Hill Street Blues: Season 1 (DVD, 1981) 3 discs 17 episodes Full Frame Brand New

Description: Brand New and Free Shipping in the USA Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of TV crime with Hill Street Blues: Season 1 on DVD. This 3-disc set features 17 episodes of the classic 80s TV series, packed with action, drama, and suspense. Follow the lives of the men and women who patrol the dangerous streets of Hill Street, as they try to make a difference in their community. With a runtime of 850 minutes, this DVD set is perfect for any fan of the genre. The discs are in DVD: 1 (US, Canada...) format, and include English, French, Spanish, and English language options. Directed by Arnold Laven, Corey Allen, and Robert Butler, this box set is produced by Scott Brazil and is a must-have addition to any movie or TV collection. Ed Marinaro, Mark Frost, Kiel Martin, Robert Butler, Joe Spano, James Sikking, Betty Thomas, Michael Warren, Arnold Laven, Bruce Weitz, Georg Stanford Brown, Veronica Hamel, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert C. Thompson, Taurean Blacque, Jack Starrett, Corey Allen, Gregory Hoblit, Charles Haid, Ren Enrquez Created by Steven Bochco and one of television's most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father's cop show. The Emmy-winning pilot episode, "Hill Street Station," immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal "interface with the police experience." To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, such as the pre-credit roll call, that were filmed with a hand-held camera. There was chaotic, overlapping dialogue. There were sudden, shocking bursts of violence that claimed popular characters. Story lines were not wrapped up at the end of the hour, but instead, unfolded serially throughout the season. It's no wonder that Hill Street, while championed by most critics, was initially not embraced by viewers. It was, in the beginning, one of television's lowest rated shows, its case not helped by NBC's criminal practice of juggling it in its primetime schedule). But there is justice in Hollywood. Hill Street Blues won the Emmy for best drama in its first season. Also honored were several members of the ensemble, including Daniel J. Travanti as the compassionate and incorruptible Precinct Capt. Frank Furillo, Michael Conrad as the avuncular Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (whose cautionary, "Let's be careful out there," became the show's pop culture signature), and Barbara Babcock as the wildly sexual Grace Gardner, who rocks Esterhaus's world (particularly in the episode that earned her her statuette, "Fecund Hand Rose"). There were no big stars on Hill Street Blues (or, for that matter, no little stars, as one of the cast members jokes during a near-hour-long reunion featurette included as a bonus feature on this three double-sided disc set). Each was an indelible character, among them Charles Haid as cowboy cop Andy Renko, Veronica Hammel as sexy public defender Joyce Davenport, Bruce Weitz as the untamed, animalistic Belker, Keil Martin as LaRue, whose descent into alcoholism is one of the season's most compelling dramatic arcs, and James Sikking as the gung-ho Howard Hunter. Once daring, Hill Street Blues seems almost quaint today, with none of the graphic sex or language that scandalized NYPD Blue (in one episode, a captured cat burglar, portrayed by a pre-L.A. Law Michael Tucker, makes a reference to "wolf pee-pee"). The ethnic portrayals, too, are not exactly nuanced. But the human dramas at the heart of Hill Street still make for arresting television. "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.

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