Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
Season 1 episodes
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Vinnie is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco. Greco is killed and Vinnie demands to be put in to finish the investigation. He uses his ingenuity to get a foothold in the Steelgrave crime family, but it will take a while to finish this job.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Stephen J. Cannell, Frank LupoGuest stars John M. Jackson, Ray Sharkey, Mark Rolston, Gerald Anthony, Leon Pownall, Jack Ging, Jessica Steen, Gianni Russo
Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, has a run-in with the cops causing Vinnie to be arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and decide to take possession of the guns and sell them back to the owner.
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Directed by Rod HolcombWritten by Stephen J. Cannell, Frank LupoGuest stars Eric Christmas, Martika, Dennis Lipscomb
In an attempt to take over Sonny Steelgrave’s business, mob head Paul Patrice frames Sonny for several murder attempts he makes on the life of the special prosecutor investigating Sonny.
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Written by David J. BurkeGuest stars Joe Dallesandro, Ray Sharkey, Eric Christmas, Dennis Lipscomb, P. Lynn Johnson, Frank Ferrucci, Sam Vincent
Vinnie nearly blows his cover when he becomes obsessed with finding out who killed his cousin, causing Frank to threaten him with dismissal. Frank desperately wants Vinnie to concentrate on nailing the Zaratzos, who are trying to arrange a drug smuggling deal with Sonny, because they killed one of Frank's agents.
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Directed by Robert IscoveGuest stars Nestor Serrano, Ray Sharkey, Jerry Wasserman, Sal Lopez
After several deals go sour, Sonny starts suspecting Vinnie may be a plant. Frank orders Vinnie to drop the case when he finds out the local police have an informer in Sonny's operations. Sid has Frank picked up and tortured, but Vinnie and undercover cop Karen Malloy rescue him. Karen's disappearance points the finger at Sid as the leak.
After his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still won't forgive him for his life of “crime.”
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Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by Carol MendelsohnGuest stars John M. Jackson, Bruno Gerussi, Ray Sharkey, Michael Benyaer, Elsa Raven
Sonny’s cruel punishment of a lounge singer who wants out of his contract triggers a cascade of events that leads to Vinnie’s being photographed with McPike — a photo that is to be delivered to Sonny.
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Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by David J. BurkeGuest stars Ernie Prentice, Joe Dallesandro, Ray Sharkey, Billy Vera, Dan Lauria
Sonny’s impending marriage to a syndicate boss’ daughter begins a supposedly businesslike realignment of “families,” but Vinnie learns that the wedding is a pretext for a bloody gang war.
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Directed by Zale DalenGuest stars Joe Dallesandro, Ray Sharkey
An outraged Sonny Steelgrave accuses Vinnie of betraying him to his arch-rival, then realizes the devastating truth — that his paisan is an undercover Federal agent.
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Directed by Robert IscoveWritten by David J. BurkeGuest stars Ric Reid, John M. Jackson
In the aftermath of the Steelgrave case, Vinnie tries to vindicate himself of his lingering feelings of betrayal and disloyalty by risking his life to save an old friend from the Brooklyn neighborhood who has a contract out on him.
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Directed by Bill CorcoranGuest stars Jackson Davies
Vinnie’s assignment to check out a contract killer leads him into a huge global contraband syndicate — an operation that far exceeds the scope of the Steelgrave family — overlorded by brother and sister Mel and Susan Profitt.
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Directed by Aaron LipstadtWritten by Stephen J. CannellGuest stars Garwin Sanford, Kevin Spacey, Clyde Kusatsu, Joan Severance, William Russ, Frank Ferrucci, Will Zahrn
Vinnie, now a bodyguard for the Profitts, gets his first trial by fire when Mel Profitt, the brilliant but paranoid overlord of an international crime empire, disrupts the wedding of an associate, who retaliates by kidnapping Susan.
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Directed by William A. FrakerWritten by Stephen J. CannellGuest stars Franklyn Seales, Alvin Sanders, Kevin Spacey, Clyde Kusatsu, Joan Severance, William Russ, Frank Ferrucci, Will Zahrn
Vinnie tells Mel Profitt he is leaving to go home to New Jersey, but Mel offers him the biggest cocaine distribution network in the country — a plum that Vinnie feels is too juicy for any undercover cop to turn down.
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Directed by Neill FearnleyWritten by David J. Burke, Hans TobeasonGuest stars Kevin Spacey, Rance Howard, Joan Severance, Mark Pillow, William Russ, Will Zahrn, Anthony Harrison, Fred Asparagus
Mel’s desire to buy a baseball franchise is two-fold: he wants to play on it, and he wants to take it away from an old business associate who cheated him in a Mexican drug deal. When Mel’s former girlfriend shows up, begging for readmission to the Inner circle, he humiliates her, using her as a sexual pawn in a power game with a rival, but for Vinnie, forced to watch it happen, the worst is yet to come.
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Guest stars Michael Ensign, Kevin Spacey, William B. Davis, Joan Severance, William Russ
When some of his munitions contacts begin drying up, Mel decides to blackmail a French Deputy Minister of Defense into supplying him with the weapons he needs.
Hiding out in Vancouver after the fall of the Steelgrave empire, Aldo Baglia sees a photo of Vinnie in the paper and decides to even the score, sending Vinnie into a coma from two serious gunshot wounds. Roger, using his CIA contact, tracks down Aldo.
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Directed by Bill CorcoranWritten by David J. BurkeGuest stars John Novak, Patrick McKenna, Kevin Spacey, Melanie Chartoff, Joan Severance, Jay Brazeau, William Russ
After his munitions operation starts falling apart, Mel orders Vinnie to set up a meet with the mob to use his immense cocaine trade to regain financial power.
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Directed by Bill CorcoranGuest stars Kevin Spacey, Melanie Chartoff, Joan Severance, Elsa Raven, William Russ, Clayton Corzatte
After rejecting an offer to finance a coup d'etat in the Caribbean, Mel Profitt becomes obsessed with a supposed voodoo death curse, and Vinnie, horrified, can only watch as Mel’s personality begins to disintegrate.
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Directed by Kim MannersGuest stars Mabel King, Richard Portnow, Kevin Spacey, Charlayne Woodard, Joan Severance, Elsa Raven, William Russ
After Susan is arrested for Mel’s murder, Vinnie refuses McPike’s order to pull out of the Profitt case, because Susan, who has seemingly lost her grip on reality, has told him she is pregnant with his child.
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Directed by Dennis DuganGuest stars Terry Moore, Joan Severance, William Russ
With Mel and Susan Profitt undone, McPike begins dismantling their empire, but Vinnie demands to stay on the case to get to the bottom of Roger Lococco’s ties to a rogue CIA operation to stage a Caribbean coup d’etat.
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Directed by Robert IscoveWritten by David J. BurkeGuest stars Garry Chalk, Denis Arndt, William Russ
Roger Lococco in effect signs his own death warrant by testifying to a Senate committee about a cabal within the U.S. intelligence community, but to back him up he needs Vinnie to testify as an O.C.B. operative — testimony that would end Vinnie’s career as an undercover agent.
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Directed by Les SheldonWritten by David J. BurkeGuest stars Tom Hammond, Jerry Wasserman, Ray Stricklyn, Traci Lords, Robin Gammell, William Russ
