Attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon U) as a playwriting major. Barbara Bosson, Michael Tucker, Bruce Weitz and Charles Haid 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 Le policeman (1981) (Capitaine Furillo (1981)). In 1985, MTM fired him, in part for his inability to keep HSB on budget. After creating La loi de Los Angeles (1986) and Docteur Doogie (1989) for NBC, he struck a $15M deal with ABC in 1987 to create 10 series pilots over 10 years.
