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Strike Force(1981)

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First Air Date: 1981-11-13
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 7.5
Votes: 4
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 20

Strike Force is an American action-adventure/police procedural television series that aired on ABC during the 1981–1982 television season, and was produced by Aaron Spelling Productions. The program stars Robert Stack as Capt. Frank Murphy, the leader of a special unit of specialized detectives and police officers whose job is to stop violent criminals at any cost. Mixing elements of Stack's classic TV series The Untouchables from 20 years earlier with doses of Mission: Impossible and Dirty Harry, the series immediately provoked controversy over its violence – at one point the series was labeled the most violent in American TV history – though the series attempted to interject liberal amounts of humor into its regular characters and balanced the violence by focusing on the detectives' personal lives.

Keywords

police

Top Cast

Dorian Harewood
Dorian Harewood
Sergeant Paul Strobber
Robert Stack
Robert Stack
Captain Frank Murphy
Herb Edelman
Herb Edelman
Commissioner Herb Klein

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 20
E01
Strike Force: Pilot

Air Date: 1981-11-13

1h 0m

Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the...

E02
Kidnap

Air Date: 1981-11-20

1h 0m

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

E03
The Victims

Air Date: 1981-11-27

1h 0m

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

E04
The Predator

Air Date: 1981-12-04

1h 0m

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

E05
Magic Man

Air Date: 1981-12-11

1h 0m

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

E06
Night Nurse

Air Date: 1981-12-18

1h 0m

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

E07
The Hollow Man

Air Date: 1981-12-25

1h 0m

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

E08
The Outcast

Air Date: 1982-01-08

1h 0m

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

E09
Ice

Air Date: 1982-01-15

1h 0m

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

E10
Internal Affairs

Air Date: 1982-01-22

1h 0m

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

E11
Lonely Ladies

Air Date: 1982-02-05

1h 0m

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

E12
Fallen Angel

Air Date: 1982-02-12

1h 0m

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

E13
Shark

Air Date: 1982-02-19

1h 0m

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

E14
Turnabout

Air Date: 1982-02-26

1h 0m

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

E15
The John Killer

Air Date: 1982-03-05

1h 0m

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

E16
Humiliation

Air Date: 1982-03-19

1h 0m

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

E17
Deadly Chemicals

Air Date: 1982-03-26

1h 0m

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

E18
Revenge

Air Date: 1982-04-02

1h 0m

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

E19
Chinatown

Air Date: 1982-04-09

1h 0m

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

E20
Death Fire

Air Date: 1982-04-16

1h 0m

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

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