SeriesTV-14Psychological

Profiler1996

Name: Profiler
Genre: Psychological
Released: 1996-09-21
Rating: 7.1

“MIND OVER MURDER”

7.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 7.2TMDB 7.0

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Year

1996

Seasons

Network

NBC

Status

Ended

Box Office

🏆 Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. 1 win & 19 nominations total

The premise

Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.

Horror Vault's take

A razor-sharp forensic psychologist leads an elite FBI Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, using behavioral science to get inside the minds of the country's most dangerous criminals. Each case pushes the team to their limits — professionally and personally — as they hunt killers others can't catch. Lurking beneath the procedural drama is a persistent, deeply personal threat that shadows the lead investigator across seasons.

Content: Depictions Of Violent Crime, Serial Killer Themes, Stalking

Episode Guide

🏆 Best Episode Overall

S4.E20 · Tsuris

9.0

⭐ Highest Rated This Season

S1.E6 · Modus Operandi

8.0

★ 7.6 avg· 22h 0m total· Sep 1996 → May 1997

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S1.E1 · InsightPremiere
7.3
Sep 21, 1996 · 60 min
Ally Walker (""While You Were Sleeping"") stars in this stylish, hour-long suspense-thriller as Dr. Sam Waters, a brilliant female forensic psychologist with a unique gift for understanding the criminal mind. Sam was a fast-track forensic p
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S1.E2 · Ring of Fire
6.0
Sep 28, 1996 · 60 min · Dir: Peter O'Fallon
Dr. Sam Waters (Ally Walker) joins the newly formed Violent Crimes Task Force, led by her mentor, Bailey Malone (Robert Davi), to probe a string of well-publicized arson fires in the South, until her anonymity is shattered -- providing Jack
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S1.E3 · Unholy Alliance
7.0
Oct 19, 1996 · 60 min
Sam investigates a series of murders which bear striking similarities to the methods of a killer (Benjamin Mouton) whom Bailey put in prison 10 years earlier. Sam suspects that the real culprit is still free, and through her gifted insight,
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S1.E4 · I'll Be Watching You
7.0
Oct 26, 1996 · 60 min · Dir: John Harrison
Dr. Sam Waters and the Violent Crimes Task Force must find a twisted assassin (Jason Rainwater) before he kills a celebrated political candidate (Casey Biggs), but Sam is distracted by new evidence that could locate her murderous stalker, k
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S1.E5 · Unsoiled Sovereignty
7.0
Nov 2, 1996 · 60 min · Dir: Sarah Pia Anderson
A series of bomb blasts at power plants draw Dr. Sam Waters and the task force to Pittsburgh, where Sam meets a charming bomb squad dismantler (guest star A. Martinez, ""LA Law""), and the flirtatious pair quickly form a romantic bond. Even