Heart of the City

Heart of the City is a crime drama that aired on the ABC television network from September 1986 to January 1987. It focuses on the duties of a police detective in a Los Angeles-styled city who also has to take care of his two teenaged children after his wife's murder (and how his colleagues on the force chastised him for making them look bad when he solved most of his cases). This was a production of American Flyer Productions (headed by Anthony Zuiker, more recently well-known for creating the "CSI" trilogy on CBS) in association with 20th Century Fox Television. The series debuted on ABC's Saturday-night schedule in September 1986 (9pm ET/8pm CT), following two highly-publicized (but short-lived) comedies: The Ellen Burstyn Show and...