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Most Out-of-Tune Experiment Steven Bochco's musical series Cop Rock, with soft-shoe gumshoes and gospel jubilation in the jury box, was found guilty of being off key and sentenced to oblivion. So much for the networks' new spirit of innovation...
...ROCK (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EST). Steven Bochco's much hyped experiment seems doomed unless the ratings pick up. Catch it while you can: the station- house drama is compelling, a few musical numbers have clicked, and the rest of the fall season is a bore...
...ROCK (ABC, debuting Sept. 26, 10 p.m. EDT). The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore. Steven Bochco's musical cop show is the fall's most audacious newcomer...
...that there aren't a few quirky ideas, offbeat shows and modest gambles. The most unusual new entry by far comes from Steven Bochco, the impudent impresario who created Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and Doogie Howser, M.D. This time, Bochco has combined song-and-dance numbers with a gritty police drama to create Cop Rock, TV's first musical cop show. The beat goes on in NBC's Hull High, a comedy-drama set in a suburban high school and spiced with MTV-style music interludes, and in the same network's Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which brings...
...viewers still hung up on innovation, hope rests mainly on those singing crime fighters in Bochco's Cop Rock. That's a heavy burden for a quirky series that will probably alienate as many people as it will attract. If the show catches on, however, even wackier concoctions could be on the way. A rap-music Western, perhaps? The Flash moves into Knots Landing? An animated version of 60 Minutes? No telling what the networks might try next season. Or how disappointed we might be once...