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## HEADING: NYPD Blue ## LEFT COLUMN 1818. NYPD Blue NYPD Blue ABC, Thursday, 9/21 PM (ET) NYPD Blue is the year's best new show because it got past the instincts and type rules but changed everything else we've seen. And no one would have guessed people who hate each other could be so funny together. Four NYPD officers by word I might not let a child watch, but I have some rather access on PBS. Dennis Franz and many more moments. Second, I have a message for those self-ap- pointed guardians of my morals: If you don't want to watch the show, then change the channel! But don't you know my TV stop me from watching. NYPD Blue is a rich, deep, and wise of drama starring David Caruso, an out- standing actor who makes his break- through here playing a New York detec- tive faced with many troubles but few excuses. His wife (Gloria Gough's mon- ster Bunny) left him because she hates worrying about his work—but she still can't help sleeping with him. His partner, Jill Hennessy, is wearing Dennis Franz in drinking and headed for the deep end when he's shot by mob slime. And his inner date (Amy Brenneman) is married up in ways I won't give away. This is one fine cast. Like co-creator Steven Bochco's other shows, Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, NYPD creates characters who breathe and wracks plotlines like a dense Per- son rug. It needs things out Bochco's time and avoids too much "a tendency to turn characters into cliches or victims." But unlike other Bochco shows, this is not an ensemble piece. It's a show about one good but imperfect man who faces pressure and tries to figure out what's right. It is an intensely moral show. It is also the most human of Bochco's shows and the most real—which is pre- cisely the point of includ- ing sex (not nothing so hilariously offensive as that on Beverly Hills) and vio- lence (but nothing so ob- scene and exploitative as that on The X-Files or I Witness Video). Bochco didn't put it there to get pity (I hope he's not that cynical). He made sex, violence, and anger part of NYPD because they are part of life. So this is not an adult show in the dirty sense of the word. It is a grown-up show: wise and brutal. TV needs more shows like this. And that's why I get upset with those who would censor television shows right now: the mob-bashing NYPD, or the church mom who attacked me for liking enemy Chevro, or the Congressman who wants to install a chip in TVs that could block any show marked with a "V" for vi- olence. You cannot judge and certainly should not burn art (yes, TV can be art) by the body count, the square inches of flesh, the number of naughty words, or the easy reputation alone. You have to watch for yourself and judge a show on its qual- ity. And NYPD Blue is a quality show. ■ Clapp & Gail O'Grady. To: 11/30/93 1819. NYPD BLUE 12/7/93 through 2/15/94 1820. NYPD BLUE 3/1/94 through 10/18/94 NYPD Blue begins its second season and its last with David Caruso (who will depart after the fourth episode). The opener focuses on Licalsi's murder trial. See the Close-up on p. 120. —9 PM 10/11/94 1821. NYPD BLUE 10/24/94 through 1/3/95 Jimmy Smits replaces David Caruso as the resident hero of NYPD Blue, playing Det. Bobby Simone, who's back on the streets after a cushy job driving for the commissioner. Alicia Coppola (formerly of Another World) guests. —9 PM 11/15/94 ## RIGHT COLUMN 1. Debut: 9/21/93 w/David Caruso, Dennis Franz, James McDaniel, Laura Kelly, Sherry Stringfield, Joe Santos, Amy Brenneman, Gordon Clapp & Gail O'Grady. To: 11/30/93 1822. NYPD Blue 1/17/95 through The new zone commander on NYPD Blue seems more concerned about the budget being busted by overtime than in the detectives busting bad guys. Larry Joshua plays the bureaucratic captain. 5. 3/21/95 1823. NYPD BLUE: 4/4/95 through On the day before his wedding to Assistant DA Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence), surly Det. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is approaching his breaking point. In addition to handling his anxiety about the wedding, he and best man Simone (Jimmy Smits) must follow up on a hot tip that links a junkie to a homicide. Meanwhile, a hostile precinct sergeant puts Lt. Fancy's brother (Michael Jai White) in a jam with Internal Affairs; and Simone confronts Russell (Kim Delaney) about her drinking problem. Muscles: Ramon Franco, Sgt. McNamara, Danny Goldring, Andy Jr., Michael DeLuise, Kostas, Joe Greco, Marie, Deborah Taylor. (1:00) 6. ASSISTANT DA SIPOWICZ 11/14/95 Lawrence and Franz 1824. NYPD BLUE: 11/21/96 through 2/6/96 Guests: Corin Nemic, Zack Ward, Kim Delaney, Rajesh Mukhopadhyay, Paul Ben-Victor, James McDaniel, Jay Acovone, Mackenzie Philips, Gordon Clapp, Dan Lauria & Sasha Jenson. 1825. NYPD BLUE 2/13/96 through 4/30/96 Guests: Kim Delaney, Nicholas Turturro, Justine Miceli, Richard Kline, Paul Dillon, Karen Austin, Vanessa del Rio, Michael DeLuise, Sharon Lawrence. 1826. NYPD Blue 1/14/96 through 11/19/96 NYPD BLUE just can't keep it's women. Sharon Lawrence is gone to NBC, Gail O'Grady is gone to FOX & Justine Miceli is just plain gone. 1827. THE JOB SERIES PREMIERE 3/14/2001 thru 4/24/2002 w/Denis Leary, Peter Tolan.