The Commish

10/5/1991

The commissioner sets out to trap a serial rapist in a Santa Claus mask who's been terrorizing the city.

10/12/1991

Rachel refuses to believe Tony when he tells her that her school teacher colleague, Jim Hollister, is a child molester.

10/26/1991

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony initiates around-the-clock surveillance of his unsuspecting family.

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.

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.

11/9/1991

Tony is pursued by a woman he suspects is filing false complaints.

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.

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.

12/7/1991

A serial killer has been mutilating the bodies of Eastbridge tradsients and homeless people - and Tony begins to suspect the perpetrator's identity.

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.

1/4/1992

After Commissioner Scali's friend and colleague, Chief of Detectives Irv Wallerstein, is struck down during a bloody encounter with hijackers, Tony becomes obsessed with finding the assailant!

1/18/1992

Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

2/8/1992

A mugging triggers a woman's repressed mernosy 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 by Tony and a visiting friend, L.A. homicide detective Paulie Pentangeli.

2/22/1992

After seeing his mother killed by a stranger, a boy withdraws deep into himself, prompting a sympathetic Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.

2/29/1992

The unwelcome appearance in Eastbridge of white supremacists leads to a murder, with the suspicion soon arising that one or more of Tony's associates may be implicated.

3/7/1992

After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, Officer Kelly becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.

3/21/1992

Tony and Paulie investigate a puzzling arson case in which the husband of a beautiful woman appears to have been murdered.

4/4/1992

Tony winds up in one of his own jail cells when he runs afoul of an imperious judge who's hiding a fearsome secret.

5/2/1992

Tony attempts to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man, while Stan Kelly enjoys a romantic encounter with a beautiful new Eastbridge arrival.

5/9/1992

Tony is embarrassed, then enraged, as a publicity-seeking "video vigilante" metes out even more bizarre and harsh punishment to offenders.

5/16/1992

Mike Cermak - star high-school hockey player, recovering addict, and good friend of the Scali family - becomes a prime drug-ring suspect.