What the corpus says about Hill Street Blues (1981)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hill Street Blues (1981) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Hill Street Blues (1981) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read) · lineage · Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard. · "try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Yerkovich ↔ Hill Street Blues · people · The pilot's writer came from Hill Street Blues. · "worked on Hill Street Blues, which was this."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30)] E/R ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · The E/R sitcom pilot aired the same night as Miami Vice with a rating of 23 versus 22.8. · "Airing the same night as Miami Vice, which is number two, with 22.8 million."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:48 · unknown (0.30)] Some Kind of Hero ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · Some Kind of Hero was a movie on a rival network in Miami Vice's slot. · "The movie Some Kind of Hero."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ L.A. Takedown · lineage · Watching the pilot feels like a Mann bonus, like The Jericho Mile or L.A. Takedown. · "It feels like watching Jericho Mile or watching LA Town."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ I Am Love · theme · Defending visual beauty against the 'style over substance' charge, using I Am Love's perfume-commercial dismissal. · "I remember when that came out, people were like, it's just like a two-hour perfume commercial."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule. · "And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The X-Files (pilot) · craft · Classic pilots feel like a little complete movie, as with the X-Files pilot. · "it's gonna feel like a little movie about these 2 people meeting and having an adventure"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:25:21 · unknown (0.30)] Lost ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · Lost's pilot is great, the second episode flatter, and the real direction arrives with Walkabout. · "Like, the Lost Pilot is a great pilot."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Hill Street Blues (1981); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hill Street Blues (1981) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.