Hill Street Blues: Difference between revisions

* The conflict between work life and home life is explored, as well as the conflict between doing what is right and doing what works.

* Many camera techniques, such as tight closeups, use of offscreen dialogue, rapid cuts between stories, and use of handheld cameras rather than floor cameras, gave the series a "documentary" feel.

 

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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Joyce Davenport is a very nuanced version; while her liberal ideology drives her to fight to get her guilty clients off and deride the police as the neighborhood's "Nazi occupation force", over the course of the series she seems to come to appreciate that the police are the good guys.

* [[Buddy Cop Show|Buddy Cops]]: Though not a [[Buddy Cop Show]] in the traditional sense, it featured several more or less permanent pairings: Hill and Renko, Bates and Coffey, La Rue and Washington, Flaherty and Russo.

{{quote|'''Washington:''' Three words, JD: Statue. Tory. Rape.}}

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]

* [[The Windy City]]: The opening credits utilize Chicago locations.

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Dennis Franz came in as a very memorable several-episode character in Season 3 (the corrupt Detective Sal Benedetto), then was cast as Buntz in Season 6.

 

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