<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Chronology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Beverly Hills Buntz </Td> </Tr> <P> Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for 146 episodes . The show chronicled the lives of the staff of a single police station located on the fictional Hill Street, in an unnamed large city, with "blues" being a slang term for police officers for their blue uniforms . The show received critical acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada . Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy Awards, a debut season record surpassed only by The West Wing . The show received 98 Emmy nominations during its run . </P> <P> MTM Enterprises developed the series on behalf of NBC, appointing Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll as series writers . The writers were allowed considerable creative freedom and created a series that brought together a number of emerging ideas in TV drama for the first time . Each episode featured a number of intertwined storylines, some of which were resolved within the episode, with others developing over a number of episodes throughout a season . The conflicts between the work lives and private lives of the individual characters were also large elements of storylines . </P>

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