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Before leaving the series to work on his new television series, Crime Story, Michael Mann handed the role of executive producer to Dick Wolf prior to the third season ( 1986 – 1987 ).

Wolf had the show focus on contemporary issues like the problems in Northern Ireland, and capital punishment.

The fifth season ( 1988 – 1989 ) took the show on a more serious tone, with storylines becoming dark and gritty — enough so that even some of the most loyal fans were left perplexed.

As the fifth season began, Olivia Brown recalled, " The show was trying to reinvent itself.

" Dick Wolf said in an interview for E!

True Hollywood Story, after the fifth season, it was all just "... kind of over ", and that the show had " run its course ".