Pre-Millenial Television: Baltimore Po-lice Posted by Gargleman

Det. Stan Bolander: It’s hard to meet single woman on this job. You meet plenty of widows, but the timing just don’t seem right.

Before The Wire, there was Homicide: Life On The Street.

Now The Wire is widely regarded as the best TV show ever made, so its going to take quite some nostalgia trip to find something better, but the lead contender has to be Homicide: Life on the Street.

Also set in Baltimore, and created by The Wire creator and writer David Simon, Homicide was gritty, grim and hardly watched when it originally aired back in the 1990s. It also featured many of the same supporting cast.

It was quite different from The Wire, though – it was all about the police, though there were recurring villains like Luther Mahoney, as well as some rather dodgy cops. › Continue reading