The Commish

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 is a child molester.

After receiving a pair of baffling death threats, Tony puts his family under police surveillance without telling them.

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. (Although shown as Episode 5, this is the actual pilot episode of the series.)

Two missing cops have been found under water, there a jail hunger strike going on and Tony's up for the NYPD commissioner job. (Conclusion of the pilot episode.)

While Stan fixes traffic tickets, 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.

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.

After Tony's friend and colleague 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.

A mugging triggers a woman's repressed memory 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.

A boy who see's his mother's murder becomes emotionally withdrawn prompting Tony to step up his efforts to catch the murderer.

Several officers are implicated in a murder involving white supremacists.

A businesswoman seeks officers for a calendar. After he shoots a woman in a drunken domestic squabble, an officer becomes the victim of a terrorization campaign.

An arson case contains an apparent murder.

A judge with a secret jails Tony and an officer takes a boy on his beat to give him perspective.

Tony tries to protect an informant from a mysterious hit man.

A publicity seeker with a video camera makes Tony's life difficult and a professor is accused of beating a student.

Tony's friend, a high-school hockey star and recovering addict, becomes a drug-ring suspect.