Talk:Homicide: Life on the Street/Archive 1

What about making a link with the Show NYPD Blue, since both shows are quite based on the same line and have been widely compared ? --Lvr 11:20, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I didn't want to just change this out of the blue, but Max Perlich and Michelle Forbes have both been regulars on the show, however briefly. Perlich's JH Brodie was introduced in season 4, he got promoted at the start of season 5, and then got fired over the summer. Forbes was a regular for most of seasons 5 and 6, although she missed the start of one season and the end of the other.

race
I don't know how to put it exactly, but we should include something here about one of the common critical reactions to Homicide: credit for its no-nonsense, sophisticated look at race and race relations. DanKeshet 20:09, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Scene from "The Documentary"
It's written that "Bayliss and Pembleton" were the ones who came upon Barry Levinson and the film crew filming the "fictional" Homicide. This is wrong. It was partners Lewis and Kellerman, along with Brodie, the cameraman.

I corrected it.--ThomasK 09:02, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Something else regarding that scene: the reason why it was included was because, in real-life, an actual shoplifter had not long ago surrendered to some of "Homicide"'s crewmembers (Richard Belzer was one of them), thinking that they were actual police. In this episode, then, you've got actors playing the "real Homicide unit" "catching" an actor playing a criminal who "surrenders" to the crew of a "fictional" television show called "Homicide," and all of this is based on a real event (oh, and to make things even more meta-referential, in the episode, the "real Homicide unit" is watching this as it takes place on a television documentary about their lives...in essence, an episode of something like the "Homicide" series that we, the viewers, are viewing). It's like art imitating life to, oh, the forth power or something. Anyway, this scene from "The Documentary" is very much like a scene from the episode, "Control," with a criminal peaking from an upstairs window and then attempting to run away by going out the back-door; given that Richard Belzer is in this scene from "Control" and was one of the ones to whom the shoplifter surrendered, I suspect that the "Control" scene is the one during which the encounter with the shoplifter occured.

Complaints about the 2nd Shift's "mess"
Despite what the article says, there was never an instance in which a "Homicide" character complained during one of the TV episodes about messes left by the "Second Shift" characters from the Internet tie-in. Just the opposite, in fact. In a 6th season episode, the second shift's lieutenant (I believe that was his rank) storms into the squadroom complaining to the first shift's lieutenant, Al Giardello, that one of Giardello's detectives has been using a laptop belonging to one of the second shift's detectives in order to play "Minesweeper."

From italics to quotations...back to italics again
To the person who went and edited all of the instances in which the show's title was written inside quotations (i.e. the correct way) to have it in all italics (i.e. the wrong way), here's the rule: book titles and movie titles are in italics; television show titles are in quotations. Take a look at the following link:

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=homicide;s=all

Copyviol on Episode pages
Someone please address this issue - the episode synopses in the subpages are all taken verbatim from TV.com. I know someone went through a lot of trouble doing them up, but unless there's a verifiable assertion that TV.com synopses are public domain, or they are removed/reworded/whatever, I'm afraid I'm going to have to list all of them as copyviolations. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 00:49, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Why Wikiproject Film?
Ummm, not that I have any problem with wikiprojects, but this is a television series and not a film so why exactly has this article been included in said project. Yes, I realize that there was a made-for-tv movie, but that was really, in effect, just a series finale for the television show and not a wholly separate film project. I have looked over the project page, and the template and style instructions do not fit for a television series. Unless someone has a good explanation for this, I am gonig to remove the template. Indrian 05:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've done it for you ! Lvr 23:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)