Bay City Blues centers on a Bay City, California
minor league baseball team, the Bluebirds. Players varied from young hopefuls to once-great players who were sent to the minors before retirement. Storylines revolve around the players' lives, loves, and problems.
Bay City Blues features an ensemble cast of regulars including a then-unknown
Sharon Stone,
Mykelti Williamson and
Dennis Franz. The series from producer
Steven Bochco utilized many actors who had appeared on
Hill Street Blues including Franz, Jurasik, Corley and Rodriguez. After the series' cancellation,
Ken Olin joined
Hill Street Blues cast in the fall of 1984 and Mykelti Williamson appeared in a recurring role.
Michael Nouri portrayed Joe Rohner, the Bluebirds' kindly manager. His love interest on the show was played by
Kelly Harmon (whose brother,
Mark, was starring simultaneously on another NBC drama,
St. Elsewhere). Franz joined the cast of
Hill Street Blues in the fall of 1985, and Michele Greene was cast in another Bochco show,
L.A. Law, when it premiered in the fall of 1986. ==Filming==