Nasty Boys (film)

Nasty Boys is a 1989 US television pilot from NBC, about a North Las Vegas narcotic unit of six undercover police officers who fought crimes against drugs and illegal automatic weapons. It became a TV series in 1990.^[1][2]

Nasty Boys
Nasty Boys German VHS cover
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Dick Wolf David Black
Teleplay by	Dick Wolf David Black
Story by	Dick Wolf
Directed by	Rick Rosenthal
Starring	William Russ Whip Hubley Benjamin Bratt Don Franklin Craig Hurley Jeff Kaake James Pax Nia Peeples Thomas Mikal Ford
Music by	Basil Poledouris Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Production
Executive producer	Dick Wolf
Producers	Lynn Guthrie Daniel Sackheim Richard Wechsler Victor Davich
Cinematography	Roy H. Wagner, ASC
Editor	Arthur W. Forney
Running time	100 minutes
Production companies	Wolf Films Universal Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 22, 1989 (1989-09-22)

Production

The Nasty Boys pilot was created by Dick Wolf (who would later create Law & Order)^[3] and David Black.

The Nasty Boys pilot partial cast list included Thomas Mikal Ford as the lead villain Payday, T. Rodgers as Busy Bee, and Nia Peeples as Serena, wife of Eduardo Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).^[4]

Three years after playing "Hollywood" Neven in the film Top Gun, actor Whip Hubley starred in the Nasty Boys pilot as Matt Morrissey, a dual lead with Jeff Kaake who played the character Matt's brother, Paul Morrissey.^[5]