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High Incident is a police drama television series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian, and Dave Alan Johnson. It aired from March 4, 1996, to May 8, 1997, High Incident was one of six shows predating the launch of DreamWorks' more successful film division DreamWorks Pictures, which started releasing movies in September 1997 with The Peacemaker. The theme for High Incident was composed by Hans Zimmer, who also did the background score for The Peacemaker.

The series was renewed for a second season, but was moved to the Thursday at 8:00 p.m. timeslot opposite Friends on NBC, with Blair Underwood, Lisa Vidal, and Lindsay Frost joining the cast. Although it received good reviews and fair ratings, it was canceled after the end of its second season in May 1997, due to its lower ratings against NBC's Friends and The Single Guy, and CBS's Diagnosis: Murder on Thursday evenings.

Broadcasts and rights

Internationally, the show aired in Australia on both the free-to-air Nine Network and the pay channel Fox8, while in the United Kingdom it aired on pay channel Sky One. In February 2006, Viacom (now known as Paramount Skydance) purchased the rights to High Incident and all other television shows and live-action movies DreamWorks produced since their inception. The show has since been distributed by Paramount Television.

Reception

Todd Everett of Variety describes some of the series' characters as being a "tired stereotype", but praises director/co-exec producer Charles Haid for getting "a lot out of his fine cast, and several of the action scenes show above-average energy."

Episodes

Series overview

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Broadcast history

Mondays 9:00 p.m. (March 4, 1996 – April 15, 1996)
Thursdays 8:00 p.m. (August 15, 1996 – May 8, 1997)
Tuesday 10:00 p.m. (Special "preview" premiere time for second-season premiere on September 17, 1996)

Season 1 (1996)

Season 2 (1996–97)