The BEST episodes of The Commish

#1 - Father Image (2)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/14/1995

Terry plants a fake murder weapon in Emily's kitchen to speed up the case, but Tony refuses to take shortcuts.

#2 - 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.

#3 - Redemption (2)

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/1996

#4 - Redemption (1)

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1996

A clothing manufacturer's sweatshop is burned down. The Jewish Temple is vandalized. An Asian storeowner is harassed.

#5 - In the Shadow of the Gallows (2)

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/30/1995

#6 - Father Image (1)

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/1995

A woman with multiple personality disorder kills three older men, starting at the mayor's fundraiser.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - The Johnny Club

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1995

David is caught shoplifting. Meanwhile Tony finds out that an accident victim was in debt to a loan shark.

#10 - In the Shadow of the Gallows (1)

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/1995

Tony faces the biggest challenge of his career when a murder case from his past resurfaces.

#11 - 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'.

#12 - The Puck Stops Here

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1992

Tony's friend, a high-school hockey star and recovering addict, becomes a drug-ring suspect.

#13 - 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.

#14 - Off Broadway (1)

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1995

While investigating the murder of his friend's daughter, Tony gets help from a New York police officer.

#15 - Burned Out Case

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1993

A drug dealer who was responsible for a girl's death is release by Tony.

#16 - Hidden

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1995

Tony works to reunite a father with his estranged family who are in witness protection.

#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 - Judgement Day

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/1992

A judge with a secret jails Tony and an officer takes a boy on his beat to give him perspective.

#19 - Video Vigilante

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1992

A publicity seeker with a video camera makes Tony's life difficult and a professor is accused of beating a student.

#20 - 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.

#21 - The Trial

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1995

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

#22 - 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.

#23 - Revenge

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1994

A corrupt ex-officer that Tony imprisoned seeks revenge upon his release.

#24 - 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.

#25 - Off Broadway (2)

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1995

Tony and Connie Muldoon close in on the serial killer, Connie's daughter might be the next victim.