If it's of interest, season one of both Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere have been announced for release here in the UK (Region 2) in March, with season two of both shows to follow in June.
I hope you all are right about coming to R1 soon. It's impossible to predict, from what I've seen, when a TV/DVD set will be released (R1) after an R2 release. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it. Some series have been released in R1 6 months after R2. Then again, I'm still waiting for a few R1 releases that have been in R2 for 2-3 years. Let's hope that "St Elsewhere" falls into the "6-month" or sooner catagory.
I was thinking about it more. St. Elsewhere did have tons of modern day music, even if we get them in R1 they might be missing alot of it. For Example Ally Mcbeal is yet to reach R1 because of all the music. I own the R2 sets of that show and they are terrific. So i guess i am gonna go ahead and order the R2 and if R1 is announced in the meantime and intact i will just cancel the other order.
Whats left to say? We're 22 days away from Hill Street Blues - The Comlete 1st Season from streeting. Complete details and cover art is here. Once that comes out, we'll see if sales can convince Fox to do more seasons of that, and hopefully St. Elsewhere as well.
I can't urge fans strongly enough to pick this up! $27.99 at Amazon, a couple less at DVDPlanet (both cheaper than DDD!), and expected to be in stores at Best Buy and Target among others, probably right around $30-ish (give or take a couple of bucks). There's no reason for anyone to skip this set, as far as I can tell. Only a really really bad review would stop me now!
I'm getting it for sure, loved the show, it was a trend setter, I wonder how the Transfers will look since on TV Land there were some awful looking transfers..