HILL STREET BLUES 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2019

you [Music] until the impressive record was surpassed by the West Wing in 2000 Hill Street Blues held the title of most any watered freshman series with eight trophies voice dubu season alone his part its basement level ratings the drama that chronicled the lives of the men and women working for the hill Street police station vid has been credited with changing television ever since its debut in 1981 among Hill Street Blues s innovations are the use of handheld cameras in large ensemble cast multiple story arcs and a mix of high drama and comedy elements which still permeate the small screen today you're watching how they changed and here are some facts about the groundbreaking series Steven Bochco and Michael coves all created it despite not wanting to do another cop show and TM enterprises was specially hired by NBC to create a cop show so Steven Bochco who later co-created la law and NYPD Blue in micro Cosel co-writer first blood agreed to do it as long as the network left them completely alone to do whatever we want according to Bosco in the secret in the to row the pilot script in ten days it was influenced by 1977 documentary the show's creators look to the police tapes in 1977 documentary that chronicled a South Bronx police precinct during a particularly hostile time in New York City's history for inspiration NBC's then President Fred Silverman was inspired to create a cop show in the first place after sing for the party the Bronx 1981 which stars Paul Newman as a veteran cop in the South Bronx police district bris wives had an aggressive audition Bruce White's landed the role of undercover officer mcburger by playing the part I went to the audition dressed as how I thought the character should dress and loud and pushy whites recalled when I got into the room I jumped up on MTV co-founder granting his desk and went after his nose I heard he said afterwards there is no way I can't offer him the job Joe Spano thought he was miscast Joe Spano auditioned for the role of officer Andrew Renko but ended up playing written and Henrico blue I was always disappointed that I didn't end up playing Renko span at all playboy in 1983 spanner also wasn't a fan of his characters punch on for bowties which he claimed was Michael Cole's idea I fought it all the way he said I thought it was a stereotypical thing to do it actually turned out to be right he don't play into the bowtie he fight against it Barbara Boston was Bosco's wife but wasn't planning on being a series regular Barbara Wilson played Fay Captain Frank for his ex-wife it was only supposed to appear in the first episode in order to contextualize the captain according to Barker but when Silverman watched the episode he asked she's going to be a regular right it took Mike past two hours to ride their conic theme song the composer who also wrote the themes for the Greatest American Hero magnum p.i the 18 in ypd blue and Law & Order was instructed by particle to write something untie that achill to the visuals first wanted to add more orchestration to the piano piece but Co disagreed most also spent four to five hours writing five minutes of new music for each episode of Hill Street Blues the pilot tested poorly according to Network Mima among the many problems test audiences noted with that the main characters were perceived as being not capable and having flawed personalities audiences found the ending unsatisfying are too many loose ends history did not come off as a real police station there was too much chaos in the station house again reflecting that the police were incapable of maintaining control even on their home ground NBC picked it up anyway Franco was supposed to die in the first episode and Kofi was supposed to die at the end of the first season Charles hade had other projects lined up so he agreed to take the part of Franco and Men destined to die almost immediately but another serious head was relying on didn't get picked up and NBC claimed Bronco tested too well for him to meet an early end ed Murray Norris coffee was meant to be shot and killed in jungle madness the final episode of the first season the ending was changed to make it a cliffhanger and Marineris character survived they had historically bad season 1 ratings in its first season hill street blues show finished 87th out of 96 shows making it the lowest rated drama in television history to get a second season vodka credited the show's run yield to two things NBC being in last place network at the time in the NBC sales department noticing that high-end advertisers were buying commercial time during the show then never specified where the show was located but it's probably Chicago the exterior of the Maxwell Street police station in Chicago filled in for the fictitious Hill Street precinct for the opening credits in background footage it was added to the National Register of historical places in 1996 and is currently the University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department headquarters plenty of future stars made early appearances Don Cheadle James Cromwell Laurence Fishburne Tim Robbins and de Garcia Cuba Gooding jr. Danny Glover Frances McDormand and Michael Richards who found early work on the series Sammy Davis jr. wanted on the show unfortunately it never happened sometime after bought corrode in reference to the singer a decent logical ran into each other daily said he loved it and started jumping up and down Joshua had a war with the senses loving to use puns for turtles vodka wanted the title in episode moon over who knows after Cape Canaveral was just in the news standards and practices said no but Co eventually got his way and proceeded to name the next to season 3 episodes moon over runners the sequel and moon over Aramis the final legacy David Milch and equals his career were launched from it David Milch a creator of NYPD Blue and creator of Deadwood when from Yale writing teacher to a TV script writer through his former Yale who made Jeff Lewis his first script for the shaver season three's trial by here episode which won an Emmy at WGA award and a humanities prize he later became an executive producer on the show the first TV script credited to Dick Wolf great of the Law & Order franchise was the season 6 episode somewhere over the rainbow his first so credit for water friends for and wolf an Emmy nomination in 1986 it's worth noting that journalist and author Bob Woodward received a writing credit for season sevens there or compare alia and David managed and the same seasons and wasted weekend for his first television credit then his Francis character had a brief comedic spin-off then his France later nd supervision NYPD Blue first played corrupt cops Auburn adapter in five episodes before repairing for the final two seasons as lieutenant Norman burns after Hill Street Blues ended its seven season run France reprised the laser character in Beverly Hills burns which ran for one season beginning in 1987 in the 30-minute remedy Burns was a private investigator after quitting the police force only nine episodes were broadcast by NBC Game of Thrones has taken inspiration from the child many programs have taken inspiration from the show as it was the first drama that wasn't a soap opera that involved story arcs and ongoing storylines that would develop and be revisited as the show went on many shows have taken this inspiration since then including the awesome game of Thrones the director almost had a different career in England the director of Hill Street Blues Gregory hablas had a trial at English football team Dagenham and Redbridge when he was a young man he was declined a position at the club which is probably for the best for fans of Hill Street Blues and that's all for now leave a like subscribe for more awesome reviews and share this video their care friends [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 21 2019