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Cop Rock (1990)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Cop Rock is an Emmy Award-winning American musical police drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. The show, a police drama presented as a musical, was co-created by Steven Bochco, who also served as executive producer. TV Guide ranked it #8 on TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list in 2002. The periodical dubbed it "the single most bizarre TV musical of all time."
Style:
experimental, surreal, absurd, cult classic, sitcom, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot:
camp, broadway, confusion, choreography, social commentary, rock, law enforcement, police station, urban, workplace, artists and showbiz, criminal heroes, workplace situations, behind the scenes, police, racism, arrest, police procedural, lapd, drug, community, song and dance, television flop, drugs
Time:
80s, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, california
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