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  Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues, one of the most innovative and critically acclaimed series in recent television history, aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987.
Indeed, Hill Street is perhaps the consummate example of the complex equation in U.S. network television between "quality programming" and "quality demographics." Hill Street Blues revolutionized the TV "cop show," combining with it elements from the sitcom, soap opera, and cinema verite-style documentary.
Hill Street's key antecedents actually were sitcoms, and particularly the half-hour ensemble workplace comedies of the 1970s such as M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Barney Miller.
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 Hill Street Blues: a critical analysis
Through Hill Street station streamed all the wicked and wounded that a decadent social order could produce: murderers, muggers, madmen, rapists, pimps, prostitutes, porn merchants, drunkards, drug addicts, schizophrenics, sado-masochists, suicides, survivalists, transvestites, nymphomaiacs, vigilantes, loan sharks, street gangs, unhinged vets, random eccentrics, born-again believers and 'space cases' (eg, a guy claiming to be ET).
Hill Street Blues tended to be a tight focus on consequences that did not reach out to probe causes.
Certainly Hill Street Blues stood in sharp contrast to most of the rest of the prime-time crime shows in running counter to the spirit of the Reagan era and refusing to give simple answers to complex questions.
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 Hill Street Blues: Season Two DVD Review - MovieWeb
Hill Street Blues: Season Two is a solidly put together box set that continues the stories of the police officers at Hill Street Station.
What I think really sets Hill Street Blues apart from a lot of other police shows, is the fact that even though it takes place in the 1980s, it very much seems like a product of the 1970s.
Hill Street Blues: Season Two is another season of this well done police show.
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 Hill Street Blues for DOS - MobyGames
Hill Street Blues is controlled entirely with the mouse via a set of icons – that’s everything but intuitive, especially when directing a single officer through the streets.
At the same time, Hill Street Blues earned exceptional critical praise for its experimental and daring style: interweaving of multiple plot lines, noisy and aggressive setting, a multitude of cast members that came and went (yet with focus on characters’ relations and emotions), quick pace and hand-camera authenticity.
Hill Street Blues was as real-life as TV shows got – and in many respects paved the way for hits such as Emergency Room.
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 Hill Street Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2004, the rapper Cam'ron sampled the theme of "Hill Street Blues" for the song "Harlem Streets" in his album entitled Purple Haze.
The first season of Hill Street Blues was released on DVD (U.S.) by 20th Century Fox on January 24, 2006.
Hill Street Blues was also the name of a computer game that was based on the TV show released in 1991 by Krisalis.
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 Hill Street Blues Summary
Hill Street employed shaky, hand-held cameras and grainy film stock that appeared to be the result of pre-exposing, or "flashing," the stock.
Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987.
The first season of Hill Street Blues was released on DVD (U.S.) by 20th Century Fox in January, 2006.
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 Hill Street Blues
The 'Hill Street' formula produced few clunkers; if one storyline or guest star was weak, there were separate plots in the same episode to compensate.
Frank Furillo, leader of the Hill Street precinct, was an alcoholic; Furillo's girlfriend, Joyce Davenport, was a public defender, while his ex-wife, Fay, never shied away from making her presence known.
"Hill Street Blues" was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards in 1981; it won eight, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Daniel J. Travanti) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Barbara Babcock).
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 Hill Street Blues on NBC - Hill Street Blues Spoilers, Episode Guides, Message Board | TVGuide.com
Steven Bochco's landmark ensemble crime drama was an often electrifying mix of realism and humor within continuing storylines (in an unnamed big city), paving the way for gritty successors like `NYPD Blue' and `Homicide: Life on the Street.' `Hill Street Blues' copped more than two dozen Emmys, eight in its rookie season.
Back in the early '80s, Hill Street Blues was moved from one night to another and sometimes went missing before it found read more
Hill Street Blues Pictures, Cast, Episode Guides, News and More on Starpulse.com.
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 Hill Street Blues (tv) . The Boston Phoenix . 12-01-97
Hill Street Blues permanently transformed the prime-time drama.
Hill Street Blues took elements from several other TV genres to create a police drama unlike anything that could be done in film.
Eventually, Hill Street became a model for almost all crime dramas, and continuing storylines became the norm on prime-time shows.
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 Hill Street Blues News
Hill Street Blues News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Fans of the long-retired television cop drama "Hill Street Blues," may recall a noticeable shift in attitude with the death of Michael Conrad, the actor who played Sgt.
"Hill Street Blues," which had its television network debut on NBC as a midseason replacement series in January 1981, was not quite as original and innovative as legend would have it.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Hill Street Blues - Series 1: DVD: Daniel J. Travanti,Michael Conrad,Veronica Hamel,Ed Marinaro   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Emmy-winning pilot episode, "Hill Street Station," immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal "interface with the police experience." To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, such as the pre-credit roll call, that were filmed with a hand-held camera.
There were no big stars on Hill Street Blues (or, for that matter, no little stars, as one of the cast members jokes during a near-hour-long reunion featurette included as a bonus feature on this three double-sided disc set).
From legendary creator/writer Steven Bochco, the multi award-winning Hill Street Blues is the original pioneering ' TV cop show', that blazed the trail for later ensemble hits such as NYPD Blue and L.A. Law.
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 Amazon.com: Hill Street Blues - Season 1: DVD: Barbara Babcock,Robert Prosky,Megan Gallagher,Robert Clohessy,Barbara ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In MY book Hill Street will always be remembered as the show that all other cop shows, and even non-cop shows, tip their hats to.
It showed the hopeless poverty of those living in the run-down Hill Street precinct, the shaken rape victims immediately after the crime, the ups and downs of the various partnerships among the officers, and the personal lives of the members of the force.
Hill Street Blues was one of my favorite shows in the early 80's.
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 "Hill Street Blues" Resource Page
Hill Street Blues: an analysis of text and context
All 17 episodes from the series's debut season--including "Hill Street Station," "Presidential Fever," "Film at Eleven," "I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin," and the two-part "Jungle Madness"--are featured in a three-disc set.
One of the most acclaimed TV series ever, the day-to-day exploits of the men and women of the Hill Street police station ran on NBC from 1981 to 1987, setting new standards for realism and mixing comedy and drama.
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 Word About Biehn - Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues was a highly respected police drama that played weekly from 1981 to 1987.
It was gritty and well written with a good-sized ensemble cast of characters who dealt with a wide spectrum of police work as well as their own personal challenges of living.
By the time he made Hill Street Blues, Michael had grown sufficiently as an actor to be able to take hold of a bad guy role and really run with it, and in the persona of Randall Buttman, he creates a character who is bigoted, hate-filled and without compassion or remorse.
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 Amazon.com: Hill Street Blues - Season 2: DVD: Barbara Babcock,Robert Prosky,Megan Gallagher,Robert Clohessy,Barbara ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hill Street's second season fulfilled the promise of its auspicious first, and repeated as TV's Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmy Awards.
Watching Hill Street Blues is like watching the whole art form of TV undergoing an incubation process, gradually evolving into adulthood.
Most TV shows on DVD, I fast forward through the main theme, but not Hill Street Blues, here the opening is an integral part of the rhythm of the show and losing it feels like missing out on something substantial.
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 Hill Street Blues (DVD Set) - Reviews from Metacritic
After “Cops,” “Hill Street Blues” may be the funniest police show ever made.
Hill Street Blues was the first truly realistic, gritty, police drama on the books.
It had unique regular characters who grew and developed over time, did not limit itself to plot resolution in one episode, recurring characters, all the drama and comedy of life blending into a narrative that was multi-layered and never predictable.
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 Hill Street Blues
For starters, the five-year-old Southwestern bar and grill is located off the beaten path of Manayunk's Main Street, where scads of slick, pricey restaurants lie in wait just eight blocks down the hill.
Underrated as a walking town, Manayunk/Roxborough is a soul-feeder, a peaceful home to winding, narrow streets, cozy houses, amiably barking dogs, tucked-away graveyards, tiny mom-and-pop-owned general stores, and the occasional, small abandoned public library.
Next, Adobe Cafe, nestled in a residential side street just off of Green Lane, is adorably incongruous: The building is strikingly pink, as many cute things are strikingly pink, such as Pepto-Bismol or Babe the pig.
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 Hill Street Blues
First screened in the US in 1981, Hill Street Blues introduced initially bemused viewers to a massive cast, hand-held camera techniques and a host of interweaving storylines.
Set in a run-down area of an unnamed Eastern city, Hill Street Blues follows the day-to-day dramas of a group of dedicated police officers.
In its day, Hill Street Blues was also remarkable for its liberal stance on issues such as racism and the characters reflected the ethnic diversity of America's inner cities.
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 Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory - Hill Street Blues coffee shop
Hill Street also provides very good music from various genres, space cakes and a good selection of quality smoke.
Have visited with a number of different groups of friends and have always found that the entire crew have opted for the hill street blues as basecamp.
I called Hill street blues my "homebase", what a cafe that is! Certainly the best I have visited, and I have been in a good thirty- forty coffee shops.
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 Hill Street Blues Web Site Home Page
I knew that the famous Hill Street Precinct House was there, having been involved in an internet petition to save it some years earlier.
What little there was, seemed to have been neglected for years and the name Hill Street Blues - Net and Org, had never even been registered.
If you were not involved with Hill Street Blues but you have a website, you can still help by giving us a link back to http://www.hillstreetblues.tv (it all helps with our search engine rating).
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 Hill Street Blues - TV.com
Hill and Renko arrest a young mother who regularly abandons her two...
Hill Street Blues is set in “Any City” and “Any Police Department”.
Chicago's Clark Street Hospital was the setting for this comedy about the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room.
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 Hill Street Blues - Season 2
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Hill Street Blues - Season 2 to receive a rating.
This groundbreaking and critically-adored crime drama from super-producer Stephen Bochco (NYPD BLUE) aired from 1981 to 1986, and followed one of the first ensemble casts on TV.
Set in a fictional town based on Chicago, the action centered on a chaotic police precinct torn by crime and racial tension and provided a very realistic view of the private and work lives of everyone from the beat cops to the police captain.
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 Hill Street Blues: The Complete First Season | DVD Review | Entertainment Weekly
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW Because it is the popular art most quickly responsive to the way Americans change their ways of talking, dressing, and thinking, television shows also date quickly.
Nearly all old TV programs seem slow and obvious, especially those series that are tagged as ''revolutionary,'' because their innovations rapidly become copied clichés.
Co-created by executive producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Blues was conceived as controversial (it dealt frankly with sex, violence, and substance abuse) but quickly became beloved by both audience and industry, snagging 26 Emmy awards.
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 Hill Street Blues - A fan's salute
It was designed to offer thanks for the many hours of thought-provoking entertainment they have provided.
It is in no way intended to infringe upon the rights of MTM Enterprises, its parent company or anyone else affiliated with "Hill Street Blues," past or present.
"Hill Street Blues" © 1981 is an MTM Enterprises Production.
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 Hill Street Blues (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1- 1 3021 15 Jan 81 Hill Street Station 2.
2- 6 10 Dec 81 Cranky Streets 24.
3-10 2 Dec 82 Phantom of the Hill 46.
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 "Hill Street Blues" - Shopping.com
Hill Street Blues - The Very Best of (Seasons 3 and 4)
Hill Street Blues - The Very Best of (Seasons 1 and 2)
Hill Street Blues - The Very Best of (Seasons 5 and 6)
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 Hill Street Blues (US - DVD R1) in News > Releases at DVDActive
Hill Street Blues (US - DVD R1) in News > Releases at DVDActive
Fox Home Entertainment has announced the complete first season of Hill Street Blues which stars the likes of Daniel J. Travanti, Barbara Babcock and Gerry Black.
The three-disc package will be available to own from the 31st January, and should set you back around $39.98 in total.
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 Amazon.ca: Hill Street Blues: The Complete Second Season: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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The first hard-hitting series of its kind, “Hill Street Blues” garnered 26 Emmy®; Awards – including four for Outstanding Drama – won two Golden Globes®, and is credited with inspiring beloved dramas such as “St. Elsewhere,” “Law & Order” and “NYPD Blue.”
Hill Street Blues: Season 1 DVD ~ Daniel J. Travanti
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