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.

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

7.00

4 votes

#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.

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7.00

5 votes

#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.

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7.00

6 votes

#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.

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7.17

6 votes

#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.

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7.17

6 votes

#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.

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7.17

6 votes

#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.

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7.20

5 votes

#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.

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7.20

5 votes

#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.

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7.25

4 votes

#9 - 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.

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7.25

4 votes

#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.

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7.33

3 votes

#11 - 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.

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7.33

6 votes

#12 - Adventures in the Skin Trade (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1992

Tony escapes from kidnappers with the help of a porno movie producer.

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7.33

3 votes

#13 - 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.

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7.33

6 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Kim Manners

Writer: Robert Cochran, Stephen Kronish

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7.40

5 votes

#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.

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7.40

5 votes

#16 - Head Case

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1994

Tony sets out to prove a mental patient isn't guilty of murder.

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7.40

5 votes

#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.

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7.43

7 votes

#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.

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7.43

7 votes

#19 - 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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7.50

4 votes

#20 - 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.

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7.60

5 votes

#21 - The Heart Is a Lonely Sucker

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1993

While Stan is having problems protecting Carmela from a curse, Tony thinks that a video dating client is a homicidal thief.

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7.60

5 votes

#22 - 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.

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7.60

5 votes

#23 - 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.

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7.60

5 votes

#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.

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7.67

3 votes

#25 - A Christmas Story

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1994

An old friend of Tony gets his life back on track with help from a retirement home resident.

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