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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HILL STREET BLUES
EAN: 0024543223450
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 850 minutes
Sales Rank: 1141
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 15, 1981
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Drama that explores the lives and careers of a group of people who work at an inner city police precinct.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: HILL STREET BLUES
Title: SEASON 1
Street Release Date: 02/06/2007
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Genre: TELEVISION
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Created by Steven Bochco and one of television's most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father's cop show. 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 was chaotic, overlapping dialogue. There were sudden, shocking bursts of violence that claimed popular characters. Story lines were not wrapped up at the end of the hour, but instead, unfolded serially throughout the season. It's no wonder that Hill Street, while championed by most critics, was initially not embraced by viewers. It was, in the beginning, one of television's lowest rated shows, its case not helped by NBC's criminal practice of juggling it in its primetime schedule). But there is justice in Hollywood. Hill Street Blues won the Emmy for best drama in its first season. Also honored were several members of the ensemble, including Daniel J. Travanti as the compassionate and incorruptible Precinct Capt. Frank Furillo, Michael Conrad as the avuncular Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (whose cautionary, "Let's be careful out there," became the show's pop culture signature), and Barbara Babcock as the wildly sexual Grace Gardner, who rocks Esterhaus's world (particularly in the episode that earned her her statuette, "Fecund Hand Rose").
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). Each was an indelible character, among them Charles Haid as cowboy cop Andy Renko, Veronica Hammel as sexy public defender Joyce Davenport, Bruce Weitz as the untamed, animalistic Belker, Keil Martin as LaRue, whose descent into alcoholism is one of the season's most compelling dramatic arcs, and James Sikking as the gung-ho Howard Hunter. Once daring, Hill Street Blues seems almost quaint today, with none of the graphic sex or language that scandalized NYPD Blue (in one episode, a captured cat burglar, portrayed by a pre-L.A. Law Michael Tucker, makes a reference to "wolf pee-pee"). The ethnic portrayals, too, are not exactly nuanced. But the human dramas at the heart of Hill Street still make for arresting television. --Donald Liebenson
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I think Fox should license Hill Street Blues to Shout! Factory, because Shout! is more willing to release all 7 seasons better than Fox. If Fox really cared, they would sell Hill Street Blues to a new company. Please license Hill Street Blues to Shout! Factory!
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What is there to say? Hill Street Blues - one of the best police series made - from the 80s I think. No-one missed this weekly show when it first aired. Not going to write about the series, either you know it or you don't. If you do, buy it! If you don't know it - buy it anyway! The series hasn't really dated. It has the lot - comedy, action, romance, and so many different characters - everyone watching will find someone in the show to love! Then buy Season 2!!
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I remember when this series first hit the airwaves. It is wonderful to go back and see this groundbreaking series come back to life. I forget how many Emmy awards this program won, but its great having it in a personal collection. I will be ordering season 2 and 3 soon.
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I've just spent the last two weeks or so watching season one and loved every minute. I was too young to appreciate this show (but not its theme music) when it first appeared on T.V. and to watch it all from a fresh perspective today was a real buzz. There's great writing and great characters, such as the resilient Capt Furillo and the "take no prisoners" Howard Hunter.
If you're looking for a gritty urban cop drama with generous amounts of humour and some location shots then season ... Read More
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We have had such fun watching this series again. It's still funny after all these years!
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