Brooklyn South

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Brooklyn South
Format	Police procedural
Created by	Steven Bochco David Milch
Starring	Jon Tenney Michael DeLuise Dylan Walsh
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producer(s)	Steven Bochco David Milch
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 22, 1997 – April 27, 1998

Brooklyn South is a short-lived American television police drama. It aired from 1997-1998 on CBS for only one season and was cancelled due to poor ratings. One of the show's producers was Steven Bochco, creator of many well-known police dramas such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. The show was also created and produced by David Milch. The series attempted to create a setting of a gritty, realistic police station similar to that of NYPD Blue, but differed by focusing on the uniformed police officers rather than the detectives. The pilot of Brooklyn South was noted as the first TV-MA rated episode on broadcast television.

1 Cast
2 Episodes
3 Plot
4 External links

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Jon Tenney	Patrol Sgt. Frank Donovan
Michael DeLuise	Officer Phil Roussakoff
Dylan Walsh	Officer Jimmy Doyle
James B. Sikking	Lt. / Capt. Stan Jonas
Yancy Butler	Officer Anne-Marie Kersey
Gary Basaraba	Sgt. / Lt. Richard Santoro
Titus Welliver	Officer Jack Lowery
Klea Scott	Officer Nona Valentine
Richard T. Jones	Officer Clement Johnson
Adam Rodriguez	Officer Hector Villaneuva
Patrick McGaw	Terry Doyle
A.J. Langer	Kathleen Doyle
Mark Kiely	Officer Kevin Patrick
Star Jasper	Noreen Patrick
Brigid Brannagh	Emmeline Flannagan
Bradford English	Capt. Lou Zerola (1997)
John Finn	Officer Ray MacElwaine (1998)

[edit] Episodes

Pilot (9/22/97)
Life Under Castro (9/29/97)
Why Can't Even A Couple Of Us Get Along? (10/6/97)
Touched By A Checkered Cab (10/13/97)
Clown Without Pity (10/20/97)
A Reverend Runs Through It (11/3/97)
Love Hurts (11/10/97)
Wild Irish Woes (11/17/97)
McMurder One (11/24/97)
Dublin Or Nothin' (12/8/97)
Gay Avec (1/12/98)
Exposing Johnson (1/19/98)
Tears On My Willow (1/26/98)
Violet Inviolate (2/2/98)
Fisticuffs (2/23/98)
Don't You Be My Valentine (3/2/98)
Dead Man Sleeping (3/9/98)
Fools Russian (3/16/98)
Dogonnit (4/13/98)
Cinnamon Buns (4/14/98)
Skel In A Cell (4/20/98)
Queens For A Day (Series Finale) (4/27/98)

[edit] Plot

The focus for Brooklyn South was the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City. Francis 'Frank' Donovan was the patrol sergeant who presided every day over the morning shift assignments he gave to the uniformed officers. Donovan was an informant for the hated Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB), and secretly reported to Captain Stan Jonas, who, early in the series, transferred from being an IAB Officer to the precinct commander after the officious Captain Lou Zerola retired. It was later revealed in the season that Donovan became an undercover informant for IAB to protect his father, a retired cop living in Florida, from indictment for corruption.

In the pilot episode, a psychotic gunman went on a shooting rampage outside the police station, killing a number of policemen and innocent bystanders. He was wounded in the shootout and brought back into the station where he died from his gunshot wounds. It was later revealed that Ann-Marie Kersey, a policewoman whose boyfriend was one of the victims of the shooting spree, slipped into the room where the wounded madman was being held and kicked him in his stomach which caused his death. Because of the race related issue (the shooter was black and all of his victims were white) prompted the killer's black racist family to pressure the city to launch an Internal Affairs investigation. Eventually everybody, including Kersey, was exonerated. Kersey then had a romantic affair with Donovan, but it did not last. Later in the series, she was promoted to detective and traded in her blue uniform for a suit.

Also in the pilot episode, Phil Roussakoff, a burly officer, transferred to the 74th Precinct and was partnered with Jimmy Doyle, a well liked and respected street cop whose younger brother, Terry, was trying to become a police officer to follow in their late father's footsteps. Roussakoff was a beat cop who often used his fists or mouth to get out of a problem, but often regretted his actions. Jimmy's brother, Terry, left the police academy to take an assignment to infiltrate an Irish street gang planning a back robbery. Roussakoff began dating Jimmy and Terry's younger sister, Kathleen, but was awkward and uncomfortable to dating. Terry helped foil the Irish gang's robbery and joined the police vice squad.

Jack Lowery was a tough street cop coping with personal demons which included his selfish and nagging wife, who died early in the season. Lowery later started an affair with his female partner, Nona Valentine, which did not sit well with Clement Johnson, Nona's former boyfriend and the station's traffic cop. Hector Villaneuva was a young rookie cop who was tutored by the rest of the officers how to do his job the best be could.

Richard Santoro was the station's desk sergeant, a police veteran who seen it all, and was the voice of reason in the station house of keeping things calm and later sticking up for Donovan when he came out as an informant for Internal Affairs Bureau to save Santoro from a corrupt IAB officer from ruining Santoro's reputation. Ray MacElwaine was a 50-year-old veteran police officer who transferred to the 74th Precinct late in the series and soon proved himself to everyone that despite his age, he could still "walk the beat" and take down criminals. In the final episode, MacElwaine decided to retire from the police force, and Santoro was promoted to Lieutenant.

Other secondary characters included Kevin Patrick, a police officer wounded in the opening shooting spree in the pilot episode, which made him a paraplegic, and his wife Noreen, both of whom were friends with Jimmy, Terry, and the Doyle family.

[edit] External links

Brooklyn South at the Internet Movie Database
Remembering Brooklyn South - Formerly titled "Save Brooklyn South," this page originated as part of an unsuccessful Internet campaign to keep the show on the air.