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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 starred 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 television 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.
Original Release
11/13/1981 on ABC
US Release
11/13/1981
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Stack | Captain Frank Murphy |
Dorian Harewood | Sergeant Paul Strobber |
Richard Romanus | Lieutenant Charlie Gunzer |
Michael Goodwin | Sergeant Mark Osborne |
Trisha Noble | Sergeant Rosie Johnson |
Herb Edelman | Commissioner Herb Klein / Dep. Comm. Herbert Klein |
Paul Petersen | Officer Daley / Jameson / Bluecoat |
Lynn Carlin | Lorraine Klein / Lorainne Klein |
Kevyn Major Howard | Sisto / Kenny |
Lewis Arquette | Zack / Hopkins |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Strike Force | Friday, 13 November 1981 |
2 | Kidnap | Friday, 20 November 1981 |
3 | The Victims | Friday, 27 November 1981 |
4 | The Predator | Friday, 04 December 1981 |
5 | Magic Man | Friday, 11 December 1981 |
6 | Night Nurse | Friday, 18 December 1981 |
7 | The Hollow Man | Friday, 25 December 1981 |
8 | The Outcast | Friday, 08 January 1982 |
9 | Ice | Friday, 15 January 1982 |
10 | Internal Affairs | Friday, 22 January 1982 |
11 | Lonely Ladies | Friday, 05 February 1982 |
12 | Fallen Angel | Friday, 12 February 1982 |
13 | Shark | Friday, 19 February 1982 |
14 | Turnabout | Friday, 26 February 1982 |
15 | The John Killer | Friday, 05 March 1982 |
16 | Humiliation | Friday, 19 March 1982 |
17 | Deadly Chemicals | Friday, 26 March 1982 |
18 | Revenge | Friday, 02 April 1982 |
19 | Chinatown | Friday, 09 April 1982 |
20 | Death Fire | Friday, 16 April 1982 |
Directors
Don Chaffey, Richard Lang, Cliff Bole, Bob Sweeney, Lawrence Dobkin, Michael Vejar, Lane Slate, Robert Gist, Charlie Picerni
Writers
Calvin Clements Jr., Michael Fisher, Lane Slate, Bill Stratton, Joe Gores, E. Nick Alexander, Robert Brennan, Ron Friedman, E. Byrne, William Hopkins, Les Carter, William Douglas Lansford, F. Michael Johnson, T.J. Miles, Gene Hanson, Rick Kelbaugh, Fenton Hobart Jr., Jeffrey Bloom
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Stack | Captain Frank Murphy |
Dorian Harewood | Sergeant Paul Strobber |
Richard Romanus | Lieutenant Charlie Gunzer |
Michael Goodwin | Sergeant Mark Osborne |
Trisha Noble | Sergeant Rosie Johnson |
Herb Edelman | Commissioner Herb Klein / Dep. Comm. Herbert Klein |
Paul Petersen | Officer Daley / Jameson / Bluecoat |
Lynn Carlin | Lorraine Klein / Lorainne Klein |
Kevyn Major Howard | Sisto / Kenny |
Lewis Arquette | Zack / Hopkins |
Sean McClory | Priest |
Sandy Helberg | Wickes |
Ellen Bry | Eunice / Anne |
Inez Pedroza | Newscaster |
John Stuart West | Agent Dalton |
Tab Hunter | Voorhees |
Robert Ridgely | Professor |
Lynne Moody | Annie / Jossy |
John Harkins | Walter Stockton |
Joanna Cassidy | Eve Murphy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Douglas S. Cramer | Executive Producer |
Aaron Spelling | Executive Producer |
E. Duke Vincent | Producer |
Michael Fisher | Producer |
Joseph T. Naar | Producer |
Shelley Hull | Producer |
Elaine Rich | Producer |