Strike Force

Season 1

1981 · 20 episodes · 20h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Strike Force: Pilot

   13 Nov 1981 · 60 min

   Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.

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   2. Kidnap

   20 Nov 1981 · 60 min

   The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.

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   3. The Victims

   27 Nov 1981 · 60 min

   The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.

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   4. The Predator

   4 Dec 1981 · 60 min

   Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

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   5. Magic Man

   11 Dec 1981 · 60 min

   A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

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   6. Night Nurse

   18 Dec 1981 · 60 min

   Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

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   7. The Hollow Man

   25 Dec 1981 · 60 min

   A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.

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   8. The Outcast

   8 Jan 1982 · 60 min

   Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.

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   9. Ice

   15 Jan 1982 · 60 min

   An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

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    10. Internal Affairs

    22 Jan 1982 · 60 min

    Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.

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    11. Lonely Ladies

    5 Feb 1982 · 60 min

    The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

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    12. Fallen Angel

    12 Feb 1982 · 60 min

    A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

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    13. Shark

    19 Feb 1982 · 60 min

    Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

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    14. Turnabout

    26 Feb 1982 · 60 min

    A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.

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    15. The John Killer

    5 Mar 1982 · 60 min

    Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

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    16. Humiliation

    19 Mar 1982 · 60 min

    Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

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    17. Deadly Chemicals

    26 Mar 1982 · 60 min

    Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

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    18. Revenge

    2 Apr 1982 · 60 min

    A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.

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    19. Chinatown

    9 Apr 1982 · 60 min

    Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.

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    20. Death Fire

    16 Apr 1982 · 60 min

    A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".