Oh man.
I love NYPD Blue, great show. They play it now on the Hero’s and Icons network.
I’ve seen LA Law a few times, my mom used to watch it I think. I saw Hill Street Blues for the first time not long ago. He had a show on TNT till it was cancelled recently, “Murder in the First”, I didn’t know he was involved with it, haven’t seen it. I was just thinking I’d wish he’d do another cop show.
RIP, only 74.
Never watched NYPD Blue (I burned out on cop shows at the time, having abandoned “Law & Order”, and the stuff was getting too SJW/PC, which doesn’t reflect reality). Did watch L.A. Law when it was on in prime time (after the second or third season). Hill Street Blues was on past my bedtime as a kid, so didn’t get to see it (I’ve only seen a few eps and would like to see the whole thing from start to finish).
My strongest memory of the shoot was that the director was Jackie Cooper, a long time Hollywood figure who was a child star ("Don't shoot my dog!") that made the jump into adult film and television roles but never became a huge star. He did star in two childhood/early teenyears favorites of mine, the first a 1955-58 TV series "The People's Choice" where he shared top billing with a Basset Hound named Cleo plus the second, "Hennesey," where he played a Navy Doc that chased a very comely Abby Dalton as Navy nurse for 3 seasons, 1959-62.
As for my memories of Bochco, none directly. I do recall, as they say. the word on the street was that he was a control freak plus his normal for la-la-land 'liberal to the bone & beyond' politics.