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A wide range of television shows, from animated shows like South Park and Beavis and Butthead to sitcoms like Seinfeld and dramas like The Sopranos.

>> okay, here we go. standby. >> action! >> police, police! >> you were just describing the show as sort of a new-wave cop show. >> yeah, it's a cop show for the '80s. i mean, we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. >> in a lot of ways, you don't get "miami vice" without mtv, because in a lot of ways, "miami vice" was a long video. the music was such a big part of that show. >> there was an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine kind of tv scoring of that period. ♪ i can feel it coming in the ...

About it. >> the x files changed way people watched television. >> you could sense these successful creators try to see how they could do things different than they had done five or ten years ago. >> sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. ♪ >> at the time steven bochko was a very successful producer of our dramas and wanted to try something brand new. >> this is the police, we have a warrant for your arrest! >> and so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway mu...

I would go to alt.tv/x-files. and people were so nuts for this show. >> it's just pure science fiction. that's probably what i like most about it. >> the x-files changed the way people watched television. >> you could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. ♪ let's be careful out there ♪ >> at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted ...

Felt that if we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> then we started on the language. >> we heard some reporter call it the lowlife with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. >> the program premiered with an advertising boycott. >> channel 7, shame on you! >> but it was su...