Homicide: Life on the Street

[BuckyMcSatan]

Yeah, this one is for you Dude.

Now, Homicide is a "television show" and this is a film forum, but The Boston Herald once said:

"This show is so good, it's hardly TV."

...and I torture my friends whenever the show is mentioned by saying; "The. Best. Cop. Show. Ever. Bar none."

So fuggit, a little UBI for the Homicide Heads out there...

I was reading the Unofficial Companion by David P. Kalat, and he says that two episodes, when first aired, were put out of chronological order:

Episode 9: "The Night of the Dead Living", which produced several continuity errors, including Bayliss still working on the Adena Watson case.

Episode 10: "Bop Gun" - the classic episode with Robin Williams (which I also kind of put on paralell with "The Subway"; guest starring Vincent D'Onofrio)

Anyone who is thinking of, or has already bought the DVD set for Seasons 1&2 will be happy to know that these episodes are put back in their original order.

By the way, Season 3 is due October 29.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by Buck Satan
Yeah, this one is for you Dude..

Awww, you shouldn't have.
:)


Originally posted by Buck Satan
By the way, Season 3 is due October 29.

:happydance:

You know, I spent the better part of six months taping each and every episode off of Bravo when they were running it a couple of years ago specifically so that I could:
a) have the series
b)have the series commercial free
c)have the series commercial free and all the episodes in their intended order.
Thank goodness for Mitsubishi's hi-fi vcr's with pre-roll and frame by frame jog & dial, unquestionably the poor man's video editing system. :tup:

NBC ran episodes out of their intended sequence during seasons three and four and, if memory serves correctly, season five also.
Oddly enough Bravo continued to broadcast the series in NBC's skewed order. Have to wonder what the logic behind that was.

Kalat's book is good and has a ton of information but I feel that Tod Hoffman's official companion is better. ;) He not only covers the television series from every angle but he goes back and follows up on the lives of the original Baltimore city homicide detectives that David Simon profiled in his book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (the book that inspired the series). Heady stuff for raging H:LotS geeks.

Well, I think I'll have a beer and go watch 607. The Subway
Thanks Buck!

[BuckyMcSatan]

No problem Dude...

Did Hoffman write more than one book? I have "Homicide - Life on the Screen" by Tod Hoffman and "The Unofficial Guide" by Kalat.

I actually found (out of these two books) the Unofficial Guide to have more detail pertaining to the episodes and Hoffman's book more to do with behind the scenes.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Is Hoffman's book not subtitled as an official companion? I haven't hauled it from the bookshelf in a few months.
I went through this little period where I burned myself out on all things H:LotS related a year or two ago. I was doing the obsessive-compulsive thing, editing and archiving H:LotS episodes off of Bravo, re-reading David Simon's novel, Hoffman's book, Kalat's companion, looking for connections to H:LotS in HBO's Oz and NBC's Law & Order: SVU and reading David Simon and Ed Burns' The Corner and of course archiving that when Showcase ran HBO's mini-series interpretation of The Corner, and of course I was looking for more H:LotS connections.

Anyway, burn out ensued and I stopped reading Kalat's book about midway through. I just haul it out for reference now and again. I think I like Hoffman's book more because of the background info. Revisiting the original detectives closes the whole experience up quite nicely.

Now, with A&E apparently devoting themselves to releasing the series on disc (I hope) that obsessiveness is going to return, big time, so I may end up finshing Kalat's book.

C&L Internet club has season three priced at $85 CDN and Amazon.ca has it at $77 CDN. Pretty pricey! :eek:

[El Duderino Diablo]

but DaVinci's Inquest is out on DVD (first season I presume). I'd had no idea that it was being offered on disc until I stumbled accross it surfing my local disc pimp's website.
To anyone who doesn't know of DaVinci's Inquest it is a Homicide-like Canadian show about a coroner and a few cops, but try not to hold that against it.

[El Duderino Diablo]

HOMICIDE:COMPLETE 4TH SEASON
Catalog Number: AAE71114DV, UPC# 733961711141
Release date Mar 30,2004.

[BuckyMcSatan]

Originally posted by The Dude
HOMICIDE:COMPLETE 4TH SEASON
Catalog Number: AAE71114DV, UPC# 733961711141
Release date Mar 30,2004.


Yeeeeee-HAWWW!

I watched the entire 2 and 3 seasons while I was sick... best medicine I can think of...

[El Duderino Diablo]

Picked up season four yesterday and, as usual, it's an excellent package. Right now I'm watching the episode entitled The Hat with a commentary track featuring Clark Johnson (Meldrick Lewis) and writer Anya Epstein. Great stuff, I wish they'd done/do a couple more episodes with commentary per set. This is great commentary.