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Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues Dates : 1981 - 1987
146 episodes of 45 min
First broadcasting : 8 Decembre 1984
Creator(s) : Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco
Producer(s) : Michael Kozoll, Steven Bochco, Jeffrey Lewis & David Milch
Music : Mike Post
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Synopsis

In an anonymous district of Chicago, the daily life of a police station: Hill Street Station. At the head of this police station, Captain Frank Furillo, a hard and just man who must face the anger of his colleagues, the violence of urban dramas and a more than complicated love situation.

Captain Furillo is an alcoholic Nucle, Francis X. Furillo manages as he can the police station lost in a ghetto. Friendly, just, it is also a very open personality which allows him to maintain a solid reputation in the neighborhood. It is to him that the inhabitants appeal when the social fabric is tearing. Fay Furillo is a man in the field and end diplomat, Captain Furillo often loses his means in front of his wife, Fay. Indeed if he flourishes in his work, his relationships are more stormy with Fay with whom he divorces.

Joyce Davenport is an ambitious and attractive lawyer, Joyce Davenport is the new woman in the life of Francis Furillo. However, their connection remains secret for a long time. Phil Esterhaus is a respected sergeant in the police station, Phil Esterhaus leads morning meetings and informs all the police officers in progress. Generous, great and united, he is the soul of Hill Street.

In all, Hill Street Blues stages around twenty more or less distinguished characters. The most surprising of the police are Mick Belker: badly shaved, badly polished, he does not hesitate to bite those he stops. More reasoned are the idealists Henry Goldblume and Ray Calletano, who dream of moving things around them. Responsible for the intervention section, Howard Hunter has more the opportunity to smoke the pipe than to manipulate a weapon. And then we also come across a lot of uniform police officers that patrol. With characters like Lucy Bates, Joe Coffey, Bobby Hill or Andy Renko, we discover all the problems encountered by the police of a large district city.

Captain Furillo was an American television series which was broadcast for the first time in 1981. The series took place in a police station in a fictitious city called Hill Street, and followed the adventures of the police officers who worked there. The main character in the series was Captain Frank Furillo, interpreted by Daniel J. Travaint.

The series was known for its realistic and documented approach to the life of the police, and for the way it addressed the social and political problems of the time. It was one of the first series to use portable cameras and dynamic camera movements to give an impression of realism.

Captain Furillo has won numerous prizes, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. The series was created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, and was broadcast for seven seasons on NBC. It was followed by a derivative series, called "Beverly Hills Buntz", which was broadcast for a season in 1987.

In addition to Daniel J. Work, other famous actors who played in the series include Veronica Hamel, Bruce Weitz, Joe Spano, Betty Thomas, Taurean Blacque, James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson and Dennis Franz. The series was also remarkable for the way she launched the career of several talented actors, including Megan Gallagher, René Enriquez, Jason Alexander, Peter Jurasik, Ed O'ros and David O'Hara.

Despite its popularity at the time of its distribution, Captain Furillo was no longer as largely looked at today. However, it is considered an important and influential television series, and has been regularly cited as an influence by many other creators of television series.

The Actors

Daniel J Travanti - Capitaine Frank Furillo

Daniel J Travanti


(Capitaine Frank Furillo)

Barbara Babcock - Grace Gardner

Barbara Babcock


(Grace Gardner)

Taurean Blacque - Detective Neal Washington

Taurean Blacque


(Detective Neal Washington)

Barbara Bosson - Fay Furillo

Barbara Bosson


(Fay Furillo)

Charles Haid - Officier Andrew 'Andy' Renko

Charles Haid


(Officier Andrew 'Andy' Renko)

Jennifer Tilly - Gina Srignoli

Jennifer Tilly


(Gina Srignoli)

Michael Conrad - Sergent Phil Esterhaus

Michael Conrad


(Sergent Phil Esterhaus)

Veronica Hamel - Joyce Davenport

Veronica Hamel


(Joyce Davenport)

Ed Marinaro - Officer Joe Coffey

Ed Marinaro


(Officer Joe Coffey)

Joe Spano - Sergent Detective Henry Goldblume

Joe Spano


(Sergent Detective Henry Goldblume)

Betty Thomas - Sergent Lucy Bates

Betty Thomas


(Sergent Lucy Bates)

James Sikking - Lieutnant Howard Hunter

James Sikking


(Lieutnant Howard Hunter)

Bruce Weitz - Sergent Mick Belker

Bruce Weitz


(Sergent Mick Belker)

Photos

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Trivia

Obviously Hill Street Blues was the beginning of glory for the screenwriter and producer Steven Bochco. Scriptwriter then the late 1960s, he was revealed after writing some columbo intrigues. He writes for a few series without great importance then one day MTM offers him the production of a police series. This will give Hill Street Blues, the first sketch of the renewal of the American police series. The Los Angeles law, NYPD Blue, Murder One or Brooklyn South will follow successfully. Each time, exciting and uncompromising police chronicles. Bochco also has less ambitious but often interesting series like Doctor Doogie, COP Rock, Total Security or City of Angels.

To help him, Bochco called on Gregory Holbit, who has become a prestigious director in Hollywood for a few years: he discovered Edward Norton in Primale fear; He directed Denzel Washington in the witness of evil; Dennis Quaid in prohibited frequency and Bruce Willis in Hart's War. Long before, he worked closely with Steven Bochco. They met in 1979 on the Vampire TV movie, then produced Paris, Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue together.

Be careful, a big moment of television! Hill Street Blues, Steven Bochco's first personal success is a unique date in television fiction. Without it, it is impossible to explain the success of series as emergencies, The Practice, Oz or of course NYPD Blue. Without it, heroes would always be heroes and Manichaeism would always be omnipresent in the series.

Fortunately, Bochco dreamed of freedom. For him and for the viewer. With its authors, he has developed a new way of approaching police series. He knew how to reveal the backdrop without shocking too much. He added to fiction, realism, which makes the adventure as exciting as human. For Bochco, the worst garbage is as interesting as it is the most virtuous. In Hill Street Blues, no one is tried by Bochco and its authors. An in creative and narrative freedom, the producer also offers us the right to form an opinion. Here, investigations haunt the spirit of the cops. The characters sometimes evolve radically. If the episode describes a day in the police station, business is treated more or less quickly. Some cases last a whole season. Bochco breaks the stereotypes, takes the spectator for someone intelligent and for once, a series pushes to think. Without concession, Bochco puts us in front of a particularly human universe, therefore made of conflicts, doubts, errors, violence but also of hope.

Released from all constraints, Bochco was still fired because freedom had a price that he never respected. The series survived at the start of its creator. His characters were too credible and complex to undergo a religit. Like us, they had muri. Like us, any idea of ​​simplification had become unbearable to them.

In the series, some known heads appear. This is the case of Dan Hedaya, Dwight Schlutz, Mimi Rogers, Dennis Dugan, Edward James Olmos, Meg Tilly, Robert Davi, Cch Pournder, Bruce Kirby, William Forsythe, Ally Sheedy, Ron Silver, Jonathan Banks, Alfre Woodard, Michael Ironside, Crispin Glover, Joe Pantoliano, Ron Rifkin, Linda Hamilton, Tim Robbins, Michael Biehn, Miguel Ferrer, Jane Kaczmarek, Jennifer Tilly, James Cromwell, Yaphet Kotto, Elizabeth Pena, Keenen Ivory Wayans. Some have also come a long way like Danny Glover, Forest Whitaker, Frances Mc Dormand or Andy Garcia. Finally, it is fun to see the presence of David Caruso in the first episodes, while the actor, 10 years later, was going to be the show of NYPD Blue with Dennis Franz.

A soap opera that tackled the life of a police station in a more realistic and "dark" way than the police soap operas of the time.

There was a team of police officers who had to fight with the daily problems of their neighborhood. They had nothing superhero, they encountered the problems of "everyone", which gave a realism that

detonated for the time and which created its success.

At the head of the Comissariat, we found Captain Furillo accompanied by his mistress, the pretty lawyer Joyce Davenport. He also had a very strong link with his ex-wife Fay.

His team was made up of Henry Goldblum, Howard Hunter, Ray Calletano, Bobby Hill, his teammate Andy Renko, Joey Coffey, his teammate Lucy Bates as well as Mick Belker, the police permanently under cover.

Their investigations were alert to us for many episodes, mixing a share of humor with a share of sadness and emotion.

Filming

Filming locations:

Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Los Angeles, California, USA

North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA

Republic Studios/CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Ave., Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA

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