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The Best Episodes of Brooklyn Bridge

Every episode of Brooklyn Bridge ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Brooklyn Bridge!

Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on

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    Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 1 - When Irish Eyes are Smiling
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    #1 - When Irish Eyes are Smiling

    S1:E1

    It's 1956 Brooklyn, where Jules and Sophie Berger live in the same apartment as their daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren, who experience meaningful events in this opener: his budding social life separates 14 year-old Alan from his less mature friends, while 9 year-old Nathaniel meets Dodger great Gil Hodges.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 2 - Death in Brooklyn
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    #2 - Death in Brooklyn

    S1:E2

    For Sophie, the funeral of her Uncle Ira (whom no one really liked) requires total family attendance—on the Sunday of Alan's Dodger game date with Katie Monahan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 3 - Boys of Summer
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    #3 - Boys of Summer

    S1:E3

    Alan is asked to be on a television show that showcases young baseball players in a competition at Ebbets Field, winning him the chance to meet several Brooklyn Dodgers players. Depressed after not winning the competition, he goes to visit his father at work while the family worries about his whereabouts.

    Director:Brad Silberling
    Writer:John Masius

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  4. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 4 - Sylvia's Condition
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    #4 - Sylvia's Condition

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    During the family gathering for Succoth, a Jewish thanksgiving ceremony, free-spirited Aunt Sylvia, who follows the ""beat"" movement, announces that she is getting a divorce from her husband. Sophie is horrified when Sylvia says she is stifling in the marriage and desperately tries to talk her out of her decision.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 5 - What I Did for Love
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    #5 - What I Did for Love

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    Katie is so upset that her school science project didn't work out properly that Alan ""fixes"" the results for her, which only serves to make her more upset; meanwhile, George and Grandpa annoy the women in their lives when they resort to doing a favor for Sid's cousin Morty (the loan shark) to get tickets for a Harry Belafonte concert.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Theresa Rebeck

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  6. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 6 - War of the Worlds
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    #6 - War of the Worlds

    S1:E6

    Neither Katie's parents nor Alan's grandparents think they should be dating out of their faith, so the desperate kids arrange a meeting between the two families. Things go from bad to worse during the uncomfortable dinner when obnoxious Uncle Willy and his wife Miriam turn up at the same Chinese restaurant the families have chosen as neutral ground.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 7 - Dinner at Six
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    #7 - Dinner at Six

    S1:E7

    While their elders are away at a wedding in Boston for the weekend, Alan and Nathaniel are trusted to stay on their own. Then Warren, inspired by an article in Life, comes up with an idea for a ""dinner party"" with Katie and her friends ""the Marys,"" and Nathaniel is excluded. But the tables are turned on the boys when Nathaniel gets sick and the girls pay more attention to him than to them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 8 - Old Fools
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    #8 - Old Fools

    S1:E8

    Nathaniel is upset when Jules and Sophie's cousin Myron, once partners in the hatmaking business, have a falling out at the weekly Friday night poker game and stop speaking to each other. In the meantime, Uncle Joel is helping George and Phyllis get through an income tax audit.

    Director:Kristoffer Tabori
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 9 - Saturday
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    #9 - Saturday

    S1:E9

    On a ""once in a blue moon"" Saturday, George is off work, so Alan and Nathaniel look forward to having some fun with their dad--but the adults decide ""Family Chore Day"" comes first. Well...that is until Grandpa, George, and the boys end up test driving a beautiful red Buick to Coney Island and Phyllis and Grandma play hookey at the new Danny Kaye movie with a stop for ice cream at Sid's afterward.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:John Masius, Brad Hall

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  10. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 10 - Get a Job
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    #10 - Get a Job

    S1:E10

    Sid wants to branch out into catering and hires Alan, Warren and Benny to be waiters at his first wedding, but when Benny makes himself sick sampling the food and the three boys begin participating in the entertainment, Sid finally gets fed up. When Alan's dad and grandfather rush to help out, Alan--and finally Warren and Benny--learn a lesson about responsibility.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 11 - Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?
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    #11 - Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?

    S1:E11

    The weekly ""Cousins Club"" meeting may survive the devastating news that Jackie Robinson has been traded to the arch-rival New York Giants (from the Brooklyn Dodgers)until Aunt Miriam chooses that time to reveal that Uncle Willy has cheated on her with a model named Cookie LaBarbera.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 12 - The Gift
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    #12 - The Gift

    S1:E12

    After his beloved fourth-grade teacher Miss McCullough announces at ""Open School"" that she is getting married and leaving for Japan with her serviceman husband, Nathaniel is not only devastated, but he refuses to adjust to his new teacher--to the point where he is sent to the principal's office. Meanwhile, Benny's conscience bothers him after he forges a note from his mother.

    Director:Seth Freeman
    Writer:Brad Hall

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  13. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 13 - Boys and Girls Together (1)
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    #13 - Boys and Girls Together (1)

    S1:E13

    Benny is too shy to ask a girl out on a date, so to help him out, Alan asks Karen Frankel, a classmate Benny has always liked, to a couples-only party, and asks Katie to go with Benny, then they will ""trade"" later on. But Benny develops a crush on Katie and Alan learns that Karen has had a crush on him for years. Meanwhile Sophie and Phyllis help organize a rummage sale which honors the fallen son of a neighbor in aid of a veterans' hospital, while George invests in one of the new Polaroid cameras.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 14 - Boys and Girls Apart (2)
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    #14 - Boys and Girls Apart (2)

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    Benny tells Alan that Katie is now his girlfriend and they can't be friends any longer; meanwhile, Karen Frankel further misunderstands her relationship with Alan, and, during preparations for the rummage sale, Aunt Sylvia and Sid seem to be hitting it off.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 15 - Boys and Girls Together Again (3)
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    #15 - Boys and Girls Together Again (3)

    S1:E15

    Katie finally explains her feelings to Benny and eventually he and Alan resolve their differences--after he makes peace with Karen and Benny has a heart-to-heart with Grandma. Meanwhile, the rummage sale wildly achieves its goal, and Sid invites Aunt Sylvia back to the store for champagne.

    Director:James Simons
    Writer:Brad Hall

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  16. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 16 - On the Road
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    #16 - On the Road

    S1:E16

    Phyllis and George allow Aunt Sylvia to take Alan into Manhattan to Nero's Coffeehouse to hear Jack Kerouac recite poetry, but when they are late coming home, Grandma and Grandpa follow them, whereupon Sylvia and her beat friends and the older folks discover they aren't so different after all.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 17 - Great Expectations (1)
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    #17 - Great Expectations (1)

    S1:E17

    The results of the NY Standardized Aptitude Test rattle the boys, especially Benny, whose career profile turns out to be ""forest ranger,"" but Alan is even more shocked when he's accepted at the Bronx High School of Science. Feelings are mixed from other quarters although the plethora of relatives Phyllis phones are delighted--but the most reluctant of all may be Alan. Meanwhile, the Cousins Club has agreed to finance Sylvia's new poetry magazine, ""Sludge""--if Sophie doesn't explode at what looks like Sylvia's growing romance with Sid.

    Director:Brad Silberling
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 18 - A Tale of Two Boroughs (2)
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    #18 - A Tale of Two Boroughs (2)

    S1:E18

    Alan's reluctance to go to the Bronx High School of Science worries George enough that he has a talk with Mr. Greer about the pros and cons of Alan's attending, but when Alan finally gathers his courage and tells his mother he doesn't want to go, the confrontation hurts both of them--putting George in the middle. In the meantime, Benny seems to be reconciled to being a forest ranger, in a big way.

    Director:Brad Silberling
    Writer:Brad Hall

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  19. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 19 - Rainy Day
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    #19 - Rainy Day

    S1:E19

    On the Sunday they were planning to go to the Statue of Liberty--Nathaniel has been studying it in school--it pours, so George proposes that they hold ""Rainy Day Indoor Olympics"" in the hall, but Ring-a-Lievio, hallway hockey, and Johnny-On-the-Pony seem tougher on George than they are on the boys; meanwhile, a hurt cousin Bernard awaits news of his fiancee, who was supposed to meet him on the Number 63 bus and never showed up and Phyllis and Jules try to assemble a jigsaw puzzle of the Statue of Liberty.

    Director:Michael J. Fox
    Writers:John Masius, Brad Hall

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  20. Brooklyn Bridge Season 1 Episode 20 - On the Line
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    #20 - On the Line

    S1:E20

    During a crucial basketball game between Rigo Park and the Jewish Community House junior league, Alan wins two free throws after one of the opposing players makes a foul. One successful basket will tie the hotly contested game, two will win. But as Alan psyches himself up for the task, his imagination runs wild, first in thoughts of what events led up to the game, then in a series of wild flash fantasies in which he fears that if he blows the shot, he will ruin his whole life.

    Director:Kenneth Zunder
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Brooklyn Bridge Season 2 Episode 1 - Brave New World
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    #21 - Brave New World

    S2:E1

    The boys' first day at Lafayette High School is momentous in more ways than one (nervous Benny is almost hysterical): gorgeous Melinda Dean, who Warren hears has ""done stuff"" with some other boys, asks Alan to be her partner for a study project--and invites him to her home to work on it. Meanwhile Aunt Miriam has begun a new career, selling real estate on Long Island, and Grandma tries to steer the Monahans into buying one of her houses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Brooklyn Bridge Season 2 Episode 2 - Plaza Sweet
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    #22 - Plaza Sweet

    S2:E2

    On Grandpa's birthday, Phyllis and George give him and Grandma a gift, a romantic weekend at the Plaza Hotel--an excursion the Bergers consider until Nathaniel contracts chicken pox. Sophie takes over his care with such vigor, overruling all of Phyllis' instructions, that Phyllis feels thrust in the background of her own child's care and her anger precipitates a quarrel between her and her mother. Meanwhile, Benny stakes out an apartment building in hopes of seeing his favorite baseball player, Duke Snider.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brad Hall

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  23. Brooklyn Bridge Season 2 Episode 3 - Rockette to the Moon
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    #23 - Rockette to the Moon

    S2:E3

    Katie's father, already displeased that his eldest daughter Colleen is earning a living as a Rockette (his dream was for her to become a nun), refuses to give her permission to marry her boyfriend Charlie, saying that they are both too young and that Charlie has no job. Nevertheless, Colleen and Charlie elope, and Lt. Monahan refuses to speak to her since she is not married in the eyes of God. Also: The Silvers finally get a telephone.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Brooklyn Bridge Season 2 Episode 4 - Nun But the Brave
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    #24 - Nun But the Brave

    S2:E4

    Guilt is in the air in Brooklyn: Katie prays to be spared from her history exam, then is devastated when her teacher, the tough Sister Rafael, dies--guilty to the point where she blames Alan and eventually vows to become a nun. In the meantime, both Grandma and Nathaniel make the Silvers feel guilty about shopping at Fairmart, the supermarket that gives trading stamps, rather than at the neighborhood grocery.

    Director:Sandy Smolan
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Brooklyn Bridge Season 2 Episode 5 - In the Still of the Night
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    #25 - In the Still of the Night

    S2:E5

    After Glee Club practice, Alan is collared by Jimmy Vinceguera, a Lafayette High School hood who overheard him singing--apparently Bruno Mazzarelli, the lead singer in his rock group, the V-Necks, was arrested, and he wants Alan to act as substitute in a radio contest. But, as Alan practices, he is caught up in the ""excitement"" of being rebellious, and drawn into the boys' objectionable behavior as well as into their music. In the meantime, Nicholas tells Nathaniel they have to give up playing cowboy if they want to ""become"" teenagers, but Grandpa nips that in the bud by agreeing to play with them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"When Irish Eyes are Smiling" is the best rated episode of "Brooklyn Bridge". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/20/1991. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death in Brooklyn".