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>>>Interesting fact:
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>>>Sipowicz from NYPD Blue (Dennis Franz) appeared in one or two episodes of "Hillie" where he was picking on, I think, Bobby Hill. They squared up for a fight but Franz sucker-punched him. Later that episode, Franz was found dead. Yet in a later series he joined the cast as one of our heroes, Lt Bunz. His character was exactly the same as that of his dead persona, as his later performance AS Sipowicz, as the @sshole security cop in Die Hard II, as, indeed, ANY role I've seen him in. OTOH his sarcastic, caustic char I loved most in NYPD Blue.
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>>I don't recall that the two HSB characters had the same name. I "think" his name was "Bad Sal Benedetto - haven't googled this, strictly from memory.
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>No, I didn't mean they had the same name, merely that the actor appeared in the series, died, and was resurected as another character.
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>>I do recall that "Bad Sal" (who sucker-punched Andy Renko and was then flattened by Bobby Hill) was among the most riveting in the history of the show. The final scene where he kills himself is a true classic.
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>Ah, it was Renko he sucker-punched? Long time ago (over 20 years) since I've seen the series. They were repeating it on digital last year but it was too late at night even for me.
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The first two seasons (at least) are on DVD as well.