Word: bochco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe the problem is that the show's creators did not follow Sergeant Esterhaus' advice: they weren't careful out there. Writers-Producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Producer Gregory Hoblit and Director Robert Butler devised a "cop show" with no screaming car chases, no shining superheroes or disposable villains, no instant solutions to a ghetto full of predators and wary prey. Each episode tracks a day in the life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied...
...actually work for a living, and those people became the focus for some of TV's finest series: Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati (all by craftsmen who worked for, or had graduated from, MTM Enterprises). In Hill Street Blues (written for MTM by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, and directed by Robert Butler), all is motion and commotion; for Hill Street is part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues...