Steven Bochco Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer, Show Creator, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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F*ck

Actors: Drew Carey, Billy Connolly, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: The Queen Mother of all dirty words (as it was once described by Jean Shepherd) is examined through all its linguistic, sociological, legal, and ethical implications in this documentary. Filmmaker Steven Anderson interviews dozens of people about the history and function of "the F word," including Read More

11/10/06
Over There: Pilot

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Producer Steven Bochco, who brought a new sense of realism and emotional depth to television police dramas with Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, tackled an even weightier theme with the series Over There, which marked the first time an ongoing war became the subject of a dramatic series on an Read More

2005
Blind Justice [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ron Eldard, Marisol Nichols, Rena Sofer, Reno Wilson, Frank Grillo

2005
Over There: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Keith Robinson, Erik Palladino, Brigid Brannagh, Josh Henderson, Sprague Grayden

Synopsis: Veteran U.S. Army campaigner Sgt. "Scream" Silas (Keith Robinson) more than lives up to his name when he finds out he's been assigned an additional 90-day stint in the Iraq war as the TV drama series Over There begins its 13-week run. Not only is Scream sick of being stuck in "the middle of Read More

2005
Over There [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Erik Palladino, Lizette Carrion, Josh Henderson, Luke MacFarlane

Synopsis: Executive produced by Steven Bochco and Chris Gerolmo (who also wrote the theme music), the weekly, 60-minute Over There was the first TV war series to air while the war it was dramatizing was still being waged. Set in Iraq (with California and Mexico serving as location-filming substitutes), the Read More

2005
L.A. Law: The Movie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: This two-hour TV movie served as a reunion for the cast of L.A. Law, a popular NBC legal series which originally aired from 1987 to 1994. Virtually all of the series' regulars were back on the job, with the noteworthy exception of Jimmy Smits. Most of the story takes place within the walls of the Read More

2002
NYPD Blue: Season 10

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Franz, Henry Simmons, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gordon Clapp, Esai Morales

Synopsis: As NYPD Blue entered its tenth season, there was a perception that the series had become flat and predictable, and that the leading characters were merely going through the motions. But the series had confounded its critics the previous season by retaining its popularity despite a change to an Read More

2002
NYPD Blue: In-Laws, Outlaws

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Nicholas Gilbert (Kevin Vincent O'Connor) the deranged homeless man who witnessed the murder of a man named Jefe in the previous episode (and who was, surprisingly, the scion of a wealthy family), turns up dead after being prematurely released from lockup. Outraged, Danny (Rick Schroder) reams out Read More

2001
Philly [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kim Delaney, Tom Everett Scott, Kyle Secor, Rick Hoffman, Diana-Maria Riva

Synopsis: If not the best new drama series of the 2001-2002 TV season, Philly bade fair to be the loudest and most abrasive. NYPD Blue alumnus Kim Delaney stars as idealistic law school graduate Kathleen Maguire, who, after her divorce from assistant DA Daniel X. Cavanaugh (Kyle Secor), put out her shingle Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Season 08

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Season eight of NYPD Blue began minus the services of longtime executive producer David Milch, who left to develop a project of his own. Steven Bochco, who'd co-created the series with Milch, took full charge of the series. This was far from the only eighth-season personnel change. Andrea Thompson Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Writing Wrongs

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After Danny (Rick Schroder) and Diane (Kim Delaney) decide to amicably break off their relationship, Diane joins Baldwin (Henry Simmons) and Greg (Gordon Clapp) in their investigation of a strangling. The victim is a 15-year-old girl who left behind a school essay which might contain a clue as to Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Johnny Got His Gold

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Upon learning that his former partner Danny Sorenson is definitely dead, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) nearly falls off the wagon, only to be "rescued" by Connie McDowell (Charlotte Ross). After killing the man who shot his new partner, John Clark Jr. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Andy is a hero to Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Franz, Henry Simmons, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gordon Clapp, Esai Morales

Synopsis: At the end of NYPD Blue's eighth season, Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder), the troubled young partner of the 15th precinct's Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), had disappeared under sinister circumstances after a botched undercover operation. It was not until season nine got under way that Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: In the Wind

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The dead body of stripper Kristen Moore (Jenna Gering) is found in the apartment of Danny Sorenson (Ricky Schroder) -- and Danny has vanished without a trace. With precious few clues to go on, Andy (Dennis Franz) and Connie (Charlotte Ross) try to link Kristen's murder and Danny's disappearance to Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Lie Like a Rug

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: As NYPD Blue enters its ninth season, Detective Danny Sorenson has been missing for five months, and the members of the 15th precinct are stressed out by the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Mark-Paul Gosselaar (of Saved by the Bell fame) joins the cast as Danny's replacement, former narcotics Read More

2001
NYPD Blue: Season 07

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Although the seventh season of NYPD Blue was supposed to begin on November 9, 1999, a variety of backstage intrigues involving the ABC network and the series' producers (some of these revolving around NYPD's temporary Tuesday-night "replacement" Once and Again) pushed the debut date forward to the Read More

2000
NYPD Blue: Cop in a Bottle

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Recovering alcoholic Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) takes a personal interest in the case of hard-drinking Detective Mike Walsh (Larry Brandenberg), who is mixed up in a shooting at a bar. Walsh also becomes the center of a turf battle between Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) and the skipper of the 27th Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Numb & Number

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is edgier than usual as his ailing partner, Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits), goes in for more medical tests. Back on the job, the squad investigates the murder of a Pakistani in Central Park. The sole eyewitness is distressingly inconsistent in her testimony -- not because Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Season 06

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The big news attending NYPD Blue's sixth season was the imminent departure of series star Jimmy Smits, who played Det. Bobby Simone, the new husband of Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney). While the particulars of Simone's exit were kept secret from the public, it became obvious from the season Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Top Gum

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Season six of NYPD Blue begins with a story arc designed to prepare viewers for the inevitable departure of series regular Jimmy Smits (Detective Bobby Simone). It all begins as Bobby's dentist asks the detective to check up on the dentist's daughter, whose boyfriend is a slimy drug dealer. When Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Brother's Keeper

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The mutilated body of a woman is found, and the principal suspects are her two sons. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) tries to figure out if the guilty party is the son who shows no remorse or the one lost in a haze of drugs and alcohol. When one of the suspects kills himself, Andy wonders if the dead Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Raging Bulls

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) has another run-in with Officer Szymanski (Christopher Stanley), the white cop who hassled Fancy over a broken taillight a few seasons back. Now, Szymanski is being investigated for his shooting of a black undercover officer. This incident rekindles old and unresolved Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Danny Boy

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Rick Schroder joins the cast of NYPD Blue as Detective Danny Sorenson, the replacement for the late Bobby Simone. Making his entrance as everyone -- including the heartbroken Diane Russell (Kim Delaney) -- is painfully adjusting to Bobby's death, Danny plunges into the thick of things by Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Hearts and Souls

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: One of the most intensely dramatic episodes in the history of NYPD Blue begins as the ex-wife (Debra Monk) of Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) prepares to defend herself against a DWI charge. As this plot strand plays itself out (with indications that the story is far from over), Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits Read More

1998
NYPD Blue: Season 05

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: As expected, the opening episode of NYPD Blue's fifth season resolved the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with 15th precinct detective Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) returning to active duty after being cleared of all charges relating to the murder of late, unlamented mobster Jimmy Read More

1997
NYPD Blue: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The fourth season of NYPD Blue saw the introduction of two important new cast members: Andrea Thompson as Detective Jill Kirkendall, fearless crime-fighter, single mother, and potential threat to the burgeoning romance between Det. Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney); Read More

1996
NYPD Blue: Bombs Away

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: When serial killer George Putnam (Tim de Zarn) is shot down and killed at the precinct station, the suspects range from the father of Putnam's last victim to the members of a support group. Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) arrest a surly Romanian immigrant (Richard Schiff) as a Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: Vishy-Vashy-Vinny

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Glory-grabbing Detective Solomon (Gordon Clapp) is foiled when Simone (Jimmy Smits) unearths the evidence needed to interrogate a suspected serial killer. After the armored-car heist is thwarted, Fancy (James McDaniel) -- with the grudging assistance of snitch Greco (Joe Pantoliano) -- confronts Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: A.D.A. Sipowicz

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: An extremely nervous Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) prepares for his marriage to Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence). Andy's best man, Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits), becomes increasingly aware that Diane Russell's (Kim Delaney) drinking is wreaking havoc on her job performance. Bobby and his fellow Read More

1995
Murder One [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Daniel Benzali, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Hayden, J.C. MacKenzie, Mary McCormick

Synopsis: During its first year on the air, the weekly, hour-long ABC series Murder One was unique among legal dramas, in that it dealt with only a single murder case per season. Debuting September 19, 1995, the series spent all of season one focusing on the murder of a young substance-abusing woman, with Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Like all good Steven Bochco projects, NYPD Blue continued to grow, evolve, and push the envelope throughout its third season. The year was a mixed one for the 15th precinct's most mercurial detective, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Though he had found a measure of domestic tranquility with his new Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: In the Butt, Bob

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Thanks to an expensive lawyer, Lesniak (Justine Miceli) has trouble prosecuting the man who "flashed" her. Simone (Jimmy Smits) collars a suspected serial killer, only to be trumped by glory-hogging Detective Solomon (Reni Santoni). Vinnie Greco (played by future Sopranos star Joe Pantoliano) tips Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The owner of a gay bar is killed and a suspect is hauled in. The pregnant wife of Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) goes into a very difficult labor. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) investigates when a neighbor breaks out in a rash, ostensibly the result of a curse invoked by a crooked fortuneteller. And Dan Read More

1995
NYPD Blue: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The second season of NYPD Blue was transitional in every sense of the word, with a number of major cast changes and the deepening of characterizations within the people who remained. The big news during the 1994-1995 season was the defection of David Caruso as Detective John Kelly, the sensitive Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: Guns 'n Rosaries

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Recognizing his problem, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) attends an open AA meeting. Donna (Gail O'Grady) has high hopes when she learns that Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) has again left his wife. Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) sparks racial tensions when, after shooting a black motorist, he is unable to prove Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: Trials and Tribulations

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: NYPD Blue begins its second season with 15th Precinct police officer Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman) on trial for the killing of mob functionary Marino. Despite having suppressed evidence that would have incriminated Janice, Detective John Kelly (David Caruso) testifies on her behalf -- and outside Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: Simone Says

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Jimmy Smits makes his first series appearance as recently widowed Detective Bobby Simone. Immediately upon joining the 15th Precinct, Simone is teamed with Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) to investigate the accidental killing of a bystander by a cop during a mob shoot-out. Simone also staves off a violent Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: From Whom the Skell Rolls

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The jury reaches a verdict in the murder trial of Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman, in her final NYPD Blue appearance). Internal Affairs wants answers from Kelly (David Caruso) regarding his involvement in Janice's defense and Detective Medavoy's (Gordon Clapp) ledger. Kelly and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: 4B or Not 4B

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Just as they're closing in on the Mob, Kelly (David Caruso) and Fancy (James McDaniel) are ordered to turn off the heat. Though Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) will recover from his shooting, he may not be able to remember who tried to kill him. As Kelly's soon-to-be-ex-wife, Laura (Sherry Stringfield) Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Brown Appetit

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Facing corruption charges because of past Mob ties, the father of officer Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman) takes drastic action. Confined to a desk while recovering from his wounds, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) demands that Fancy (James McDaniel) return him to street duty. While helping Martinez (Nicholas Turturro Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: True Confessions

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Now back on active duty, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) disagrees with Detective Walker (Robert Breuler) over the guilt of a robbery-homicide suspect -- but uncharacteristically keeps his mouth shut. Though no longer moonlighting as the bodyguard of wealthy Susan Wagner (Wendie Malick), Kelly (David Caruso Read More

1993
NYPD Blue [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Having all but defined the "police precinct" TV-series genre of the 1980s with his Hill Street Blues, Steven Bochco did the same for the 1990s with NYPD Blue, which joined the ABC Tuesday-night lineup on September 21, 1993. The setting was New York's fictional 15th Precinct, originally presided Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: NYPD Blue seemed destined to end before it began, with leading character Det. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) being gunned down in the very first episode. Andy would recover, but the person responsible for his wounds, mob boss Alfornse Giardella (Robert Costanzo), would prove to be the catalyst of Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Pilot

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: NYPD Blue was already off and running in its debut episode, in which Detective John Kelly (David Caruso), in the middle of an acrimonious marital breakup, is faced with the loss of his partner, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Kelly's wife, Laura (Sherry Stringfield), is working on her divorce papers Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Black Men Can Jump

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) goes after a private eye who may be cheating his client by feeding him with false hopes about his missing child. The father of a 13-year-old murdered in the street seeks out justice on his own when the killer injures LaSalle (Wendy Makkena) and escapes. Will this incident Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Zeppo Marks Brothers

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The nervous witness to a murder committed by the Cepeda brothers proves to have good reason to be scared. Meanwhile, Kelly (David Caruso) tries to find out if his ex-wife, Laura (Sherry Stringfield), is being stalked. As these two plot strands are woven together by a sting operation involving an Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Good Time Charlie

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Though Janice (Amy Brenneman) has been promoted to the Intelligence division, she must continue biding her time with the 15th precinct detectives. Despite damning evidence, Kelly (David Caruso) feels that his pal Charlie (Charles Haid) is being framed for murder. Fancy (James McDaniel) worries Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Abandando Abandoned

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Detective Sharon LaSalle (Wendy Makkena), who'd attended Police Academy with Kelly (David Caruso), joins the unit. Before long, LaSalle's ex-cop husband is killed, and Kelly and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) are assigned to investigate. Elsewhere, detective Medavoy (Gordon Clapp), having left his wife Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Jumpin' Jack Fleishman

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Suffering from a toothache, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) ends up trying to talk a distraught dentist (Raymond Singer) out of committing suicide. LaSalle (Wendy Makkena) is given her first assignment: track down a rapist, whose latest victim is far from cooperative. Prostitute Lois (Shannon Cochran) Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: A Sudden Fish

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) looks for the person who mugged a disabled (but as it turns out, far from helpless) Vietnam veteran. Along the way, he has another run-in with Assistant DA Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence). While moonlighting, Kelly (David Caruso) finds out that his wealthy friend's Read More

1993
Color Adjustment

1992
Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: At the age of 20, child prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) remains America's youngest practicing physician--not to mention one of the shyest and most self-effacing members of his profession--as Doogie Howser MD begins its fourth and final season. Besides Harris, most of the familiar Read More

1992
Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Season Three proves to be a year of transition on Doogie Howser M.D.. Figuring that he has reached his majority at age 18, child prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris), America's youngest practicing physician, decides to move out of his family's house and into a bachelor apartment, sharing Read More

1991
Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Season Two of Doogie Howser M.D. finds the titular hero (Neil Patrick Harris entering his third year of residency at LA's Eastman Medical Center--not bad for a 17-year-old kid who still has to be home before curfew! The responsibilities of his job has child-prodigy Doogie worrying that he is Read More

1990
Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Although 16-year-old prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) is America's youngest physician, he still has a lot to learn in the maturity department, as amply demonstrated during Season One of Doogie Howser, M.D.. Doing his appointed rounds as second-year resident at Eastman Medical Center in Read More

1989
Doogie Howser, M.D. [TV Series]

Crew: Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, the weekly, half-hour "dramedy" Doogie Howser, M.D. starred Neil Patrick Harris as Douglas "Doogie" Howser, a child prodigy who after completing high school in nine weeks, graduating from Princeton at age 10 and finishing medical school four years Read More

1989
Bay City Blues [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1983
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

Crew: Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amnesiac woman hires a young detective to investigate the two men who seem to be trying to kill her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
The Invisible Man

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This TV-movie update of the old H.G. Wells fantasy novel stars David McCallum as brilliant scientist Daniel Weston. He's so brilliant that he develops an invisibility serum, which he applies to himself. Two inconveniences: Weston must wear a special mask so that his wife (Kathleen Fee) can see Read More

1975
Double Indemnity

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: It goes without saying that the 1973 TV-movie version of Double Indemnity doesn't come within shouting distance of the classic 1944 theatrical-movie version. Still, the basic story is a solid one, and the actors are eager to please. Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff Read More

1973
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: Lee Grant plays Mrs. Schuster, wife of a recently murdered Manhattan cop. Lt. Schuster died under a cloud, with intimations that the killing was orchestrated by criminals with whom the Lieutenant was chummy. Mrs. Schuster is forced to vindicate her husband, and to try to emotionally reassemble Read More

1972
Banacek

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins

Synopsis: Banacek was the two-hour pilot film for the 1972-74 detective series starring George Peppard. The cigar-smoking, aphorism-spouting Peppard plays T. Banacek, Polish/American investigator for a major Boston insurance company. Independently wealthy, Banacek will only accept cases that have been Read More

1972
Columbo: Murder by the Book

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Falk

Synopsis: Looking more like a unmade bed than one of the world's greatest homicide detectives, Lt. Columbo is still the best man to solve the mysterious death of a popular mystery writer. Though he quickly finds the culprit, the killer has devised airtight alibis and Columbo must use all of his considerable Read More

1971
Silent Running

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Synopsis: Bruce Dern stars as the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a group of space stations that are sent into orbit. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining greenery from the planet. Dern's staff includes three human beings and a trio of endearing Read More

1971
The Counterfeit Killer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Lord, Shirley Knight, Jack Weston, Charles Drake, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: This action drama is adapted from a TV movie, The Faceless Man. The story centers around a secret service agent who goes undercover as hitman into a counterfeit ring. Most of the story takes place at a waterfront bar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1968

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