{"id":4058,"date":"2012-11-15T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2018-01-17T05:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:01:24","slug":"was-an-episode-of-hill-street-blues-re-shot-to-bring-officer-joe-coffey-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2012\/11\/15\/was-an-episode-of-hill-street-blues-re-shot-to-bring-officer-joe-coffey-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Was an Episode of Hill Street Blues Re-Shot to Bring Officer Joe Coffey Back to Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: A Hill Street Blues episode was actually re-shot after airing to show a character who was killed surviving his attack so that they could bring him back.<\/p>\n

The first season of Hill Street Blues was meant to only be thirteen episodes, but NBC asked for some more at the end, so Stephen Bochco and company put together two two-hour movies that worked basically like a mini-series within a series, with essentially a four-hour long episode of the show. In the episode, a few new characters debuted who would stick around, including some narcotics cops and Officer Joe Coffey, played by Ed Marinaro.<\/p>\n

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