Strike Force
TV ShowEnded

Strike Force

7.3 / 10
1981
1 season
20 episodes
Drama

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.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Strike Force: Pilot

    13-11-198160m

    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 F...

  • Ep 2

    2.Kidnap

    20-11-198160m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Victims

    27-11-198160m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.The Predator

    04-12-198160m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.Magic Man

    11-12-198160m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Night Nurse

    18-12-198160m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.The Hollow Man

    25-12-198160m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.The Outcast

    08-01-198260m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Ice

    15-01-198260m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Internal Affairs

    22-01-198260m

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.Lonely Ladies

    05-02-198260m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Fallen Angel

    12-02-198260m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Shark

    19-02-198260m

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

  • Ep 14

    14.Turnabout

    26-02-198260m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.The John Killer

    05-03-198260m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Humiliation

    19-03-198260m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.Deadly Chemicals

    26-03-198260m

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Revenge

    02-04-198260m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Chinatown

    09-04-198260m

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

  • Ep 20

    20.Death Fire

    16-04-198260m

    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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