Episode 1
Return to Sicily
1h 41m
Several characters return to the little town where, years ago, the police commissary Cattani was set up and murdered by the Mafia.
Episode credits
Guest stars Romina Mondello, Francesco Benigno
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 Barrottii Gang
1h 44m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Romina Mondello, Francesco Benigno, Ennio Coltorti
Episode 3
Look Out for Saverio
1h 47m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Romina Mondello, Francesco Benigno, Ivan Yanchev
Episode 4
The Inquest
1h 44m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Romina Mondello, Francesco Benigno
Episode 5
The Killing Attempt
1h 48m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Romina Mondello, Irinei Konstantinov, Roberto Herlitzka
Episode 6
The Sentence
1h 39mfinale
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Remo Girone, Irinei Konstantinov
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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