<p><em>NYPD Blue Balls </em></p>
<p>Eight months before starring as Al Bundy on <em>Married… With Children</em>, Ed O’Neill tried to keep pace with Gene Hackman in a TV spin-off of<em> French Connection</em>. Did NBC execs cancel this potential 1986 series because gruff narcotics detective <em>Popeye Doyle</em> was still murdering folks and violating civil liberties like it’s 1971? Or is the bigger problem that a future sitcom shoe salesman would rather sit on his ass watching sex tapes of Audrey Landers (<em>Dallas</em>) than chase down crooks? Find out if this failed pilot solves the Middle East crisis when you Listen Now!</p>
