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>> in 1990, '91, there was not a whole lot of original programing for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i 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.

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 ♪ >> and i said wait a minute. i thought this is it. this is great. this is going to be as innovative as anything i have ever done. ♪ he is guilty, he is guilty, judge, you can see it in his ...

Change in the entire you history of tv. >> we had all scene a documentary about cops, and had a handheld in the moment quality that we were enamored of. >> the minute you looked at it, it looked different. it had a mood to it. you could almost smell the stale coffee. >> we didn't want to do a standard cop show, where you know, you had a crime, you got your two cops, you go out and you catch the bad guy and you sweat them and he confesses and that is it. cops had personal lives that impact their behavior in pro found ways. >> well, what about it? is he here or elsewhere? >> don't get excited, c...

>> 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 ♪ >> and i said wait a minute. i thought this is it. this is great. this is going to be as innovative as anything i have

>> okay, stand by. >> action. >> you were just describing the show as sort of a new wave cop show. >> yeah, it's a cop show for the 80s. 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, "miami vice" was a long music video. music was a big part of the show. >> it was a great lure of using the music that everyone was listening to, instead of the scoring of the per. sfo ♪ i can feel it coming in the air tonight ♪ >> it was not afraid to let a scene drag out. a car ride could be a four minute ...