Word: howser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more heavily on the headlines this fall. The recession will be Topic A on Roseanne, as Dan Conner loses his job and the family must scramble to pay its bills. The Los Angeles riots will be the backdrop for episodes of several series, including A Different World and Doogie Howser, M.D. In Doogie's season opener, for example, the hospital staff spends a frantic shift caring for riot victims. Though the show takes no political stand on the riot or its causes, Doogie expresses his sympathetic sentiments at the end by paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr. in his computer diary...
...embraced such perceived threats to traditional family values as teenage sex and homosexuality. Doogie Howser lost his virginity last fall, but only after so much sensitive deliberating that it seemed virtually a religious act. Brenda slept with her boyfriend Dylan on Beverly Hills, 90210 but regretted it almost immediately. Roseanne's boss at the restaurant is gay, and C.J. (Amanda Donohoe) on L.A. Law is bisexual. But homosexual couples are kept almost entirely out of sight on series...
Bill Clinton has the unlined, open face of a man who has had it too easy. True, his father died before he was born, and he grew up poor in the southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years...
...first show under the new ABC deal, Doogie Howser, M.D., Bochco tried a gimmick: a comedy about a 16-year-old genius with a medical degree. Then he turned experimental, adding musical numbers to a police drama and coming up with Cop Rock. The show failed with audiences, probably because Bochco did part of his job too well: the gritty cop scenes were so compelling that the musical numbers (which rarely measured up) seemed like rude interruptions...
...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...