The BEST episodes of The Commish
Every episode of The Commish ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Commish!
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.
#1 - Bank Job
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/26/1994
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.
#2 - Who Do You Trust?
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1994
Tony believes an officer posing as a corrupt cop to expose a crime ring may actually be the genuine article.
#3 - Born in the USA
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1994
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.
#4 - Working Girls
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1994
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.
#5 - Against the Wind (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1994
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'.
#6 - Against the Wind (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1994
After being struck with a bullet, 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.
#7 - The Iceman Cometh (2)
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/1994
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.
#8 - Sergeant Kelly (1)
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/7/1994
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 a drug dealer.
#9 - The Letter of the Law
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1994
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.
#10 - Dead Drunk
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/1994
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.
#11 - Security
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/1994
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.
#12 - Romeo and Juliet
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/1994
David and his girlfriend find a dead body, whom everyone recognizes as a man with a gambling problem.
#13 - Nancy with the Laughing Face
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1994
While working on an embezzlement and a kinapping case Paulie starts to becomes to emotionally involved.
#14 - Father Eddie
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1994
When a young Puerto Rican is found next to the corpse of his former girlfriend, he is arrested and charged with her murder.
#15 - Dog Days
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1994
The body of a young woman is found. She appears to have died from an overdose of angel dust. But, the only witness is a young man who has Down Syndrome.
#16 - Keeping Secrets
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1994
A series of violent attacks outside a gay bar has the squad scrambling for any clue.
#17 - Benny
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1994
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.
#18 - A Little Heart
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1993
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.
#19 - Mansion
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1993
The wife of a local multi-millionaire, is found dead at her mansion. When the autopsy is performed, the coroner advises Tony that the death does not look like an accident.
#20 - All That Glitters
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1993
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.
#21 - Dying Affection
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1993
After she dumps her boyfriend, Cyd starts receiving creepy, threatening packages. Stan links two elderly ladies to a notorious bank robber.
#22 - Hero
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1993
The Scalis babysitter is raped by the local football hero and then harassed and threatened by his fans.
#23 - Rising Sun
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1993
Tony's city-council pal won't vote for a Japanese businessman's purchase of prime Eastbridge real estate.
#24 - The Set-Up
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1993
Rachel is being framed for murder after Tony's probe of a criminal network goes wrong.
#25 - Cry Wolfe
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1995
While trying to solve a major gold robbery, Tony must answer a cry for help from a con man.