NYPD Blue
Frickin' Fraker
TV Flash files “Frickin' Fraker” as the first listed hour of season 11 — NYPD Blue (1993–2005) on ABC, season 11, episode 1, aired 2003-09-23, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S11E01: listed hour 220 of 261 in the NYPD Blue guide, first listed hour of season 11. It aired 2003-09-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “22 Skidoo” (S10E22). Next is “Your Bus, Ted” (S11E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The detectives investigate the shooting death of a man whose brother is a registered sex offender; and when Captain Fraker's trial gets underway, Sipowicz worries that his own testimony may have harmed the prosecution's case.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Frickin' Fraker sit in the NYPD Blue guide?
S11E01 is listed hour 220 of 261 — first listed hour of season 11, season 11 episode 1.
When did NYPD Blue S11E01 air?
Frickin' Fraker aired 2003-09-23 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Why was it controversial?
It pushed mid-1990s network limits on profanity, partial nudity, and adult subject matter — the standards-and-practices war was weekly news.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Butts, badges, and Sipowicz — Bochco and Milch teaching broadcast how to be adult out loud. Dennis Franz's alcoholic detective is the decade's great network antihero badge: bigoted, broken, still the moral furnace. Twelve seasons of language fights, cast shakeups, and precinct grit that primed living rooms for flawed cops before cable took the patent.
Flash: September 21, 1993, ABC, Manhattan South. Butts, badges, and a language fight already in the EPK. Steven Bochco and David Milch did not ask the museum guard whether broadcast was allowed to be adult out loud. They put detectives on a shift where alcoholism, divorce, and precinct politics bleed into the case. Dennis Franz's Andy Sipowicz is the decade's great network antihero badge — bigoted, broken, still the moral furnace. Sources close to Standards & Practices were *unavailable for comment*. They were…
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