Hill Street Blues. It's strange. I recall the series when it was new in the '80s, but never watched it (though I recall my aunt-in-law, a uniformed cop, referring to the show as "my training film"). Both it and NYPD Blue have been running on the Heroes & Icons channel. Despite HSB being almost 40 years old now, I am more drawn to the characters and situations than I ever have been with Det. Sipowicz, his partners and their travails.
Maybe it's precisely because HSB is not so modern; there is almost no mention of computers (which were new to consumers then) and no cell phones. Maybe it's nostalgia, too, or that I simply like the actors better.
Maybe it's precisely because HSB is not so modern; there is almost no mention of computers (which were new to consumers then) and no cell phones. Maybe it's nostalgia, too, or that I simply like the actors better.