Homicide: Life on the Street
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Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television police procedural series chronicling the work of the Baltimore Police Department homicide unit. It ran for seven seasons on the NBC network from 1993 to 1999 and then was followed by a 2000 TV-movie that served as a de facto series finale.
Homicide: Life on the Street was often considered the sister show to the original Law & Order, although it was created by Paul Attanasio and not Dick Wolf. Writer and director Tom Fontana is such a good friend of Dick Wolf that the character Detective Joe Fontana was named after him.
Detective John Munch was a member of the Baltimore PD and later moved to New York and joined the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Unit on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In the Homicide: Life on the Street season three episode "Law and Disorder", Detective Mike Logan (played by Chris Noth) escorted a prisoner awaiting transfer from New York to Baltimore.
[edit] Crossovers
Law & Order has produced three crossover two-parters with Homicide: Life on the Street. A case would begin with Law & Order (the higher-rated show) in New York City for Part One, before moving the action to Baltimore for Part Two.
L&O: "Charm City" season six, episode 13 & Homicide: "For God and Country" season 4, episode 12
- A terrorist attack targeting African-Americans kills 20 people in New York, and the Baltimore cops connect it to an earlier racially-driven attack that killed six people. The cops team up to find a militia leader with vile plans before he gets away with murder.
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Benjamin Bratt as Detective Reynaldo Curtis
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
- J.K. Simmons as Colonel Alexander Rausch
L&O: "Baby, It's You" season eight, episode 6 & Homicide: "Baby, It's You (2)" season 6, episode 5
- A teenage supermodel dies after being sexually assaulted. The dual-city investigation focuses at first on an obsessive fan and later on her father, before a stunning revelation closes the case.
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Benjamin Bratt as Detective Reynaldo Curtis
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
- Carey Lowell as A.D.A. Jamie Ross
- Sam Waterston's name was misspelled "Sam Waterson" in the opening credits.
L&O: "Sideshow" season nine, episode 14 & Homicide: "Sideshow (2)" season 7, episode 15
- A murder investigation in New York leads cops in a maze of intrigue that includes a lesbian hitwoman, gang members, and political machinations both for and against the current Administration.
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Benjamin Bratt as Detective Reynaldo Curtis
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
