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I remember watching this show too.. I just seem to remember a scene where a stink bomb is set off in the police locker room to divert everyone. every other cop has run outside and is responding badly to their exposure. after he & haven surmise that the bomb was a diversion to distract from something going on inside.. haven offers to go inside and retrieve the device... haven's partner, who has shown no reaction to the fumes looks after him and then takes a bite of the sandwich he was about to eat.. takes a bite and then doubles over retching! don't know what it means.. i just remember that scene among the many others i watched on TV all those years ago. ah.. nonstop TV in prime time in the 1970s.. before i had a color TV.. before we had stereo and then VCRS.. then hi fi.. and then at long last hi-def.. and now my generation of kids is getting' gray!

I enjoyed this show too. I was a little kid who watched a lot of TV but this show really stood out. It was funny and well written with quality work from Swofford et al. Baggetta was a real find too playing a real street smart, smart aleck type... an urban Poirot! Seven Ann was the cute kid... Phillips was, if memory serves, delectable as the female lead. Really too bad this one didn't go the distance... ahead of its time perhaps .. years before Goodfellas or the Sopranos would lead to actors like Joe Pesci or movies like Analyze This would allow actors with a distinctly urban Italian attitude and speech to find their services in high demand. Too bad a good guy of this type didn't fly... though if you're a fan of Hill Street Blues.. Baggetta's role as a corrupt cop is one of the most chilling portrayals this side of Ray Sharkey or Dennis Franz!