Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran officer who is forced to take a desk job or retire.
Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year-old hotshot Kaczierowski who follows his own set of rules when dealing with criminals.
NBC President Brandon Tartikoff saw this series as inspired by the Lethal Weapon films and Battles was patterned after Pete Rose.
The series was created by Robert Palm and executive produced by John Ashley and Frank Lupo.
[1] The series' theme song "Roll It Over", was written by Sylvester Levay, Mark Spiro, and Eddie Money.