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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.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01PilotApril 17, 1975—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 daug
- S01E02Open ContractSeptember 21, 1975—A known mob gunman is arrested, bailed out, then murdered. Bronk realizes a ""hit man"" is double-crossing his associates and using the poli
- S01E03Wheel of DeathSeptember 28, 1975—A young assistant city attorney is murdered while investigating an illegal alien smuggling ring. Later 12 Mexican national farm workers are
- S01E04The GauntletOctober 5, 1975—Romance develops when Bronk is assigned to protect Kate, who plans to turn state's evidence against her ex-boyfriend, syndicate boss Ben Cap
- S01E05Echo of DangerOctober 12, 1975—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
- S01E06TerrorOctober 19, 1975—Bronk investigates a 15-year-old unsolved kidnapping case after a teenage girl keeps having nightmares stemming from a harrowing childhood e
- S01E07The Fifth VictimOctober 26, 1975—Ocean City is terrorized by a killer who has strangled several women, mostly prostitutes. Bronk flushes out the strangler, who dies in a fal
- S01E08Short FuseNovember 2, 1975—Charles Bisantz, a fleeing mob ""bag man,"" puts an unsuspecting ringer, Nathan Lewis, aboard an Ocean City commuter flight with a bomb. Bec
- S01E09Line of FireNovember 9, 1975—Veteran Patrolman Frank Bossick, a widower and longtime friend of Bronkov, joins him in hunting down Frank's son Ron, who helped rob a super
- S01E10Bargain in BloodNovember 16, 1975—Bronk risks his life to thwart a crazed bomber to prevent District Attorney Richard Yarrow from making a deal with accused murderer Jimmy Gr
- S01E11The PickoffNovember 23, 1975—Three people die and the lives of other civic leaders, including Mayor Santori and wealthy Arnold Cutler, are jeopardized as terrorists set
- S01E12CrackbackNovember 30, 1975—Phil Barrow, a would-be bank robber, is slain and his accomplice girlfriend, Cara, is captured. She links Barrow to the auto accident that k
- S01E13DeceptionDecember 7, 1975—
- S01E14BetrayalDecember 14, 1975—Bronk discovers a web of intrigue within a Mafia ""family"" after his partner, Sgt. John Webber, is accused of slaying slumlord Paul Tedesco
- S01E15There's Gonna Be a WarDecember 21, 1975—Two civil rights activists are killed by men pretending to be police and Bronk has to move swiftly to avert a race riot.
- S01E16Next of KinJanuary 4, 1976—While investigating the senseless murder of a young woman, Bronk realizes he is the next intended victim of the killer.
- S01E17The Deadlier SexJanuary 18, 1976—Sara Mitchell is the first policewoman assigned to patrol duty in Bronk's department. After arresting an apparently drugged young woman on h
- S01E18Jackson BlueJanuary 25, 1976—A family is ripped apart by a young mother's death and Bronk has to break the news that the ""accident"" was murder.
- S01E19Long Time DyingFebruary 1, 1976—The deadly vendetta of a disturbed young woman leaves a city prosecutor murdered, and Bronk is frustrated in his attempt to piece together t
- S01E20Target: UnknownFebruary 8, 1976—The Minister of Finance of a tiny Caribbean nation is marked for assassination by a wealthy businessman and suspected go-between for the und
- S01E21JailbreakFebruary 15, 1976—Bronk is taken hostage during a violent jailbreak attempt by prisoners who have nothing to lose, including one who has his own murderous gru
- S01E22VengeanceFebruary 22, 1976—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
- S01E23The OrdealMarch 7, 1976—Bronk is targeted by diamond smugglers who believe he learned the location of some gems from a dying man who double-crossed them.
- S01E24Death with HonorMarch 21, 1976—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 t
- S01E25The VigilanteMarch 28, 1976—Bronk investigates the death of a veteran cop who was killed in a shoot-out.
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