The Blue Knight

A trigger happy cop charges into a stakeout set up by an informant and forces Bumper Morgan into an all-out battle. Stolen whiskey, an arrogant coworker and a handgun shipment provide Bumper (George Kennedy) with a barrage of problems.

The Blue Knight begins as an interesting character study of a derelict wino and his inadvertent involvement in a murder. Guest star Douglas V. Fowley portrays an innocent old derelict accused of the murder of a former policeman.

Bumper stirs up trouble among the hoodlums and hookers of his beat when he tries to steer a young girl into a safer life, while, off the job, he dates a glamorous career woman (played by Barbara Rhoades), whose world is very different from his.

During a drug bust, an over-eager young cop shoots and kills a suspect, then hints Bumper was afraid to fire, and the story badly affects Bumper's relationship with his fellow officers.

A retired cop is heavily in debt to a bookmaker Bumper has doggedly tried to shut down.

Defying Bumper's warning about taking the law into his own hands, a vigilante goes after a band of hoodlum-robbers who raped his daughter.

Bumper investigates the shooting death of a Chinese gang leader.

Bumper goes back to the Police Academy to take a course designed to update veterans in modern techniques. An ex-con has a job, but an informer says he is in on plans for a big robbery.

Bumper is relieved from duty while officials investigate his fatal shooting of a hood.

Bumper tells down-and-out bum Joey to stop disturbing the police when he keeps confessing that he's the one responsible for raping and murdering four women. But when Joey begins to give details which only the cops and the murderer know, Bumper realises that Joey has become the sounding-board for a maniac.

Two brutal hoods put their victims through savage beatings in Bumper's (George Kennedy) district. Although preoccupied by the plight of a friend, a veteran cop wrongly accused of police brutality, Bumper keeps tracking a couple of hoods who specialize in stealing from pushers, bookmakers, and others who can't turn to the police. 

The lawyer of a wounded mugger is his sister, who doesn't believe he is a hood.

The assistant of an unscrupulous bookmaker refuses help from Bumper (George Kennedy) for fear of reprisal.

Bumper (George Kennedy) learns of a fashion-house chief's design to strike a big drug deal. During the police crackdown on drug traffic, Bumper Morgan arrests a suspected pusher and discovers that a high style fashion firm, headed by a shrewd woman designer is the front for a smoothly operated narcotics trade.

Bumper (George Kennedy) becomes the target of an ex-con and a professional hit man.

Bumper (George Kennedy) trails an odd hotel burglar whose speciality is slashing teddy bears.

After Bumper (George Kennedy) catches a heroin dealer, he learns that the criminal is being freed to help federal narcotics agents.

Trouble comes in the form of a loan shark collector who's terrorizing people in Bumper's (George Kennedy) territory.

One of Bumper's informers helps in the case of a burglary ring headed by a pawn shop operator.

Bumper's erstwhile girlfriend is a victim of a pair of armed robbers.

Trying to avoid inevitable violence, Bumper (George Kennedy) searches for a bookie's collection man who fled with a week's worth of receipts. Bumper's beat is plaguedby crooks wielding unusual weapons: an ice-pick-armed thief and a couple of aimless ex-cons equipped with a 20-millimeter antitank gun. 

Bumper makes use of an alcoholic, down-and-out attorney called The Counselor to close down a bar for crooks and nab a sadistic hood named Sally G.(John Crawford). The bar atmosphere, Leonard Stone's Counselor, and the appearance of Joanna Moore as Molly, one of the hood's victims, give this effort the kind of seedy flavor it needs.

Bumper (George Kennedy) grows philosophical about his personal laws, despite the fact that an aggrieved message parlor operator, Tina (Salome Jens), may cost him his badge. Along with the customary police series plots, which means putting the heat on Bumper Morgan's cop on the beat, the George Kennedy series specializes in old broads. This week Bumper faces abuse from Tina, a massage parlor manager, and takes it without flinching. Bumper also contemplates a wrestler with a penchant for wrecking cars. Harold Sakata, Kennedy's sidekick on his "Sarge" series, goes into his violent act and picks up a paycheck.