Steven Bochco

Executive produced the drama series "Over There," (FX) a contemporary war drama about U.S. troops in Iraq and their families back home

Took over production of ABC'S hit White House drama "Commander in Chief" from creator Rod Lurie

Returned as producer of "NYPD Blue"

Served as executive producer of the fall drama series "Philly", starring Kim Delaney

Filed lawsuit against 20th Century Fox claiming "NYPD Blue" was licensed to a Fox cable outlet at below market value; suit requested $61.6 million in compensation

Signed exclusive three-year deal with Paramount to develop and produce feature films

Co-created, wrote and executive produced the controversial ABC series "NYPD Blue"

Created, executive produced and wrote premiere episode of most notable failure, ABC's musical police drama series, "Cop Rock"

Sued by Terry Louise Fisher, creative partner on both "L.A. Law" and "Hooperman" after negotiations to have her take over his position as executive producer failed and she was barred from the set

Fired as executive producer of "Hill Street Blues" after he resisted efforts by MTM Enterprises to reduce the show's production costs; show continued without him

Co-created and co-executive produced (with Stephen J. Cannell) short-lived detective series, "Richie Brockelman, Private Eye" based on the TV-movie the two had written and produced two years before

Produced and wrote for short-lived ABC detective series, "Griff"

Became story editor for the popular TV series, "The Name of the Game" (date approximate)

Co-created (with Paul Mason and Richard Landau) NBC drama series, "The Doctors", which ran till 1973

Broke into TV when he parlayed an MCA fellowship into a writing job at Universal Studios between his junior and senior years in college (date approximate)

Co-created, executive produced and wrote for the landmark NBC police drama series, "Hill Street Blues"

Co-created, wrote and executive produced the groundbreaking ABC series "Murder One" which followed one murder case over the TV season; format was changed during the second season

Co-wrote screenplays for the crime thriller, "The Counterfeit Killer" (1968) and the ecological sci-fi psychodrama, "Silent Running" (1971)

Created and executive produced first TV series, "Paris", a short-lived CBS police drama starring James Earl Jones (also served as writer)

Created and executive produced the CBS drama "Brooklyn South"

Created and executive produced unsuccessful NBC baseball comedy-drama, "Bay City Blues"

Created, executive produced and wrote for ABC drama series, "Doogie Howser, M.D."; series continued after he left

Created, executive produced, wrote for and served as creative consultant on popular NBC drama series, "L.A. Law"

Created, wrote premiere episode and served as creative consultant on ABC "dramedy", "Hooperman"

Made pact with ABC to create ten primetime TV series for them

Produced the short-lived drama, "The Invisible Man" for NBC

Shared first writing credit with Rod Serling; adapted Serling script "A Fade to Black"

Worked as a writer on such early 1970s detective and crime dramas as "Columbo" (for which he wrote the first series episode) and "MacMillan and Wife"