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The Commish Television Series DVDs
The Commish - The Complete First Season DVDs
The Commish - The Complete Second Season DVDs
About The Commish
The Commish was a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1996. It also screened on KTN (Kenya Television Network) in Kenya, Nelonen in Finland, NRK in Norway and the Nine Network in Australia, TV3 in Spain. It is still broadcast on SBS Net in Denmark and La7 in Italy.

The series starred Michael Chiklis as Tony Scali, a police commissioner in a small Upstate New York town who worked through problems with humor and creativity more often than with violence or force. Theresa Saldana played Rachel Scali, Tony's wife, and Kaj-Erik Eriksen played their teen-aged son David. Also living with the family in the first season was Rachel's freeloading brother Arnie Metzger (David Paymer). A daughter, Sarah, played by twins Justine and Dayna Cornborough, was born to Tony and Rachel in the second season. The show focused as much on family situations as on police drama. Each episode ran at 60 minutes on air, and the show lasted five years. The series often dealt with a wide range of topical social issues such as racism, homophobia, drug addiction, disabilities, child abuse, illegal immigrants, and sexual harassment.

Commissioner Scali went through three lieutenants at his precinct during the run; Lt. Irv Wallerstein (Alex Bruhanski) was his long time buddy and second-in-command, who was succeeded only after a few episodes by Lt. Paulie Pentangeli (John Cygan). At the start of the second season, Paulie himself was replaced by a female lieutenant, Cyd Madison (Melinda McGraw). She lasted two seasons until John Cygan returned to the series as Paulie at the start of season four. The star cops who also worked closely with the Commish included Stan Kelly (Geoffrey Nauffts), young, hot-headed Ricky Caruso (Nicholas Lea) and his love interest, Carmela Pagan (Gina Belafonte), with whom he was also partnered.

Although set in Upstate New York in the fictional town of Eastbridge, the show was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.