NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Hollywood Country Club
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/30/1993
George is upset when his sister Alice arrives for a visit to discuss selling his parents' bungalow at Mountaindale in the Catskills, remembering the good times the family has always had there and fearing they are losing part of their heritage; in the meantime, Phyllis is offered a promotion--but at the expense of Emma Brooks, the office manager who's been her mentor.
Director: Kenneth Zunder
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/109 votesLoading...
#2 - Nun But the Brave
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1992
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: N/A
7.6/1010 votesLoading...#3 - Get a Job
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votesLoading...
#4 - What I Did for Love
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1991
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: N/A
Writer: Theresa Rebeck
- 7.8/107 votesLoading...
#5 - Keeping up with the Joneses
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/23/1993
Phyllis invites an old school friend and her husband to a dinner party at the Silvers', but as the night progresses she and George are left uncomfortable by their constant bickering, while Grandma disapproves because the rest of the family wasn't invited to join them. In the meantime, Nathaniel mourns the loss of The Buccaneers, a favorite Saturday night program that's been replaced by Perry Mason.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1010 votesLoading...#6 - Dinner at Six
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1010 votesLoading...
#7 - Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1010 votesLoading...
#8 - On the Line
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/1992
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: N/A
8.2/1014 votesLoading...#9 - Boys of Summer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1991
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
- 8.3/1015 votesLoading...
#10 - Death in Brooklyn
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1014 votesLoading...
#11 - Sylvia's Condition
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/109 votesLoading...
#12 - Rainy Day
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1992
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
Writer: John Masius, Brad Hall
- 8.4/1010 votesLoading...
#13 - Saturday
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1991
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: N/A
Writer: John Masius, Brad Hall
- 8.4/1010 votesLoading...
#14 - Boys and Girls Apart (2)
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/108 votesLoading...
#15 - A Tale of Two Boroughs (2)
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1992
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
- 8.4/107 votesLoading...
#16 - Rockette to the Moon
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1013 votesLoading...
#17 - War of the Worlds
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1991
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1013 votesLoading...
#18 - Old Fools
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1991
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: N/A
- 8.6/1011 votesLoading...
#19 - The Gift
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/1/1992
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
- 8.6/1012 votesLoading...
#20 - Brave New World
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/107 votesLoading...
#21 - Plaza Sweet
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1992
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: N/A
Writer: Brad Hall
- 8.6/108 votesLoading...
#22 - Good as Gold
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/17/1993
George takes a second job selling encyclopedias with Uncle Willy to make ends meet after the family refrigerator starts failing. After an abortive start, he soon becomes salesman of the month--he even convinces Sid to buy a set!--buying not only a new refrigerator but bicycles for the boys, and finally reducing his hours at the post office so he can sell full time. Then he has second thoughts after he reads one of the contracts closely and discovers the payment conditions seem a bit shady.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/107 votesLoading...
#23 - The Date
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 7/16/1993
While Alan and his friends prepare for their first high school dance, Nathaniel asks questions about dating and George and Phyllis make arrangements to go to Ben Maksik's Town and Country Club. The night of the dance Sid plans to take out a girl named Flora in a gorgeous brand-new 1957 Edsel borrowed from his sister's husband, but unfortunately neither Flora or Benny's date, Becky Abromowitz, show up, leaving the two to discuss life and love while waiting at the store. Meanwhile, Grandma and Grandma make a ""date"" to play cards with Nathaniel.
Director: Brad Hall
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/109 votesLoading...
#24 - Boys and Girls Together Again (3)
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1992
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
- 8.7/108 votesLoading...
#25 - In the Still of the Night
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1992
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Brooklyn Bridge
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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...
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Network:CBS
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Hollywood Country Club" is the worst rated episode of "Brooklyn Bridge". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Kenneth Zunder and written by N/A, it aired on 7/30/1993. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Nun But the Brave".