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>> you could sense the 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 our dramas and wanted to try something brand new. >> we're the police! we have a warrant for your arrest. >> so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were...

>> friday nights on nbc are different this season thanks to "miami vice." it's a show with an old theme but a lot of new twists. described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliance nonetheless. shot entirely on location in south miami, the story centers around two undercover vice cops. >> i don't know how this is going to work, tubbs. i mean, not exactly up my alley style and persona-wise. heaven knows i'm no box of candy. >> television very much was the small screen. what was interesting about tony yerkovich's pilot screenplay for "miami vice," it was very much not that. very much the...

That was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it 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 to try something brand-new. >> we're the police! we have a warrant for your arrest. >> so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail. they began to sing. life in the hood ain't no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. ♪ life in the hood ain't no pizza pie, people die when bullets fly ♪ >> a...

>> when quality does emerge on television, the phrase too good for tv is often heard. one reason network offering that seems to deserve that phrase is "hill street blue." hill street is one of the changing point of the entire industry of tv. we have all watched documentary about cops and had this real hand he wld in the moment that were enable of. >> the minute you looked at it, it looked different. it had a move to it. you can smell the stale coffee. we didn't want to do a standard cop show where you got a crime and you got your two cops and you go out and catch the bad guys and you sweat the...

>> 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 the 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 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 to try something brand-new. >> we're the police! we have a warrant for you...