by Tdarcos » Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:41 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Tdarcos, do you have a favorite episode of Hill Street Blues you'd recommend to someone (me) who has never seen the show?
Hard to say, the episodes are all very entertaining. I've been bored in a few minor places where a not-very-interesting story arc goes on too long, but typically I find the show excellent.
It's hard to say what's the most interesting segments. Two cops go to investigate a domestic dispute, and come back to find their patrol car was stolen. You realize how things have changed, the cops back then didn't have personal radios, only the radio in their police car, and we occasionally see a cell phone used in the show by the hostage negotiator, it's got a standard handset like that on a typical desk phone, and it's the size of a briefcase. (A slightly better one was seen in the movie
Lethal Weapon where Danny Glover is carrying a briefcase-sized one but the handset has a Touch-Tone keypad on the back.)
The pilot episode of HSB is quite interesting, where the hard-nosed precinct captain Frank Furillo is constantly in fights over improper arrest procedure with the even harder-nosed public defender Joyce Davenport, and then at the end of the episode, we discover that the two of them are secretly lovers. (It might be considered a conflict of interest for them to be known to be involved with each other.)
Probably the funniest one was where the police are required under the city's contract with the sewer cleaner's union to, once a year, inspect the sewer system for alligators. The guy assigned to lead this operation is Sgt. Hunter, a gung-ho militaristic type who'd probably think the NRA is too soft on guns and hasn't seen a weapons system he didn't like or wouldn't want to have. Two cops buy a half-size remote-control alligator, sneak it down one of the manholes, then release it heading for Hunter's men. Hilarity ensues as we can hear the echoes of automatic gun fire being used on the fake alligator approaching them. The two cops, in hysterics, close up the manhole and get the hell out of the neighborhood.
Then there's the episode where Sgt. Hunter has been given authority to test out a $6 million urban assault vehicle, but when he parks it during a lunch break, messes up and runs over two cars in a parking lot. He forgets and leaves the keys in the ignition when he and his men go for lunch, so the vehicle (a small tank) is stolen and ends up in the East River, stripped and gutted.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Tdarcos, do you have a favorite episode of Hill Street Blues you'd recommend to someone (me) who has never seen the show?[/quote]
Hard to say, the episodes are all very entertaining. I've been bored in a few minor places where a not-very-interesting story arc goes on too long, but typically I find the show excellent.
It's hard to say what's the most interesting segments. Two cops go to investigate a domestic dispute, and come back to find their patrol car was stolen. You realize how things have changed, the cops back then didn't have personal radios, only the radio in their police car, and we occasionally see a cell phone used in the show by the hostage negotiator, it's got a standard handset like that on a typical desk phone, and it's the size of a briefcase. (A slightly better one was seen in the movie [i]Lethal Weapon[/i] where Danny Glover is carrying a briefcase-sized one but the handset has a Touch-Tone keypad on the back.)
The pilot episode of HSB is quite interesting, where the hard-nosed precinct captain Frank Furillo is constantly in fights over improper arrest procedure with the even harder-nosed public defender Joyce Davenport, and then at the end of the episode, we discover that the two of them are secretly lovers. (It might be considered a conflict of interest for them to be known to be involved with each other.)
Probably the funniest one was where the police are required under the city's contract with the sewer cleaner's union to, once a year, inspect the sewer system for alligators. The guy assigned to lead this operation is Sgt. Hunter, a gung-ho militaristic type who'd probably think the NRA is too soft on guns and hasn't seen a weapons system he didn't like or wouldn't want to have. Two cops buy a half-size remote-control alligator, sneak it down one of the manholes, then release it heading for Hunter's men. Hilarity ensues as we can hear the echoes of automatic gun fire being used on the fake alligator approaching them. The two cops, in hysterics, close up the manhole and get the hell out of the neighborhood.
Then there's the episode where Sgt. Hunter has been given authority to test out a $6 million urban assault vehicle, but when he parks it during a lunch break, messes up and runs over two cars in a parking lot. He forgets and leaves the keys in the ignition when he and his men go for lunch, so the vehicle (a small tank) is stolen and ends up in the East River, stripped and gutted.