Bronk
TV ShowEnded

Bronk

6.2 / 10
1975
1 season
25 episodes
DramaCrime

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.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    17-04-197590m

    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 incorrupt...

  • Ep 2

    2.Open Contract

    21-09-197560m

    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, M...

  • Ep 3

    3.Wheel of Death

    28-09-197560m

    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...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Gauntlet

    05-10-197560m

    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 o...

  • Ep 5

    5.Echo of Danger

    12-10-197560m

    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.

  • Ep 6

    6.Terror

    19-10-197560m

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

  • Ep 7

    7.The Fifth Victim

    26-10-197560m

    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, Br...

  • Ep 8

    8.Short Fuse

    02-11-197560m

    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 e...

  • Ep 9

    9.Line of Fire

    09-11-197560m

    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 getaw...

  • Ep 10

    10.Bargain in Blood

    16-11-197560m

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Pickoff

    23-11-197560m

    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 hos...

  • Ep 12

    12.Crackback

    30-11-197560m

    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 daug...

  • Ep 13

    13.Deception

    07-12-197560m
  • Ep 14

    14.Betrayal

    14-12-197560m

    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...

  • Ep 15

    15.There's Gonna Be a War

    21-12-197560m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Next of Kin

    04-01-197660m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.The Deadlier Sex

    18-01-197660m

    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 a...

  • Ep 18

    18.Jackson Blue

    25-01-197660m

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

  • Ep 19

    19.Long Time Dying

    01-02-197660m

    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 mes...

  • Ep 20

    20.Target: Unknown

    08-02-197660m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Jailbreak

    15-02-197660m

    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.

  • Ep 22

    22.Vengeance

    22-02-197660m

    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'Flan...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Ordeal

    07-03-197660m

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

  • Ep 24

    24.Death with Honor

    21-03-197660m

    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 pa...

  • Ep 25

    25.The Vigilante

    28-03-197660m

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

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