Season 1

1981-11-13 · 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.

1981-11-20 · 60m

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

1981-11-27 · 60m

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

1981-12-04 · 60m

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

1981-12-11 · 60m

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

1981-12-18 · 60m

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

1981-12-25 · 60m

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

1982-01-08 · 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.

1982-01-15 · 60m

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

1982-01-22 · 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.

1982-02-05 · 60m

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

1982-02-12 · 60m

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

1982-02-19 · 60m

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

1982-02-26 · 60m

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

1982-03-05 · 60m

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

1982-03-19 · 60m

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

1982-03-26 · 60m

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

1982-04-02 · 60m

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

1982-04-09 · 60m

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

1982-04-16 · 60m

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