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DVD Hill Street Blues - Season 2
Despite critical acclaim, Hill Street Blues could not get arrested ratings-wise its first season. Far from being careful out there, the superb second season did nothing to tinker with the integrity of this groundbreaking series to make it more audience friendly. Multiple storylines, overlapping dialogue, gritty language, and a pseudo-documentary style capture the palpable chaos and tension of what one character calls "the rat-infested, poverty-stricken urban reality." From the precinct-house shooting rampage that opens the season to a hijacked hearse in the season-ending episode, Hill Street Blues deftly walks the line between police procedural and personal drama, further fleshing out its gallery of compelling and colorful characters. Belker (Bruce Weitz) is still a growling mad dog who takes bites out of perps. But in one of the series' most memorable story arcs, he forms a surprising bond with the delusional costumed citizen Captain Freedom (Dennis Dugan), Public defender Joyce (Victoria Hamel)'s steamroller persona breaks down when a colleague is murdered and the case is thrown out because of a technicality.
Other dramatic developments: LaRue (Keil Martin) falls off the wagon and endangers his partner, Washington (Taurean Blacque), during a drug bust ("Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement"); Goldblume (Joe Spano) gets personally involved in the case of an abusive slumlord ("Of Mouse and Man," featuring future Miami Vice star Edward James Olmos as a threatened tenant); Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) is still bedeviled by sexual siren Grace Gardner (Barbara Babcock); and Precinct Capt. Frank Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti, who earned his second Emmy for Best Actor) and Joyce bring their clandestine affair out into the open. Other ongoing storylines involve realistic depictions of police corruption and inter-partner race relations. Hill Street's second season fulfilled the promise of its auspicious first, and repeated as TV's Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmy Awards. No roll call of classic, trendsetting TV series would be complete without it. --Donald Liebenson
Hill Street Blues Is One Of The Best Shows Ever.
It's a shame that Fox is not putting the rest of the series out at this time. Rumors are that they are not going to. I don't know if that's true. It would be a shame. What kind of world do we live in where Hill Street Blues could be pulled from DVD without releasing the entire series yet some idiot thinks that "Stacked - The Complete Series" will sell off the charts!? What's wrong with this world!?
I have something for you. Here is a customer service line for Fox Home Entertainment.
1-888-223-2369.
Call Them & Tell Them You Want Your Hill Street Blues!
Sooner or later they will have to listen.
Hope this helps.
BY THE WAY......IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS SHOW YET, GET THE 1ST 2 SEASONS & GET ON THE BANDWAGON. YOU WON'T REGRET IT. IT LEAVES NYPD BLUE, LAW & ORDER, AND ANY OTHER COP SHOW (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE SHIELD & THE WIRE) IN THE DUST.
Can't wait for the next seasons to be available
I found seasons 1 and 2 in a video store and viewed both DVDs in two days. They were as great as I remembered and am now buying a set for my sister (an ex-police officer who loved the show too). As a Law & Order and NYPD Blue fan, sure these aren't quite as dramatic or violent, but still one of the best dramas every on television. Plus, you really love the characters. Can't wait for the remaining seasons.
Greatest Police Show EVER!
During the real "golden age" of television, HSB was without any doubt the greatest cops show of all time, and perhaps the greatest TV drama series of all time.
Characters are believable, story lines are interesting and the dialogue is exceptional. The viewer quickly comes to identify with the characters and in a short time feels like they're watching the lives of friends play out on the screen.
Season 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 are a MUST!!
Created by Steven Bochco and one of television's most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father's cop show. The Emmy-winning pilot episode, "Hill Street Station," immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal "interface with the police experience." To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, such as the pre-credit roll call, that were filmed with a hand-held camera. There was chaotic, overlapping dialogue. There were sudden, shocking bursts of violence that claimed popular characters. Story lines were not wrapped up at the end of the hour, but instead, unfolded serially throughout the season. It's no wonder that Hill Street, while championed by most critics, was initially not... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Lawrence Levy (II) - Jack Starrett - Mark Frost - John D. Hancock - Scott Brazil DVD Release Date: Released the 31 January 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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St. Elsewhere is viewed by critics as one of the best TV shows ever produced. The accolades are deserved. All the shows since - ER, Grey's Anatomy, Chicago Hope and others - have roots in St. Elsewhere, the show that set the standard for combining hospital drama and comedy.
As a teenager I came late to the table and was only able to view about two thirds of the original shows. However, I was able to record on VHS almost all of the shows I did see. I was excited when I heard they were going to (finally!) release the show on DVD and I could, at last, watch all the early episodes I had missed.
So here we have one of the most acclaimed shows ever and what we get is a flimsy slip case, double sided DVDs (that easily become scratched), and minimal extras. This is... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Beth Hillshafer - Victor Lobl - John Heath DVD Release Date: Released the 28 November 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Unlike old soldiers, M*A*S*H showed little signs of fading away in its penultimate season. Alan Alda and Loretta Switt were officially saluted with Emmys for their exemplary work this season, and Henry Morgan and David Ogden Stiers received well-deserved nominations. But the overlooked Jamie Farr enjoyed some of his finest half-hours, including "Follies of the Living--Concerns of the Dead" (written and directed by Alda), an episode out of the Twilight Zone in which a fever-wracked Klinger communicates with the spirit of a soldier who has just died and roams the 4077th. Stiers further distinguishes himself in "Sons and Bowlers," in which Winchester lends compassionate support to Hawkeye, who anxiously awaits word of his father's operation, and in a moving scene, opens up... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Hy Averback - George Tyne - Jackie Cooper - Larry Gelbart - William Wiard DVD Release Date: Released the 23 May 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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