TV series

Strike Force

Name: Strike Force
Released: 1981
Cast: Dorian Harewood, Robert Stack, Herb Edelman, Trisha Noble, Richard Romanus

1981–1982· 1 season· 60 min episodes★ 7.5Ended

On ABC

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Synopsis

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.

Themes

police

Episodes

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E1 Strike Force: PilotNext upNov 13, 1981 · 60 min
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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.
E2 KidnapNov 20, 1981 · 60 min
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The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.
E3 The VictimsNov 27, 1981 · 60 min
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The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.
E4 The PredatorDec 4, 1981 · 60 min
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Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.
E5 Magic ManDec 11, 1981 · 60 min
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A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.
E6 Night NurseDec 18, 1981 · 60 min
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Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.
E7 The Hollow ManDec 25, 1981 · 60 min
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A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.
E8 The OutcastJan 8, 1982 · 60 min
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Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.
Guest stars: Lew Saunders
E9 IceJan 15, 1982 · 60 min
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An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.
E10 Internal AffairsJan 22, 1982 · 60 min
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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.
E11 Lonely LadiesFeb 5, 1982 · 60 min
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The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.
Guest stars: Rhonda Hopkins (Nurse)
E12 Fallen AngelFeb 12, 1982 · 60 min
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A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.
E13 SharkFeb 19, 1982 · 60 min
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Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.
E14 TurnaboutFeb 26, 1982 · 60 min
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A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.
E15 The John KillerMar 5, 1982 · 60 min
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Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.
E16 HumiliationMar 19, 1982 · 60 min
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Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.
E17 Deadly ChemicalsMar 26, 1982 · 60 min
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Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.
Guest stars: Lindsay Bloom (Lila)
E18 RevengeApr 2, 1982 · 60 min
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A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.
E19 ChinatownApr 9, 1982 · 60 min
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Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.
E20 Death FireApr 16, 1982 · 60 min
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A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".