Playboy Interview: Hill Street Blues

Playboy Interview: Hill Street BluesOn January 15, 1981, NBC inauspiciously aired an hour-long series pilot called "Hill Street Station." Covering a single day in the life of an inner-city police precinct located in an undesignated metropolis and featuring an oversized ensemble cast of relative unknowns, the show had a frenetic pace and a grittily realistic style. Characters walked in and out of frame, dialog was choppy and overlapping, action was sudden and gut-wrenching and individua...