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'Hill Street Blues': The most influential TV show ever
CNN ^
| Tue April 29, 2014
| Todd Leopold
Posted on 04/29/2014 9:22:27 AM PDT by mkleesma
Loved this show! Might even pick up the DVD collection.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blues; hill; street; tv
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To: Kartographer
OH I could be more wrong.
I have no doubt.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:48:33 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: discostu
Seinfeld wasnt that influential.
Let us know when you get back on your meds.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:49:54 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
Sorry I wasn’t aware that you had more insight into the author’s work than even he had.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:52:20 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: oh8eleven
Put down the plate of brownies and step back please.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:53:51 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: discostu
Seinfeld wasnt that influential.
Obviously that is why we're all saying "Yadda, Yadda, Yadda", "No Soup for You!", "Not that there's anything wrong with that" and "He's not Spongeworthy" all the time.
To: PapaNew
Back then I worked 2nd shift and would set the VCR to record Night Court and Hill Street Blues. Loved both shows.Crime Story was also an excellent show.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:56:48 AM PDT
by
ohiobushman
( If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Throwing memes into the culture does not mean it changed how TV shows work. Every scripted show out there is now serialized to some extent, that’s the influence of Hill Street. What did Seinfeld do that’s changed how every single TV show is made? Oh yeah, nothing. It didn’t really even change sit-coms very much. Not that influential.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:57:56 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
To: oh8eleven
The need to turn to insults shows you know you’re wrong. And I explained why, and you carefully ignored it. So now that we both know you’re wrong the conversation is over. Hill Street was dramatically more influentially than Seinfeld, and you just admitted it.
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posted on
04/29/2014 10:59:10 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
To: discostu
Influential on the culture or on the TV business?
Hill Street Blues may very well have been more influential on the business. Don’t know enough about that to comment.
To: mkleesma
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posted on
04/29/2014 11:02:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: mkleesma
I vote for Gilligan’s Island.
To: Future Snake Eater
I stay away from shows that have a loser main character.
To: Resolute Conservative
"I stay away from shows that have a loser main character."
AMEN!!
73
posted on
04/29/2014 11:09:27 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: PapaNew
Not only was Breaking Bad a great series, they had in my opinion, the best series finale ever. Tied up all the loose ends perfectly. Watch it on Netfix if you get a chance.
To: corkoman
I nominate BARNEY MILLER as a great cop show..
I remember years ago watching Mike Douglas interviewing a veteran New York City detective. He asked him which cop show then on the air was the most realistic.
The detective answered "Barney Miller."
Douglas then asked him which was the least realistic. The detective answered "Hawaii Five-O. Because at the end of each episode McGarrett says "Book 'em, Danno!" And if that were actually the case you would never see Danno, he'd spend all his time in court."
To: mkleesma
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posted on
04/29/2014 11:35:16 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? ;-)
To: oh8eleven
It is funny...read the credits!..and HSJs was a bunch of crybaby liberal self-loathing crap. Rockford or Kojak would kick the crap out of any of those wussies on that show...except for the big sergeant guy at the beginning!
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posted on
04/29/2014 11:43:09 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(There's no "R" in Warshington!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
On the TV business. That’s the topic of the thread, how HSB changed the nature of story telling on TV.
78
posted on
04/29/2014 12:12:42 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
To: sheana
Same thing happened to me with 24.24 had one bothersome repeating thing. He was always on that darned cellphone, but I never once saw him plug it in to recharge or say "Damn! My phone's dyin'!"
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posted on
04/29/2014 12:53:01 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: corkoman
...I nominate BARNEY MILLER as a great cop show...Good mix of comedy and social commentary, likeable characters. They're back, on Antenna TV Sunday evenings. Just before WKRP.
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posted on
04/29/2014 1:00:20 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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