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Cop Rock

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TV Series

The Resume

    (September 26, 1990-December 26, 1990)
    Originally aired on ABC
    Premise: Typical Steven Bochco cop drama is given the Broadway musical treatment
    Teri Austin as Trish Vaughn
    Anne Bobby as Officer Vicki Quinn
    Barbara Bosson as Mayor Louise Plank
    Jeffrey Alan Chandler as Ray Rodbart
    Ronny Cox as Chief Roger Kendrick
    Vondie Curtis-Hall as Cdr. Warren Osborne
    David Gianopoulos as Officer Andy Campo
    Larry Joshua as Captain John Hollander
    Dennis Lipscomb as Sidney Weitz
    Paul McCrane as Det. Bob McIntire
    James McDaniel as Officer Franklin Rose
    Ron McLarty as Det. Lt. Ralph Ruskin
    Mick Murray as Det. Joseph Gaines
    Peter Onorati as Det. Vincent LaRusso
    William Thomas Jr. as Det. William Donald Potts
    11 episodes

Why Cop Rock might be annoying:

    It tried to combine the grittiest and real TV genre with the most unrealistic genre.
    It expected viewers to buy that police would break into song and dance after they arrest a criminal.
    In one scene, a jury went into a gospel number just to announce the verdict.
    Of course, when the show focused on black criminals, they usually rapped.
    It was yet another musical endeavor that involved Randy Newman.
    It was the most expensive television show at the time.
    It featured crossovers from other Bochco shows ('Hill Street Blues,' 'L.A. Law').
    Bochco refused ABC's pleads to drop the musical numbers from the show.
    TV Guide named it the eighth worst show of all-time.

Why Cop Rock might not be annoying:

    Like it or not, it was ambitious.
    It remained a punch line and cult fave years after its cancellation.
    Some critics think the show is not as bad as it's perceived and was ahead of its time.
    Bochco claimed it was the most fun he had making a television series.
    It won two Emmys.
    In its last episode, the cast sung a song 'It Ain't Over Til the Fat Lady Sings' that appropriately ends with a fat lady singing.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 18 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 78 Votes: 62.82% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 60 Votes: 78.33% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 96 Votes: 78.12% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 149 Votes: 75.17% Annoying