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, […]
Angel: The Series
He’s hunky, he’s brooding, he’s a do-gooder, and he was Buffy’s first boyfriend. Angel, the tortured vampire destined to walk the earth with a soul, got his own series after three seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and did what any new star might do: he moved to L.A. (the City of Angels–get it?) and […]
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. […]
The Andy Griffith Show: The Series
Since its network debut in 1960, The Andy Griffith Show has been a viewer favorite thanks to its folksy, nostalgic charm and memorable cast, both of which shine in this set featuring the series’ debut season. Originally spun off from an episode of Make Room for Daddy (both series shared producers Sheldon Leonard and Danny […]