Braker

{{Short description|1985 television film directed by Victor Lobl}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Braker 1985 TV movie.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = Crime<br>Drama | writer = | director = Victor Lobl | starring = Carl Weathers<br>Joseph Bottoms | music = Brad Fiedel | country = United States | language = English | producer = | executive_producer = | editor = | cinematography = Roger Sherman Jr. | runtime = 90 minutes | company = Blatt-Singer Productions<br>Centerpoint Productions<br>MGM/UA Television | budget = | network = ABC | released = {{Start date|1985|04|28}} }}

'''''Braker''''' is a 1985 American made-for-television crime drama film starring Carl Weathers and Joseph Bottoms. It was intended as a pilot for a series which was never produced.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jerry Roberts|title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Volume 1|year=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press, 2009|isbn=978-0810861381}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Vincent Terrace|title=Experimental television, test films, pilots, and trial series, 1925 through 1995|year=1997|publisher=McFarland, 1997|isbn=0786401788}}</ref> It was broadcast on ABC on April 28, 1985.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kevin Thomas|title=Movies of the week|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 28, 1985}}</ref>

==Plot== Harry Braker is a tough veteran cop. Rookie detective Eddie Kelso is his inexperienced partner. They are both drawn in to investigate the murder of Kate Taylor, a music video editor. The investigation is linked to both the music and adult-film industries.<ref>{{cite news|title=Americans Watch More Television Than Ever|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3kdDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d60MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1221,812973&dq=braker+weathers&hl=en|access-date=2 September 2012|newspaper=Daily Leader|date=April 28, 1985}}</ref>

== Cast == *Carl Weathers as Lieutenant Harry Braker *Joseph Bottoms as Eddie Kelso *Anne Schedeen as Lieutenant Polly Peters *Alex Rocco as Orsini *Randall "Tex" Cobb as R.E. Packard *Peter Michael Goetz as Captain Joyce *Dann Florek as Hayes *Tracey Ross as Janice *Shanna Reed as Dede Drummond *Ed O'Neill as Danny Buckner *Ian McShane as Alan Roswell *Kristoffer Tabori as Bruce Wines *Gwen Humble as Kate Taylor *Robert Pastorelli as Forensics Specialist *Enrique Castillo as Booker

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0088843}}

Category:1985 television films Category:1985 films Category:1985 crime drama films Category:American crime drama films Category:Films scored by Brad Fiedel Category:Films about pornography Category:Television pilots not picked up as a series Category:Television films as pilots Category:American drama television films Category:1985 English-language films Category:1985 American films Category:English-language crime drama films Category:American Broadcasting Company original films