Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | ||
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| S1 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | |||||||||
| S2 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.1 | ||||||
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | ||
| S4 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | ||
| S5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.3 | |
| S6 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | ||
| S7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.6 |
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"The blueprint for every ensemble cop drama since"
Hill Street Blues follows the officers, detectives, and commanders of a rundown urban police precinct through their overlapping cases, politics, and personal messes. Each episode juggles multiple storylines that start at the morning roll call and spill into the street with a loose, documentary-style camera and overlapping dialogue. It's slower and grittier than modern cop shows, more interested in bureaucracy, burnout, and moral gray zones than shootouts. The pace can feel dated, but the ensemble writing and sense of a whole precinct breathing together were groundbreaking, and you can feel decades of later TV drama borrowing directly from it.
the ensemble roll-call structure that basically invented the modern multi-storyline police drama.
you want fast, self-contained episodes rather than slow-building, overlapping precinct storylines.
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