Just HULU being HULU.
On the episodes above - NBC Standards and Practices had very firm guidelines about gore, dead children, etc.: You don't show it. Period. LAPD approved scripts, and would never have allowed it, either.
All music used on Webb shows was done "in-house" at Universal, and were used across their entire array of shows for many years. No copyright problems.
TV back then is viewed as Very Violent by many today. The violence (gunfire, fight, etc). was filmed, alright, but the aftermath was "inferred" in most cases. And you rarely saw blood on a shooting/stabbing victim.
Today, anything's fair game. We are better-informed, presumably more sophisticated, etc. and can "handle" real-live on TV. Not so long ago (1996?) however, an episode of "Brooklyn South" was criticized for excessive violence when, in a fast-moving pan shot, a Police officer's head essentially explodes from a bullet strike during a shooting spree.
Mike - Fmr. LAPD Comm. Div.
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