Word: travanti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
More is to come. Hill Street Blues will ring down its curtain this week with Frank and Joyce (Daniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel) heading closer to a permanent split as she leaves for Paris; a character on St. Elsewhere with liver cancer will take a turn for the worse; and Officer Chris Cagney (Sharon Gless) will believe she is pregnant as Cagney & Lacey departs for its summer vacation. Dallas' season finale is still a deep secret, but hints are that the enemies of J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) may have something ominous in store for the dastardly oilman. Most...
...eyes dew up as Jerry Lewis describes the ache he feels for a departed grandmother. From the past, Cottle shifts (after the obligatory commercial) to the present. He wants Elizabeth Ashley to recount the horror of a back-alley abortion. He leans forward and demands of Daniel Travanti whether he has "the courage to fall in love" with his sultry Hill Street Blues costar, Veronica Hamel. Cottle's sign-off is generally a smarmy show-biz compliment. To Martin Mull: "I feel rather blessed to know a man like...
...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...