Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: where is 'Hill Street'? Message-ID: <427@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 13:50:54 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.427 Posted: Sun Oct 28 13:50:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 07:19:13 EST References: <275@haddock.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir) Distribution: na Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 29 ["Book him, Danno: Line-eating in the first degree!" ] Hill Street Blues isn't set anywhere, according to some interviews I've read, and is set in a large city in the eastern half of the country, according to others. Certainly there are no clues from the nature of the plots: (1) Using a phony tavern to catch corrupt city inspectors happened in Chicago (the Mirage Tavern scam was run by the Chicago Sun-Times) (2) Jane Byrne moved into the Cabrini-Green Housing project when she was Mayor of Chicago (not when she was a candidate) (3) The child with the toy gun who got shot by a panicked cop happened in Texas (4) The cop who committed suicide after being hazed by his fellow cops happened in California (I think) etc. Obviously, being from the area, I pick up on Chicago references faster, and I prefer to think of Hill Street as being in Chicago, but there isn't any "place" where it has to be. One refreshing thing about HSB is that it the plots don't have "this is New York" or "this is Los Angeles" written all over them, the way so many TV shows do. On HSB, people don't casually drop into Elaine's for lunch; they go to a luncheon counter in "midtown". The opening credits (cars rolling out of the garage into the snow) was shot in Chicago; I don't know where they shoot the outdoor sequences for the story. -- "HELLO!?...Hi, Ma...no, I'm fine, Ma...look, I'm booking someone now..." Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick