"Hill Street Blues" Freedom's Last Stand (1982)

Director:

Gregory Hoblit

Writers:

Michael Kozoll (story) and
Steven Bochco (story) ...

TV Series:

"Hill Street Blues" (1981)

Original Air Date:

28 January 1982 (Season 2, Episode 11)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Inner City | Police | Cult TV | Gang Warfare | Policewoman

Cast

Daniel J. Travanti	...	Capt. Frank Furillo
Michael Conrad	...	Sgt. Phil Esterhaus
Michael Warren	...	Officer Robert 'Bobby' Hill
Bruce Weitz	...	Sgt. Mick Belker
James Sikking	...	Lt. Howard Hunter (as James B. Sikking)
Joe Spano	...	Det. Henry Goldblume
Barbara Bosson	...	Fay Furillo
Taurean Blacque	...	Det. Neal Washington
Kiel Martin	...	Officer John 'J.D.' LaRue
René Enríquez	...	Lt. Ray Calletano
Betty Thomas	...	Officer Lucy Bates
Ed Marinaro	...	Officer Joe Coffey
Charles Haid	...	Officer Andrew Renko
Veronica Hamel	...	Joyce Davenport
Dennis Dugan	...	Captain Freedom

Loved Captain Freedom

I just caught this again recently. There is just something so funny and touching about the whole episode, from Captain Freedom himself, to the really funny freak-out of the shoplifter girl!

Hill Street Blues made even the smallest parts mean something, while not slighting the beloved regulars.

Dennis Dugan (Captain Freedom) has mostly gone on to direct, but I sure enjoyed him as an actor.

If anybody has caught any non-IMDb mentions of him acting in recent years, how was he?

The whole series was pretty amazing, and now that I am catching random ones again, I get reminded of favorite characters:

--the guy from NYPD blue and the loud jacket salesman...a buddy team...I can't remember his name.

Anybody know?

Anybody else remember that shoplifter scene? THe guys were doing a stakeout in a drug store and to pass the time, they started flirting with a girl in the store.

She starts freaking out and pulls out of her bag a hair dryer, and a bunch of other junk and begs them not to arrest her, 'cuz she's seeing a shrink.