monica was previously in trouble with the law before with her old boyfriend. Meanwhile, Rachel puts Tony on a health plan. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - Dying Affection
Aired - 20 November 1993

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Tony and Rachel are driven mad by Mark and his new drum kit, mean while a former boyfreind of Cyd called Mark is under suspicion as a stalker of Cyd. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - Hero
Aired - 13 November 1993

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The Scali babysitter accuses an Eastbridge high school quarterback of rape, Tony must investigate despite the mixed feelings of the community. Stan's ego is bruised when his girlfriend knocks out a man who punched Stan. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - Rising Sun
Aired - 06 November 1993

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Tony's city-council pal won't vote for a Japanese businessman's purchase of prime Eastbridge real estate. In a second short story arch, Sean and his pales are flock of juvenile delinquents rob a flower shop. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - The Set-Up
Aired - 23 October 1993

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Rachel is being framed for murder after Tony's probe of a criminal network goes wrong. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - Burned Out Case
Aired - 16 October 1993

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A drug dealer who was responsible for a girl death is release by tony. also Rose and Kelly go under cover at a local burger joint. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - Scali, P.I.
Aired - 09 October 1993

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Rachel is join by Tony in buffalo as Tony quits his job, but he then clashes with his replacement. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Suffer the Children (2)
Aired - 02 October 1993

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The second part of this 2 parter the find the remains of the runaway in the juvenile center head cabin. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - Suffer the Children (1)
Aired - 25 September 1993

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A juvenile center is in trouble when the head of the center is linked by Tony to a young runaway's suicide. Add your review
+ Series 2

+ Episode 22 - The Anti-Commish
Aired - 15 May 1993

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Tony got a mysterious call from someone who can help in a drug dealers murder, meanwhiel Rachel gets a good job offer from buffalo. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 21 - Sight Unseen
Aired - 08 May 1993

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A young blind women is in trouble as a rapist preys on her meanwhile Rachel makes an investment in art. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 20 - Eastbridge Boulevard
Aired - 01 May 1993

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A new reality police show comes to town meanwhile a former movie star is implicated in her ex lover's murder. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 19 - Blue Flu
Aired - Air date unknown.

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The town in Eastbridge is under trouble as crime runs rampant due to a wage dispute which causes Tony men call in sick. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 18 - The Ides of March
Aired - 13 March 1993

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While surrounded by conspirators, Tony thinks himself to be like Julius Caesar, meanwhile a man takes his ex-wife hostage. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 17 - Out of Business (2)
Aired - 27 February 1993

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When Tony son dies is a shootout Collette vows to make Tony pay by killing him. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 16 - Family Business (1)
Aired - 20 February 1993

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The Eastbridge crime rate raises when a retired mobster and his son comes to town. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 15 - Dead Cadet's Society
Aired - 13 February 1993

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When the baby arrives david behavior gets worse meanwhile a militaristic preppies disappears. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 14 - The Sharp Pinch
Aired - 06 February 1993

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Tony is looking for a very ill infant who has been kidnapped. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 13 - The Heart is a Lonely Sucker
Aired - 16 January 1993

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While Stan is having problems protecting Carmela from a curse, Tony thinks that a video dating cliernt is a homicidal thief. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - Stoned
Aired - 02 January 1993

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Things are not going so well for Tony, first, his new car was stolen, right in front of him. Next he is informed that a patient from psychiatric hospital, Arlo Manno, has just escaped, and that he is some kind of egotistical, maniacal genius, who wants to, among other things, fly an airplane, perform a medical procedure, and join the police department. And it's not going to be easy to find him, cause he is also a chameleon, who is truly a man of a thousand faces. And Tony also has a kidney stone, which means that he has to go to the hospital, Which leaves Syd in charge. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - The Frame
Aired - 19 December 1992

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A notorious racketeer comes to New York and in turn the crime rate rises. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - Sleep of the Just
Aired - 12 December 1992

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While Tony suffers from lost of sleep over being a new father he puzzles over a rapist who has diplomatci immunity. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - Witness
Aired - 05 December 1992

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Rachel becomes a target for a killer after she witnesses a murder while she was grocery shopping. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - A Time to Be Born
Aired - 21 November 1992

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When Rachel is in labor, Tony is keep away from her due to a friend's crisis. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - Escape
Aired - 14 November 1992

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Rachel redecorates as one of tony's freind who harbors a secret is under target from a escaped convict. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - The Two Faces of Ed
Aired - 07 November 1992

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A old freind of tony who is having marital trouble could be causing deadly incidents. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - The Witches of Eastbridge
Aired - 31 October 1992

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The town is in shock when a haert is cut from a corpse at the funernal home meanwhile the town believes a recluse taints halloween treats. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - The Rolodex Madam
Aired - 24 October 1992

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Tony is astonished to discover a wealthy socialite is the proprietor of a prostitution ring. The socialite is murdered, but not before Tony's name is discovered in her rolodex of clients. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - Guns & Sons
Aired - 10 October 1992

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David is the only witness to a shooting involving his best friend and a bullying classmate. Tony pursues the case unaware of David's knowledge of the shooting. The victims father skeptical of police justice, plans to mete out his own. Tony arrives in time to stop a crime of vengeance. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Adventures in the Skin Trade (2)
Aired - 03 October 1992

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Tony escape from the kidnappers with the help of the porn producer and then they pursue a film entrpreneur. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - Adventures in the Skin Trade (1)
Aired - 26 September 1992

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A freind of tony daughter is missing so he and pauli pose as porn film investors to found out the truth. Add your review
+ Series 1

+ Episode 22 - The Puck Stops Here
Aired - 16 May 1992

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Tony's friend, a high-school hockey star and recovering addict, becomes a drug suspect and the Scalis agonize over abortion. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 21 - Video Vigilante
Aired - 09 May 1992

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A publicity seeker with a video camera makes Tony's life difficult and a professor is accused of beating a student. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 20 - Shoot the Breeze
Aired - 02 May 1992

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Tony tries to protect an informant and Kelly has a tryst with a new arrival. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 19 - Judgement Day
Aired - 04 April 1992

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A judge with a secret jails Tony and an officer takes a boy on his beat to give him perspective. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 18 - Sex, Lies, and Kerosene
Aired - 21 March 1992

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An arson case contains an apparent murder. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 17 - Officer April
Aired - 07 March 1992

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A businesswoman seeks officers for a calendar and A domestic-call shooting starts a terror campaign against Kelly No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 16 - True Believers
Aired - 29 February 1992

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Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 15 - The Wicked Flee
Aired - 22 February 1992

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A boy who see's his mother murder become emotionally withdraws while tony's son has trouble with his father coaching methods. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 14 - Skeletons
Aired - 08 February 1992

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A women remembers her brother 35 year old murder after a mugging takes place. tony and another detective track the suspect. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 13 - Charlie Don't Surf
Aired - 18 January 1992

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Stan poses as a pizza deliveryman to catch muggers. meanwhile a bombers targets a restaurant. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 12 - The Fourth Man
Aired - 04 January 1992

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A hijackers who knocks down the cheif of dectives has tony obsesses over finding them. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 11 - No Greater Gift
Aired - 21 December 1991

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Tony conscience is working overtime as he has to decide whether or not to force a homeless woman from a creche or to arrest to mercy killer, as law is law. also david faces up to his 1st girl,boy party. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 10 - The Commissioner's Ball
Aired - 07 December 1991

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Tony have 2 problems. he 1st has to arrange the commissioner's ball and he also thinks he knows who killing the homeless people. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 9 - Two Confessions
Aired - 30 November 1991

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1st of all a man fall a sex phone operator and then twins who are accused of murder turn on each other and states that the other one done it. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 8 - The Hatchet
Aired - 16 November 1991

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Tony has fights with 2 people this week. 1st he clashes with the city efficiency expert and 2nd with a cop over his treatment of criminals. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 7 - Behind the Storm Door
Aired - 09 November 1991

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While Stan fixes traffic tickets a terrorized woman who tony rescues wants a date with him. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 6 - A Matter of Life or Death (2)
Aired - 02 November 1991

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Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 5 - A Matter of Life or Death (1)
Aired - 02 November 1991

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Tony starts a set for a set of missing cops and there a new york police commissioner candidate. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 4 - Nothing to Fear But ...
Aired - 26 October 1991

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Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them due to death threats. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 3 - The Poisoned Tree
Aired - 12 October 1991

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A colleague of Rachel is a child molester and tony tries to convince her of this. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 2 - Do You See What I See?
Aired - 05 October 1991

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In the town of Eastbridge a rapist wearing a santa mask terrorizes the town. also tony takes the graveyard shift after a cop remark. No Reviews. Add your review
+ Episode 1 - In the Best of Families
Aired - 28 September 1991

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When Bobby Studivant, the son of a high-powered lawyer, commits suicide while in police custody, Tony comes under fire from the higher powers. No Reviews. Add your review

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