", 19. Sikking: We had (punning) titles on all of our shows. Nobody will ever see it. But (Standards) said, Youve been so successful, it could get an Emmy: And the winner is Hill Street Blues segment Moon Over Uranus. We cant have that. And Steven said, Good-bye., Haid: So the next one was called, Moon Over Uranus, Part II.. Spano: I wasnt the Goldblume type. And we knew, once you find out a guys got thin skin, hes toast. He was, art. Maybe he was unwell at an earlier stage of his life. Not his usual role, he told Playboy in 1983. LaRue could have been a one-note sitcom character who happened to star in a gritty cop show, but Martin imbued him with so much soul that he came across as a fully realized, three-dimensional hero. 24. The cremation canister was given to the stationhouse and everybody went by and shook it and did things like that. 9. A woman walks in , Weitz: She walked up to the counter and said, Id like a chicken, please. Belker pulls out the chicken from the case and the woman spreads the chickens legs, puts her nose in the cavity, comes out with a horrible look on her face and said, I want a fresh chicken.. For its sophomore season, the show claimed all five nomination spots in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, with Michael Conrad getting the win. HSB.net: Ramona Silipo said you are never happier than when you are doing theatre and especially when you are doing On December 28, 1990, he died of lung cancer at the age of 46. Hunter was often the shows comic relief. Haid: He didnt let us know for a long time. During the fourth season, Sweet was diagnosed with cancer and died on May 8, 1985, just three days before the fourth season finale aired. Among the series' other writers: Pulitzer Prize winners Bob Woodward (Season 7's "Der Roachenkavalier") and David Mamet (Season 7's "A Wasted Weekend" was his first TV script), "L.A. Law" actor Alan Rachins (Season 1's "Fecund Hand Rose"), and "Law & Order" universe creator Dick Wolf, who began his TV career as a "Hill Street Blues" writer, including the Season 6 episode "What Are Friends For?" Repeat after me: Good. contact with. HSB.net: What of the future. But he had excellent timing. After his plane was shot down on a mission, he served two years as a Prisoner of War. The project fell into the hands of producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll at MTM Enterprises. The building, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, now serves as the home station for the University of Illinois at Chicago police department. Joe: (laughing): I was never a bow tie man but I think I may still have one or two hanging around at home. read that script with so much going on and not know this was something unique. Aaron Spelling launched a similar series, "Hotel," in 1983. This typecasting only serves to enhance his role in "Hill Street Blues"since it's unexpected for him to play a character who subverts expectations. I spoke a few times with Barbra Bosson. They had done 13 episodes, and they got an order for four more, and the character of Joe Coffey was in those HSB.net: Can you tell us a little about how the show was structured with regards to forward planning, for example It was clearly something very different to other programs of the And I dont know how many great projects there will be in my life, and Im not going to screw this one up. Following the conclusion of "Homicide," Kotto mostly retired, though he made sporadic appearances in his later years. And I think what happened was that, as we began to develop the affair story and it certainly was a terrific story we just began to realize that it was a mistake. That's one dangerously sexy redhead, indeed. His final television appearance was in a 2006 episode of "The Sopranos." Unusually there were no egos and Veronica Hamel . Haid: Thats why it said (in the credits), Charles Haid as Renko.. Throughout the first four seasons, Conrad starred as Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, the wise and paternal authority figure who cared for the safety of the officers under his command. Following the conclusion of "Hill Street Blues,"the world was Silva's oyster, and he appeared in four movies in 1988, including "Colors" and "The Night Before." the first episode. But we also didn't want to take it too seriously, the winning of awards. And they left it on the air, and it was my favorite moment ever. But if you see the episodes, you see how much fun we were having. to do the best we could for them and the script. (NBC) told me the character had tested so well, they didnt want him to die. He said, Stop it. With rare exceptions, every episode of the show took place over the course of a single day, beginning with roll call and ending with the characters played byDaniel J. Travanti and Veronica Hamel discussing the events of the day, usually in the context of pillow talk. He died on March 23, 1990, from AIDS, the first of two Hill Street Blues stars to die that year. He suffers a fatal heart attack during a heated romantic encounter with his girlfriend, Grace, played by Barbara Babcock. Joe Santos appeared in small roles in a handful of films in the late 1960s, but his first major film was 1971's "The Panic in Needle Park,"with Al Pacino and Kiel Martin. Female police officers still tend to be looked upon with less trust and respect than male officers and are treated more as sex objects in their departments. Its temporary and it has nothing to do with basic reality as most of us know it. dramatic sort of down and dirty, but then Hoblit said he wanted something to go with an idea he had in his head, for a opening garage "We were anything but heroes. If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction issues, help is available. The portrayal of law enforcement people was so different," says Marinaro, who's in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a movie sequel to his Spike TV comedy "Blue Mountain State. Without that it is hard to know a great deal about where it was 22. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Actor Kiel Martin, who played shady detective Johnny ``J.D.'' Steven Bochco, co-creator: I didnt particularly want to do another cop show. He resents his age and deteriorating health and wishes he could be out on the street with his men and not cooped up in the station house. In fact what happened was in Kiel's will he set aside some Instead of the paternal, "Be careful out there,"Jablonski ended his daily roll call with the more combative phrase,"Do it to them before they do it to us." His mother Eileen called me in Miami to see if I was coming to Palm Springs for the celebration and I told her it James B. Sikking . Webmaster Andy Lambert with Joe Spano,Calabasas Commons, California. HSB.net: Did you get a chance to make changes? But we decided Hill Street should have some kind of service. Menu. In the second season episode, The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded, Martins character LaRue was demoted to the motor pool for falling off the wagon. Michael Warren was regular and I think Keil Martin, Taurean Blacque, Michael Conrad and James Sikking along with After 'Hill Street Blues' ended, Spano appeared in series like 'Murder One,' 'The X-Files,' and 'NYPD Blue.' Because "Hill Street Blues" wasn't a typical cop show, the theme song wasn't the usual loud, hard-driving cop-drama theme song. Dont bother me. And the third one came out and Steven wrote, Moon Over Uranus: The Final Chapter. Just to stick it in their ears. The Young, the Beautiful and the Degraded. Betty Thomas . This three-episode arc from the first season, beginning with "Gatorbait"and ending with"I Never Promised You a Rose, Marvin," features Dolph Sweet as Schneider, a middle-aged cop who's lost his way. The tune became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981, earned a pair of Grammys, and is part of a body of work that inspired Pete Townsend to write the song "Mike Post Theme" for The Who's 2006 album "Endless Wire.". Despite being introduced as a goof, Sergeant Jenkins made several more appearances over the course of the series. J.D. Joyce Davenport. Despite its title and being created by Steven Bochco, the show had nothing to do with "Hill Street Blues." Sikking: The guy called up, he was screaming, You cant put that on there. Steven said, I can, too. I would say, Well, stroke my bishop. 2. With rising ratings came the joys and pitfalls of fame. I said, thats perfect. Martin: It was the first time in my career I played a part where I wasnt some terrible creep. She does the exact same thing. Co-star Daniel J. Travanti reminisced that, during his time on Hill Street Blues, Enrquez was "sad, unhappy He could twist arms and pat backs. Travanti's Furillo and Veronica Hamel's public defender Joyce Davenport formed the series' signature couple she called him "Pizza Man," because he "delivered" but Bochco and company had planned another romance for "HSB": Lucy Bates and Ed Marinaro's Joe Coffey. His name was Joe Stone and was stunt instrumental in saving Kiel's job and getting him into Betty Ford for rehab. There are too many loose ends. And (the network) said OK. Now were stuck with it. Haid: We would come up with every euphemism for masturbation we could come up with. We should have won 10. Hunter was often the shows Coffey's girlfriend is sexually assaulted. The hardest part to cast was the police captain, Francis X. have to say things like "Goldblume would never do that" I think all of us contributed to expanding our characters to some degree and of Then he had to deal with it. that would shortly follow. Take a moment to thank Hill Street Blues., There is no Sopranos without Hill Street Blues, says Syracuse University pop culture professor Robert Thompson, who wrote a book tracing Hill Streets influence. Bochco: We did stuff in that show Id never seen before anywhere. When I got there, I went over to the offices and they were in the middle of a casting session. Andy Renko. Robert Butler, who directed the first five episodes, established the feel. So I got Belker and left the door open for Kiel to LaRue. Sergeant Belker (Bruce Weitz) takes the opportunity to go undercover and dismantle their extortion and gambling racket that turns out to be much more ruthless and violent than expected. Conrad earned critical praise for his performance, winning two Emmy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category. Another athlete-turned-actor on "Hill Street Blues": Michael Warren, a standout player on UCLA's 1967 and 1968 national champion basketball teams. In the theatre everything is much more intermit, with a stronger connection and But at the end of that first season, this was all still in the future. Bochco: At the end of the meeting, I got up and said, We cant do this project. Marinaro: I asked to leave. It took us a year or so to clean all that stuff up. It was a tremendous loss personally for everybody, professionally and especially a man like that who was like a block of granite. In Season 5, actor Robert Prosky was brought in to play Sgt. The husky tough-guy actor gives a tremendous performance in his scant few scenes; it's a testament to series lead Daniel J. Travanti that he is able to match Sweet during the more emotionally-charged moments. Was it a handful, that kind of creativity? It was well-written, boldly directed and creatively revolutionary. Other cast members included Michael Conrad (Phil Esterhaus), Michael Warren (Bobby Hill), Betty Thomas (Lucy Bates), Taurean Blacque (Neal Washington), Veronica Hamel (Joyce Davenport), Rene Enriquez (Ray Calletano) and Barbara Bosson (Fay Furillo). On "Hill Street Blues,"his death was written into the show, though his cause of death was changed. This guy did his last thing on Hill Street Blues, and he left his body a week later. 14. Buntz was fired from the PD and moved to Beverly Hills to become a private eye in the short-lived "Blues" spinoff "Beverly Hills Buntz," a comedy created by David Milch and Jeffrey Lewis. Ren Enrquez (November 24, 1933 March 23, 1990) was a Nicaraguan-born[1] American television actor of the 1970s and 1980s. Sikking, however, saw his humanity. Martin (to Playboy, 1983): The writers are very perceptive reporters. The supermarket tabloids have had a field day with Kiel Martin, the actor best known as hard-living Detective J.D. LaRue of Hill Street Blues. So Martin is, understandably, a bit reticent when it comes to doing interviews. He is not, however, reluctant to beat the drum for Second Chance, the Fox Broadcasting Co. sitcom in which he stars. Buff my Oscar! As the show grew over the course of its seven-season run, the characters grew and changed, and their flaws would frequently catch up to them, leading to their untimely, tragic, and avoidable deaths. Afterwards I went to a meeting with Bochco and some of the executives, I had an idea in my head for something Outside of "Hill Street Blues," Conrad was mainly a hardworking television actor, appearing on shows as varied as "Little House on the Prairie"and "The Incredible Hulk"to "All in the Family" and "The Bob Newhart Show." On the big screen, he made a notable appearance in 1974's "The Longest Yard," alongside Burt Reynolds. On Hill Street, Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the stations SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. would call it a conventional route to a career in acting. Corner Bakery, Calabasas Commons over Coffee. The Cast Of NBC-TV's Hill Street Blues. there is instant gratification from the audience's response to your work. One of the saddest events of Hill Streets run involved Michael Conrad. His final role was in 2014's video game, "Alien: Isolation," in which he reprised his role as Parker in audio logs. Dennis Franz joined the cast. This project will not be what you wanted us to do and what we want to do if we have to accommodate all these ridiculous notes. And I left. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). But Haid was a busy man with a recent role in the film Altered States and a medical pilot in the works. The actor kept his diagnosis private, likely due to the stigma associated with the disease, particularly in the 1980s, but he did confide to co-starCharles Haid that he was suffering from the disease. practical jokes on each other. Are you going to do it that way? And we all said yeah, what about it? Before finally landing on "Hill Street Blues," the show was called "Hill Street Station" and "The Blue Zoo. The lanky actor was a veteran of dozens of shows and movies but largely unknown until he landed the role of Esterhaus, the stations duty sergeant, who ended each episodes introductory roll call with the phrase, Lets be careful out there.. "Ironic, isn't it?" Bochco: For sport, Kiel would poke at Michael Conrad just to provoke him. Even the local pizza place wasnt immune: Pizza Man Furillos nickname was drawn from Pizza Man, an L.A. chain. indeed, an amazing guy. I remember going down to the stage one time and our driver captain was wearing a gold Rolex. "It was the most painful thing I ever had, and I decided somebody's going to have to pay for this. LaRue of Hill Street Blues. All Rights Reserved. Marinaro: We were way ahead of our time. scene you are not going to get much feedback from them. Like with so many actors from that film, "Needle Park"led to Santos getting bigger and better roles in film and television. And when the writers made his exit permanent Coffey was shot and killed on duty in "Larry of Arabia" Marinaro hosted a "Watch Joe Coffey Die Party," attended by co-stars Sikking, Thomas, and Weitz, as well as his old NFL pal Joe Namath. pulled off by one of the number and on the odd occasion been moved to tears by story line, particularly the scene where Veronica Hamel The show followed with a special episode in which the group said goodbye to the character and Conrad. Robert Prosky replaced Conrad. was too tough for me. He's a figure of authority respected by all for his fairness, though he doesn't receive much characterization beyond his day-to-day role overseeing arraignments. So we used to just brutally go after Michael. Joe: It has been a pleasure chatting to you guys and I promise I will put a good word in with those I am still in I knew I was going to get another job no matter what, and that was the time to do it. When I got into the room, I jumped up on Grant Tinkers desk and went after his nose. "Steven put a reference to him in one of the shows. Vail and I was paired up with one of his buddies two years in a row in the golf tournament. The series ratings for its first season were less impressive. Also of course Michael Kozoll was the writer. Joe: When Nancy ( Robert Hirschfeld widow) told me of your efforts in creating the website, I felt it would be good to on to a desolate inner city street, with a police car speeding out of it! The only "Hill Street Blues" star nominated for an Emmy in each of the series' seven seasons: Betty Thomas, who played the squad's only female officer, Lucy Bates. Id killed every Gdamned thing in America, including nuns and babies. co-ordinator for a TV show called Falcon Crest. A relatively minor character, Oberman always keeps his cool and rarely raises his voice. be partners with "Washington". But, the real boil belonged to Bochco. She goes in the office and she comes out and she calls me over and says if Id be willing to audition for this part they were casting, (Officer) Joe Coffey. Joe: Much of the same I guess. So half the time, things that were going on in the background were in fact the elements of stories and character relationships that would emerge in the foreground two episodes from now. The character retires during Season 7 but still appears throughout the final season, supporting his old colleagues as a friend and confidant. Kotto died seven years later, in 2021. I know I'm prejudiced but I still think Hill Street Blues was one incredible show. Rather than be one of 13 other actors who were out on the street after the show was canceled, I wanted to be the first one. I real don't know He moved to NY from LA to be with me, and acting was only occasional, so Bob By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. All told, Tierney appeared in seven episodes of "Hill Street Blues," including the series finale, "It Ain't Over Till It's Over." Haid: I owe my career to Steven Bochco. He was 77 years old. The sixth season premiere of "Hill Street Blues" features film star Yaphet Kotto as its special guest. Many of us who were in the series, heard of the initial additions What happened to Martin in these weeks? The main characters were perceived as being not capable and having flawed personalities. "We had Joe and Lucy having an affair," Bochco told Playboy in 1983. Bochco: Talk about the early 80s. Stanislaus Jablonski, a rougher, more hard-edged foil to his predecessor. We won everything. Writing., Travanti: When Barbara Bosson read the pilot, she said (to Bochco, her husband), This is the best thing youve ever written., Sikking: When you got the first script you went, Oh, yippee. Hunter was often the shows comic relief. HSB.net: She is an incredible lady who has a great enthusiasm for helping the website, but of course you must have LaRue Actor. "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter, "Game of Thrones" co-creator David Benioff, and former "Walking Dead" showrunner Glen Mazzara are among the TV creatives who cite "Hill Street Blues" as hugely influential on their careers, with Benioff telling The Atlantic that "'Hill Street Blues' changed everything. "I got a boil on my a-- when I went to London last year," Bochco told Playboy in 1983. WebKiel Martin succumbed to lung cancer on December 28. But I was always disappointed that I didnt end up playing Renko. Unlike his character, Enrquez was born in Nicaragua, not Colombia. He is best remembered for his role as Lt. Ray Calletano in the long-running television series Hill Street Blues (19811987).[2][3]. your life and we are inclined to want to talk about that. 16. Bochco also wanted to cast Charles Haid. Marinaro decided he was done in Season 6. Hill Street did not come off as a real police station. Bochco and Kozoll met with the network brass. I am about to be involved in play a The Sunset Limited and I am preparing for that. That was important. [Howard] Hunter is with Linda Wolfowitz and she says, 'I'm Jewish, and you'd have to convert if we were to marry.' I was a free agent again, and I auditioned for Hill Street Blues. NYPD Blue. Weitz: It was devastating. 5. Haid: The goodbye to Esterhaus was one of the most brilliant moments in television. Abso-friggin-lutely. In the Season 1 finale, "Jungle Madness," Capt. Cast members Charles Haid, Ed Marinaro, James B. Sikking and Bruce Weitz spoke with CNN on the phone. Without question the high point of my professional life. Michael Warren . He got his start in a 1968 episode of "N.Y.P.D.," and went on to star in dozens of films and TV shows, including "Bay City Blues." Then Bochco asked me what I thought and I suggested doing something opposite to that, light but conveying the non stop excitement Im doing these movies and Ive got this other thing lined up. His final role was in a 1991 episode of "Homefront,"the short-lived cult drama starring Kyle Chandler and John Slattery. A Warner Bros. HSB.net:Was there an indication for those of you on the inside that the series was going to be such a success But sobriety is the keystone of who I am now.". And they didnt know. idea. "Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series" is now available on DVD from Shout! When Steven ran into Sammy, he told him about it, and there was a moment when we both thought he wasn't going to think it was funny. But it wasn't always a smooth road to classic TV status. So we scripted everything. 1. Bates is given serious consideration for Sergeant. Joe:(smiling) That's actors for you! Although he was His character has a notable arc during the series, beginning as a glorified extra in the pilot and a minor character for the first two seasons before getting his own storylines in Season 3 and beyond. But everything sort of gelled, my character worked well with everyone else, and And when he picked us, he sent me a copy of the NBC press release and he hand-scrawled across it: Youre going to sweep the Emmys and go on to become a great hit Fred. Thats exactly what happened. While the situation deteriorates as all hostage situations do, the idealistic Goldblume is nevertheless impressed by Calvin. Bochco: Personalities were just so volatile. The role followed appearances in many TV series, including "The Virginian" and "Gunsmoke. 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