Steven Bochco

""Steve has always been one to break the rules. He does it more cleverly, even diabolically, than anyone else. He rocks the boat as a hobby.""

- Former NBC chairman Grant Tinker on Bochco, Time magazine, May 2, 1988

Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues, LA Law, Doogie Howser, M.D. and NYPD Blue. He was also a writer for the detective series Columbo in the early 1970s.