Is it out on DVD? St. E, that is? I missed more than I saw, but I did like.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I think it was out on video tape, but I donot know if it ever got burned to dvd.
Largo -- did you just feel like you had to choose between them? Because they were both on NBC, right?
did you just feel like you had to choose between them? Because they were both on NBC, right?
Right (though, "Hill Street" was on opposite "Knots Landing," and that was the show I would drop everything for back in the day). I just looked forward more to "Elsewhere" when TVLand acquired the MTM library, b/c, it was all good and soap-like.
ETA: I know it seems odd for a second- or third-grader (circa 1986-87) to be all "tied up in KNOTS," so to speak, but it's the truth. I swear it. I can't say I was a Doogie Howser, or anything, but back then, I had zero patience for alot of shows you'd think a kid my age would've enjoyed. (I think alot of it had to do w/ having only one sibling who was nine years older than I, and whom I wanted to show I wasn't just some annoying tag-along.) When other kids were watching cartoons and Miller-Boyett sitcoms, I was watching the NBC Thursday night lineup (or whatever).
Unfortunately, neither "Hill Street Blues," nor "St. Elsewhere," is out on DVD at the moment. But, "The White Shadow," another, underrated drama series from MTM, will be, next month; so, you know, "hope springs eternal," and all that.
"The White Shadow"
I loved this show! I had such a crush on Ken Howard.
Another show I'm praying will come to DVD: "The Rockford Files." I discovered it when I was living in L.A. (thanks, KDOC), and from the first wise Jim Rockford cracked, I was in love (w/ the show, not w/ the Garner). If I could create a detective series in the same vein as "Rockford," believe me, I'd die happy.
I have been in love with James Garner since I was a little little girl. I loved Maverick and The Rockford Files.
I have been in love with James Garner since I was a little little girl.
Oh yeah. I still think he looks amazingly sexy in the opening credits. That grin! Swoon. And Rockford definitely had one of the best theme songs ever.
Johnson points out that Hill Street Blues was one of the first shows that combined the complexity of multithreaded over multiple episodes and seasons storytelling with complex social issues.Nobody gives daytime its due.
I'm psyched that they've started putting COLUMBO out on DVD. I LOVED the structure of the show - watch the celebrity guest star (Johnny Cash was on it once!) killer set up the "perfect" murder, then watch Columbo unravel it step by step.