COP ROCK: PILOT {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of police dramas which combine gritty realism and dramatic musical interludes to chronicle the events in a busy Los Angeles precinct. In this episode, the series premiere, an overburdened legal system breeds tragedy when freed crack dealer Tyrone Weeks kills a police officer less than twenty-four hours after his arrest in a violent raid. The same raid also snares drug addict Patricia Spence, who refuses Officer Vicki Quinn's offer of admittance to a rehab center for fear of losing her baby daughter. The married Quinn is further troubled by her attraction to her partner, Andy Campo. Spence tries to wheedle money from Captain John Hollander for information on Weeks, but her tips prove to be useless. Desperate for money, Spence sells her daughter to a baby broker for two hundred dollars. Weeks is eventually recaptured, but procedural mistakes made during his arrest again threaten to set him free. Tough cop Vincent LaRusso, in disgust, shoots Weeks and doctors the scene of the crime to give the impression he acted in self-defense. The episode also introduces the old-West-fixated Chief of Police Kendrick and the pragmatically corrupt Mayor Louise Plank. Songs on this episode include: "We Got the Power," "She's the One," "He's Guilty," and "Close Your Eyes." Commercials deleted.

Cataloging of this program has been made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation, 1998.

Details

• NETWORK: ABC
• DATE: September 26, 1990 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:48:34
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:23190
• GENRE: Drama, police/private detective; Music
• SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/private detective
• SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1990
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Steven Bochco … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
• William M. Finkelstein … Supervising Producer, Created by, Writer
• Gregory Hoblit … Producer, Director
• Craig Zisk … Associate Producer
• Randy Newman … Music by, Theme Music by
• Greg Edmonson … Music Co-Producer
• Anne Bobby … Cast, Officer Vicky Quinn
• Barbara Bosson … Cast, Mayor Louise Plank
• Ronny Cox … Cast, Chief Roger Kendrick
• David Gianopoulos … Cast, Officer Andy Campo
• Larry Joshua … Cast, Captain John Hollander
• James McDaniel … Cast, Officer Franklin Rose
• Ron McLarty … Cast, Detetective Ralph Ruskin
• Mick Murray … Cast, Detective Joseph Gaines
• Peter Onorati … Cast, Detective Vincent LaRusso
• Kathleen Wilhoite … Cast, Patricia Spence
• Ernie Hudson … Cast, Warren Osborne
• Carl Anderson … Cast, Judge W. Flynn
• William Thomas … Cast, Detective Donnie Potts
• Art Kimbro … Cast, Tyrone Weeks
• Glen Plummer … Cast, Byron B.
• Randall Patrick … Cast, Robert Appell
• Dion Anderson … Cast, Judge Adams
• Sharon Brown … Cast, A.D.A. Keresy
• Louis Price … Cast, the Foreman
• Armin Shimerman … Cast, Mersky
• Gary Stockdale … Cast, Bivens
• Lee Wilkoff … Cast, Noonan
• Luther Kent … Cast, Frank Newbold
• Jeffrey Allen Chandler … Cast, Ray Rodbart
• Rick Logan … Cast, Dave Handel
• Scott Wojohn … Cast, Lou Sonnenscheim
• Kevin Skousen … Cast, Gilbert Braeden
• Dean Scofield … Cast, Tommy Ryan
• David Haid … Cast, Angelo Poppi
• Randy Harrington … Cast, Detective Rolph
• David Byrd … Cast, Judge Weber
• Dennis Cockrum … Cast, Glen
• Josie Kim … Cast, the Social Worker
• Shaun Baker … Cast, the Street Kid
• Ellen Barber … Cast, the Matron
• Peter Slutsker … Cast, the Reporter
• David Harris … Cast, Nelson Pine