H4460 HILL STREET BLUES (USA, 1/15/1981-5/12/1987) [TV SERIES]

Series summary: Police melodrama set in a tough neighborhood in a contemporary (though unnamed) American city. One of the regular characters, Sgt. Howard Hunter (James Sikking) who commands the SWAT Team, is characterized as zenophobic and obsessed with militaristic rhetoric stemming from his service in Vietnam.

Little boil blue (11/11/1982)

Credits: director, Dacid Anspaugh ; writer, Robert Earll. Cast: Ed Marinaro, Vincent Lucchesi, Michael Fairman, Larry Riley. Summary: A black Vietnam vet with post-traumatic stress problems takes hostages and eventually forces Officer Joe Coffey (Marinaro), who is also a Vietnam vet, to shoot him to prevent him from killing his wife.

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