Hill Street Blues Was A Police Drama That Lasted 7 Seasons. Hill Street Blues Won Many Awards During Its Run. The Show Was Suppose To Take Place In A Fictional City. The Police Station Is In Chicago And The Police Cars Have A Chicago Look To Them But Most Of The Series Was Filmed In Los Angeles. The Show Used Downtown Los Angeles A Lot And Because The Series Is Over 30 Years Old Quite A Few Locations Are Either Gone Now Or Have A Much Different Look To Them. I Will List The Filming Locations By Season On Here But So Far Only Season 1 And 2 Are Available On DVD.
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The exterior shots of the police station are located at 999 W. Maxwell St., Chicago, IL
ReplyDelete943 W. Maxwell
DeleteThe exterior of the bar where the cops hang out after their shift was located on Grand and Franklin in Chicago (since demolished).
ReplyDeleteDo you remember the name of the real bar?. I remember the exterior shown in an episode and it had a palm tree in lights.
Deletewhich episode is the Rosenheim mansion featured in?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. I only got through the first two seasons.
DeleteI feel it is interesting, I hope you continue to have good posts like this to share.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise the Hill Street station is an actual police station. I notice the roller doors (from the first shot on the has been made into a pedestrian door and the side ramp has been built on, both still have drop kerbs.
ReplyDeleteIts used by the UIC campus police now. the whole area is now very different from back then. And the Station is used sometimes on Chicago PD and one block away is the Firehouse from Chicago Fire. Also near there is the medical center used for Chicago Med
DeleteDoes anyone remember the episode having a scene inside a bar in Marina Del Rey Ca. I think the bar was Flanigans inside Big Daddy's.
ReplyDeleteI didnt check, Notify me,
DeleteWas curious as the opening for Hill Street Blues viaduct areas on the street in the background. Is that truly Chicago, or Milwaukee? Reason why is that those viaduct scenes look like Milwaukee.
ReplyDeleteIf it is the same ones, I am thinking of then it is Chicago
DeleteThere was an episode from Season 3 where Joyce Davenport told Frank that the Phillies were going to be in town. This was before interleague play, so it would've been a National League town. Milwaukee was in the AL back then. From some of the streets mentioned, I used to think it was Brooklyn, but anymore, I think it was just some generic northern city.
ReplyDeleteChicago is a dual league town. Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs.
DeleteAnother thing. MAD magazine did a parody of the show, and one panel had a group of bikers standing around, one of them saying something to the effect of "This is filmed in Los Angeles, but everyone knows it's supposed to be Chicago." It showed drawings of palm trees. One of the writers was from Pittsburgh, and one of the neighborhoods is the Hill District, but there again, I think it was just an amalgam of several northern cities. I will say one thing, though. The city elected a black mayor right around the time Chicago elected one.
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