Actor Taurean Blacque, who reached a career zenith for his Emmy Award-nominated role as Detective Neal Washington on the 1980s crime drama Hill Street Blues, died Thursday at the age of 82, his son ...

Before there was "The Wire," before there was "The Shield," before there was even "Law & Order," there was "Hill Street Blues." While it may not be as well remembered in the 21st century as other ...

What was Hill Street Blues? Hill Street Blues was not the first police procedural. Premiering in 1981, Stephen Bochco’s series quickly changed how television series covered the subject forever. Rather ...

Hill Street Blues rewrote the rules of television drama. Set inside an overworked urban precinct within an unnamed city, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll's gritty series introduced a level of realism ...

Hill Street Blues premiered on television in 1981. A staple in NBC’s lineup, Hill Street Blues focused on the department and staff of a police station in a large, unnamed city. The show featured an ...

The series, created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, set the gold standard for its “docudrama” approach: its innovative use of handheld cameras and quick-cut editing and the way in which it ...

Steven Bochco, the visionary television producer who co-created pioneering series like Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law, died Sunday following a long battle with leukemia. Bochco was 74.

“Hill Street Blues'” James Sikking (far left) “Loves His Pipe Tobacco” episode (1981) Screen capture via YouTube. Actor James Sikking, who had television roles on “Hill Street Blues” and “Doogie ...

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When Hill Street Blues premiered on NBC in January 1981, nobody quite knew what to do with it. The show Bochco and Kozoll created had a setting that, by 1981, was already familiar to audiences. In a ...

Bosson received five Emmy nominations for her performance on the police procedural. Barbara Bosson, the Emmy-nominated actor best known for her work on the acclaimed police drama “Hill Street Blues,” ...