Strike Force - Season 1

First aired: 11/13/1981 20 episodes
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Episodes

1. Strike Force: Pilot

Aired: 11/13/1981

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

Aired: 11/20/1981

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

Aired: 11/27/1981

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

4. The Predator

Aired: 12/4/1981

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

5. Magic Man

Aired: 12/11/1981

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

6. Night Nurse

Aired: 12/18/1981

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

7. The Hollow Man

Aired: 12/25/1981

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

8. The Outcast

Aired: 1/8/1982

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

Aired: 1/15/1982

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

10. Internal Affairs

Aired: 1/22/1982

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

Aired: 2/5/1982

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

12. Fallen Angel

Aired: 2/12/1982

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

13. Shark

Aired: 2/19/1982

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

14. Turnabout

Aired: 2/26/1982

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

15. The John Killer

Aired: 3/5/1982

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

16. Humiliation

Aired: 3/19/1982

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

17. Deadly Chemicals

Aired: 3/26/1982

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

18. Revenge

Aired: 4/2/1982

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

19. Chinatown

Aired: 4/9/1982

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

20. Death Fire

Aired: 4/16/1982

A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".