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To: mkleesma
"Hill Street" was unlike anything else on American television.
It was a serialized mixture of drama and comedy featuring diverse, colorful and three-dimensional characters

Oh yeah, for sure THAT had never been done before. Sheesh.
And as far as "most influential" - anyone ever hear of All In The Family? Seinfeld?
14 posted on 04/29/2014 9:37:31 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Seinfeld came after Hill Street. All In the Family was not a serialized story (ongoing plot where what happens in this episode effects the world the next episode will be told in). Prior to Hill Street serialization on TV pretty much only existed in soap operas, and even soap periodically “reset” back to the baseline so they were really episodic they just had “episodes” that last months.


40 posted on 04/29/2014 10:03:42 AM PDT by discostu (Seriously, do we no longer do "phrasing"?!)
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To: oh8eleven

“I Love Lucy” pretty much created the television universe as we know it. Now it may be dated but it doesn’t get much more influential than that. The same could be said for Birth of a Nation for the motion picture industry. Very dated now but there is no denying it laid the foundation for the major Hollywood studios.


47 posted on 04/29/2014 10:19:03 AM PDT by xp38
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