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Even 35 years after ABC's short -term deadline, The late Steven BocchoWilliam M.'s "Cop -Rock" Finkelstein is a tough sale. "Cop Rock" was for a group of police officers in Los Angeles who were passing through the city, investigating crimes, arresting fins and faced every drama of living in the city of Angeli. Police were played by a talented ensemble involving Ann Bobby, Ronnie Cox, Jameses McDaniel, Paul McCrain, Wonders Curtis-Hall, FF Pander and several others.

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The unusual angle was that "Cop Rock" was also a musical, which has several new songs - some made up of Randy Manuman - in each episode. The characters of police officers, as well as criminals, would sing for their painful lives of crime/crime, and occasionally danced. It's a strange idea. "Music Live Police With Action" is an elevator-terrain that would go down everywhere.

Boccho came up with the idea of ​​"Cop Rock" after Broadway producer offered to adjust his hit series "Hill Street Blues" in a stage musical musical. Boccho recalled his Broadway meeting in Oral History for AV Club in 2016. He didn't like the idea of ​​the musical "Hill Street Blues", but the modesty of the project was too "brazen" to ignore. Instead of bringing a police officer in the world of musicals, however, Bocche realized that Broadway can bring sensibility to crime TV. He set up the show of ABC and Bob Iger, the head of the net at the time, was titled by the idea. Everyone thought the idea of ​​a music series of police officers was absurd, but scary things happened. The green light was flashed, and Boccho went to work. The first episode of "Cop Rock" was aired on 26.09.1990.

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Then, on December 26, after only 11 episodes, "Cop Rock" was gone. Too strange to live, too rarely to die.

Actor McDaniel is initially skeptical, but admitted to being a fan of "Singing Detective", the English Noir Show from England aired in 1986. Indeed, many people who worked on a "policeman"-including both Anna Bobby and Boccho himself took the "Singen Detective" as proof that the stubborn giant could interfere with the musical format. Unlike "Singing Detective", which mostly features old standards, "Cop Rock should have full music.

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Here's something. "Cop -rock" type of work. Maybe someone saw his music numbers on the internet and laughed at their arches. The most notorious song He was probably a "baby trader", Performed by Dennis Cocurum. In the context of the show, Kokrum plays traders in black markets, and he sings a dark song about his couple's business he does not know to be covered by police officers. It actually plays perfect for the story. Then, later in the episode, the teenage mother trying to sell her baby, played by Kathleen Wilhoit, sings song for the sand To your child, and it is heart.

Other textbooks on the show included Donny Markovitz, who at the time had just won an Oscar for writing "(I had) the time of my life" from "Dirty Dancing" (He beats the song 007 "The Living Daylights") as well as Greg Edmonson, Ron Bustid and Brock Walsh. Boccho recalls that the production is "a complete cluster ***" because it worked with so many scenarios and textbooks. He said:

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"These stories meetings will be a dozen people! But as we would work through our stories, we would have asked the textbooks to identify which scenes thought they could translate music, because we wanted the songs as much as possible not only to be songs, but to advance the story."

If nothing else, the "policeman" was ambitious.

However, no one could accept the concept of "police officer". A policeman's music show was too weird for most audiences, and was conserved pretty quickly.

Didn't deserve it. "COP Rock" is ridiculed only for its concept, but it actually works perfectly well in execution. The ordinary melodrama of a procedural procedure is actually highlighted by music, causing problems in real life as police violence, racism, crime, drugs, despair and trafficking in human beings feel more emotionally.

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In the intention of the last episode of the show (they were broadcast outside the order), the show -the show knew they were canceled, so they decided to make it considered. The whole actor sang a self -conscious song Called "We'll Rise Again", Which was preceded by a conversation between (consistently co -ified) Cox and Curtis-Hall about how many songs they had to sing during the short show. They came out of the office and got acquainted with the cast, outside the suit and all sang together. Actor Mick Murray said the song is a wonderful effort. "Hey, you know what?" He said, "f *** it. We tried!

As for Boccho, he understood how notorious "Police Rock" has always been and knows that he has a reputation as one of the strangest failures in TV history. But it seems that he doesn't care. He felt he did something stunning together and there was no shame about it. As he said:

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"I am sorry that I have failed, but I have never been ashamed of it or not embarrassed by the" policeman ". You know, if you are a baseball player and get a pool hit three times of 10, and you have been doing it for 20 years, you will be in the home of celebrities, but you will still get out of sometimes.

"Cop rock" is not streaming, But he was posted on DVD in 2016. It may be worth purchasing a price.