The Commish

Slightly offbeat television police comedy-drama. 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.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Cast:Michael Chiklis , Theresa Saldana , Kaj-Erik Eriksen , Geoffrey Nauffts , Melinda McGraw , Jason Schombing , John Cygan , Dayna Cornborough , Justine Cornborough , Gina Belafonte , Nicholas Lea , Evan Tylor , Pat Bermel , Michael Patten , Kimberly Scott , William A. McManus , Dave 'Squatch' Ward , Ian Tracey

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ In the Best of Families

Sat, Sep 28, 1991

Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Do You See What I See

Sat, Oct 5, 1991

The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Poisoned Tree

Sat, Oct 12, 1991

Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Nothing to Fear But Fear...

Sat, Oct 26, 1991

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ A Matter of Life or Death: Part 1

Sat, Oct 26, 1991

Tony starts the review process to become New York police commissioner while investigating the disappearance of two of his police officers.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ A Matter of Life or Death: Part 2

Sat, Nov 2, 1991

Tony discovers who is responsible for the disappearance of two of his police officers and a new New York police commissioner is named.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Behind the Storm Door

Sat, Nov 9, 1991

Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Hatchet

Sat, Nov 16, 1991

Tony butts heads with both a tough cop who is overzealous in his handling of criminals, and a hard-nosed management consultant hired by the city in a cost-cutting effort.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Two Confessions

Sat, Nov 30, 1991

Tony is doubly stymied when identical twins both initially confess to the same murder, then, in a surprise about-face, accuse each other of the crime. Also, Arnie finds romance with a kindred soul, a phone-sex operator named Gloria.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Commissioner's Ball

Sat, Dec 7, 1991

A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge transients and homeless people -- and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ No Greater Gift

Sat, Dec 21, 1991

An elderly woman is killed in her home during the Christmas season and Tony discovers what really happened.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Fourth Man

Sat, Jan 4, 1992

After Commissioner Scali's friend and colleague, Chief of Detectives Irv Wallerstein, is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant!

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Charlie Don't Surf

Sat, Jan 18, 1992

Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Skeletons

Sat, Feb 8, 1992

Tony investigates a 35-year-old murder with the help of an old friend who pays him a visit.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Wicked Flee

Sat, Feb 22, 1992

After seeing his mother killed by a stranger, a boy withdraws deep into himself, prompting a sympathetic Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ True Believers

Sat, Feb 29, 1992

The unwelcome appearance in Eastbridge of white supremacists leads to a murder, with the suspicion soon arising that one or more of Tony's associates may be implicated.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Officer April

Sat, Mar 7, 1992

After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Sex, Lies and Kerosene

Sat, Mar 21, 1992

Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Judgement Day

Sat, Apr 4, 1992

Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Shoot the Breeze

Sat, Apr 11, 1992

Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Video Vigilante

Sat, May 9, 1992

Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Puck Stops Here

Sat, May 16, 1992

Mike Cermak -- star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Adventures in the Skin Trade: Part 1

Sat, Sep 26, 1992

Commissioner, and expectant father, Tony Sciali finds his own life on the line after he infiltrates a New York pornographic teenage film ring

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Adventures in the Skin Trade: Part 2

Sat, Oct 3, 1992

Commissioner Scali, kidnapped and seemingly destined for a sudden death, narrowly escapes his fate with the help of an unsuspected ally - porno movie producer Cyd Palmer.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Guns and Sons

Sat, Oct 10, 1992

Tony's son David is shocked when his friend Jason shoots Brad Harris, the school bully.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Rolodex Madame

Sat, Oct 24, 1992

When Mary O'Grady, one of Eastbridge's most prominent and politically powerful socialities, is murdered, it is discovered she has been running a call girl service and, surprisingly, one name on her list of clients is Commissioner Scali!

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Witches of Eastbridge

Sat, Oct 31, 1992

Halloween in Eastbridge comes with mysteries of poisoned candy and a stolen heart from a deceased man.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Two Faces of Ed

Sat, Nov 7, 1992

Tony is torn when a series of life-threatening incidents occur in Eastbridge and the only link appears to be Ed Mize, an old, mild-mannered friend currently experiencing marital difficulties.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Escape

Sat, Nov 14, 1992

Tony, distraught when it appears that Phil Reid, one of his best men, may be targeted for revenge by a dangerous escaped convict, is further upset when he discovers that Phil's family harbors a dark secret.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ A Time to Be Born

Sat, Nov 21, 1992

Rachel's in labor and about to give birth at any minute with only Cyd to support her because Tony is Literally out on a ledge trying to stop a troubled, older cop, who is a friend, from jumping.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Witness

Sat, Dec 5, 1992

While grocery shopping, Rachel runs head-on into a robbery-murder suspect - and becomes the target of the killer's threats.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Sleep of the Just

Sat, Dec 12, 1992

Tony takes on a serial rapist who is protected by diplomatic immunity.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Frame

Sat, Dec 19, 1992

Tony is suspicious of a retired mobster who moves to Eastbridge.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Stoned

Sat, Jan 2, 1993

A mental hospital patient escapes and local carjackings have to be stopped while Tony deals with kidney stones.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Heart Is a Lonely Sucker

Sat, Jan 16, 1993

Tony joins a video-dating service when he suspects one of his clients is a murderous thief. Also, Stan tries to protect Carmela from a clairvoyant's case.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Sharp Pinch

Sat, Jan 23, 1993

Commissioner Scali and his team of officers pull out all stops as they try to beat the clock in a desperate search for the kidnapper of a very sick baby.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Dead Cadet's Society

Sat, Feb 13, 1993

Tony suspects foul play when a member of a commando-like squad of elite prep school students --

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Family Business

Sat, Feb 20, 1993

When Nick Colette, the hot-headed son of "retired" mobster Tommy Colette, joins forces with his father, Eastbridge's crime troubles start.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Out of Business

Sat, Feb 27, 1993

Following the death of his gangster son in a police shootout, mobster Tommy Colette vows to kill Tony Scali himself.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Ides of March

Sat, Mar 13, 1993

One of Tony's men, Danny Nolan, goes ballistic when Joe Lund, the gun-wielding ex-husband of the woman Dan's been seeing, takes her hostage.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Blue Flu

Thu, Apr 1, 1993

When the majority of Tony's officers stage a sick-out in the wake of a wage dispute, Eastbridge becomes an open city for crime.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Eastbridge Boulevard

Sat, May 1, 1993

Stella Stevens guest stars as a reclusive former movie queen - and one of Tony's all-time film favorites - who is implicated in the real-life murder of her lover.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Sight Unseen

Sat, May 8, 1993

Tony sets out to trap a serial rapist whose victims are young blind women Meanwhile, Rachel makes a surprising investment in art.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Anti-Commish

Sat, May 15, 1993

When a mysterious caller advises Tony that he is going to be his "partner" and do the things Tony would like to do but can't, a number of Eastbridge drug dealers suddenly turn up dead.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Suffer the Children: Part 1

Sat, Sep 25, 1993

Tony and Cyd investigate the hanging death of a teen-age runaway. Rachel takes the job in Buffalo.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Suffer the Children: Part 2

Sat, Oct 2, 1993

The Scali Family tries to adjust to living in two separate homes, in two separate cities to accommodate Rachel's new job. Circumstantial evidence keeps piling up against the shelter manager in the case of the missing girl.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Scali, P.I.

Sat, Oct 9, 1993

Tony takes a job as a private investigator and suspects the new commissioner isn't as great as he seems.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Burned Out Case

Sat, Oct 16, 1993

When a friend of David's dies after taking crack, Tony disappoints David by letting the dealer go, as he's part of a federal sting but not big enough to go after.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Set-Up

Sat, Oct 23, 1993

The Eastbridge Police Department is requested to assist in bringing down the biggest mobster from Cleveland. His men turn around and set Rachel up in a hit-and-run so Tony sets up a little sting of his own.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Rising Sun

Sat, Nov 6, 1993

An old friend of Tony's (a member of city council) refuses to approve Japanese investors business plans and tempers flare.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Hero

Sat, Nov 13, 1993

The Scalis babysitter is raped by the local football hero and then harassed and threatened by his fans.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Dying Affection

Sat, Nov 20, 1993

When Cyd breaks it off with her boyfriend, bad things start happening. How is it possible that the Chief of Detectives didn't notice these things about him? The force also deals with a Mother-Son bank robbing team.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ All That Glitters

Sat, Nov 27, 1993

Stan's fiancee appears in surveillance video of jewelry store armed robbery. Will there be a wedding? Rachel puts the family on a healthy diet.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Mansion

Sat, Dec 4, 1993

Tony investigates the mysterious death of a wealthy socialite with suspicious family members.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ A Little Heart

Sat, Dec 18, 1993

A heart set for transplant to the daughter of one of Tony's men is stolen from the ambulance. The squad sets out to find it before it's too late. Cyd walks the beat looking for a Santa that isn't satisfied with just cash donations.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Benny

Sat, Jan 15, 1994

Rachel's cousin Benny gets involved in a case with Tony.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Keeping Secrets

Sat, Jan 22, 1994

A series of violent attacks outside a gay bar has the squad scrambling for any clue when one of their own makes a witness report and thereby outs himself. Friendships are tested.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Dog Days

Sat, Feb 5, 1994

The police station janitor helps Tony solve a woman's mysterious death from a PCP overdose.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Father Eddie

Sat, Feb 12, 1994

The murder of a girl leads Tony to his old friend Father Eddie who has a close relationship with the suspect and will do whatever it takes to protect him.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Bank Job

Thu, Feb 24, 1994

Rachel becomes a hostage during a bank robbery.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Romeo and Juliet

Sat, Mar 12, 1994

Tony tells David to stay away from his girlfriend due to her father's criminal activities, but David doesn't agree.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Security

Sat, Mar 19, 1994

Tony is suspicious of a security company owner who takes justice into his own hands.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Dead Drunk

Sat, Apr 2, 1994

A drunk driver kills the wife of one of Tony's men and, because the driver is a doctor, the judge suspends his sentence.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Letter of the Law

Sat, Apr 30, 1994

When Rachel learns the mother of one of her students is a fugitive, Tony is faced with a difficult decision.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Sergeant Kelly

Sat, May 7, 1994

Stan hopes to be promoted to Sergeant and Tony lets him handle the investigation of a local drug trafficker.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Iceman Cometh

Sat, May 14, 1994

Tony and Rachel are the targets of an unknown hitman.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Against the Wind: Part 1

Sat, Sep 24, 1994

Tony investigates the killing of one of his officer's while recovering in rehab.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Against the Wind: Part 2

Sat, Oct 1, 1994

As the search for a cop killer intensifies, Tony begins to doubt his own recovery.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Working Girls

Sat, Oct 8, 1994

Tony arrests an old friends daughter during a prostitution sting.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Born in the USA

Sat, Oct 15, 1994

Tony uncovers the shakedown of a community of illegal immigrants; David wants an earring to impress a girl.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Who Do You Trust

Sat, Oct 22, 1994

Tony believes an officer posing as a corrupt cop to expose a crime ring may actually be the genuine article.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Nancy with the Laughing Face

Sat, Oct 29, 1994

A top aide gets too close to an embezzlement/kidnapping case involving an ex-girlfriend.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Revenge

Sat, Nov 5, 1994

Tony's former partner seeks revenge for a long jail sentence.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Head Case

Sat, Nov 12, 1994

Tony sets out to prove a mental patient isn't guilty of murder.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ The Lady Vanishes

Sat, Nov 19, 1994

Commissioner Scali investigates the drowning of a tennis pro at a swanky club.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Ghost

Sun, Dec 4, 1994

After shooting a dangerous armed robber, a cop is accused of murdering an unarmed man.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ A Christmas Story

Sat, Dec 17, 1994

Tony hopes a burglary investigation will help an old friend recover from the death of his wife; David doesn't have the money he saved to buy his dad's Chanukah gift.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Hidden

Thu, Jan 12, 1995

Scali works to reunite a father with his estranged family who are in witness protection. A crime boss with a vendetta complicates things. The team must also foil a dog-napper.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Johnny Club

Sat, Jan 14, 1995

When a friend of the Scalis is killed, it seems to be an accident at first. It gets complicated when they find he was leading a double life. Tony deals with a plumbing leak in his office and troubles at home when David shoplifts on a dare.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ The Golden Years

Thu, Feb 2, 1995

A visit from Tony's parents uncovers a disturbing rift in their relationship.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Accused

Thu, Feb 9, 1995

An attractive computer technician (Tracy Scroggins) accuses Tony of sexual harassment.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ The Trial

Thu, Feb 16, 1995

Tony must protect an aggressive defense lawyer whose methods he doesn't like.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Cry Wolfe

Thu, Mar 2, 1995

While trying to solve a major gold robbery, Tony must answer a cry for help from a con man.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Brooklyn

Sun, Apr 9, 1995

Tony and Paulie reopen the murder investigation of an old friend and partner in New York City.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Letting Go

Thu, Mar 23, 1995

While trying to help an elderly woman recover her lost life savings, Tony learns Rachel may have cancer.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ The Kid

Thu, Mar 30, 1995

Paulie fights to prove that a homeless teenager isn't a murderer.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Off Broadway: Part 1

Sat, May 13, 1995

Tony teams with a tough female NYPD detective to catch a serial killer.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Off Broadway: Part 2

Sat, May 20, 1995

Though her obsession with the job jeopardizes her personal life, NYPD detective Connie Muldoon presses to find a serial killer.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ In the Shadows of the Gallows

Thu, Nov 30, 1995

A prisoner, whom Tony arrested before his trial and conviction, is executed on death row in Pennsylvania. The next day a prisoner in Albany State Prison confesses to the murders for which the other man was executed. The family files a wrongful death suit and Tony is one of the defendants. Then, in a meeting with Tony, the confessor says if Tony will clear him of the two murders for which he's to be executed, he will admit to lying about the murders for which the original convict was executed.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Father Image: Part 1

Thu, Dec 7, 1995

A murder is committed while a fundraiser for the mayor is being held. A beautiful, classy British woman is suspected. Tony's mentor pays a visit and asks if Tony needs a "consultant". The next day an stockbroker/biker wannabe is found murdered. The mentor wonders if it's the same killer and looks for similarities. This woman suspect is leather and tattoo chick and doesn't look like artist's drawing. The following day a body is found at the country club at the golf course and the suspect is a perky blonde with a rose tattoo.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Father Image: Part 2

Thu, Dec 14, 1995

Tony and his mentor have solved the case, so why is Tony so uneasy? He tells Rachel he feels like the mentor is living through him and "putting him in the big league". How did Tony happen to find a key piece of evidence exactly as they had in a case previously?

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Redemption

Thu, Jan 11, 1996

A clothing manufacturer's sweatshop is burned down. The Jewish Temple is vandalized. An Asian storeowner is harassed. Rachel's father (who buys the cloth for the sweatshop) has a new girlfriend (younger than Rachel) and is as disappointing to Rachel as always. Mr. Metzger has a heart attack but, before he dies, he tells a story about the two of them going to the circus. While Tony and Rachel are clearing out her father's apartment she is surprised at the things he has kept over the years but Tony finds a ledger hidden underneath a drawer. The book contains dates and dollar amounts; the first two dates are two fires in sweatshops and the other two dates are approaching.