[net.tv] Hill Street Blues is 'back'

evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (01/24/86)

Well, after watching what began as the weakest season in HSB history just
as religiously as I always have, my persistence appears to have paid off.
The shows since Christmas break have been as good as ever!  The story with
Mick's (LONG awaited) wedding, and all the other stuff has been handled in
vintage HSB style.  It has just taken some time, with Bochco gone, I guess
for the new writers/the writers without Bochco, to get their respective
acts back together again.

I am again proud to be a long-time HSB fan.

P.S. To the guy who wrote the HSB quiz: Did you get my answers?  We've been
having mail problems here.
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krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz) (01/28/86)

Evan Marcus writes:

> Well, after watching what began as the weakest season in HSB history just
> as religiously as I always have, my persistence appears to have paid off.
> The shows since Christmas break have been as good as ever!  

> I am again proud to be a long-time HSB fan.

> P.S. To the guy who wrote the HSB quiz: Did you get my answers?  We've been
> having mail problems here.

Yes, Evan, I did; and thanks, everybody, for the amazing response!!!  I
would post a winner (the same person who I thought would win early on
still looks like the champ unless I get a perfect sheet very soon), but
I'm still getting about a response a day.  A results posting within the
first week of February is promised.

I also agree that Hill Street has righted itself after a kind of lackluster
start this year.  I think it had a lot to do with the supposed format 
changes that NBC was going to push through to cut production costs; i.e.,
less characters onscreen at once, shorter, one-part storylines, etc.
This doesn't appear to have been kept up, though; we're back to the
usual brilliance of past seasons.  PRaise be his name...