The scene with John putting on his vest at 0:09 is also in the Season 1 opening as well. This scene also demonstrates how John Kelly was the original lead of the show
Caruso wore his Kelly suit very well. Unfortunate that he allowed some people to whisper in his ear that he could be a movie star. But his exit from the show allowed Franz to become the linchpin of the series and more focus to bear on the ensemble cast.
Another fine scene for Kelly. In hindsight much hasn't changed since 93 in terms of bad guys getting away with stuff and the average person having to suffer because of it. Its a shame what happen to the father happened, but it goes to show you that the laws in America do need to be reexamine and harsher punishment needs to be handed down. And kelly was right about that judge " he isn't worth it". Many who swear to uphold the law and government aren't. Blue wasn't a thinking man show like law and order or homicide... but damn if it didn't make you feel for people and the never ending search for humanity and justice.
Take a real look around. Things have changed a lot. Today, fewer than 1 in 100 public officials from dogcatcher up who keep their oath of office, maybe 1 in 10 US senators have actually read the constitution, and there are 187 admitted enemies of the state in the US congress. And that entire lot has gone far past ignoring the problem, to encouraging and in fact facilitating it.
Hard disagree on the “thinking man’s show” comment. L&O was “story” driven, with generic plots that were often meant to appear more clever than they were. When characters overcame the writing, they were shuffled around or dropped. Blue showed you the nuance of a criminal investigation and was driven by characters and how they experienced the events unfolding around them and how they grew from each event. It also shows the reality of NYC as, for the most part, a shithole populated by cockroaches rather than a highly polished utopia with a few bad apples [most of whom were also upper-middle class criminal masterminds].
It's a pity that there isn't anyone around in "authority" like John Kelly, in the way he's talking to Mister Daniels. If there is, then it's a shame we never hear about it, but only the violent ways that situations like this end.
There are plenty but you don't hear about it because it doesn't sell. That's not what the media wants to increase viewership or sell their papers. It's like police pursuits, do you ever see the stories on them of the lives saved because the police did pursue or the lives lost because they didn't? You only see the stories of the lives lost when they did. The media is one of the most corrupt institutions in this country because they report on stories in a manner THEY want you to see it IF they want you to see it at all.
They are there. They just never 'rank up.' WHY? Because they make enemies like that judge that keep putting a thumb on their careers. Their fellow officers respect the heck out of them because they say and stand where others refuse.
Couldn't agree more. This is suppose to be a country of law applied equally to all, but it's not, those who have the money get off with murder. Google Red Bull heir in Thailand and what he did.
@@starwars518 Yes it is, there was boy in America who was charged with murder and his lawyer argued he had been raised 'priviledgedly' I believe the word that was used and therefore didn't know the consiquences of his actions was therefore innocent. The ploy worked and the boy got off.
After this first season, David Caruso got to feeling too big for his britches and left NYPD BLUE for an unsuccessful movie career. Then he came back to television with the short-lived MICHAEL HAYES series, and then hit it out of the ballpark with CSI: MIAMI with his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Crime Scene Investigation unit. But here he had been off to a good start with his role of police detective John Kelly. He should have stayed put. But then we'd never had the pleasure of seeing him in CSI: MIAMI. And that's the way it is.
Just FYI: After the initial stellar success of NYPD Blue, in large part due to Caruso, he went to a much bigger agency. This huge agency had, arguably, one of the hottest stars around, at that time, and was going to make almost no money off of him; because all the money from Caruso's hit TV show was going directly to his former agent, who had negotiated the original deal. That's why they pushed him to do other projects. A number of which conflicted with the NYPD Blue's shooting schedule. A game of Chicken ensued. Bochco & Milch called Caruso's agent's bluff, and they wrote him outta the show. Just FYI.
David Caruso acted like he was too big for his britches, and figured he could ace it as a movie star. He wound up with a few flop films, and after starring in the short-lived series MICHAEL HAYES Caruso showed up with hat in hand and joined the cast of CSI: MIAMI as Lieutenant Horatio Caine in 2002 and stayed all the way to the last episode in 2012. He got his second chance and made the most of it.
Not true he just wasnt happy on this show .He is a good actor but not everyone can be a movie star . He just does better on tv, but he has talent also some people make stupid decisions
WOW.....No Thank You for saving my life uttered from the Judge? Instead he goes right into Courtroom jargon about hollow non binding promises. Not only are The Scales of Justice out of Sync in his Universe of Law, his Code of Judging is Out Of Order. Pretty sure Mr. Daniels got someone to say "Thank You Detective" later on after he calmed down. That's how I'm going to leave this Courtroom feeling today. 14 months for killing an 8 year old boy? That's beyond Plea Bargaining. That is Indefensible.
@@scottsears5545 NYPD BLUE is pretty much a facsimile to everyday happenings and how people respond to or reciprocate to them as well. Yes, it is Reel TV....but BLUE manages to delve deeply enough into subjects and the emotions shown that many in here feel as if it were in fact Real TV. Cheers John
The cop, at 11 seconds into the video, would be recast in a season 3 episode where he makes wisecracks about Bobby Simone’s previous gig as the PC’s driver. He also played Henry Hill’s father in Goodfellas.
*Good catch. Just re watched that scene and will post when we get to season 4 episode 3. Thanks for the quality comment!* www.imdb.com/title/tt0656466/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_51
Was never a real Caruso fan.........but gotta' hand it to him...he knocked it outa' the park in this scene! Yet after Kelly saves that fu__'n judge's hide, he has the unmitigated temerity & gall to mouth off to the detective about his planned retribution for having been made to pee his troui!
No, it was not. It was real, complex, and much less sentimental when David Caruso played John Kelly. He was doing the best dramatic work on TV. The show was still good, but not as its best, without him.
David Caruso was excellent as John Kelly. I wish he never left the show.
Agree 100% Still a lot of great talent on that show.
Agreed !!!
I bet he does too, now :)
@@gargk999 yes, I agree. It's a shame his career ended after he left........... Oh wait.
Smits was/is a much better actor than Kelly...
I remember having to work with judges like that...real tough guys as long as we were there to protect them.
how prescient is this scene. this is exactly what almost every liberal judges and district attorneys is like now in democrat run cities
@@cagneybillingsley2165Liar!!!
"I work your streets, I clean up after how you govern."
Get him, John Kelly.
Signed,
A guy who cleaned up after fucked up governing.
The scene with John putting on his vest at 0:09 is also in the Season 1 opening as well. This scene also demonstrates how John Kelly was the original lead of the show
You tell him, Kelly!
Caruso wore his Kelly suit very well. Unfortunate that he allowed some people to whisper in his ear that he could be a movie star. But his exit from the show allowed Franz to become the linchpin of the series and more focus to bear on the ensemble cast.
Can you imagine if this scene ended with Kelly giving the judge a right hook with his fist?
Another fine scene for Kelly. In hindsight much hasn't changed since 93 in terms of bad guys getting away with stuff and the average person having to suffer because of it. Its a shame what happen to the father happened, but it goes to show you that the laws in America do need to be reexamine and harsher punishment needs to be handed down. And kelly was right about that judge " he isn't worth it". Many who swear to uphold the law and government aren't. Blue wasn't a thinking man show like law and order or homicide... but damn if it didn't make you feel for people and the never ending search for humanity and justice.
Take a real look around. Things have changed a lot. Today, fewer than 1 in 100 public officials from dogcatcher up who keep their oath of office, maybe 1 in 10 US senators have actually read the constitution, and there are 187 admitted enemies of the state in the US congress. And that entire lot has gone far past ignoring the problem, to encouraging and in fact facilitating it.
Hard disagree on the “thinking man’s show” comment. L&O was “story” driven, with generic plots that were often meant to appear more clever than they were. When characters overcame the writing, they were shuffled around or dropped. Blue showed you the nuance of a criminal investigation and was driven by characters and how they experienced the events unfolding around them and how they grew from each event. It also shows the reality of NYC as, for the most part, a shithole populated by cockroaches rather than a highly polished utopia with a few bad apples [most of whom were also upper-middle class criminal masterminds].
It's a pity that there isn't anyone around in "authority" like John Kelly, in the way he's talking to Mister Daniels. If there is, then it's a shame we never hear about it, but only the violent ways that situations like this end.
There are plenty but you don't hear about it because it doesn't sell. That's not what the media wants to increase viewership or sell their papers. It's like police pursuits, do you ever see the stories on them of the lives saved because the police did pursue or the lives lost because they didn't? You only see the stories of the lives lost when they did. The media is one of the most corrupt institutions in this country because they report on stories in a manner THEY want you to see it IF they want you to see it at all.
@@joed9491 You are spot-on correct about that. They are, hands down, one of the most corrupt organizations of all time.
They are there. They just never 'rank up.' WHY? Because they make enemies like that judge that keep putting a thumb on their careers.
Their fellow officers respect the heck out of them because they say and stand where others refuse.
@@joed9491 Truer words were never spoken. I salute you, Sir for your honesty and accuracy.
Justice is not only blind, but it has gone deaf as well.
And dumb
Caruso's acting is on point here
"I clean up after how you govern". Burn
I love and missed Kelly On NYPD Blue
Kelly is on point with that remark. Just look at today’s society
Couldn't agree more. This is suppose to be a country of law applied equally to all, but it's not, those who have the money get off with murder. Google Red Bull heir in Thailand and what he did.
@@55Quirll Just looked it up and it’s ridiculous.
@@starwars518 Yes it is, there was boy in America who was charged with murder and his lawyer argued he had been raised 'priviledgedly' I believe the word that was used and therefore didn't know the consiquences of his actions was therefore innocent. The ploy worked and the boy got off.
@@starwars518 yeah, very disheartening, but not surprising.
@@dzanier Yes very sad
After this first season, David Caruso got to feeling too big for his britches and left NYPD BLUE for an unsuccessful movie career. Then he came back to television with the short-lived MICHAEL HAYES series, and then hit it out of the ballpark with CSI: MIAMI with his role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Crime Scene Investigation unit. But here he had been off to a good start with his role of police detective John Kelly. He should have stayed put. But then we'd never had the pleasure of seeing him in CSI: MIAMI. And that's the way it is.
Just FYI: After the initial stellar success of NYPD Blue, in large part due to Caruso, he went to a much bigger agency.
This huge agency had, arguably, one of the hottest stars around, at that time, and was going to make almost no money off of him;
because all the money from Caruso's hit TV show was going directly to his former agent, who had negotiated the original deal.
That's why they pushed him to do other projects. A number of which conflicted with the NYPD Blue's shooting schedule.
A game of Chicken ensued. Bochco & Milch called Caruso's agent's bluff, and they wrote him outta the show. Just FYI.
David Caruso acted like he was too big for his britches, and figured he could ace it as a movie star. He wound up with a few flop films, and after starring in the short-lived series MICHAEL HAYES Caruso showed up with hat in hand and joined the cast of CSI: MIAMI as Lieutenant Horatio Caine in 2002 and stayed all the way to the last episode in 2012. He got his second chance and made the most of it.
Not true he just wasnt happy on this show .He is a good actor but not everyone can be a movie star . He just does better on tv, but he has talent also some people make stupid decisions
John Kelley great actor
Many cities hurting today because of judges like this.
What's interesting is Beau Starr (the ESU Sgt talking to Kelly in the beginning), played the exact same role a few years earlier on NBC's True Blue.
he was also the LT in Due South
If only Det. Kelly can put on the sunglasses after that one liner to the judge
I think Kelly was lying when he told the father that he wouldn't be put in jail.
Kelly, No one could have said it better.
Is that Hoppin' Bob? What he tell yall 'bout pitchin' woo woo on the job, boys?
Im dat Baby's Pappy Boss!
WOW.....No Thank You for saving my life uttered from the Judge? Instead he goes right into Courtroom jargon about hollow non binding promises. Not only are The Scales of Justice out of Sync in his Universe of Law, his Code of Judging is Out Of Order. Pretty sure Mr. Daniels got someone to say "Thank You Detective" later on after he calmed down. That's how I'm going to leave this Courtroom feeling today. 14 months for killing an 8 year old boy? That's beyond Plea Bargaining. That is Indefensible.
Its tv show
@@scottsears5545 NYPD BLUE is pretty much a facsimile to everyday happenings and how people respond to or reciprocate to them as well. Yes, it is Reel TV....but BLUE manages to delve deeply enough into subjects and the emotions shown that many in here feel as if it were in fact Real TV. Cheers John
I just download all of nypd blue in 1080. Such a great show.
The black guy is Brent Jennings who played Harrison Ford's partner in Witness.
Top Detective John Kelly
Made a good living with sunglasses on / off routine... 👍
Term limits for judges..
This show was amazing.
The cop, at 11 seconds into the video, would be recast in a season 3 episode where he makes wisecracks about Bobby Simone’s previous gig as the PC’s driver. He also played Henry Hill’s father in Goodfellas.
*Good catch. Just re watched that scene and will post when we get to season 4 episode 3. Thanks for the quality comment!* www.imdb.com/title/tt0656466/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_51
@@justanotherdrunk oops was that season 4? My bad. I know it was either late in s3 or early in s4. Either way, thanks for catching that. 🙂🙂🙂
His Brother Mike Starr Played Frenchy Also in Goodfellas. And in the Bodyguard as Whitney Bodyguard that Costner gives a Little Beating too
It is a 100 times worse today.
Those vests look like life jackets. They wouldn’t stop a BB.
Kelly made this show
John Kelley great acting
Great scene
they promised he wouldnt go to jail......terrible
Was never a real Caruso fan.........but gotta' hand it to him...he knocked it outa' the park in this scene! Yet after Kelly saves that fu__'n judge's hide, he has the unmitigated temerity & gall to mouth off to the detective about his planned retribution for having been made to pee his troui!
Does anyone know if we find out what the judge ends up doing...?
Yessssss
Candy ass judge whizzing his pants, then decides to get all chesty after Kelly saves him. Wish he woulda got one in the chops.
In real life that kind of shit happens all the time!
He really shoulda said SUCKS...IMHO
More true today than then. Sad, really.
Classic
There are a few memorable episodes with the redhead. This is one of Kelly's best. I maintain NYPD Blue - was a better show without Kelly.
No, it was not. It was real, complex, and much less sentimental when David Caruso played John Kelly. He was doing the best dramatic work on TV. The show was still good, but not as its best, without him.
Was there closure to this story? Did the guy go to jail.
Still not a Caruso fan.
Liberal judge meets reality
Liberal judges are not detrimental to law enforcement at all.
@@JamesSmith-rh4is Their easy on criminals