A Short-Runner Police Procedural that aired for one season (1976–77) on CBS, starring a pre-Taxi Judd Hirsch as LAPD Detective Dominick Delvecchio, who is also studying to become a lawyer.
A number of episodes were written by Steven Bochco, who went on to create Hill Street Blues, and the cast included Charles Haid and Michael Conrad, both of whom went on to costar on that series.
Tropes for the series:
- Affectionate Nickname: Shonski calls Delvecchio 'Del', and Delvecchio calls Shonski 'Shonsk'.
- Character Title: Delvecchio as titular character.
- Christmas Episode: APB:Santa Claus.
- Da Chief: Lt. Macavan
- Dirty Cop: Sheriff Polson in "Hot Spell", who first kills the young college student (Mark Harmon) who's his wife's boy toy, and later kills the mentally challenged neighbor boy who witnessed the crime, and makes the second killing look like the work of a child molester.
- Driven to Suicide: Sheriff Polson in "Hot Spell" takes his own life before Del arrives to arrest him. He even makes out an arrest report detailing both of the murders he committed, as well as his own suicide, and the motives for his crimes.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Sheriff Polson in "Hot Spell" dumps Ronnie Stryker's body in his swimming pool to make it look like an accidental drowning, but no one buys it since there's no water in his lungs, only the trauma to the back of his head.
- The '70s: Takes place in '70s LA.
- Short-Runners: The series aired for 20 episodes between September 9, 1976 and March 13, 1977 before being canceled with two additional episodes unaired.
- Los Angeles: The main character is part of LAPD.
