Wiseguy
Wiseguy
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Wiseguy

With friends like his who needs enemies

6.5 / 10
1987
4 seasons
75 episodes
CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Wiseguy (1)

    1.Wiseguy (1)

    8.0
    16-09-198760m

    Vinnie is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco. Greco is...

  • Wiseguy (2)

    2.Wiseguy (2)

    9.0
    16-09-198760m

    Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, has a run-in with the cops causing Vinnie to be arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pi...

  • New Blood

    3.New Blood

    9.0
    24-09-198760m

    In an attempt to take over Sonny Steelgrave’s business, mob head Paul Patrice frames Sonny for several murder attempts he makes on the life of the special prosecutor investigating...

  • The Loose Cannon

    4.The Loose Cannon

    9.0
    01-10-198760m

    A psychopathic murderer posing as Sonny's nephew double-crosses Sonny and holds Vinnie's girlfriend Gina hostage.

  • The Birthday Surprise

    5.The Birthday Surprise

    08-10-198760m

    Vinnie nearly blows his cover when he becomes obsessed with finding out who killed his cousin, causing Frank to threaten him with dismissal. Frank desperately wants Vinnie to conce...

  • One on One

    6.One on One

    15-10-198760m

    After several deals go sour, Sonny starts suspecting Vinnie may be a plant. Frank orders Vinnie to drop the case when he finds out the local police have an informer in Sonny's oper...

  • Prodigal Son

    7.Prodigal Son

    22-10-198760m

    After his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still wo...

  • A Deal's a Deal

    8.A Deal's a Deal

    29-10-198760m

    Sonny’s cruel punishment of a lounge singer who wants out of his contract triggers a cascade of events that leads to Vinnie’s being photographed with McPike — a photo that is to be...

  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    9.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    05-11-198760m

    Sonny’s impending marriage to a syndicate boss’ daughter begins a supposedly businesslike realignment of “families,” but Vinnie learns that the wedding is a pretext for a bloody ga...

  • No One Gets Out of Here Alive

    10.No One Gets Out of Here Alive

    12-11-198760m

    An outraged Sonny Steelgrave accuses Vinnie of betraying him to his arch-rival, then realizes the devastating truth — that his paisan is an undercover Federal agent.

  • Last Rites for Lucci

    11.Last Rites for Lucci

    19-11-198760m

    In the aftermath of the Steelgrave case, Vinnie tries to vindicate himself of his lingering feelings of betrayal and disloyalty by risking his life to save an old friend from the B...

  • Independent Operator

    12.Independent Operator

    04-01-198860m

    Vinnie’s assignment to check out a contract killer leads him into a huge global contraband syndicate — an operation that far exceeds the scope of the Steelgrave family — overlorded...

  • Fascination for the Flame

    13.Fascination for the Flame

    11-01-198860m

    Vinnie, now a bodyguard for the Profitts, gets his first trial by fire when Mel Profitt, the brilliant but paranoid overlord of an international crime empire, disrupts the wedding...

  • Smokey Mountain Requiem

    14.Smokey Mountain Requiem

    18-01-198860m

    Vinnie tells Mel Profitt he is leaving to go home to New Jersey, but Mel offers him the biggest cocaine distribution network in the country — a plum that Vinnie feels is too juicy...

  • Player to be Named Now

    15.Player to be Named Now

    25-01-198860m

    Mel’s desire to buy a baseball franchise is two-fold: he wants to play on it, and he wants to take it away from an old business associate who cheated him in a Mexican drug deal. Wh...

  • The Merchant of Death

    16.The Merchant of Death

    01-02-198860m

    When some of his munitions contacts begin drying up, Mel decides to blackmail a French Deputy Minister of Defense into supplying him with the weapons he needs.

  • Not For Nothing

    17.Not For Nothing

    08-02-198860m

    Hiding out in Vancouver after the fall of the Steelgrave empire, Aldo Baglia sees a photo of Vinnie in the paper and decides to even the score, sending Vinnie into a coma from two...

  • Squeeze

    18.Squeeze

    7.0
    15-02-198860m

    After his munitions operation starts falling apart, Mel orders Vinnie to set up a meet with the mob to use his immense cocaine trade to regain financial power.

  • Blood Drive

    19.Blood Drive

    22-02-198860m

    After rejecting an offer to finance a coup d'etat in the Caribbean, Mel Profitt becomes obsessed with a supposed voodoo death curse, and Vinnie, horrified, can only watch as Mel’s...

  • Phantom Pain

    20.Phantom Pain

    14-03-198860m

    After Susan is arrested for Mel’s murder, Vinnie refuses McPike’s order to pull out of the Profitt case, because Susan, who has seemingly lost her grip on reality, has told him she...

  • Dirty Little Wars

    21.Dirty Little Wars

    21-03-198860m

    With Mel and Susan Profitt undone, McPike begins dismantling their empire, but Vinnie demands to stay on the case to get to the bottom of Roger Lococco’s ties to a rogue CIA operat...

  • Date With an Angel

    22.Date With an Angel

    28-03-198860m

    Roger Lococco in effect signs his own death warrant by testifying to a Senate committee about a cabal within the U.S. intelligence community, but to back him up he needs Vinnie to...

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