This week, I revisited an old favorite - NYPD Blue, the first season.
Such an interesting show, Kelley and Sipowitz are fascinating characters, though Kelley was sometimes depicted as this selfless saint. He receives a big inheritance sum from an old friend dying of cancer and decides to put all of it in a trust fund for college for kids he doesn't even have and doesn't look close to getting there. Then his self-righteous crusade on behalf of his on & off again girlfriend, Det. Lukaslki, wears a little thin. Andy Sipowitz is pure New York cop, though they laid on his "personal growth" a little much sometimes. Kinda missed the hard-drinking, full-bore detective he started out as.
But my opinion of the character, I admit, is a bit tarnished by the knowledge that the actor himself, David Caruso, was a first-class egomaniac.
He left the show after being denied his demand to be even more of the central character in the second season in addition to a requested salary of $100,000 per episode, a disproportionate raise and a huge amount back in the 80's. He reportedly stormed off the set at the end of his last episode.