1.   Based on the pilot episodes, CBS is launching one stinker, one so-so police drama and five qualitatively promising new series.

2.   Brilliantly edited and paced, it is as slick and compelling as any police drama on television, which is exactly the problem.

3.   CBS introduces the newest addition to an already-crowded family of unflinching, unsentimental, urban police dramas.

4.   Fashions always change from season to season, as medical dramas replace police dramas, for instance, or workplace sitcoms push family sitcoms aside.

5.   Fox, given to overexaggeration, calls it the most original police drama in years.

6.   Given his success, where might Bochco go next in his continuing effort to use the police drama as a metaphor for American life?

7.   He said that none of the offerings at the Film Forum could be confused with a Los Angeles police drama, even though some were filmed in Hollywood studios.

8.   Hourlong police drama about a close-knit Chicago family.

9.   In the lingo of TV police drama, most of them are lawyered up.

10.   In television, he pioneered production of the mini-series and one-hour police dramas.