Season One, Episode One:”Hill Street Station”
written by Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco
directed by Robert Butler
original airdate: Thursday, January 15, 1981
First rewatch note: This particular installment may feel a little TWOP-y and overlong, but rest assured it’s only because we’re introducing a lot of common series tropes. Expect future posts to be shorter. I hope. (Or, if you think this is just peachy, feel free to let me know.)
Roll Call: 6:53 AM. Unlike most episodes, the roll call doesn’t begin with Phil at the lectern, but as will be the usual nature it does start near the end of Phil’s morning agenda, with item 14: a bunch of kids ripping off social security checks. We see the usual chaos of morning roll call for the first time, with the camera darting about to focus on various cops paying various levels of attention to their desk sergeant; as a device, this will usually just be a red herring but will sometimes indicate guest star officers who have relevant plot points in the episode.
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