The New Centurions is a 1972 film based on the novel by "cop-writer" Joseph Wambaugh, with George C. Scott as a veteran police officer, and Stacy Keach as his soon-to-become world-weary rookie trainee. It also stars Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood), Jane Alexander (Kramer vs. Kramer), Erik Estrada (CHiPs) and James B. Sikking (Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser).