The BEST episodes of The Octopus

#1 - Codename: West

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1992

A desperate chase is given by The Core and two countries magistrates to catch the new drug lords that are aiming at deluging drugs into Europe's Eastern countries from a former Nazi concentration camp in the West.

#2 - Episode 5

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/28/1990

#3 - Return to Sicily

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1995

Several characters return to the little town where, years ago, the police commissary Cattani was set up and murdered by the Mafia.

#4 - Quinta Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/25/1984

Cattani hides the truth about his daughters disappearance from his wife and colleagues while at the same time fighting opposition in his work place.

#5 - Episode 4

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/22/1990

#6 - Sesta Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1984

Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.

#7 - Episode 3

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/1990

#8 - Look Out for Saverio

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

Saverio comes home to reunite with Nuzzio against the higher powers of the Mafia, but these are alert and after him, after torturing his mistress in St. Petersburg. Also after him, is his wife, still under the protection of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard.

#9 - Paola

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1986

Police Inspector Cattani fights a losing battle to save his loved daughter's sanity, after what she suffered (see "La Piovra", original mini-series). He loses her, and his only trusted magistrate in the fight against The Octopus.

#10 - Primera Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/1984

Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.

#11 - Terza Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/1984

Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.

#12 - Episode 2

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/15/1990

#13 - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/14/1990

#14 - Secundo Puntata

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1984

Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.

#15 - The Killing Attempt

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/30/1992

Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.

#16 - The Man of the Letters

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/1992

The hideout of Tani Cariddi in deep Africa becomes known - and again, the retired detective and the retired criminal must come to grips with violent action in Europe.

#17 - The Trap

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1992

Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.

#18 - The Sentence

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/20/1995

The killing attempt worked almost to perfection, and more blood runs in the streets. Silvia Conti's life is spared due to the intervention of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard, who decided against Nuzzio's opinion that she would be more valuable to them alive.

#19 - Episode 1

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/1999

#20 - Episode 2

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2001

#21 - Return to Rome

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1986

Cattani's love life is as confused as his behaviour; he sleeps with the enemy, and is recruited to ITALA, the cultural association for the study of the ancestral popular traditions of Italy, The Octopus by another name.

#22 - Vengeance

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1986

It leaves an acrid taste in Cattani's mouth, as he loses yet another important ally, and severes his ties with the beautiful Contessa, when he wakes up fire in enemy ground.

#23 - Good and Evil

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1987

After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.

#24 - To the South Again

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/1987

Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.

#25 - Friends in Common

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1986

Cattani is approached by the Number 2 of his best friend in Rome to conspire against him, and ends up fighting for his life in prison, against thugs who are friends of his worst enemy. Cattani must swallow his pride, and recurs to the lustful Contessa who has other friends in common.