so we needed to compete and i felt if we didn't we were going to kind of get swept out. >> son of a -- >> and so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script they went berserk. ♪ >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to show them what we would and wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room good ling. >> then we started in on the language. >> some reporter called the -- brains of a flea. >> the show premiered with an advertising boycott. >> tft an immediate hit it lasted four weeks. >> light them up.