Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series 1993–1999)

Top rated TV #177

Won 4 Primetime Emmys
- 25 wins & 82 nominations total

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Kellerman, P.I. (Part 1)

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Lines Of Fire

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Homicide.Com

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Truth Will Out

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Brotherly Love

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Wanted Dead Or Alive (Part 2)

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Just An Old Fashioned Love Song

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Shades Of Gray

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Identity Crisis

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Watch Homicide: Life On The Street: Zen And The Art Of Murder

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Richard Belzer

Detective John Munch

Clark Johnson

Detective Meldrick Lewis

Yaphet Kotto

Lieutenant Al Giardello

Kyle Secor

Detective Tim Bayliss

Andre Braugher

Detective Frank Pembleton…

Melissa Leo

Kay Howard…

Reed Diamond

Mike Kellerman

Sharon Ziman

Naomi

Peter Gerety

Stuart Gharty

Jon Seda

Paul Falsone

Isabella Hofmann

Megan Russert

Callie Thorne

Laura Ballard

Toni Lewis

Terri Stivers

Clayton LeBouef

Col. George Barnfather…

Zeljko Ivanek

ASA Ed Danvers

Max Perlich

J.H. Brodie

Daniel Baldwin

Beau Felton

Ned Beatty

Stanley Bolander

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Trivia
In 1988, Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon joined the Baltimore Police Homicide Unit as a civilian assistant in order to chronicle a year in the life of a big-city homicide squad. His extensive notes, interviews, and observations were eventually published as the book, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets." This book served as the inspiration for the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993). Much of the first and second seasons are taken from actual events recounted in the book.

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In a number of episodes, in-vehicle shots with a "back seat" perspective often show that the vehicle being filmed in is in fact a Chrysler-produced sedan. Note the older star-in-pentagon emblem on the steering wheel instead of the Chevy Cavaliers that the detectives drive. This is likely due to the lower headroom in the Cavalier, making it difficult to film that perspective.

Quotes
Det. Frank Pembleton: You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I'm not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live, the less I know. I should know more. I should know the coffee's killing me. You're suspicious of your suspicions? I'm jealous, Kay; I'm so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts. Me? I'm going to lock up a 14-year-old kid for what could be the rest of his natural life. I got to do this. This is my job. This is the deal. This is the law. This is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it any more. It's all in the caffeine.

Connections
Featured in The 45th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1993)

So glad, I live in a country that still offers reruns

Like everybody before me told, this is THE best police story ever made.

The photography, the personages, the direction and last but not least the music. It's the first series where I noticed that a song was completely played, while all the actors kept moving, doing what they have to do, but without dialogues. If you are a scriptwriter it's a dream when you can accomplish this. The action counts. But then, as a cherry on a pie, the dialogues are perfect too.

Too bad we get this only once a week and then at a past midnight hour.

I was very surprised to learn this series originated from a book. Got that information from this web-site. I'm still full of praise but on the go for the Amazon book store. :-)