The WORST episodes of The Commish
Every episode of The Commish ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Blue Flu
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/1/1993
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.
#2 - Escape
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1992
Rachel redecorates as one of Tony's friends, who harbors a secret, is under target from a escaped convict.
#3 - The Witches of Eastbridge
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1992
The town is in shock when a heart is cut from a corpse at a funeral home. Meanwhile the town believes a recluse is tainting Halloween candy.
#4 - Eastbridge Boulevard
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1993
A new reality police show comes to town. Meanwhile, a former movie star is implicated in her ex lover's murder.
#5 - The Ides of March
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1993
While surrounded by conspirators, Tony thinks himself to be like Julius Caesar. Meanwhile, a man takes his ex-wife hostage.
#6 - Dead Cadet's Society
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1993
A group of prep school boys commit a robbery. When one is caught, the remaining members of the group take steps to prevent him from snitching.
#7 - The Sharp Pinch
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1993
Tony and his team of officers are in a desperate search for a very sick infant who has been kidnapped.
#8 - The Two Faces of Ed
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1992
An old friend of Tony's who is having marital trouble may be causing deadly incidents.
#9 - Charlie Don't Surf
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1992
Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.
#10 - A Time to Be Born
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1992
Rachel is in labor and about to give birth while Tony is literally out on a ledge trying to stop a troubled, older cop, from jumping.
#11 - The Witness
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1992
Rachel becomes a target for a killer after she witnesses a murder while she was grocery shopping.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Out of Business (2)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1993
Following the death of his gangster son in a police shootout, a mobster vows to kill Tony.
#14 - Sleep of the Just
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1992
While Tony suffers from lost of sleep over being a new father, he puzzles over a rapist suspect who has diplomatic immunity.
#15 - Brooklyn
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1995
A murder of a fellow cop make Tony and Paulie travel to Brooklyn to help investigate the case.
#16 - Head Case
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1994
Tony sets out to prove a mental patient isn't guilty of murder.
#17 - The Anti-Commish
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/1993
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. Meanwhiel Rachel gets a good job offer in Buffalo.
#18 - Stoned
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1993
Things are not going so well for Tony. First, his new car was stolen, right in front of him. Next, he is informed that a patient from psychiatric hospital has just escaped, and that he is some kind of egotistical, maniacal genius, who wants to, among other things, fly an airplane, perform a medical procedure, and join the police department.
#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 - The Rolodex Madame
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1992
Tony is astonished to discover a wealthy socialite is the proprietor of a prostitution ring. The socialite is murdered, but not before Tony's name is discovered in her rolodex of clients.
#21 - True Believers
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/29/1992
Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Guns & Sons
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1992
David is the only witness to a shooting involving his best friend and a bullying classmate. Tony pursues the case unaware of David's knowledge of the shooting. The victims father skeptical of police justice, plans to mete out his own. Tony arrives in time to stop a crime of vengeance.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Scali, P.I.
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1993
Rachel decides to not take the job in Buffalo, but not until after Tony quits his job so he can move with her. Since his old commissioner job has already been filled, Tony takes a job as a private investigator.