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12 'Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, January 15, 1981 ft mm 1 Subscribe to WTTWChannel 11 The ABC News Magazine Marilynn Preston on TV Can formulas be harmful to your infant's health? Geraldo Rivera The Paper Chase 7:00 p.m. Prof. Kingsfield (John Houseman) is back to strike fear into the hearts of first-year law students. Hart gets off to a bad start with Kingsfield in the premiere episode. The hostage families' other ordeal.

For the last 14 months, hostage families have endured a relentless media assault. Sylvia Chase reports V. New cops are gritty and at times even witty on now iney ve tr 1 in roA nnn nit 9 continues his Investigative report on potentially harmful baby formulas that were on supermarket shelves as recently as three years ago. whether the media will allow them' any privacy when their loved ones return. RITTY REALISM.

Urban ghetto warfare. Crazed cops and hopeless victims. That's the way NBC was selling "Hill Street Blues" the first time I. saw the open- ing episode. It was months ago at a press screening in L.A.-land, and NBC's entertainment chief, Brandon Tartikoff, was lavishing his boyish enthusiasm on "HSB," promising the 100 or more critics gathered that this new cop series wasn't just another cop scries It was going to be different better more realistic.

And then he introduced Steve Bochco and Michael Kozoll to tell us why. Bochco and Kozoll are the writing team that came up with the concept, created the show, and serve as executive producers. They were enthusiastic about the show, too, and so was their boss at MTM Productions, Grant Tinker. "Hill Street Blues" was gonna be a tough, honest look at what life was "really" like inside a hellhole precinct deep in the bowels of some large and suf-ierine bifi city. I remember Bochco and Kozoll made Earth, Wind and Fire Head to the Sky I How one of America's hottest rock groups has km inked personal philosophy with phenomenal musical success.

Tom Hoving reports. ft lW MS. 1 Sneak Previews 8:00 p.m. WTTW film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel come not to praise but to pan their candidates for the "dogs of the year'ythe worst movies of 1980. Host-Hugh Downs 1 Thus aa ir.adu Miintlo By ire Curpcislion for Public BroadCjWrg.

that point over and over "Hill Street Blues" was, above all, rooted in reality. Now, the publicity campaign has shifted. The actors' strike postponed the premiere, and now "Hill Street Blues" finally has made it onto the schedule as a new kind of NBC comedy show. Tartikoff, Tinker, Bochco, and Kozoll still have high hopes lor the series, but now, I can't help but notice, the NBC press department is calling it a "humorous police drama." HERE ARE SOME of the funny things that happen in the first episode, at 9 p.m. Thursday on V7MAQ-Ch.

5: A cop is yelled at by Capt. Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti) for arresting the wrong man. The arresting officer had been given the wrong address (ha-ha), and now Capt. Furillo is upset with him for beating up the man with a board.

"We had to, boss," the funny cop says. "We couldn't get his at- tention!" The beautiful and bright public defender (Veronica Hamel) comes to the police station looking for her client. The police have him in custody, but, 1 somehow, they have "misplaced" him (ha-ha). He is due in court in 45 minutes, but the laugh's on her because the cops wiggle out of it by making up a story about the guy being in the hospital. She stalks out, fuming, and threatens to (ha-ha) file an action against the police.

Two officers are called in to break up a domestic quarrel. A black woman has a knife and wants to do damage to her old daughter and new husband for (ha-ha) sleeping together. "But it was just one time the husband says. One cop steps in and settles the quarrel. Part of the settlement is telling the woman her husband might act differently if she made herself more (ha-ha) available to him.

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in (ha-ha) slow motion. The joke's on you if you think "Hill Street Blues" is just "Barney Miller" with guns. It is tough and gritty, and while it's not without it's lighter moments Did I tell you about the bizarre Mick Belker, the undercover detective who likes to bite people's ankles? it's not going to give you the kind of chuckles sweet dreams are made of. INDEED. "HILL STREET Blues" feels more like a nightmare dark, risky, anything can happen.

It is a well-written, powerful look at a community of cops and robbers, do-gooders and do-badders. tough guys and street gals whose major goal in life is to survive the one day and go on to the next. The glimpses we get of their life in between is the glue that holds this promising new series together. The stones. Bochco says, will stand alone from week lo week, but certain threads and themes will be developed so each episode gets you more involved with the major characters.

With Trevanti's character, for instance, we quickly find out he's got a shrewish ex-wife named Faye, who hates him and his bouncing alimony checks. In the midst of a sick and serious hostage crisis that is the centerpiece of the first episode, she tells him his son has a gender identity problem because he, the father, is a cop. I suppose that was meant to be one of the funny lines, too. But seriously, folks, if you like action and comedy and satire and soap and sex and violence and human drama And who doesn't? you might grow to like "Hill Street Blues." In future episodes, a cop accepts a bribe from a drug-dealing fellow cop. the President of the United States gets permission from Latin street gangs to walk in the neighborhood, and Furillo's ex is booked on marijuana charges.

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