Hill Street Blues

Series • 1981 - 1987

8.2

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By Jeff Burger

For quite some time, the audience didn’t know what to make of all this. The program tested badly before it debuted and ratings throughout the first season were disastrous.

byjeffburger.com/2014/05/08/hill-street-blues-the-complete-series/

NPR

Hill Street Blues sounds like almost every excellent drama series that's on your must-watch list today. But back then it broke new ground.

npr.org/2014/05/07/310420401/hill-street-blues-created-two-eras-for-tv-drama-before-and-after

The A.V. Club

David Mamet, Christian Williams, Mark Frost, Steven Bochco, and others brought a new depth to television with their work on 'Hill Street Blues'.

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IMDb

Cops really became three dimensional on this show more than any other up to that time.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Hill Street Blues is the best cop story in a long time, blending horror of police work with necessary humor.

rottentomatoes.com/tv/hill_street_blues/s01/reviews

IMDb

'Hill Street Blues' was enormously popular throughout the entire eighties decade because, it depicted tragedy in a manner which portrayed it as something that does not simply disappear.

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