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    Country
    Runtime 43 min – 1 hr 35 min
    Premiere: World January 22, 1981
    Channel NBC
    Premiere: USA January 15, 1981
    Digital: World June 10, 2019
    Production Companies MTM EnterprisesMTM Productions
    Also Known As
    Hill Street Station (United States)

    Description

    The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.
    s1: e1 — Season 1, Episode 1  

    Hill Street Station (Pilot)

    January 15, 1981 8.2
    s1: e2 — Season 1, Episode 2  

    Presidential Fever

    January 17, 1981 7.7
    s1: e3 — Season 1, Episode 3  

    Politics as Usual

    January 22, 1981 7.8
    s1: e4 — Season 1, Episode 4  

    Can World War III be an Attitude?

    January 24, 1981 7.9
    s1: e5 — Season 1, Episode 5  

    Double Jeopardy

    January 31, 1981 8.1
    s1: e6 — Season 1, Episode 6  

    Film at Eleven

    February 7, 1981 7.8
    s1: e7 — Season 1, Episode 7  

    Choice Cut

    February 14, 1981 7.7
    s1: e8 — Season 1, Episode 8  

    Up in Arms

    February 21, 1981 7.8
    s1: e9 — Season 1, Episode 9  

    Your Kind, My Kind, Humankind

    February 28, 1981 7.7
    s1: e10 — Season 1, Episode 10  

    Gatorbait

    March 7, 1981 7.8
    s1: e11 — Season 1, Episode 11  

    Life, Death, Eternity

    March 14, 1981 8.0
    s1: e12 — Season 1, Episode 12  

    I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin

    March 21, 1981 7.9
    s1: e13 — Season 1, Episode 13  

    Fecund Hand Rose

    March 25, 1981 7.9
    s1: e14 — Season 1, Episode 14  

    Rites of Spring (1)

    May 19, 1981 8.1
    s1: e15 — Season 1, Episode 15  

    Rites of Spring (2)

    May 19, 1981 8.1
    s1: e16 — Season 1, Episode 16  

    Jungle Madness (1)

    May 26, 1981 8.4
    s1: e17 — Season 1, Episode 17  

    Jungle Madness (2)

    May 26, 1981 8.4

    Сast and Crew

    Production

    Hill Street Blues employed what was, at that time, a unique style of camera usage for weeknight television productions, such as filming close in with action cuts rapidly between stories. Rather than studio (floor) cameras, handhelds were used to enhance this style. Overheard, off-screen dialogue aurally-augmented the "documentary" feel with respect to the filmed action of a scene.

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