30 years ago today Hill Street Blues made it’s debut, lasting for 7 seasons and eventually attracting great crime writers like as Robert Ward.
It’s important to remember that a show like The Wire was not formed in a vacuum but stood on the shoulders of the great shows that came before it and Hill Street Blues was an important show.
The show’s birthday snuck up on me so I have nothing planned but there is no better way to remember then to watch the classic opener and let the word’s of Sergeant Esterhaus take us out.
“Let’s be careful out there”
good spot and a nice point about the Wire and earlier classics. i was mature enough when HSB came out to appreciate some of the subtleties which in previous cop shows may have washed over me (mature + old).
and i was always jealous of the baths the pizza man had – all those bubbles.