Hill Street Blues - Season 1
by Arnold Laven, Corey Allen, Georg Stanford Brown, Gregory Hoblit, Jack Starrett
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Actor: Bruce Weitz, Daniel J. Travanti, James Sikking, Michael Conrad, Michael WarrenDirector: Arnold Laven, Corey Allen, Georg Stanford Brown, Gregory Hoblit, Jack Starrett
Brand: Fox
Writer: Alan Rachins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 850 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Hill Street Blues - Season 1
DVD Review: Now can we have the other 6 seasons too PLEASE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been a long wait. 19 years to be exact, and it's been a long 19 years!
I've recently been working my way through all the Sopranos box sets. The Sopranos is a good show. Like HSB it's a drama come soap opera. But HSB is in a different league to The Sopranos. Much is said about how revolutionary HSB was at the time. But the sad truth is that it is still revolutionary today. Other shows have may have borrowed from it's formula, but they have all without exception diluted the mix.
For example:
1) Characters. I cannot think of any other show with as many characters as HSB. And what is interesting is that these characters appear almost fully formed from the get go. And each and every character is a complex fully formed person. Contrast this with the Sopranos where Pauli and Silvio have yet to have a single storyline devoted devoted to either of them in the first 4 series... The Sopranos, NYPD Blue etc all spend far to long dwelling on a core group of characters. In HSB the action would dart about a lot more.
2) Storylines. HSB would always run several storylines of varying lengths and complexities concurrently. They would each have different themes such as compassion, humour, tragidy, love interest, whatever. Characters would be seemlessly threaded in and out of these storylines, with one new stroy line being created, and one existing storyline being resolved each epiosde. There would also be a minor very short story line that started and concluded within the each episode, enabling it to stand alone. NYPD Blue failed to do this to the same extent. The reason being the lack of characters to play with. NYPD Blue worked to a far less chaotic pattern, with everything being much more formulaic and predictable. I cannot think of any other show with the same depth of plotting as HSB. In contrast very little happens in an entire season of the Sopranos.
3) Character terminations. With a lot of characters to lay with, HSB was never scared to kill a few off. Sometimes more than one at a time, and usually with little or no warning.
4) Humour. The humour in HSB was much more sophisticated and complex than in any other show. There was humour than only the audience was privvy to, humour that was exchanged between the characters, and also practical jokes. Only the best sitcoms show humour on all these levels. But with HSB there is no canned laughter, the humour doesn't feel like it's been written by a writer. It's realistic. And every episode would contain humour, and sadness in different plot threads.
5) Long running and resurfacing plot threads. Many other shows will introduce a certain character trait or plot thread purely to run a particular story. With HSB it was the other way round. If a character had a flaw, then this would resurface over and over again. And plot threads would suddenly be raked over, and temp ressurected months later.
6) No stars. HSB was pretty much a level playing field. Only Furrillo got slightly more screen time than the other characters.
7) Action at all levels. HSBs encompassed characters at all levels withing the police precinct. Everything from the janitor to the captian. And all their lives are seen as equally important as far as the plots went.
8) It felt real. It was like watching a really exciting and interesting documentary. You felt absorbed into the show. It didn't ever seem contrived. No other show has achieved this fine balance, let along maintained it for 7 seasons.
9) It never got stale. The last episode was as good as the first.
10) It's a slice of time. It's pre-mobile phone, pre-internet, pre-AIDS, pre-9/11, 1980s.
Description of Hill Street Blues - Season 1
"LET?S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE." So ends each roll call session at the Hill Street station house. As the cops and detectives head out to the streets, Captain Frank Furillo begins the delicate balancing act of providing enough protection for the law-abiding citizens without inciting the neighborhood gangs and local criminal elements who are openly hostile towards any police presence. Yet as dangerous as his inner city precinct can be, Furillo's biggest battles often involve protecting his own cops from the Public Defender's office, self-serving bureaucrats, and even each other.Bestsellers in DVD
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