The Eighty-Seventh [87th] Precinct (police drama, with Robert Lansing and Norman Fell)

    (NBC Primetime, 1961 - 1962)

    [a gritty police drama that foreshadowed such New York cop
     series as "N.Y.P.D. Blue" by a few decades, this was based
     upon a series of novels written from the 1950s to the early
     1969s by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter);

     Unfortunately the realization of the characters into TV scripts
     was less original, as the show seemed to be more of a cliche
     of its times so it only lasted one season]

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Theme: "The Eighty-Seventh Precinct"

    [ASCAP title variation aka: "87th Precinct Theme"]

     Composer: Morton Stevens (ASCAP/BMI)

     1978 Publisher: Northern Music Company (ASCAP)

     2001 Publisher: MCA/Northern Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP)
                        c/o Universal Music Publishing
                        a div. of Universal Studios
                        of Los Angeles, CA

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