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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Cop Rock, The Show Where Police Sang As They Solved Crimes
Description: Today in 1990, the premiere of one of the most bewildering TV experiments of all time: Cop Rock. We'll explain how the show happened and why it didn't quite catch on. Plus: it's the birthday of George William Crump, a guy Ray Stevens could’ve written a song about.
An oral history of Cop Rock, TV’s first and last musical police drama (AV Club)
University Chronology (Washington University via Archive.org)
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