LEFT ON THE HILL

“Hill Street Blues” dies with Tuesday’s show--and what dies with it are some old subplots from the card file.

Exec producer Jeffrey Lewis told us a few. Imagine if you will . . .

Renko gets a personal organizer, “one of those big silly things they sell for 50 bucks,” with space for his finances, his horoscope and his personal goals. He’s embarrassed when it is stolen and the gang reads about his weird lifetime ambitions.

Renko’s wife puts a haddock in his briefcase. “He’s acting officious somewhere with his briefcase, and there’s this big fish in it. . . .”

A cop is paralyzed by a bullet from the waist down, but does his/her job bravely, precinct-bound. Possible target for shot and courageous convalescence was Lucy Bates. But the producers decided against it “because we had just killed Joe Coffey (played by Ed Marinaro) and we decided we couldn’t kill him and cripple Bates at the same time.”

Hill and Renko secretly moonlight at a reggae club so that Renko can see his favorite band. The club is robbed and they’re taken hostage inside.

Neal Washington gets involved in an Herbalife-type vitamin-selling program. When an FDA report says the vitamins are harmful, his colleagues blame him for their new aches and pains.

Lewis said that stories from the dead-plot file may just turn up on the spin-off series “Beverly Hills Buntz,” which is up for the fall NBC schedule.