Created by Steven Bochco and one of television’s most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father’s cop show. The Emmy-winning pilot episode, “Hill Street Station,” immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal interface with the police experience. To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, […]
Bewitched: The Series
The first, and perhaps most magical, season of Bewitched still casts an enchanting spell. For escapist fantasy, this series, no doubt inspired by the play Bell, Book and Candle, broke significant television ground.The Stephens were sitcoms’ first mixed marriage. Advertising executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) was mortal, and wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) was a witch. […]
Pride & Prejudice
During the late 18th century, the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet (Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn) and their five daughters—Jane (Rosamund Pike), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), Mary (Talulah Riley), Kitty (Carey Mulligan), and Lydia (Jena Malone)—live in comparative financial independence as gentry on a working farm in rural England. As Longbourn is destined to […]
Walk The Line
In 1968, an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) band as he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny (Ridge Canipe), then known as J.R., grows up the son of a share cropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, […]