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re: What was the first modern-style TV drama?
Posted on 3/8/22 at 5:17 pm to 3nOut
Posted on 3/8/22 at 5:17 pm to 3nOut
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Dallas
Hill Street Blues
St Elsewhere
And LA Law, Thirtysomething. Family was sort of a precursor. It was 70s.
This genre was developed in the 80s. Yes, it evolved more, but these were the basics.
This post was edited on 3/8/22 at 5:23 pm
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Posted on 3/8/22 at 5:19 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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Let's rephrase it and say that modern TV dramas have production quality on par with movies.
That's more like technology rather than story development. The story is what makes it a a drama like you are discussing and nothing more.
Posted on 3/8/22 at 8:04 pm to LaLadyinTx
Would "My So-called Life" count?
1994 with Claire Danes and Jared Leto
1994 with Claire Danes and Jared Leto
Posted on 3/8/22 at 9:00 pm to UndercoverBryologist
quote:These are your answers.
The Mary Tyler Moore company invented the modern TV drama in 1981 and 1982 with Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere
They would both be hit shows today. Thoroughly modern presentation. Great acting, and very well written. Big ensemble casts that gave you both great single-episode stories, and long-running stories (I guess both the cop and the hospital genres lend to that).
I loved the HSB episode arc where Howard (the SWAT commander) buys a surplus Sherman tank for crowd control.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 9:07 am to Scoob
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Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere
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These are your answers.
They would both be hit shows today. Thoroughly modern presentation. Great acting, and very well written.
I loved and followed HSB like a stalker, but the difference between Hill Street and NYPD Blue is night and day. HSB had some pretty cartoonish characters (Mick Belker for example).
Posted on 3/9/22 at 9:34 am to Fewer Kilometers
quote:Oh, lots of those guys were a little on the extreme side...
I loved and followed HSB like a stalker, but the difference between Hill Street and NYPD Blue is night and day. HSB had some pretty cartoonish characters (Mick Belker for example).
Belker the insane undercover guy.
Renko the redneck cracka- but he had Bobby Hill's back
Larue the con man (I'm sure he's trading crypto every day if it's modern).
What was the role of the guy who eventually became the FBI dude on NCIS? I remember him being soft-spoken and wearing sweaters a lot, was one of Frank's advisors. Was he a lieutenant?
Speaking of NYPD Blue, I still saw Sipowitz as the dirty cop because of HSB. Took awhile to lose that stigma.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 3:03 pm to Scoob
They have both been mentioned, but the first two I thought of were Hill Street Blues and The X- Files as precursors to modern TV shows.
I think The Sopranos started the modern era.
I think The Sopranos started the modern era.
Posted on 3/10/22 at 10:52 pm to TheTideMustRoll
Thirtysomething (1987)
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