In what city was the TV series “Hill Street Blues” (NBC, 1981-87) set?
The city on the TV series “Hill Street Blues” was never named.
Some exteriors in the opening credits were filmed in Chicago.
The city on the TV series “Hill Street Blues” was never named.
Some exteriors in the opening credits were filmed in Chicago.
The last episode of “The Waltons” (CBS, 1972-81) was set on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The series began with a pilot film, “The Homecoming” (CBS, 1971), set during Christmas, 1933.
Marlon Brando played American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell in “Roots: The Next Generation” (ABC, 1977).
Ian Carmichael was the original Lord Peter Wimsey on the PBS TV series. Edward Petherbridge has also played the role. The “Lord Peter Wimsey” stories originally aired on the BBC in Great Britain (1972-75, 1987) and have been carried by PBS on “Masterpiece Theatre” (1971) and “Mystery!” (1981).
A TV network president accept an Emmy and said, “This is the best show I ever canceled” for “He and She,” which ran in 1967-68 on CBS and starred Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. The network president was Mike Dann, of CBS.
Jane Withers was Josephine the Plumber, who sang the praises of Comet Cleanser in the 1960s.
Tenspeed was con artist E. L. Turner (Ben Vereen) and Brown Shoe was Lionel Whitney (Jeff Goldblum). The two ran a Los Angeles detective agency on the TV series “Tenspeed and Brown Shoe”.