The Commish

- Season 1

(1991)

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

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

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

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

Tony starts the review process to become New York police commissioner while investigating the disappearance of two of his police officers.

Tony discovers who is responsible for the disappearance of two of his police officers and a new New York police commissioner is named.

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

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.

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.

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

An elderly woman is killed in her home during the Christmas season and Tony discovers what really happened.

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!

Vietnamese gangs threaten Eastbridge and Tony steps in to help.

Tony investigates a 35-year-old murder with the help of an old friend who pays him a visit.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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