Attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon U) as a writing major. Barbara Bosson Michael Tucker Bruce Weitz & 'Charles Haid (I)' were classmates; he and Tucker drove cross-country to Hollywood for full-time jobs at Universal, where Bochco would remain for 12 years. In 1978, he moved to MTM Enterprises, who after several attempts gave him carte blanche to create a show similar to _Fort Apache, The Bronx_ (_Hill Street Blues_). In 1985, MTM fired him, in part for his inability to keep HSB on budget. After creating LA Law and Doogie Howser, M.D. for NBC, he struck a $15M deal with ABC in 1987 to create 10 series pilots over 10 years.
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