All this talk is making me remember the epic long-running Italian TV show "La Piovra" or "The Octapus (?)" Commissar Catani was one tough SOB. It had such killer soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone.
Taken from Wiki:
The TV drama was wildly successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 [2] and in Bulgaria, where is also appeared in the end of the 1980s (later on, the show even featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov in its seventh season), offering the viewers of both countries thrills and dark drama from beyond the Iron Curtain. La Piovra was also shown in 1987–1988 in communist Albania, where it became a huge hit and remains to date a cult film, whose characters and expressions have permeated culture, language and society.
