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Wiseguy
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.
- Created by:
- Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
- Cast:
- Steven Bauer, Jonathan Banks, Jim Byrnes, Cecil Hoffman
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
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Seasons
Season 1
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.0Wiseguy (1)
1987-09-16 · 60mVinnie 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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E02
Episode 2
★ 9.0Wiseguy (2)
1987-09-16 · 60mVinnie 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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E03
Episode 3
★ 9.0New Blood
1987-09-24 · 60mIn 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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E04
Episode 4
★ 9.0The Loose Cannon
1987-10-01 · 60mA psychopathic murderer posing as Sonny's nephew double-crosses Sonny and holds Vinnie's girlfriend Gina hostage.
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E05
Episode 5
The Birthday Surprise
1987-10-08 · 60mVinnie 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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E06
Episode 6
One on One
1987-10-15 · 60mAfter 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.
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E07
Episode 7
Prodigal Son
1987-10-22 · 60mAfter 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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E08
Episode 8
A Deal's a Deal
1987-10-29 · 60mSonny’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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E09
Episode 9
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1987-11-05 · 60mSonny’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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E10
Episode 10
No One Gets Out of Here Alive
1987-11-12 · 60mAn 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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E11
Episode 11
Last Rites for Lucci
1987-11-19 · 60mIn 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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E12
Episode 12
Independent Operator
1988-01-04 · 60mVinnie’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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E13
Episode 13
Fascination for the Flame
1988-01-11 · 60mVinnie, 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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E14
Episode 14
Smokey Mountain Requiem
1988-01-18 · 60mVinnie 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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E15
Episode 15
Player to be Named Now
1988-01-25 · 60mMel’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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E16
Episode 16
The Merchant of Death
1988-02-01 · 60mWhen 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.
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E17
Episode 17
Not For Nothing
1988-02-08 · 60mHiding 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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E18
Episode 18
★ 7.0Squeeze
1988-02-15 · 60mAfter 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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E19
Episode 19
Blood Drive
1988-02-22 · 60mAfter 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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E20
Episode 20
Phantom Pain
1988-03-14 · 60mAfter 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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E21
Episode 21
Dirty Little Wars
1988-03-21 · 60mWith 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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E22
Episode 22
Date With an Angel
1988-03-28 · 60mRoger 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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Steven Bauer
Michael Santana
Jonathan Banks
Frank McPike
Jim Byrnes
Daniel Benjamin 'Lifeguard' Burroughs
Cecil Hoffman
Hillary Stein
Maximilian Schell
Amado Guzman