NYPD Blue (Seasons 1–12)

NYPD Blue (1993–2005) is the landmark ABC police drama you can watch online on iFILM. Steven Bochco and David Milch created 12 seasons and 261 episodes around Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) — a racist, a recovering alcoholic, and one of the most fully drawn characters in American network television history.

The cases at Manhattan's 15th precinct are the structure, not the point. Sipowicz cycles through partners — David Caruso, Jimmy Smits, Rick Schroder — and each departure becomes its own story arc. The writers held the character accountable: the drinking comes back, the grief compounds, and the cruelty costs him things he can't recover.

The show picked up close to twenty Emmy Awards over its run; Franz himself took home four of them for the same role. Stream every season of NYPD Blue online on iFILM.