Line #34 Series/BrooklynSouth


1	''Brooklyn South'' is an American Police Drama that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from September 1997 to April 1998. Created by Creator/StevenBochco, it centered around New York City's 74th Precinct. Its pilot was the first episode of broadcast TV to receive a TV-MA rating due to an intense, violent cop killing in the opening sequence.
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3	[[AC:The main characters are:]]
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5	* Patrol Sgt. Francis (Frank) X. Donovan (Creator/JonTenney)-- Good guy and IAB mole.
6	* Sgt. Richard (Dickie) Santoro (Creator/GaryBasaraba)-- Frank's close friend, a gentle (if snarky) giant
7	* Officer Jimmy Doyle (Creator/DylanWalsh)-- Well-liked and respected, and a fatherly figure to his two younger siblings, Terry and Kathleen
8	* Officer Terry Doyle (Creator/PatrickMcGaw)-- Younger brother of Jimmy, a rookie cop who spends the majority of the season undercover
9	* Officer Phil Roussakoff (Creator/MichaelDeLuise)-- Somewhat dim; his most memorable storylines included dating the Doyles' sister Kathleen, and moonlighting at a mortuary
10	* Officer Jack Lowery (Creator/TitusWelliver)-- Hotheaded, unhappily married and later widowed, begins an affair with Nona Valentine
11	* Officer Nona Valentine (Creator/KleaScott)-- Blandly likeable, involved in a love triangle with Jack and Clemmie
12	* Officer Clement (Clemmie) Johnson (Creator/RichardTJones)-- Hates Jack, loves Nona, gets shot in a botched undercover operation
13	* Officer Hector Villa Nueva (Creator/AdamRodriguez)-- The fresh-faced rookie
14	* Officer Ann-Marie Kearsy (Creator/YancyButler)-- Loses her fiance in the first episode, later gets into a relationship with Frank, gets promoted to detective after a botched undercover assignment (not the same one as when Clemmie gets shot-- undercover operations don't tend to go well on this show)
15	* Officer Ray Mac Elwaine (Creator/JohnFinn)-- Old-timer who comes in halfway through the series
16	* Captain Stan Jones (Creator/JamesBSikking)-- The guy in charge
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18	Partner pairings varied, but the most frequent were Jack/ Nona, Clemmie/ Hector, Phil/ Jimmy (early on), and Ray/ Jimmy (once Ray arrived).
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21	!!Tropes used by the series:
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23	* BadassNormal: Frank in "Fisticuffs," to clear Dickie's name.
24	* BigApplesauce
25	* CartwrightCurse: Jack's wife is killed in the fourth episode, and his Latvian girlfriend is murdered in episode 18. Good thing for Nona that the show got cancelled...
26	* CluelessDetective: Since the series focused mainly on beat cops, they were frequently portrayed as being smarter than the detectives. When Kearsy is eventually promoted to detective, many of her new co-workers continue to be portrayed as pretty moronic.
27	* CopKiller: In the first episode a guy goes on a shooting spree and kills a bunch of cops right outside the precinct house, then is himself shot and dragged into the house. He dies while waiting for paramedics to show up, and his relatives sue the police force alleging that the cops purposely let him bleed to death in revenge.
28	* DarkSecret: Frank's been an IAB agent since the Academy to protect his corrupt father.
29	* FairCop: Many...
30	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Frank and Dickie
31	* InternalAffairs: Nearly the whole precinct turns on Frank when they discover he's been an IAB rat since the Academy. He eventually uses his role to clear Dickie's name when another IAB officer tries to frame him.
32	* InTheBlood: Frank's and the Doyles' fathers were cops, too.
33	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Clemmie eventually gives Nona his blessing to be with Jack, since it makes her happy.
34	* LoveTriangle: Jack/ Nona/ Clemmie
35	* NewMeat: Hector, Terry
36	* ObsessivelyOrganized: Dee spends one episode working as a receptionist at the precinct. In addition to a need for excessive cleanliness, she has a thing for the number four, including letting the phone ring four times before answering (not the best thing at a police station...) and repeating the last word of a sentence four times. She even calls herself Dee because D is the fourth letter of the alphabet, not because it's her initial.
37	* StupidCrooks: The series had its fair share, but Jerri and her lover from "Fools Russian" probably take the prize...
38	* SurprisePregnancy: Dickie's wife Vicky in the finale.
39	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: For a fairly gritty show, the series ended pretty happily with the party celebrating Dickie's promotion/ Ray's (non)retirement, and several couples reconnecting.

Context Series / BrooklynSouth