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Strike Force

Strike Force

1981 - 1982

Strike Force: Pilot

13th November 1981
Episode 1
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.

Kidnap

20th November 1981
Episode 2
The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.

The Victims

27th November 1981
Episode 3
The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.

The Predator

4th December 1981
Episode 4
Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

Magic Man

11th December 1981
Episode 5
A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

Night Nurse

18th December 1981
Episode 6
Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

The Hollow Man

25th December 1981
Episode 7
A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.

The Outcast

8th January 1982
Episode 8
Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.

Ice

15th January 1982
Episode 9
An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

Internal Affairs

22nd January 1982
Episode 10
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.

Lonely Ladies

5th February 1982
Episode 11
The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

Fallen Angel

12th February 1982
Episode 12
A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

Shark

19th February 1982
Episode 13
Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

Turnabout

26th February 1982
Episode 14
A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.

The John Killer

5th March 1982
Episode 15
Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

Humiliation

19th March 1982
Episode 16
Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

Deadly Chemicals

26th March 1982
Episode 17
Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

Revenge

2nd April 1982
Episode 18
A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.

Chinatown

9th April 1982
Episode 19
Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.

Death Fire

16th April 1982
Episode 20
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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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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Dorian Harewood

Sergeant Paul Strobber

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Robert Stack

Captain Frank Murphy

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Herb Edelman

Commissioner Herb Klein

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Trisha Noble

Sergeant Rosie Johnson

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Richard Romanus

Lieutenant Charlie Gunzer

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Michael Goodwin

Sergeant Mark Osborne

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Aaron Spelling

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