";s:4:"text";s:4646:" It got a lot of controversy at the time because the pilot show had (for TV) a pretty graphic scene where a man gets shot in the head. I was so bummed during the last episode cause I wanted it to keep going for more than just one season. Every borough of New York City is a different county. Kings County is Brooklyn, and vice versa; they are one and the same. Song of the South DVD is a film for the ages but it does have have some racial stereotypes throughout the movie based on the time it was released in 1946. It's just too bad that this series was not renewed after the first (and only) season. Disc have light to no scracthes.
I have to disagree with the others who have posted in praise of "Brooklyn South." Disney continues to refuse to release Song Of The South DVD. ; Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc.; CBS Entertainment (Firm); A & E Home Video (Firm); New Video Group. We lost a good series here. "Brooklyn South", from the minds who brought us "NYPD Blue", is a one-season-wonder TV drama series about the street cops at the 74th precinct in Brooklyn, NY. Summary: Brooklyn South was a short-running American ensemble police series, created and produced by David Milch. 9 out of 12 found this helpful. Later, when it was released on DVD, I decided to give it another chance primarily on the strength of the superb first episode alone. Was this review helpful? I watched perhaps 4 episodes before I gave up on it during it's network TV run. Created by Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, William M. Finkelstein. Product Promotions. 1 out of 3 found this helpful. Even Hill Street Blues featured the street officer in uniform, but was almost comedic when you consider the reflection of this mythical police department, where the officers didn't conform to the departmental regulation of the uniform..officers were allowed to wear corporate baseball caps, cowboy boots etc..with no fear of reprisal.
It's 16 hours of great entertainment and you can pick it up fairly cheap on line. BROOKLYN SOUTH COMPLETE SERIES, DVD. A tremendous cast of Gary Basaraba who made the show go..but outstanding performances by actors like James Sitking ( Hill Street Blues, Dylan Walsh, Michael Deluise (from NYPD Blue )Titus Welliver,Jon Tenny and Richard Jones. With some perspective, I think the first episodes were the best, filmed on location, not in L.A., as they did later, and dealing with real situations street cops might meet. There was a lot of unrealized potential left on the table in Brooklyn South, and it was one of the few - very few - programs that I faithfully tuned into week to week. This show may be realistic, it may be well acted, but it doesn't have the spark that either "Hill Street Blues", "NYPD Blue", or to a less extant "S.W.A.T" did.
The series targeted the very essence of police work and that is, working the streets. Given what the choices are today, 10 years later..it should be welcomed back..regardless of critic opinion and "ratings". Brooklyn South is a crime drama that aired on CBS.. Was this review helpful? The beat cop--"blue collar" feel was just much more interesting to me than the constant "heavy drama" of NYPD which is a fine show. Klea Scott and Yancy Butler portrayed women police officers who interacted very well with their counterparts week after week and did their jobs very well. Was this review helpful? I have watch a lot of police shows and movies in my time and this one is equal if not better than most of them, I still can not believe they took it off the air after only one year but they did the same thing to the Blue Knight and look how great that TV show was and still is, there is no accounting for taste in this world some people do not no what they are missing in good shows! So, just because life doesn't require sitting through at Roll Calls, patrolling the streets, nor attendance in various Court Rooms, from Traffic Court to Felony Courts and the Grand Jury; the identity is still the same, a Cop. It has the same tone and feel as NYPD Blue but I have to say I liked the cops in this show a whole lot more.