Steven Bochco(1943-2018)

His father, Rudolph Bochco, was a Russian-born violinist.

[on Hill Street Blues (1981)] We conveyed the sense of being powerless--as cops, you were garbage collectors in a sense. You might have kept the lid on things, but it never got better. Furillo ['nm0871240'] had tons of responsibility and very little authority and the cumulative impact thematically was a kind of despair, alleviated by outrageous gallows humor.'