January 15, 1981. One of TV's best cop shows premiered on this night on NBC, in 1981. It won eight Emmys the first year, and scored a total of 98 nominations in its eight years on the air. The style and production techniques influenced TV for decades to come, with its overlapping conversations, many-episode arcs, and over a dozen regular characters to keep track of. Do you remember the episode in which regular Howard Hunter faced the camera while pointing a gun at his head, and then (just after the camera went black, as it did at the end of each show), pulling the trigger?
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