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In the Best of Families

Episode number: 1

Overview: Tony is threatened with criminal negligence after the son of a prominent lawyer hangs himself in his cell.

Do You See What I See?

Episode number: 2

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

The Poisoned Tree

Episode number: 3

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

Nothing to Fear But ...

Episode number: 4

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

A Matter of Life or Death (1)

Episode number: 5

Overview: 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.

A Matter of Life or Death (2)

Episode number: 6

Overview: Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and tony's up for the nypd commissioner job.

Behind the Storm Door

Episode number: 7

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

The Hatchet

Episode number: 8

Overview: 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.

Two Confessions

Episode number: 9

Overview: 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.

Commissioner's Ball

Episode number: 10

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

No Greater Gift

Episode number: 11

Overview: 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.

The Fourth Man

Episode number: 12

Overview: 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!

Charlie Don't Surf

Episode number: 13

Overview: Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

Skeletons

Episode number: 14

Overview: 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.

The Wicked Flee

Episode number: 15

Overview: 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.

True Believers

Episode number: 16

Overview: 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.

Officer April

Episode number: 17

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

Sex, Lies, and Kerosene

Episode number: 18

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

Judgement Day

Episode number: 19

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

Shoot the Breeze

Episode number: 20

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

Video Vigilante

Episode number: 21

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

The Puck Stops Here

Episode number: 22

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