I hadn’t seen this photo before, where the cast of LA Law recreated a Mad
Magazine cover (with Bochco as Alfred E)

https://mobile.twitter.com/joe_a_blevins/status/980628381619408897


On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:58 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chevy Chase actually has a good point, but being Chevy Chase he craps all
> over himself making it.
> Bochco did a law show that actually dealt well with real legal issues, but
> Mariel Hemingway couldn't play a convincing lawyer.
> Chevy starts in around 16 minutes.
>
> https://youtu.be/WOdBo80vBh8
>
>
> Not sent from an iPhone
> On Apr 1, 2018, at 5:39 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue set standards other shows had to struggle
>> to meet. Murder One was ahead of its time in terms of an evening drama with
>> a season-long story arc, and Brooklyn South was ahead of its time in terms
>> of how gritty a series could be. Of course one has to mention his part in
>> creating the universe in which Peter Falk could wear a trenchcoat in LA and
>> solve homicides. Even his flops were memorable in their badness (Cop Rock &
>> Public Morals... I liked Public Morals). His later years, he seemed to have
>> shrunken into the formula of so many cop and lawyer shows, often stating in
>> interviews that broadcast TV would not dare attempt something
>> groundbreaking like NYPD Blue in 2018.
>>
>> I was in college when NYPD Blue premiered and one of my close friends was
>> a conservative guy who had read all the publicity surrounding the show's
>> violence and sex and language, and he was ready to write the network and
>> advertisers to complain. I urged him to wait until the show was actually on
>> the air, and invited him over to watch it. And that's what he did, and
>> every Tuesday that year he'd come over to watch it, because he was hooked.
>>
>> Also worth noting the episode of Politically Correct when Chevy Chase
>> lost it at Bochco, blaming his TV shows for the downfall of western
>> civilization. It was unfair of Chase, and Bochco held it together for a
>> long time before fighting back... regardless, it made for good TV. And
>> Bochco liked good TV.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Made a lot of good TV.
>>>
>>> Link
>>> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199>
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