Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005, and followed the lives of an ensemble cast of characters portraying police officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and firefighters and paramedics of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).
Maurice Louis "Bosco" Boscorelli is a fictional NYPD police officer on the television series Third Watch; he was portrayed by Jason Wiles. 'Bosco' was one of the few cast members to stay on the show for its entire six season run.
As an officer, Bosco tends to behave in the ‘cowboy’ stereotype, what with constantly ignoring "boring" calls in favor of wanting top jobs to play "super cop" on. This at times involves deliberately staking out crime hotspots; for example, he might watch suspects scope out cars, waiting for a theft to occur so he could then charge in and make an arrest. He shows a constant disregard for orders, often ignoring the radio or what his best friend and police partner, Faith Yokas says, and thus finds trouble and friction quite regularly with colleagues and superiors.