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.

Last Updated: 11/4/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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8.40
5 votes

#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.

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8.33
6 votes

#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.

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8.25
4 votes

#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.

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8.22
9 votes

#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.

Directors: Kim Manners
Writer: Tammy Ader
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8.20
15 votes

#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.

Directors: Tucker Gates
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8.20
5 votes

#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.

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8.17
6 votes

#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.)

Directors: Mark Sobel
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8.17
6 votes

#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.

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8.17
6 votes

#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.

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8.13
8 votes

#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.

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8.09
11 votes

#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.

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8.00
13 votes

#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.

Directors: Tucker Gates
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8.00
3 votes

#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.

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8.00
6 votes

#14 - Sex, Lies and Kerosene

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1992

An arson case contains an apparent murder.

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8.00
3 votes

#15 - True Believers

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/29/1992

Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists.

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8.00
6 votes

#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.

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8.00
6 votes

#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.

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8.00
10 votes

#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.)

Directors: Mark Sobel
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7.83
6 votes

#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.

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7.79
19 votes

#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.

Directors: Gwen Arner
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7.67
6 votes

#21 - Shoot the Breeze

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1992

Tony tries to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man.

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7.43
7 votes

#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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