Strike Force

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.

Drama

Seasons

1. Strike Force: Pilot

Air Date: 1981-11-13

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.

2. Kidnap

Air Date: 1981-11-20

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

3. The Victims

Air Date: 1981-11-27

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

4. The Predator

Air Date: 1981-12-04

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

5. Magic Man

Air Date: 1981-12-11

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

6. Night Nurse

Air Date: 1981-12-18

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

7. The Hollow Man

Air Date: 1981-12-25

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

8. The Outcast

Air Date: 1982-01-08

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

9. Ice

Air Date: 1982-01-15

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

10. Internal Affairs

Air Date: 1982-01-22

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.

11. Lonely Ladies

Air Date: 1982-02-05

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

12. Fallen Angel

Air Date: 1982-02-12

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

13. Shark

Air Date: 1982-02-19

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

14. Turnabout

Air Date: 1982-02-26

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

15. The John Killer

Air Date: 1982-03-05

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

16. Humiliation

Air Date: 1982-03-19

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

17. Deadly Chemicals

Air Date: 1982-03-26

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

18. Revenge

Air Date: 1982-04-02

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

19. Chinatown

Air Date: 1982-04-09

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

20. Death Fire

Air Date: 1982-04-16

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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Rating

7.3/10

Release Date

1981-11-13

Episodes

20 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast