The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Acting
O'Connor shedding Bunker-isms for weary gravitas.
Production
Authentic NYC location shooting pre-gentrification grime.
Director
Corey Allen
Carroll O'Connor
Frank Nolan
Lois Nettleton
Claire Willis
Samuel E. Wright
Capt. Michael Shore
Larry Atlas
Capt. Larry Jacobs
Jimmy Baio
Tony Covello
Marcia Cross
Victoria Willis
Begonya Plaza
Rosa Garcia (as Begonia Plaza)
Vincent Gardenia
Chief Mike Maldonato
Hugh O'Connor
James Flynn
Anita Gillette
Sister Mary Elizabeth
Robert Brown
Chief Shannon
Richard Bright
Philip Stack
Shirley Stoler
Woman in Window
Jude Ciccolella
Det. Si Levy
Dan Lauria
Det. Navarro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a failed NBC pilot repackaged as a TV movie—O'Connor's second attempt at a police series after 'In the Heat of the Night' finally stuck two years later.
Shot during the real NYPD corruption scandals of the mid-'80s, making Nolan's moral compromises accidentally topical.
US
