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...move was expected. Hill Street's ratings have been on a downward slide, and last December the series was unceremoniously evicted from its longtime Thursday-night time slot. Several cast members, including Daniel J. Travanti (Captain Frank Furillo), had said they would leave after this season. The show's producer, MTM Enterprises, was reluctant to continue churning out the expensive hourlong episodes (average cost: $1.5 million). "There was no financial reason to go on," says Executive Producer David Milch, "and aesthetically nothing left to prove...
Critic Richard Corliss's praise of Hill Street Blues is by far the best analysis of the series I have read, yet Corliss misses the point of the relationship between Captain Francis Furillo and Joyce Davenport. Joyce is not only Frank's girlfriend, but a defense attorney. The question of whether a policeman should have a personal relationship with someone on the other side of a case is raised each time the two meet. To call Joyce "Frank's elegant girlfriend" is an injustice to her role. Mark L. Curelop Brockton, Mass...
...Bruce Weitz) thinks he's Serpico; everybody else thinks he's psycho. In charge of the carnage and chaos is Captain Francis Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti), a good, strong man breeding an ulcer while trying to do a tough job. At the end of every crisis-strewn day, each superb show, Furillo struggles home in an uneasy truce with his job, his willful woman (Veronica Hamel) and himself. Doubtless, he feels very much like Fred Silverman. Viewers will do him and themselves a favor by visiting Hill Street as often as possible...
Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their retirement. Suffused with the warmth of an adoring child who has recognized the mortality of his idols, the book was an endearing autobiography as well as a finely-tooled bit of nostalgia...
...Wait'll next year!" rose over Flatbush. After Brooklyn finally defeated their Bronx rival in 1955 and then resumed their brilliant bumbling, the cry became "Wait'll last year!" The team was still one of the most exciting ever to take the field. There were Furillo's long, accurate throws from right field, Billy Cox's impossible, spidery stops at third, and Preacher Roe's spitballs...