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Crime Story(TV show/series, 1986-1988)

44min per episode | Genres: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 43 episodes

Crime StoryRating: 4.0/5 (with 29 votes)
Crime Story is an American crime drama television series, created by Chuck Adamson and Gustave Reininger and produced by Michael Mann, that aired on NBC, where it ran for two seasons from September 18, 1986, to May 10, 1988. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot—a film which had been exhibited theatrically—and was watched by over 30 million viewers. NBC scheduled the show to Tuesdays at 9 p.m. opposite ABC's Moonlighting on its fall schedule but moved it to Fridays at 10 p.m. in December. It moved to Tuesdays at 10 p.m. in fall 1987 before being cancelled after two seasons. Set in the early 1960s, the series depicted two men—Lt. Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and mobster Ray Luca (Anthony Denison)—with an obsessive drive to destroy each other. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was "made" in the Chicago Outfit and then sent to Las Vegas to monitor their casinos, Torello pursued Luca as head of a special Organized Crime Strike Force. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up in Chicago's "The Patch" (Smith Park) neighborhood, also called "Little Italy" or "Little Sicily" ... ()
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About Crime Story

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

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Crime Story Seasons and Episodes

09/22/1987Season 2 - 22 episodes
#1 | 09/22/1987The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob
An overzealous senator outrages crime bosses by subpoenaing them to appear before an organized crime commission. An actress with a shady past falls for Torello.
#2 | 09/29/1987Blast from the Past
Torello confronts his feelings for Julie when she asks him to rescue her kidnapped husband, who is a doctor forced to tend to one of his injured kidnappers.
#3 | 10/20/1987Always a Blonde
The Senterros, a family of Mexican cattle ranchers, controls the marijuana trade, so Torello's unit sets up a sting operation, but detective Joey Indelli leaves to try to save a callgirl from her sadistic pimp.
#4 | 10/27/1987Atomic Fallout
Torello follows a crazed killer into Mexico, unaware his quarry will lead him to an arms-for-drugs operation run by an alive-and-well Luca.
#5 | 11/03/1987Shockwaves
Luca returns to Vegas with immunity to work for the US Government, causing revenge-minded Abrams to resign in frustration and Torello unable to get near Luca.
#6 | 11/10/1987Robbery, Armed
A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.
#7 | 11/24/1987Little Girl Lost
An investigator searching for a man's girlfriend, who happens to be Weisbord's granddaughter, is murdered before he gives information to Torello. Luca offers a drug-addicted Abrams a position on his staff.
#8 | 12/08/1987Love Hurts
Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.
#9 | 12/15/1987MIG-21
A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.
#10 | 01/05/1988Moulin Rouge
The Justice Department tries to deal with troubles at a new nightclub - including bombings, extortion, and racial threats - owned by a beautiful black woman.
#11 | 01/12/1988Seize the Time
Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.
#12 | 01/19/1988Femme Fatale
A Chinese agent dupes Torello into looking for her father while she smuggles plutonium out of the country.
#13 | 02/02/1988Protected Witness
In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.
#14 | 02/09/1988Last Rites
After Manny is stricken by a heart attack, Luca demands that he be the first heart-transplant recipient. Max convinces Steve to put a hit on Luca.
#15 | 03/08/1988Pauli Taglia's Dream
In a dream Paulie recounts his and Luca's survival of the atomic bomb. After nearly perishing in the blast, Luca and Paulie are taken into federal custody. Delirious from his gun shot wounds and the blast Luca becomes totally on Paulie for their escape. Receiving aid from a federal agent in Manny's employ Paulie rises above his usual persona as he attempts to extricate himself and Luca from their current situation.
#16 | 03/15/1988Roadrunner
While escorting a prisoner and his girlfriend, Torello is trapped in the desert and stalked by corrupt lawmen who want the prisoner.
#17 | 03/22/1988Desert Justice
The Justice Department must deal with crooked cops and feuding brothel owners when Pauli's prostitute-girlfriend is murdered.
#18 | 03/29/1988Byline
Torello's writer-friend plans to take down Luca by exposing him in an article.
#19 | 04/05/1988The Hearings
Luca is finally brought to court on racketerring charges but the trial is postponed when a military emergency happens in Vietnam.
#20 | 04/26/1988Pursuit (1)
Torello and his men chase Luca to Mexico where they will get no help from the US Government.
#21 | 05/03/1988Escape (2)
Torello and his men save Danny from certain death while Luca is told by a top military commander that he is nothing in Mexico.
#22 | 05/10/1988Going Home (3)
Torello and his men catch up to Luca in Mexico and force him to escape but they all get trapped inside a pilotless airborne plane.
09/19/1986Season 1 - 21 episodes
?Specials - 1 episode

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: Bosnian (BS), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Canceled
First episode released on: 09/19/1986
Last episode released on: 05/10/1988
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Brigada mòvil de Xicago"
"Murharyhmä"
"Les incorruptibles de Chicago"
"Crónicas do Crime"
"Криминальная история"
"Криминальные истории"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:3192, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/24/2024