Product Details

• Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, James Sikking
• Directors: Arnold Laven, David Anspaugh, Georg Stanford Brown, Gregory Hoblit, Jeff Bleckner
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006
• Run Time: 850 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHSVC8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,970 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hill Street Blues - Season 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Created by Steven Bochco (?Murder One,? ?NYPD Blue?) and Michael Kozoll, and featuring an ensemble cast including Daniel J. Travanti, Veronica Hamel, Bruce Weitz, Charles Haid, Betty Thomas and James Sikking, each episode chronicled a day-in-the-life of the cops on the beat, starting with the infamous morning roll call and ending with a recap of the day?s events. The first hard-hitting series of its kind, ?Hill Street Blues? garnered 26 Emmy® Awards ? including four for Outstanding Drama ? won two Golden Globes®, and is credited with inspiring beloved dramas such as ?St. Elsewhere,? ?Law & Order? and ?NYPD Blue.?

Customer Reviews

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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars where's season 3?, June 16, 2007

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C. Aubry (Ottawa, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Please, please release season 3 and the other seasons of Hill Street Blues. The first two season were excellent and I want more!


Other fans, please click on my review as helpful so the powers that be can see we want more HSB.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feel good TV...well, why not?, July 2, 2006

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C. Boerger (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hill Street Blues - Season 2 (DVD)

Hill Street Blues is not a happy show per se. Sure, it is frequently funny, but it is a MASH brand of gallows humor. The show is also tragic, violent, gritty, at times it is even emotionally overwhelming. So why do I call it feel good television? Because watching it makes me feel good. I can't describe it exactly, all I can say is that I have turned into a Hill Street Blues addict. It has reached a point where I can't sit down and watch a single episode, I have to watch two, three, even four. God help me, Hill Street Blues is wrecking my social life! But I'm loving every minute of it.

Needless to say, I consider Stephen Bochco's series to be one of the hallmarks of television. It is a brilliant, groundbreaking, highly ambitious program that isn't without its flaws, but then how many great works of art are truly flawless? Strangely enough, it reminds me of the original Star Trek, ahead of its time but also very much a product of its time. Sure, the acting isn't always the greatest, but every actor embodies his or her character so thoroughly that it is impossible to imagine these roles being played by anybody else. Sure, the show can be overly melodramatic, or didactic, or dated, or cliched, or juvenile, or even corny...again, so what? Watching Hill Street Blues is like watching the whole art form of TV undergoing an incubation process, gradually evolving into adulthood. Besides, each episode is so varied due to the ensemble cast and the multilayered style of storytelling that even if you're groaning one minute, you know that you are going to be laughing or crying or simply sitting back and admiring the incredible artistry of the whole thing the next. There may be bad moments, but no bad episodes. Even the opening credits are brilliant. Most TV shows on DVD, I fast forward through the main theme, but not Hill Street Blues, here the opening is an integral part of the rhythm of the show and losing it feels like missing out on something substantial. Hill Street Blues is endlessly entertaining, a joy to watch...feel good television.

I am eagerly looking forward to season three, and also dreading it because I know that I will once again be a slave to my house, to my television set. And loving every minute of it.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gotta have it.........., February 21, 2006

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William W. Miller (Sparks, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hill Street Blues - Season 2 (DVD)

Half way through season one discs and season two will be a must have. Great characters Capt. Furillo, Sgt. Esterhaus, LaRue, Washington, Hunter, Goldblume, et al. If you're not familiar with these names buy season one and then join me in ordering number two. Entertaining story lines mixed with part grit, humor and lots of pathos. Quality TV that stands up well about an inner city police precint. One of the best TV series ever, winner of multiple Emmeys and highly recommended.