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Hill Street Blues - Season 1 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. |
