|
''New York Undercover'' is an American police drama that aired on the Fox television network from 1994 to 1998. The series stars Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases. The cast also included Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn as their superior, Lt. Virginia Cooper, and Lauren Vélez, who joined the cast in the second season as Nina Moreno, fellow detective and love interest to Torres. ''New York Undercover'' was created and produced by Dick Wolf, and its storyline takes place in the same fictional universe as Wolf's NBC series ''Law & Order'', its spin-offs and ''Homicide: Life on the Street''. ''New York Undercover'' (whose working title during development was ''Uptown Undercover'') is notable for being the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles.〔"Hip-Hop Cops", ''TV Guide'', Oct. 15, 1994, at p. 29.〕 In contrast to the popularity of NBC's "Must See TV" on Thursday nights in the 1990s, many African-American viewers flocked to Fox's Thursday night line-up of ''Living Single'', ''New York Undercover'', and ''Martin''. ==Synopsis== In addition to the main storylines in each episode, subplots explored the private lives of the show's characters. For example, Det. Williams struggled to raise his young son, Gregory (George O. Gore II), while Torres was shown to be fighting family and other related problems, including having to cope with his father's drug addiction and HIV-positive status, and a childhood friend turned organized-crime boss. At the beginning of the third season, a new detective, Tommy McNamara (Jonathan LaPaglia), was introduced as a principal character. In the third-season finale in May 1997, Torres and Moreno are married. However, in that same episode, Torres and McNamara are both killed by a gang of bank robbers. Many viewers believe that these events—particularly the death of Torres and the departure of DeLorenzo—caused ''New York Undercover'' to "jump the shark," since the friendship of Williams and Torres was the major dynamic of the series. ''New York Undercover'' returned with a new cast for its fourth and final season in January 1998. Williams and Moreno were assigned to a new unit, resulting in D'Arbanville-Quinn being dropped from the cast. Joining the detectives were Lt. Malcolm Barker (played by Tommy Ford), Det. Nell Delaney (Marisa Ryan), and Det. Alec Stone (Josh Hopkins). The new unit eventually captured the last bank robber responsible for the deaths of Torres and McNamara. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New York Undercover」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|