Strike Force

1981 – 1982
Ended
Drama
~1h / ep
1 season
7.5/10

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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E1. Strike Force: Pilot
Nov 13, 1981 · 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.
E2. Kidnap
Nov 20, 1981 · 60m
The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.
E3. The Victims
Nov 27, 1981 · 60m
The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.
E4. The Predator
Dec 4, 1981 · 60m
Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.
E5. Magic Man
Dec 11, 1981 · 60m
A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.
E6. Night Nurse
Dec 18, 1981 · 60m
Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.