The Octopus
The Octopus
TV Series
7.8
1984 10 Seasons

The Octopus

The fight against the mafia!

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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.

Episodes

Season 2

Season 2

6 Episodes Aired 1986

No overview available for this season.

Paola
60 min
E1

Paola

Jan 12, 1986

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.

Friends in Common
60 min
E2

Friends in Common

Jan 13, 1986

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.

Return to Rome
57 min
E3

Return to Rome

Jan 19, 1986

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.

Vengeance
59 min
E4

Vengeance

Jan 20, 1986

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.

Criminal Ambition
61 min
E5

Criminal Ambition

Jan 26, 1986

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.

Destiny
62 min
E6

Destiny

Jan 27, 1986

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.

Season 3

Season 3

7 Episodes Aired 1987

No overview available for this season.

Good and Evil
63 min
E1

Good and Evil

Apr 05, 1987

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.

No Escape
60 min
E2

No Escape

Apr 06, 1987

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.

Thirsting for Vengeance
63 min
E3

Thirsting for Vengeance

Apr 12, 1987

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.

Refuge
63 min
E4

Refuge

Apr 13, 1987

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.

Massacre
58 min
E5

Massacre

Apr 19, 1987

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.

To the South Again
56 min
E6

To the South Again

Apr 20, 1987

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.

Episode 7
51 min
E7

Episode 7

Apr 13, 1987

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!"

Season 7

Season 7

6 Episodes Aired 1995

No overview available for this season.

Return to Sicily
101 min
E1

Return to Sicily

Mar 05, 1995

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

The Barrottii Gang
104 min
E2

The Barrottii Gang

Mar 06, 1995

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.

Look Out for Saverio
107 min
E3

Look Out for Saverio

Mar 12, 1995

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.

The Inquest
104 min
E4

The Inquest

Mar 13, 1995

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.

The Killing Attempt
108 min
E5

The Killing Attempt

Mar 19, 1995

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.

The Sentence
99 min
E6

The Sentence

Mar 20, 1995

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.

Season 8

Season 8

2 Episodes Aired 1997

No overview available for this season.

Season 9

Season 9

2 Episodes Aired 1998

No overview available for this season.

Season 10

Season 10

2 Episodes Aired 2001

No overview available for this season.

Series Info

Status

Ended

Seasons

10

Episodes

48

Language

it

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