Eduardo "Eddie" Torres (seasons 1–3): Born in the Bronx, Eddie is a Puerto Rican–American detective. is the only character to appear in all 89 episodes.
His partner Eddie Torres is his closest friend.
He has a son, Gregory, whom he fathered as a teenager with then-girlfriend Chantal Tierney. is an African-American detective at the Fourth Precinct. The principal cast members from season 2 of New York Undercover (clockwise, from top left): Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn as Virginia Cooper, Lauren Velez as Nina Moreno, Michael DeLorenzo as Eddie Torres, and Malik Yoba as J.C. The new unit eventually captured the last bank robber responsible for the deaths of Torres and McNamara. Malcolm Barker (played by Tommy Ford), Det. Williams and Moreno were assigned to a new unit, resulting in Cooper being dropped from the cast.
The series returned with a new cast for its fourth and final season in January 1998. However, in that same episode, Torres and McNamara are both killed by a gang of bank robbers. In the third-season finale in May 1997, Torres and Moreno are married. Gore II), while Torres was shown to be fighting family and other related problems, including having to cope with his father (Mike Torres, played by Jose Perez), whose drug addiction and HIV-positive status causes recurring issues, and a childhood-friend turned organized-crime boss.Īt the beginning of the third season, a new detective, Tommy McNamara ( Jonathan LaPaglia), was introduced as a principal character. Williams struggled to raise his young son, Gregory ( George O. In addition to the main storylines in each episode, subplots explored the private lives of the show's characters. In contrast to the popularity of NBC's " Must See TV" on Thursday nights in the 1990s, many African-American viewers flocked to Fox's Thursday night line-up of Living Single, New York Undercover, and Martin. New York Undercover (whose working title during development was Uptown Undercover, named after the record label, Uptown Records, whose founder and CEO, Andre Harrell, was also the executive producer of the series) is notable for being the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles. New York Undercover was co-created and produced by Dick Wolf, and its storyline takes place in the same fictional universe as Wolf's NBC series Law & Order, its spin-offs, the Chicago and FBI series, and Homicide: Life on the Street.
Virginia Cooper, and Lauren Vélez, who joined the cast in the second season as Nina Moreno, fellow detective and love interest to Torres. The cast also included Patti D'Arbanville-Quinn as their superior, Lt. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the Fox television network from September 8, 1994, to February 11, 1999.