article_snippet.sent: But it was as McKenzie, the occasionally crusty paterfamilias on "L.A. Law," that he's likely best remembered. '
article_snippet.sent: L.A. Law': Sex, crime and the 'Venus Butterfly' McKenzie usually took a back seat to the younger, more glamorous characters on "Law," a Steven Bochco-created legal show that owed much to he previous hit, "Hill Street Blues.
article_snippet.sent: There was as much time devoted to bedroom activities as there was legal issues while the show bravely took on such topics as AIDS, child molestation and capital punishment.
article_snippet.sent: But McKenzie was the one who kept child molestation and capital punishment in check while still encouraging child molestation and capital punishment better instincts.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Rachel Wells contributed to this story.