25 Things You Never Knew About ‘Hill Street Blues,’ One of TV’s Most Influential Dramas
HILL STREET BLUES — Season 5 — Pictured: (front row l-r) Ren? Enr?quez as Lt. Ray Calletano, James Sikking as …
More than two dozen Emmys, an iconic theme song, a writing staff that would go on to create many other TV hits, and innovative storytelling techniques — a large cast, overlapping dialogue, a focus on the characters’ personal and work lives, an un-saccharine portrayal of those flawed characters — are among “Hill Street Blues'” TV-land legacies.
The 1981-87 NBC cop drama (which just got the Complete Series DVD treatment) not only helped turn around a last-place network, but it’s no hyperbole to say the show changed television, for the better, in a way that current Golden Age of Television viewers continue to benefit from…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Apr 25, 2018 @ 21:44:47
The only Yank police drama was was on equal terms with the poms
Had a great musical start as well
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