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Season 1 – Public Morals

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A group of detectives works in a city's vice squad.
Public Morals — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

Producer Steven Bochco's Midas Touch goes bust in the criminally unfunny Public Morals, an ill-conceived sitcom that -- even when censoring its cruder language -- proves to be little more than a mean-spirited farce.

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Diane Werts Newsday 10/20/2021
NYC vice-squad cops trade sleazy rejoinders in a non-stop quipfest that has not a smidgen of actual human feeling in its entire pilot episode. Go to Full Review Noel Holston and Neal Justin Minneapolis Star Tribune 10/19/2021
The raunchy humor has more to do with juvenility and lazy writing than plot development. Some banter Is clever, but then Cracked magazine occasionally manages a few good lines, too. Go to Full Review John Carman San Francisco Chronicle 06/25/2019
Public Morals remains what it was in the first place -- a squad-room update of Barney Miller, but without the warmth. And for many viewers, I suspect, without the laughs as well. Go to Full Review Rick Kushman Sacramento Bee 10/21/2021
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Two of Hollywood's classiest producers, Steven Bochco and Jay Tarshes, made one of the year's most classless shows. Besides, it's not funny. Go to Full Review Barbara Righton Ottawa Citizen 10/20/2021
CBS promised it would be the Barney Miller of the '90s, but executive producer Steven Bochco's provocative new ensemble comedy about the detectives in New York's public-morals squad has none of that show's sharp wit. Go to Full Review James Endrst Hartford Courant 10/15/2021
This is hubris in the first degree. It's what happens when egos -- in this case, those of producers Steven Bochco and Jay Tarses -- are allowed to run amok. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Donal Logue

Ken Schuler

Julianne Christie

Corinne O'Boyle

Louis Ferreira

Det. Mickey Crawford

Jana Marie Hupp

Val Vandergroot

Joseph Latimore

Darnell Ruggs

Larry Romano

Richie Biondi

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Oct 30, 1996 The Blue Cover Morals officers get down and dirty to keep New York streets clean. Details Episode 2 Airs undefined The Yellow Cover Corinne's boyfriend is arrested for solicitation. Details Episode 3 Airs undefined The Aqua Cover A 9-year-old mugs Ruggs (Joe Lattimore); Schuler's date robs him. Details Episode 4 Airs undefined The Red Cover Money is missing after a casino bust. Details

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Public Morals — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Don Scardino
Executive Producer
Jay Tarses
Screenwriter
Lisa Albert, Beth Fieger Falkenstein
Network
CBS
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 30, 1996