Steven Bochco has passed

[mdmost 43002]

Creator of Hill Street Blue, LA Law, and NYPD Blue. 80s and 90s TV wouldn’t have been as great without these shows 

 

[Caracara 41]

Hill Street Blues was a bfd in the day.  Groundbreaking, won a shitload of emmys, had an excellent cast.  I really liked it.  Didn't see much of LA Law and NYPD.

[TyphoonSe7en 75]

I was really bummed out when I saw this. I still get pulled into NYPD Blue episodes whenever i run across them on tv. 

[Parliament 14260]

He was great in Fargo.  Armageddon too.

[Radical Larry 28621]

Hill Street Blues was great. 

Hey, let's be careful out there. 

 

[Carl Spackler 3483]

Hill Street Blues was tremendous and groundbreaking.

[RPM 26321]

Before we get too crazy with the praise, remember this was the guy that came up with Richie Brockelman Private Eye, Gemini Man, Bay City Blues, Hooperman, Capitol Critters, Public Morals, Philly, Over There, Blind Justice and the granddaddy of bad ideas... Cop Rock. Yes, there were peaks in his career, but the valleys were pretty damned low.

 

[Kel Varnsen 8460]

Remind me not to let RPM write my Eulogy

[bschoolprof 6254]

LA Law was a pretty good show

[mdmost 43002]

Yeah, he had some valleys but his peaks re-wrote how to do both lawyer and cop shows. 

[Jerry Callo 8703]

He had some great shows.  

He might have been the show runner for Cop Rock, but there were a bunch of idiots that gave him the green light.

[Paper_jam 831]

NYPD Blue had a great cast and atmosphere. I think Andy Sipowicz was just about my favorite character in anything. Too bad he's "going out of the picture" so young.

 

 

[Duckman 82]

18 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

Hill Street Blues was great. 

Hey, let's be careful out there. 

 

This.

 

And damn Veronica Hamel was hot in that show.     

[DaysOff 7951]

Don't do an image search now.

[veritas aequitas 443]

He was no Stephen J Cannell but he did alright.

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

23 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

LA Law was a pretty good show

Fuck that it was a great show. Got a little silly at the end but still damn good.

[Escapedgoat 90]

On 4/2/2018 at 9:38 PM, veritas aequitas said:

He was no Stephen J Cannell but he did alright.

[DFWTexEx 276]

On 4/1/2018 at 10:59 PM, Caracara said:

Hill Street Blues was a bfd in the day.  Groundbreaking, won a shitload of emmys, had an excellent cast.  I really liked it.  Didn't see much of LA Law and NYPD.

I am the opposite.  I rarely saw Hill Street Blues, but loved and definitely tuned in for LA Law.  Arnie Becker for the win!

 

Wasn't NYPD Blue the first to show naked butts on network TV in the context of actual sex?

[Brandywine 1316]

LA Law was my all time favorite Bochco series but my second favorite was Murder One, season one. Daniel Benzali was the lawyer Teddy Hoffman and Stanley Tucci was Richard Cross, who looked like the bad guy who had a secret, but, in the end . . . The murder took the whole season to solve. Benzali didn't come back for season 2 and I think it suffered because of it.

And of course Bochco wrote, and Steven Spielberg directed, one of my favorite Columbo episodes: Murder by the Book, with Jack Cassidy as the murderer.