New York Cops - NYPD Blue

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Television series
German title New York Cops - NYPD Blue
Original title NYPD Blue
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1993-2005
length 45 minutes
Episodes 261 in 12 seasons
genre Drama , crime film
idea Steven Bochco ,
David Milch
Paris Barclay
music Mike Post
Danny Lux
First broadcast September 21, 1993 (USA) on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 September 5, 1994 on ProSieben
occupation

New York Cops - NYPD Blue , or NYPD Blue for short , is a controversial, but later successful, American television series that started in 1993 . By 2005, 261 episodes were created, which show the everyday work of the homicide squad at a fictional police station of the New York City Police Department in the borough of Manhattan in a manner widely recognized as very realistic . Characteristic are the shaky camera work, the often vulgar tone, the excessively high level of physical violence by the police and revealing sex scenes. However, the intensely characterized main characters and the multitude of long-running, episode-spanning storylines that also include the characters' private lives are characteristic. The cop Andy Sipowicz, who was portrayed by Dennis Franz and was the only character to appear in all episodes, became the leading figure in the series .

With a broadcast duration of twelve years, NYPD Blue became the longest-aired drama series in the history of the US television station ABC and also one of the longest American police series of all time. She was nominated 84 times for the Emmy , 27 times after the first season alone, and won it 20 times, including 1995 in the most important category "Best Drama Series". The series has also been awarded the Golden Globe four times .

In Germany , the series gained no similar success. So far, only 154 of 261 episodes have been broadcast on free TV , 169 have been dubbed and two seasons have been released on DVD.

occupation

Rank
or function 		Role name actor Main role
(seasons) 		Main role
(episodes) 		Supporting role
(seasons) 		German dubbing voice
Detective , sergeant Andy Sipowicz Dennis Franz 01-12 001-261 Hans Sievers
Detective John Kelly David Caruso 01-2 001-26 Lutz Mackensy
Lieutenant Arthur Fancy James McDaniel 01-8 001-167 Ben Hecker
Detective, sergeant James Martinez Nicholas Turturro 01-7 001-138 Lutz Schnell
Public prosecutor Laura Michaels Sherry Stringfield 01 001-22 Giulia Follina
policewoman Janice Licalsi Amy Brenneman 01-2 001-24 Katja Brugger
Detective Greg Medavoy Gordon Clapp 02-12 023-261 1 Holger Mahlich
secretary Donna Abandando Gail O'Grady 02-3 023-65 1, 6 Monika Barth
Public prosecutor Sylvia Costas Sharon Lawrence 02-4, 6 023-88, 111-120 1, 5-6 Hildegard Krekel
Detective Bobby Simone Jimmy Smits 02-6 027-115 12 Charles Rettinghaus
Detective Adrienne Lesniak Justine Miceli 03 045-66 2 Astrid Kollex
Detective Diane Russell Kim Delaney 03-8 045-172 2, 10-11 Katja Brugger
Detective Jill Kirkendall Andrea Thompson 05-7 089-154 4th Angela Stresemann
Detective Danny Sorenson Rick Schroder 06-8 116-174 Sascha Draeger
secretary John Irvin Bill Brochtrup 06-12 123-261 2-3, 5-6
Detective Baldwin Jones Henry Simmons 07-12 139-261
Public prosecutor Valerie Haywood Garcelle Beauvais 08-11 165-241 8th
Detective Connie McDowell Charlotte Ross 08-11 166-233 8th
Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez Esai Morales 08-11 168-232 8th
Detective John Clark, Jr. Mark-Paul Gosselaar 09-12 175-261
Detective Rita Ortiz Jacqueline Obradors 09-12 182-261
sergeant Eddie Gibson John F. O'Donohue 11 233-241 7-11
Lieutenant Thomas Bale Currie Graham 12 242-261
Detective Laura Murphy Bonnie Somerville 12 242-261

Television broadcast

In the USA, the ABC broadcaster showed the series from September 1993 to March 2005 in the evening program.

In Germany , between September 1994 and March 1997, the first three seasons were broadcast in prime time by ProSieben . ProSieben broadcast the fourth season between October 1998 and March 1999 in the night program. This was followed by a break in the first broadcast of several years, during which only occasional reruns were shown, both on ProSieben and on kabel eins . It was not until July 2006 that Sat.1 began broadcasting the 5th season for the first time, but it stopped after only seven episodes because the audience ratings were too low. Further episodes have not yet been shown on German free TV . The first seven seasons were only broadcast on Pay TV Premiere . The eighth season was shown for the first time from September 13, 2009 to March 9, 2010 in German in Austria on the Austria 9 channel . However, only the first 15 episodes were shown.

DVD release

NYPD Blue is also available on DVDs with country code (RC) 2 in German-speaking countries . So far, the production company 20th Century Fox has released the first two seasons. Season 1 was released in February 2006 and season 2 in May 2006. Each of the season sets contains six DVDs with up to four episodes. There are two DVDs in three Amarays per box. The episodes have the German and English soundtrack in Dolby Digital .

Awards

The table shows the number of Emmy nominations and awards per season.

Season 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10-12 total
Nominations 27 13 11 11 10 8th 2 1 1 - 84
Awards 6th 3 1 4th 3 3 - - - - 20th

Further information

  • Dennis Franz is the only actor to appear in all 261 episodes of the series.
  • The episodes 97, 110, 115 and 131 from seasons 5 and 6 have a running time of approx. 65 minutes each, which is approx. 20 minutes longer than the other episodes.

literature

  • Bill Clark: New York Cops: facts & fiction; [Background information on the series broadcast by Pro Sieben] . vgs, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-8025-2385-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: Advanced Primetime Awards Search , accessed October 23, 2010