Anyone Here Remember "Hill Street Blues"?

[Yavin4]

I was just thinking about that show. That was a great show.

[SeattleGirl]

1. That was one of my favorite shows!

Just loved it!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. Yes ! My mom and I used to do a dance to the intro music.

Brings back memories of the 1980s.

[cloudbase]

3. I could go for a little

tub time with Joyce.

[Aristus]

4. The final scenes of the pilot episode were some of the best television

I had ever seen up to that point. I think I was twelve or thirteen at the time.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. I admit to shedding a few tears

when the Sarge died and when Belker's mom died. :cry:



And laughing my arse off as Belker chased a perp while on undercover stakeout, wearing a chicken suit. :rofl:

And, of course, Renko — "Oh, my lord, I'm GREEN!"

[SeattleGirl]

8. That was so sad when Sarge died.

:cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Somewhere, I still have the tribute

NBC ran in TV Guide. It had Michael Conrad's photo as Sgt. Esterhaus with the caption, "Item one: The shedding of crocodile tears is strictly prohibited."

[SeattleGirl]

12. I vaguely remember that issue.

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. I got 'Grrrrr' from Belker

Been usin' it ever since. :D



A good one via IMDB:

Renko: "I can see it now; 'Detective' Renko, 'Sergeant' Renko, 'Hero' Renko..."

Bobby: "'Convict' Renko, 'Unemployed' Renko, 'Going to Jail' Renko..."



Hey, did you know Mike Warren (Bobby Hill) played basketball on those great UCLA teams of the late '60s with Lew Alcindor et al?

[SeattleGirl]

14. He did? Wow, I didn't know that!

That's pretty cool.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. He majored in film at Uck-la

Following an unbilled role as a basketball referee in the film Halls of Anger (1970), Mike received his first big acting break by chance when a job as a technical consultant for the basketball sequences in director Jack Nicholson's film Drive, He Said (1971) led to an on-camera featured role in the film. Developing an ad agency in Los Angeles to counterbalance the unsteadiness of a fledgling acting career, he landed some commercial work here and there before earning his first regular role on the short-lived TV series "Sierra" (1974). He proceeded to take his earnest young mug to such "blaxploitation" films as Cleopatra Jones (1973) and to daytime programming with a 1976 stint on "Days of Our Lives" (1965). After more episodic work and a failed series pilot, not to mention a supporting role in the basketball-themed comedy Fast Break (1979), Mike hit the TV jackpot with the award-winning, critically-acclaimed "Hill Street Blues" (1981)."


Kinda funny — he's from South Bend, Ind. and starred as a high school player there. Gotta wonder if the Notre Dame coach tried to convert him to Catholicism so he could play for the Irish. :)

Just thoughta somethin'. Warren went to Central High in South Bend. That's the school Hickory High played for the state championship in "Hoosiers," which was based on a true story. Hmmm.

[bridgit]

6. i liked it...

[ashling]

7. Be careful out there

:hi:

[PeaceNikki]

29. This was the 1st thing that came to mind for me as well.

I use it a lot. It makes me feel really old when people have NO idea.

[Wapsie B]

10. One of my favorite shows.

I loved it, beginning to end.

[KitchenWitch]

11. I loved that show!

I also cried when Sarge died.

[susanna]

16. The theme music still runs through my head.

Plus it introduced the actor David Morse to me; I still love that guy. :-)

[susanna]

34. Reply to self...

I'm thinking of St. Elsewhere. Woops!

[Vidar]

17. One of my favorties.

[SPKrazy]

18. remember it but never watched it

damn, remember it? Doesn't seem that long ago... but it has been a long time hasn't it.

[qdemn7]

19. Wonderful show

Set the way for more modern police dramas like NYPD Blue and the Law and Order franchise.

[Yavin4]

20. YouTube Has the Opening

Season 3 Opening:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8drnTh79kgY

[laylah]

21. That was in the days

when Kaghime's dad and I enjoyed each other. Great show!

[lost-in-nj]

22. one of my favorites

along with
Homicide:Life on the streets......


lost

[MnFats]

23. "Homocide:" maybe the best hour of broadcast TV EVER!

simply amazing....

as when Andre Braugher's character leans down to give advice to a 15-year-old going to adult prison for first-degree murder..."It's not my habit to give advice to 15-year-old murders but ... i wish i could recall it verbatim

[lost-in-nj]

33. Andre Braugher is an awesome actor

he is so under used


:hi:

lost

[applegrove]

24. I loved it.

[femmocrat]

25. I loved it the first few years, then I got tired of it.

Like anything else....

[HuskerDU]

26. I remember some guy who called everyone 'Dog breath!'

Haven't seen that one in ages.

[mcscajun]

32. That was Belker. He was sweet to his mom, though.

:)

[sarge43]

27. Remember it with great affection.

Belker, the Sarge, Amazing Grace, Pizza Man - miss you.

[bbernardini]

28. I bet most of you don't know the LYRICS to the theme song, though...

Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
I got those
Hill Street Blues

[Xipe Totec]

30. I have the first season on DVD - Loved the show. n/t

[mcscajun]

31. Absolutely! That was a pioneering show. And, it's now out on DVD!

:woohoo:

There isn't a cop show out today that doesn't owe HSB, big time.

I'm thinking of a recurring minor character who was frequently hauled into the cophouse: "I'm Buck NAKED!!! :rofl:

He'd later show up on NYPD Blue, played by the same guy. It was quite a shock, lemme tell ya'.

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. Confusingly, Dennis Franz played 2 separate characters in it

See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001240/filmoseries#tt0081873

Det. Sal Benedetto in 5 episodes in 1983, and Lt. Norman Buntz from 1985-87. When they did some reruns on consecutive nights which I just watched occasionally, I spent half an episode trying to work out what the hell was going on, because I was sure the guy had been sacked or killed or thrown in jail or something a few weeks previously, and yet here he was swanning around - I'd forgotten the character's name, so couldn't work out we were meant to pretend it was a different person.

[panzerfaust]

36. One of my fellow attendings

Still closes the morning report with "Be Careful out there"

Which actually makes sense, not only for being careful with our patients lives, but with our own (as was the sense in HSB) since an anesthesiologist or surgeon in a trauma hospital actually has more chance of ending up dying from a work-related cause than does a cop.

Think 'viral diseases', and the fact that in most trauma centers between 10-40% of those with penetrating trauma have one (Hep B,C or HIV). Also think of driving to the hospital to respond to an emergency: I have had two friends killed that way an anesthesiologist a long time ago (Ice covered mountain road, rushing in for 'emergency' C-Sxn), and recently a neurosurgeon (rear ended by a drunk at 0130 whilst going to the hospital to do a crani on another drunk).

When a life is in balance, 'universal precautions' go out the window - even for the DBDD shot 8 or 9 times when he stepped on someone's toes.

Have to get to work, from the traffic map I see there are already 6 'major' accidents. Can hardly wait.

[AllegroRondo]

37. Daniel J Travanti went to my high school

I was in high school in the 80's, when the show was big, and he came back and did a lecture / q&a session with the school. Nice guy.

[RebelOne]

38. Here are the episodes from its first season.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/6136

[bamacrat]

39. One of the best theme songs ever.

My little runaway.