Episode 1
The Killing Attempt
1h 46m
Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.
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TV series
The Octopus
1984TV-1410 seasons7.8 / 10
The fight against the mafia!
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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Checked Sep 3, 2026
The Octopus premiered March 11, 1984. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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Episode 2
The Core
1h 38m
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.
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Episode 3
The Man of the Letters
1h 41m
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.
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Episode 4
The Trap
1h 37m
Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.
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Episode 5
Codename: West
1h 45m
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.
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Episode 6
A Secret is Revealed
1h 54mfinale
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.
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Cast
Vittorio MezzogiornoDavide Licata
Raoul BovaCapitano Carlo Arcuti
Anja KlingBarbara Greenberg Altamura
Patricia MillardetSilvia Conti
Stefan DanailovNazareno 'Nuzzo' Marciano
Remo GironeTano Cariddi
Florinda BolkanOlga Camastra
Michele PlacidoCommissario Corrado CattaniCredits
- Created by
- Nicola Badalucco, Lucio Battistrada
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 48
- Original language
- Italian
- Original title
- La Piovra
Networks & production
Rai 1Italy
Rai 2Italy
TélécipFrance
Themes
cosa nostramafiaorganized crime