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Brenner Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

16 Episodes 1959 - 1961

Episode 1

False Witness

Sat, Jun 6, 195926 mins

An assistant district attorney prosecuting an weak assault and battery case attempts to persuade, then force, arresting officer Ernie Brenner to change his testimony to incriminate the defendant.

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Episode 2

Record of Arrest

Sat, Jun 13, 195930 mins

Ernie Brenner and his partner Detective Frank attempt to put a crook behind bars who sells guns to juvenile delinquents. Frank becomes frustrated in his efforts to convict the gangster and starts to cut corners to get the evidence he needs to make the arrest stick.

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Episode 3

Family Man

Sat, Jun 20, 195930 mins

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Episode 4

Blind Spot

Sat, Jun 27, 195930 mins

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Episode 5

Loan Shark

Sat, Jul 4, 195930 mins

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Episode 6

Word of Honor

Sat, Jul 11, 195930 mins

An officer shoots and kills a young hoodlum who was running away. The cop insists the young man had a gun and fired, but no gun can be found at the scene.

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Episode 7

I, Executioner

Sat, Jul 18, 195926 mins

Ernie is rattled after a shooting a disturbed young man who stabbed him and then attacked another police officer. The doctor treating his wounds doesn't give him much sympathy, but he meets a pretty nurse who is genuinely concerned and she accepts his offer of a dinner date. Meanwhile Roy organizes a dragnet to capture a knife-wielding mugger in Central Park.

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Episode 8

The Bluff

Sat, Jul 25, 195930 mins

A cop runs away from the scene as a woman is being assaulted. Brenner tries to determine which officer it was, or if it was an officer at all.

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Episode 9

Small Take

Sat, Aug 1, 195930 mins

Roy and Ernie's separate investigations into gangsters counterfeiting lottery tickets wind up intersecting at the same building.

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Episode 10

One of Our Own

Sat, Aug 8, 195930 mins

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Episode 11

Man in the Middle

Sat, Aug 15, 195930 mins

Lt. Roy Brenner arrests several young men who were running a bookmaking operation. He suspects the men were planning bigger crimes.

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Episode 12

Thin Ice

Sat, Aug 22, 195926 mins

Ernie Brenner goes undercover to investigate parents' complaints that their children are spending their lunch money on a pinball game in the local candy shop and discover that the old couple who run the store are running a small-time gambling operation.

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Episode 13

Crime Wave

Sat, Aug 29, 195930 mins

A police captain learns that officers in his precinct have been minimizing crime reports because of pressure from a newspaper reporter regarding a crime wave.

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Episode 14

Monopoly on Fear

Sat, Sep 19, 195926 mins

Charlie Morgan, an aging police detective nearing retirement is nearly strangled by a thug and later allows a psychiatric patient to escape his custody. He requests a transfer to a desk job, but Ernie Brenner believes he still can be an effective plainclothesman.

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Episode 15

The Thin Line

Mon, Jun 19, 196130 mins

Following his father's plan to break up a numbers racket, Ernie meets a young woman who takes him to a gambling game.

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Episode 16

Good Friend

Mon, Sep 11, 196126 mins

Roy Brenner and his men pursue a burglar but lose their quarry when the man swings up to the roof like a seasoned athlete. Suspicion falls onto an acrobat friend of Ernie's, but the young detective stands by his friend even as the evidence piles up against him.

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