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COLLECTION · Series · 1975

Bronk

Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California. 24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted only one season.

Source: TMDB
* 6.8 (5)CrimeDrama
Creators
Carroll O'Connor · Ed Waters
Studios
CBS · MGM Television
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
17/04/1975
Score
6.8 / 10 (5)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
25 episodes · 1975
Episode 1. Pilot
1975-04-17 · 90 min

Alex Bronkov has been police officer in Ocean city for 20 years. Although his wife died in a car accident and therapy for his paralyzed daughter is expensive, he remained incorruptible. When a former friend asks him to help him out of a…

Episode 2. Open Contract
1975-09-21 · 60 min

A known mob gunman is arrested, bailed out, then murdered. Bronk realizes a ""hit man"" is double-crossing his associates and using the police to lead him to his intended victim, Mitchell. Mitchell's ex-mistress, Marni, tries to help…

Episode 3. Wheel of Death
1975-09-28 · 60 min

A young assistant city attorney is murdered while investigating an illegal alien smuggling ring. Later 12 Mexican national farm workers are found dead in a submerged truck. Bronk's investigation leads to a sadistic daredevil motorcycle…

Episode 4. The Gauntlet
1975-10-05 · 60 min

Romance develops when Bronk is assigned to protect Kate, who plans to turn state's evidence against her ex-boyfriend, syndicate boss Ben Capote. As the mob closes in, a fast game of hide-and-seek begins with Bronk beginning to suspect a…

Episode 5. Echo of Danger
1975-10-12 · 60 min

The slaying of a fugitive forger in Los Angeles is linked to a wealthy widow in Ocean City and Bronk digs back to a World War II romance to unravel the mystery.

Episode 6. Terror
1975-10-19 · 60 min

Bronk investigates a 15-year-old unsolved kidnapping case after a teenage girl keeps having nightmares stemming from a harrowing childhood experience.

Episode 7. The Fifth Victim
1975-10-26 · 60 min

Ocean City is terrorized by a killer who has strangled several women, mostly prostitutes. Bronk flushes out the strangler, who dies in a fall following a rooftop chase. However, Bronk is convinced there is another murderer, who used the…

Episode 8. Short Fuse
1975-11-02 · 60 min

Charles Bisantz, a fleeing mob ""bag man,"" puts an unsuspecting ringer, Nathan Lewis, aboard an Ocean City commuter flight with a bomb. Because of delay in taking off, the plane explodes earlier than the killer had planned and he is…

Episode 9. Line of Fire
1975-11-09 · 60 min

Veteran Patrolman Frank Bossick, a widower and longtime friend of Bronkov, joins him in hunting down Frank's son Ron, who helped rob a supermarket and kill a box boy with the getaway car.

Episode 10. Bargain in Blood
1975-11-16 · 60 min

Bronk risks his life to thwart a crazed bomber to prevent District Attorney Richard Yarrow from making a deal with accused murderer Jimmy Grebo, who knows the bomber's identity.

Episode 11. The Pickoff
1975-11-23 · 60 min

Three people die and the lives of other civic leaders, including Mayor Santori and wealthy Arnold Cutler, are jeopardized as terrorists set fire to an Ocean City hotel during a hospital benefit party. Bronk captures the ringleader, but…

Episode 12. Crackback
1975-11-30 · 60 min

Phil Barrow, a would-be bank robber, is slain and his accomplice girlfriend, Cara, is captured. She links Barrow to the auto accident that killed Bronk's wife and crippled his daughter, Ellie. Bronk has always felt the so-called accident…

Episode 13. Deception
1975-12-07 · 60 min

No synopsis

Episode 14. Betrayal
1975-12-14 · 60 min

Bronk discovers a web of intrigue within a Mafia ""family"" after his partner, Sgt. John Webber, is accused of slaying slumlord Paul Tedesco. With the help of Paul's bereaved widow, Bronk sniffs out the truth to clear Webber.

Episode 15. There's Gonna Be a War
1975-12-21 · 60 min

Two civil rights activists are killed by men pretending to be police and Bronk has to move swiftly to avert a race riot.

Episode 16. Next of Kin
1976-01-04 · 60 min

While investigating the senseless murder of a young woman, Bronk realizes he is the next intended victim of the killer.

Episode 17. The Deadlier Sex
1976-01-18 · 60 min

Sara Mitchell is the first policewoman assigned to patrol duty in Bronk's department. After arresting an apparently drugged young woman on her first night on patrol duty, Sara is accused of attacking her prisoner and finds her new career…

Episode 18. Jackson Blue
1976-01-25 · 60 min

A family is ripped apart by a young mother's death and Bronk has to break the news that the ""accident"" was murder.

Episode 19. Long Time Dying
1976-02-01 · 60 min

The deadly vendetta of a disturbed young woman leaves a city prosecutor murdered, and Bronk is frustrated in his attempt to piece together the motive for her revenge. A bizarre message left for him leaves no doubt the murderess is…

Episode 20. Target: Unknown
1976-02-08 · 60 min

The Minister of Finance of a tiny Caribbean nation is marked for assassination by a wealthy businessman and suspected go-between for the underworld.

Episode 21. Jailbreak
1976-02-15 · 60 min

Bronk is taken hostage during a violent jailbreak attempt by prisoners who have nothing to lose, including one who has his own murderous grudge against him.

Episode 22. Vengeance
1976-02-22 · 60 min

New York City Detective Patrick O'Flanagan comes to Ocean City to extradite a mercenary terrorist-bomber and will stop at nothing to get his man. When the terrorist escapes, O'Flanagan goes looking for him and Bronk is faced with a…

Episode 23. The Ordeal
1976-03-07 · 60 min

Bronk is targeted by diamond smugglers who believe he learned the location of some gems from a dying man who double-crossed them.

Episode 24. Death with Honor
1976-03-21 · 60 min

When a longtime police officer is killed in a shootout with a bank robber, Bronk discovers the officer's sad plight and clears the name of the rookie patrolman who served as his partner.

Episode 25. The Vigilante
1976-03-28 · 60 min

Bronk investigates the death of a veteran cop who was killed in a shoot-out.

Cast by season
Henry Beckman
Henry Beckman
Harry Mark
Joseph Mascolo
Joseph Mascolo
Mayor Pete Santori
Jack Palance
Jack Palance
Lt. Alex Bronkov
Tony King
Tony King
Sgt. John Webber
Dina Ousley
Dina Ousley
Ellen Bronkov (17 episodes, 1975-1976)
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