NYPD Blue - Season 1 - Season 1
20th Century Fox (1994)
Crime, Drama
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IMDB   7.0
17 hr 59 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Dennis Franz Det. Andy Sipowicz
Amy Brenneman Janice Licalsi
Sherry Stringfield Laura Michaels Kelly
David Caruso Det. John Kelly
Nicholas Turturro Det. James Martinez
James McDaniel Lt. Arthur Fancy
Gordon Clapp Det. Greg Medavoy
Sharon Lawrence A.D.A. Sylvia Costas
Henry Simmons Det. Baldwin Jones
Austin Majors Theo Sipowicz
Kim Delaney Det. Diane Russell
Gail O'Grady Donna Abandando
Director
Carol Banker
Ed Begley Jr.
Brad Silberling
Charles Haid
Michael M. Robin
Steven L. DePaul
Producer Kevin Arkadie
Paris Barclay
Buzz Bissinger
Steven Bochco
Writer George Acker
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Steven Bochco
David Milch
Musician Mike Post

22 Classic Season One Episodes!

It was the groundbreaking series that broke all the rules and triggered what may be the biggest mutiny in TV history when some station affiliates across the country refused to carry the show. Some viewers also complained, but the majority loved what was being touted as TV's first R-rated series. Now in its tenth year, NYPD Blue has garnered an amazing 86 Emmy Award nominations and 21 wins. So if you missed all the excitement back then, don't miss it now! Take a ride back to 1993 and join the cops of the 15th Precinct for the first season of NYPD Blue.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    9/21/1993  1.  Pilot
Sipowicz's continual harassment of Giardella winds up getting him in trouble. Fancy tells Kelly it may be time for a new partner. Sipowicz is brought up before IAB. Laura wants to process their divorce and the neighbor in apartment 4B, where a mugging has recently happened, is doing the paperwork. Sipowicz gets drunk and meets his lady friend and is shot by Giardella in the process. Kelly begins to apply pressure on the local Mafia to try to get them to give Giardella up. Janice and John begin to have a relationship. "4B" is mugged in the laundry room. Marino wants Janice to kill Kelly.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  Writer:  Steven Bochco  / David Milch 
Guest starring:  Charles Parks, Tony Montero, Jerry Cerwonka,  Tim KelleherMichael Mulheren, Sixto Ramos, Floyd Foster Jr., Robert Gentile, Marco Rodriguez,  Joe SantosDavid SchwimmerShannon Cochran
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    9/28/1993  2.  4B or Not 4B
Lastarza of the Organized Crime Unit tells Fancy & Kelly that they better stop applying pressure on the mob. Sipowicz regains consciousness but has no memory of the shooting. Laura and John become officially separated. "4B" begins to do his laundry every night with his gun in hopes of catching the attacker. Laura decides to join a private law firm. Angelo Marino puts pressure on Janice to kill Kelly; however, she kills him and his driver instead. Sipowicz returns to "active" desk duty and Lois turns up and helps to nail Giardella. Alfonse offers to give up all sorts of proof that will put him on easy street. A father takes a judge hostage, when he feels justice wasn't done for his dead son, Kelly talks him out of it. John and Janice talk about their relationship and Angelo Marino's death. "4B" shoots his mugger.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  /  Steven Bochco  Writer:  David Milch 
Guest starring:  David SchwimmerBrent JenningsJoe SantosShannon Cochran, Jim Holmes, Joe Sabatino,  Beau Starr, Tim Halligan, Tom Caruso, Michael Griswold,  Peter Jacobson, Kevin Davis,  Oni Faida LampleyMichael Mulheren, Michael Manuel
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    10/5/1993  3.  Brown Appetit
Janice's father comes to visit and warn her about his pending corruption indictment. Sipowicz makes some appearances at the hotel where Giardella is being held. Kelly and Martinez are assigned a case involving the robbery and brutal murder of a woman. 4B comes to the precinct in search of his gun. Fancy and Sipowicz meet man to man and air their differences. Kelly begins moonlighting as a security guard for a wealthy woman who's married to an abusive husband. Sipowicz is put back on the job and Janice's father takes the easy way out.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  /  Steven Bochco  Writer:  David Milch 
Guest starring:  Wendie MalickAlan ScarfeDavid SchwimmerTresa HughesMichael RapaportBradford Tatum, Ralph Monaco, John Hostetter,  Chris EllisPatricia Belcher, Maurice Sherbanee, David Combs, Paul Martell, Tracey Morton,  Oni Faida Lampley
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    10/12/1993  4.  True Confessions
Kelly quits his security job and warns the abusive husband to watch out. A man is arrested for a robbery and double-homicide when Det. Walker is convinced he is guilty, though Sipowicz feels differently. Laura quits her job and plans to move into a position with the District Attorney's office, prosecuting narcotics. Kelly winds up at the scene of the abusive husband's murder. "4B" has Kelly come and appear before the tenant's readiness group, later the edgy "4B" is shot on a subway platform trying to save an elderly woman.
Director:  Charles Haid  / Art Monterastelli  Writer:  Art Monterastelli  / David Milch 
Guest starring:  David SchwimmerJack KehlerWendie Malick, Richard Minchenberg,  Ethan Phillips, Robert Breuler,  Alan ScarfeWelker White, Alexander Zale, Patricia Idlette,  Barry PapickGary Bullock, David Haid, Steve Blackwood, Thomas Sminkey
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    10/19/1993  5.  Emission Accomplished
James goes to visit his brother but finds the super at the building is a cop who is on the take and slowly forcing tenants out. Det. Stillwell's pranks become a nuisance for everyone. Martinez's brother's building is the scene of an "accidental" death that convinces him the cop is bad. James' father comes down on him for not keeping an eye on his brother. John contacts an old friend who's in IAB about Martinez's theories, but to protect Martinez from IAB, John takes a tape recorder in and gets Hanlon to talk. Laura's new job as an ADA takes a twist as she is assigned a case that involves Giardella.
Director:  Michael M. Robin  Writer:  Ted Mann 
Guest starring:  Ron Taylor, Ted Mann, Benjamin Lum, Howard S. Miller, Thomas Valinote,  Chris Ellis, Beth Taylor Hart, DeForest Covan, Jack Handelman, Jose Rey,  Daniel ZacapaMark Adair-Rios, Graham Jarvis, Mitchell Ryan,  Luis Guzman
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    10/26/1993  6.  Personal Foul
A minor skirmish on the basketball court leaves one of Kelly's friends dead and the other in jail for murder. Laura feels as though she's being dangled in front of Giardella. John's buddy has trouble dealing with being locked up and makes the whole situation worse. Sipowicz is convinced that a man knows more about his wife's death than he is letting on so he stirs him up. Janice warns Kelly and saves his life during a drug raid and the event seems to bring them back together.
Director:  David Milch  / Bradley Silberling  Writer:  Burton Armus 
Guest starring:  John Ottavino,  James Pickens Jr.John RothmanApril GraceDean NorrisClarence Felder, Tom Alan Robbins, Michael Jayce, Bobbi Holtzman, Teddy Coluca,  Peter AppelGary WerntzTom McCleisterRobert Mangiardi, Earl Carroll
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    11/2/1993  7.  NYPD Lou
A man thinks he is a werewolf and demands to be locked into a cell before he kills someone. Sipowicz discovers that his estranged son's future wife has been sleeping around. A homeless man is suspected in the death of a nine-year-old. Giardella is killed before he can testify and Laura is the only witness to the crime.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  Writer:  Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  John Ottavino,  Zach Grenier, Mary Joy, John Fleck, Ken Thorley, John Fiore, Julianne Christie, Joseph Carberry,  Dan Hedaya, Daniel Tuffarelli,  Armand Schultz, Ray Anthony Thomas, Craig Charles Eisner, Riley Steiner, Joe Banks
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    11/16/1993  8.  Tempest in a C-Cup
Kelly suspects a man of murder but tries to get him to confess to the robbery of four taxicabs, so later they can link him to the murder. Sipowicz arrests a topless dancer for prostitution and she offers to help him get at the owner of the bar who is laundering money for the mob. Laura's partner has questionable ethics and she tries to protect her professional reputation. The squad room gets a new detective's administrative aide, named Miss Abandando. Sipowicz goes on a date with the ADA who he once called a "pissy little bitch."
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  Writer:  Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  John Ottavino,  Robert LaSardo, Ginger Lynn Allen,  Harold Sylvester, Jim Holmes, Harris Laskawy, Donna Baltron, Erin LeShawn Wiley, Julie Vasquez,  Michael Harney
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    11/30/1993  9.  Ice Follies
Janice is asked by the mob to start doing favors for them again or they will expose her past activities. James' father wants to kill the pusher who's responsible for his son's overdose. Medavoy celebrates his 40th birthday and later goes ice-skating with Donna.
Director:  Dennis Dugan  Writer:  W.K. Scott Meyer 
Guest starring:  Luis GuzmanMark Adair-Rios, Claudette Sutherland, James Lorinz, John C. Anders, Tony Selznick, Marty Zagon, Carlease Burke, John Elsen,  Michael Harney
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    12/7/1993  10.  Oscar, Meyer, Weiner
The detectives investigate the brutal murder of an upper class family. Lastarza orders Janice to cooperate with the mob though it results in the death of the person whose plates she ran through the computer. Kelly deals with his relationship with Janice as she tries to keep him out of her current situation. Sipowicz takes the statement of a gay writer whose Academy Award was stolen.
Director:  Bradley Silberling  Writer:  Gardner Stern  / Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  Richard McKenzie, Betsy Aidem,  Clifton PowellJon PennellJohnny WilliamsRenee O'ConnorBeau Billingslea, Charle Landry,  Robert Gossett, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Bruno Alexander, Vachik Mangassarian, Bill Clark, Tony Rizzoli
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    12/14/1993  11.  From Hare to Eternity
Borough Commander Haverill starts to come down on Fancy. Kelly and Sipowicz investigate the kidnapping of a doctor's daughter. A woman claims to have no knowledge of the robbery the man they were riding with committed in North Carolina. Janice must pass some more information to the mob, but wonders how she'll ever get out of this situation. Sipowicz threatens to reveal some incriminating evidence about Haverill to get him to lay off Fancy, he later plays Santa Claus to underprivileged children. Kelly stops to visit his mother in her rest home. Martinez receives his new badge, making him a detective.
Director:  Eric Laneuville  Writer:  Burton Armus  / David Milch 
Guest starring:  Mark Blum, Dana Andersen,  Maxine Stuart, John Fiore, Robert O'Reilly,  Jack McGee, Anthony Powers, John Bennett, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Windland Smith, Susan Rome, Lauren Weinger, Sean Moran, Kenny Gravino, Chuckie Gravino
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    1/4/1994  12.  Up on the Roof
Martinez works his first case, which involves a fake ATM. A foster child that Fancy and his wife had been caring for is ordered back into the custody of his real mother who's just been released from a detox program. Sipowicz and Kelly investigate a mob shooting that turns up the notebook that Marino kept Janice's name in. Later the triggerman who nailed Giardella, and that Laura can identify, is trapped on a roof with a hostage.
Director:  Michael M. Robin  Writer:  George D. Putnam 
Guest starring:  Alex Bess, William Keane, Candy Brown Houston, John Fiore,  Michael Laskin, John Prosky, Teresa DiSpina, Walter Bobbie, Rose Portillo, Anthony Powers, Marc Hart, Lee Weaver, Mike Hodge, Mikaela Brown, Alanna Brown
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    1/11/1994  13.  Abandando Abandoned
Medavoy leaves his wife and tells Donna about his feelings for her, which it turns out are mutual. An academy classmate of Kelly's joins the squad; then Sipowicz and Kelly investigate the death of her husband, whom was an ex-cop trying to stop a robbery on her first day at the 15th precinct. An alcoholic woman keeps lodging complaints with Kelly against her husband that she never follows through with, later she confesses to killing him.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  /  Steven Bochco  Writer:  Gardner Stern  / Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  Wendy Makkena, Vincent Baggetta, Julie Ariola, Christopher Collins, Karl Makinen, Christian Klemash,  John CassiniBradley Whitford, Sharon Conley, Jeffrey Bomberger, Michael Becker, Victor Bevine, Kymberly Newberry, Maurice McRae, Rick Cicetti
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    1/18/1994  14.  Jumpin' Jack Fleishman
Medavoy and Martinez work a strangulation murder case that appears to be the work of a cross-dresser. Andy has a bad tooth, hates needles, and tries to prevent a dentist from jumping off a 28th floor ledge; he fails. LaSalle's first case involves a woman who was raped and she, John, Andy, Janice and Licalsi's hot-headed new partner try to catch the most probable suspect; however the hot-head blows the bust. Lois tries to reconcile her relationship with Andy.
Director:  Steven Bochco  / David Milch  Writer:  Burton Armus  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Wendy MakkenaJohn Wesley Shipp, Elena Wohl, Raymond Singer, Jack Laufer,  Shannon CochranGeorge Gerdes, Carol Ann Susi, Ilana Levine, Chris Nelson Norris, Cynthena Sanders, Joel Anderson, Marc Siegler, Eugene Choy, Lou Bonacki
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    2/8/1994  15.  Steroid Roy
Sylvia still has trouble-getting Andy to get their relationship going. One of Det. Roberts' snitches comes to the precinct and causes trouble for him, especially when she later turns up dead. Laura appeals to John to re-examine the alleged murder of the abusive man by his wife; Martinez and Medavoy take on the chore when Robert's snitch is found dead. Roy is sent to take a drug test that he fails, is fired and vows to not let it die. Sylvia makes it into Andy's apartment.
Director:  Felix Enriquez Alcala  Writer:  Ann Biderman 
Guest starring:  John Wesley ShippMicole Mercurio, John Verea, Bertila Damas,  Larry Brandenburg, Warren Sweeney,  Richard Assad, Liana Odalys, Nancy McLoughlin,  Michael Harney
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    2/15/1994  16.  A Sudden Fish
Medavoy suffers a stress-related anxiety attack after making into the station. Sipowicz looks into the robbery of a Vietnam veteran, who's confined to a wheelchair. Andy rejects a gift from Sylvia. John starts moonlighting as a bodyguard for his rich friend's girlfriend, but he catches her in the act of being unfaithful. When he confronts her, she tells him that she's being blackmailed, so Kelly meets the blackmailer and advises him not to do it again. Medavoy doesn't want to tell his wife about his problem, which displeases Donna, and he thinks he still may want a divorce. The wheelchair-bound veteran takes his mugger's hostage. Laura invites John out to dinner and tells him about her serious relationship. John is best man at an impromptu wedding.
Director:  Lesli Linka Glatter  /  Steven Bochco  Writer:  Burton Armus  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Richard Lineback, Adrienne Brett, Gina Mastrogiacomo,  Duke Moosekian, David Byrd, Barry Newman, John Garwood, Christopher Carroll,  Kristopher Logan, D.W. Cook, D.K. Kelly, Jordan Jacobson, Blumen Young, John Kendall,  David St. James
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    3/1/1994  17.  Black Men Can Jump
LaSalle has a chance to move out of the precinct and into a more regular routine of detective work. A thirteen-year-old boy is shot. Sipowicz suspects a private investigator of bilking a father, for the past six months, in a scheme to find the man's daughter. Andy's also was looking for her for the past 2 1/2 years. The father of the murdered boy apprehends the killer, after he discovers the killer (whose injured LaSalle) has escaped from the precinct.
Director:  Steven Bochco  / David Milch  Writer:  Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  Wendy MakkenaFelton PerryLouis Giambalvo, Judith-Marie Bergan, Don Stark, Michael Goldfinger, Kimberly Brooks, Christopher M. Brown, Shaun Baker, Jimmy Ray Jr., Christian Dominic, Barbara Burney, Earnestine Phillips, Naomi Serotoff, Norman Alexander Gibbs
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    3/22/1994  18.  Zeppo Marks Brothers
Roberts meets with Kelly in search of getting some bodyguard work. A woman whose boyfriend was a material witness is afraid to identify the hit man because she's afraid she'll be next. Laura feels as though she's being stalked and while checking it out John gets to meet her new boyfriend. The hit man is identified, wired and sent to Riker's to get incriminating evidence against the brothers who hired him. While listening in, John hears that Laura was also an intended target. None of the detectives are too excited when Haverill sends them down to Times Square for uniform detail at a parade.
Director:  Steven Bochco  / David Milch  Writer:  Ann Biderman 
Guest starring:  Leland OrserRobert Cicchini, Anna Gunn, Stanley D. Petter III, George Alvarez, Carlos Palomino,  Kyle Secor, Reece Holland, Ken Kerman, Howard French,  Michael David Simms, Grace Hightower
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    3/29/1994  19.  Serge the Concierge
Robin's husband dies, later she is angry when her husband's will seems to stipulate that Kelly should resume his duties as her bodyguard. Sipowicz must clear his son of a drug pushing charge. The detectives check a garbage dump for a female body but turn up a male. Looking into the male body's murder, Kelly suspects a concierge and the hotelier of conspiring to murder the hotelier's husband.
Director:  Lesli Linka Glatter  / Bill Clark  Writer:  Burton Armus  / David Milch 
Guest starring:  Penny Fuller, John P. Connolly,  Noah Emmerich, Robert Bauer, Jack Shearer,  Richard GantSuzanne KrullRichard T. Jones, Lee Weaver, Emily Mura-Smith,  Derek de Lint
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    5/3/1994  20.  Good Time Charlie
Janice gets promoted and will be working with the other detectives until she can be transferred to the re-organizing intelligence division. Kelly suspects that his friend is being framed for the murder of his mistress, even after his behavior in the squad room. Arthur's wife lets him know she is pregnant again; he is less than enthusiastic considering the complications of her previous pregnancy. Andy takes a sip of a drink at a birthday party for Sylvia's father and later he has more and then he throws her out of his apartment.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  /  Steven Bochco  Writer:  Ann Biderman  / Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  Joe Greco,  Caroline Lagerfelt, Therese Kablan,  John Benjamin Hickey, Herschel Sparber,  Frank MedranoCharles Haid, Mikaela Brown, Alanna Brown, Hannah Sussman, Brenda Daly,  Dean Norris
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    5/10/1994  21.  Guns 'n Rosaries
Medavoy tells Donna that he's caught his wife in the act of being unfaithful, so he is moving out. Racial hostilities flare up after Martinez shoots a belligerent black motorist who draws a gun on Medavoy, but the gun is missing. Distressed by recent events, Licalsi searches for direction, John points her to his friend, Father Downey. After talking with him, she then confesses to Fancy that she killed Angelo Marino and his chauffeur and then the circus begins. Sipowicz tries to attend an open meeting.
Director:  Steven Bochco  / David Milch  Writer:  Burton Armus  / Gardner Stern 
Guest starring:  Dean NorrisStephen Root, Edward Wiley,  Harold SylvesterDonzaleigh Abernathy, Bernard White, Julius Tennon, John Pittman Jr.,  Bradley Whitford, Gerry Black, Wanda Lee Evans, Greg Natale, Dean Regan, Susan Metcalf, Heath McLaughlin
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 45 mins    5/17/1994  22.  Rockin' Robin
Kelly gets a high priced attorney to defend Janice and helps out with her bail. Andy tries to make amends with Sylvia who's been attending Alanon meetings. Kelly investigates the murder of a priest. While helping his son look for a car, Andy comes across a lead in the disappearance case that has frustrated him for 2 1/2 years. John and Robin meet for lunch and then again later that night.
Director:  Gregory Hoblit  / Jody Worth  Writer:  Jody Worth  / Ted Mann (I) 
Guest starring:  Dean NorrisLouis GiambalvoMichael MantellStanley AndersonChaka Forman, Dennis Creaghan,  Dale RaoulMichael Ian Black, Greg Haberny, Danielle Kimberley Shuman,  Gregory Salata, John Elsen, Tom Caruso, Tony Hoty,  Mario Cantone
Edition Details
Edition Season 1
Series NYPD Blue
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 3/18/2003
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 Color
Subtitles English; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 One-Hour Making Of Season One Documentary With Never-Before-Seen Footage
All-New Love On NYPD Blue and Cast Blotter Featurettes
Selected Episodes Commentaries
Script-to-Screen Comparison and More!