The BEST episodes of The Commish season 1
Every episode of The Commish season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Commish season 1!
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 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Officer April
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1992
A businesswoman seeks officers for a calendar. After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, an officer becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Nothing to Fear But ...
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1991
After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them.
#5 - Do You See What I See?
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1991
The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.
#6 - The Fourth Man
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1992
After Tony's friend and colleague is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - A Matter of Life or Death (2)
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1991
Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and Tony's up for the NYPD commissioner job. (Conclusion of the pilot episode.)
#8 - No Greater Gift
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1991
During the holiday season, Tony investigates the murder of an elderly woman allegedly killed in her home during a Christmas burglary; matches wits with a mugger, and defends a homeless woman who's been sleeping in the manger of a Holy Family creche.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - The Wicked Flee
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1992
A boy who see's his mother's murder becomes emotionally withdrawn prompting Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Two Confessions
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1991
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - The Hatchet
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1991
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Poisoned Tree
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1991
Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague is a child molester.
#13 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Sex, Lies and Kerosene
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1992
An arson case contains an apparent murder.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - True Believers
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/29/1992
Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Commissioner's Ball
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1991
A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge transients and homeless people -- and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Behind the Storm Door
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1991
While Stan fixes traffic tickets, Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - A Matter of Life or Death (1)
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1991
Tony initiates a sweep to find a pair of missing cops; devises an ingenious way of keeping an habitually drunk driver off the road; and deftly handles an "extraterrestrial," all the while being scrutinized by a committee searching for a new police commissioner for New York City. (Although shown as Episode 5, this is the actual pilot episode of the series.)
#19 - Skeletons
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1992
A mugging triggers a woman's repressed memory of her brother's murder, which she witnessed as a child. The suspect, free for the past 35 years, is tracked to the unlikeliest of hiding places.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - In the Best of Families
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1991
Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.
#21 - Shoot the Breeze
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1992
Tony tries to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Charlie Don't Surf
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1992
Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.
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