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There's a local TVchannel called Decades. It may be nationwide. Today I stumbled into either the pilot or an early episode of Hill Street Blues. In 1981 Joe Spano as Henry Goldblum has hair and otherwise, looks exactly as he looks today. The huge cast was a brave step. Seeing this show with old eyes and trying to remember how these then unfamiliar faces felt when I first saw the show in 1981. Bochco has such a flair for the dramatic! The show ran for six years.
Veronica Hamel (Public Defender Joyce Davenport) is so hot that on her first high heel traipse through the precinct she turns every single head .. including Betty Thomas's! No personal radios. Pay phones to communicate. Bobby Hill (Michael Warren) and Renko (cowboy Charlie Haid) stumble into a "shooting gallery" and wind up in intensive care after their police car (the second one this week!) disappears when they return to the street from a domestic disturbance call.
Hill Street was a "by appointment" one hour drama that took twists and turns that brought this huge cast into a gazillion living rooms. Ahead of its time, Furillo's ex-wife (Bochco's wife, Barbara Bosson) storms in to berate Frank about a bounced child support check and announces "Frank Jr.'s" gender issues because his father is a cop! Ahead of its time!
The anchor of the show was the incredible Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (the beloved Michael Conrad: "Let's be careful out there") whose maturity and kindness ... the eye of the storm of the busy precinct.. is engaged to a high school senior with a 'solid B average!' was a favorite.
It's a beaut of a day!
January 16, 2016
michaelsheehan
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