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Strike Force

Strike Force

1981 7.5 Drama 60m
US • English

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.

Cast

Episodes

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Strike Force: Pilot

E1 60m

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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Kidnap

E2 60m

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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The Victims

E3 60m

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

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The Predator

E4 60m

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

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Magic Man

E5 60m

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

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Night Nurse

E6 60m

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

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The Hollow Man

E7 60m

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

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The Outcast

E8 60m

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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Ice

E9 60m

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

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Internal Affairs

E10 60m

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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Lonely Ladies

E11 60m

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

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Fallen Angel

E12 60m

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

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Shark

E13 60m

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

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Turnabout

E14 60m

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

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The John Killer

E15 60m

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

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Humiliation

E16 60m

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

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Deadly Chemicals

E17 60m

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

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Revenge

E18 60m

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

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Chinatown

E19 60m

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

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Death Fire

E20 60m

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