Advantages: Fast-paced drama, good characters, plenty of humour Disadvantages: They stopped making it
...classic American police drama series Hill Street Blues to be afforded the same treatment, as least as far as the UK market is concerned. The show was first aired back in 1981, and amidst the deluge of police and crime series which have followed in its wake, it would be all too easy to dismiss the programme as just another American cop show, full of the usual car-chases, shoot-outs and general law and disorder. Hill Street Blues was much more than ... ...and Dixon of Dock Green, Hill Street Blues came as quite a shock to the system. True, we'd had our moments during the Seventies, watching Jack Regan and George Carter nicking villains and pulling birds in equal numbers in The Sweeney, but never before had a fictional television programme taken us right to the very heart of life in a tough, inner-city police station, nor portrayed both police and criminals as real human beings rather than stereotyped ...
silverstreak 01.04.2007
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