The Octopus

1. Episode 1

Mar 11, 1984 · 62 min

Corrado Cattani replaces the murdered Palermo chief of police Marineo.

2. Episode 2

Mar 6, 1989 · 58 min

Cattani discovers what happened the night Marineo was murdered, but the information is dangerous.

3. Episode 3

Mar 12, 1989 · 62 min

Cattani focuses his investigation on rich business men, while his private life is getting more and more difficult.

4. Episode 4

Mar 13, 1989 · 68 min

Cattani sets a trap for some of the key mafia players, resulting in the kidnapping of his only daughter.

5. Episode 5

Mar 19, 1989 · 68 min

Cattani hides the truth about his daughters disappearance from his wife and colleagues while at the same time fighting opposition in his work place.

6. Episode 6

Mar 19, 1984 · 74 min

Cattani tries to settle the score with his enemies.

1. Paola

Jan 12, 1986 · 60 min

Police Inspector Cattani fights a losing battle to save his loved daughter's sanity, after what she suffered (see "La Piovra", original mini-series). He loses her, and his only trusted magistrate in the fight against The Octopus.

2. Friends in Common

Jan 13, 1986 · 60 min

Cattani is approached by the Number 2 of his best friend in Rome to conspire against him, and ends up fighting for his life in prison, against thugs who are friends of his worst enemy. Cattani must swallow his pride, and recurs to the lustful Contessa who has other friends in common.

3. Return to Rome

Jan 19, 1986 · 57 min

Cattani's love life is as confused as his behaviour; he sleeps with the enemy, and is recruited to ITALA, the cultural association for the study of the ancestral popular traditions of Italy, The Octopus by another name.

4. Vengeance

Jan 20, 1986 · 59 min

It leaves an acrid taste in Cattani's mouth, as he loses yet another important ally, and severes his ties with the beautiful Contessa, when he wakes up fire in enemy ground.

5. Criminal Ambition

Jan 26, 1986 · 61 min

Cattani's major achievement so far leaves him without friends in Rome; his former teacher explains between whiskeys how easy it is for an intelligent man to fall into criminal ambition.

6. Destiny

Jan 27, 1986 · 62 min

Cattani's takes one year leave without pay from his desk job at the Intelligence Services, and then destiny presents him with a couple of revenge opportunities against the tandem of corrupt politicians and mafia expatriates, again at heavy personal cost.

1. Good and Evil

Apr 5, 1987 · 63 min

After the mafia killed his family, and a number of people who trusted him, Cattani sees a couple of criminals condemned to light sentences only. A DEA team brings him back from the mountain retreat with good monks, to the evil world of a drugs-for-arms deal. Solace comes in the form of new affections for a banker's daughters, who look like his lost wife and daughter.

2. No Escape

Apr 6, 1987 · 60 min

Cattani uses a TV interview to reveal he found out about one of The Octopus telephone numbers. That is enough to spread havoc in the criminal rang, but the mafia leaves the American investigators no escape.

3. Thirsting for Vengeance

Apr 12, 1987 · 63 min

Cattani falls in love with Giulia, but his inquest does not go far, until Giulia's father dies, and her grandfather takes hold of the family bank again.

4. Refuge

Apr 13, 1987 · 63 min

The Antinari bank is backing the illegal arms deal, trusted friends and servants may not be what they seem, and Cattani is undecided between personal vendetta and life in a monastery.

5. Massacre

Apr 19, 1987 · 58 min

Anna Antinari gets hold of documents that are essential for the arms deal, and trusts her life and that of her child daughter Greta to the good monks who were already hosting Cattani. For the mafia in liaison with a member of parliament, monastery walls are no protection against a new massacre.

6. To the South Again

Apr 20, 1987 · 56 min

Cattani meets Giulia again at her mother's funeral, and research and luck bring him up North to Rome, in order to discover the way to the South again, from where a ship will depart with an illegal arms cargo.

7. Episode 7

Apr 13, 1987 · 51 min

Giulia reconciles with her grandfather Nicola, and her second meeting with chief inspector Corrado Cattani is yet a probe for his loyalty to duty. One man ends a life of power tragically; the other hangs desperately to life because, as Giulia says, "He lost; and quite a lot!"

1. Episode 1

Mar 5, 1989 · 103 min

2. Episode 2

Mar 6, 1989 · 100 min

3. Episode 3

Mar 12, 1989 · 98 min

4. Episode 4

Mar 13, 1989 · 103 min

5. Episode 5

Mar 19, 1989 · 92 min

6. Episode 6

Mar 20, 1989 · 60 min

1. Episode 1

Aug 14, 1990 · 113 min

Judge Silvia Conti and Davide Licata are in a quest for vengeance against the Mafia.

2. Episode 2

Aug 15, 1990 · 111 min

3. Episode 3

Aug 21, 1990 · 102 min

4. Episode 4

Aug 22, 1990 · 100 min

5. Episode 5

Aug 28, 1990 · 96 min

1. The Killing Attempt

Nov 30, 1992 · 106 min

Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.

2. The Core

Dec 6, 1992 · 98 min

Licata is tempted by the General directing the Government's "nucleous of operations and investigations (NOI)", a secret service built to do the dirty anti-crime jobs that the police can't do.

3. The Man of the Letters

Dec 7, 1992 · 101 min

The hideout of Tani Cariddi in deep Africa becomes known - and again, the retired detective and the retired criminal must come to grips with violent action in Europe.

4. The Trap

Dec 13, 1992 · 97 min

Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.

5. Codename: West

Dec 14, 1992 · 105 min

A desperate chase is given by The Core and two countries magistrates to catch the new drug lords that are aiming at deluging drugs into Europe's Eastern countries from a former Nazi concentration camp in the West.

6. A Secret is Revealed

Dec 20, 1992 · 114 min

The detective exposes and destroys the man who secretively had taken the place of the octopus's head - but the crime will not stop, because the criminal's son escapes with enough power to restart it all.

1. Return to Sicily

Mar 5, 1995 · 101 min

Several characters return to the little town where, years ago, the police commissary Cattani was set up and murdered by the Mafia.

2. The Barrottii Gang

Mar 6, 1995 · 104 min

Sara and Biagio, her brother, create an extortion gang, named after the village's suburbs where they live. They are taking the "business" out of Nuzzio's hands.

3. Look Out for Saverio

Mar 12, 1995 · 107 min

Saverio comes home to reunite with Nuzzio against the higher powers of the Mafia, but these are alert and after him, after torturing his mistress in St. Petersburg. Also after him, is his wife, still under the protection of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard.

4. The Inquest

Mar 13, 1995 · 104 min

The local television channel, owned by Olga Camastra, puts the blame of her husband's death on Silvia Conti's harsh interrogation of the old man. Saverio's ascension to power seems unstoppable: he masters over Nuzzio with his superior intelligence, and helps him escape an ambush; the Barrotti gang is massacred by Nuzzio's men; and he breaks and enters into the countess's palace, frightening her, and demanding the names list.

5. The Killing Attempt

Mar 19, 1995 · 108 min

Silvia is blamed for another strange death, the young commissary Breda is sent away to his hometown far north - something he had requested before he was into this case - and their only witness, Sara, is pressed by a police inspector and the new prosecutor to deny her earlier testimony.

6. The Sentence

Mar 20, 1995 · 99 min

The killing attempt worked almost to perfection, and more blood runs in the streets. Silvia Conti's life is spared due to the intervention of Oleg, Saverio's bodyguard, who decided against Nuzzio's opinion that she would be more valuable to them alive.

1. Episode 1

Oct 5, 1997 · 98 min

2. Episode 2

Oct 6, 1997 · 97 min

1. Episode 1

Mar 9, 1998 · 102 min

2. Episode 2

Mar 16, 1998 · 97 min

2. Episode 2

Jan 17, 2001 · 101 min