Brenner

S1 • E1

False Witness

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.

S1 • E2

Record of Arrest

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.

S1 • E3

Family Man

S1 • E4

Blind Spot

S1 • E5

Loan Shark

S1 • E6

Word of Honor

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.

S1 • E7

I, Executioner

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.

S1 • E8

The Bluff

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.

S1 • E9

Small Take

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

S1 • E10

One of Our Own

S1 • E11

Man in the Middle

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

S1 • E12

Thin Ice

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.

S1 • E13

Crime Wave

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.

S1 • E14

Monopoly on Fear

A detective six months away from retirement loses his nerve during a shootout and is brought up on charges of cowardice.

S1 • E15

The Thin Line

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

S1 • E16

Good Friend

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.