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Silvana GallardoMrs. Rodriguez
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Alex ColonUnknown
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Allan RichJudge Maurice Schilling
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Taurean Blacque
Det. Neal Washington
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Jeffrey Tambor
Attorney/Judge Alan Wachtel (recurring)
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Michael Warren
Officer Bobby Hill
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Charles Haid
Andy Renko
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Michael Conrad
Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (1981-1984)
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Ed Marinaro
Officer Joe Coffey (1981-1986)
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TRIVIA (0)
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QUOTES (5)
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Sister Agnes: I saw the things they did to her body. It will be a hard memory to live with, but I know Sister Anna has already forgiven them. Furillo: I wish I could.
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Eddie: I thought about what you said about degrading myself. No more bus station men's room for Eddie Gregg. Belker: Atta boy. Eddie: I'm going to work the men's room at the Hotel Excelsior!
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Bernstein: Are you kidding? Frank, there's a lynch mob out there. Furillo: I know there's a lynch mob out there. I think I can use it.
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Joyce: There's nothing worse than a gloating Italian.
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Eddie: My grandmother was senile. She had so much fun on her birthday. She'd open her present, and drift off, then look back down and see her present, and then she'd be happy all over again. Mick: That's what my father does with his breakfast cereal.
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NOTES (3)
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This episode kicked off the show's most popular season, when it finished 21st in overall viewership.
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First appearance of the misguided Eddie, one of Belker's few friends.
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This episode won an Emmy for a writing, not to mention a Humanitas Award.
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ALLUSIONS (3)
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Belker: Last name first. Eddie: Dubois. Belker: (looks at him funny but types it) First name? Eddie: Blanche. Allusion: Blanche DuBois was a woman in Tennessee William's famous play "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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Renko: "I've got to take my morning sit-down"
After Renko's bowels are put on hold for a marital dispute, he's forced to go to a bathroom where a man's head is wedged next to a toilet. Two months earlier, the broadcast code governing television expression had been effectively declared unconstitutional. One of the prohibitions of the code was against showing toilet bowls. This, combined with Renko's subsequent smashing of the bowl, is a great reference to the artistic and expressive ground that the show was breaking, as well as a slap to the censorship television was and still is being liberated from. -
Esterhaus: "Your recourse to obscenity will be fresh and vital"
During roll call, a memo from chief daniels is mentioned that recounts how officers are swearing too much in front of citizens. Alternatives to those words are written on the blackboard, including "gosh," "fudge," "dang" and several others. Ralph Daniels was the head censor at NBC at the time, and this is a dig at the constant battles that Bochco and Kozoll constantly had with NBC censors. Still, they slipped a "slut" and a "bastard" into this, and through the alternatives made all the viewers think of George Carlin's seven words.
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