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Homicide: Life on the Street was an American television police procedural series, chronicling the work of a fictional Baltimore Police Department homicide unit. It ran for seven consecutive seasons on the NBC network, from the year 1993 to 1999 and then was followed by a 2000 TV-movie that served as a de facto series finale. The series was based on David Simon’s nonfiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, and many characters and stories used throughout the show’s seven seasons were based on individuals and events depicted in the book. Although Homicide features an ensemble cast, Andre Braugher (who portrayed Det. Frank Pembleton) eventually emerged as the series’ excellent star.

Homicide’s purpose was to provide us fans, with a no-nonsense, police procedural-type glimpse into the lives of a squad of inner-city detectives. Homicide initially opted for a bleak sort of realism in its depiction of ‘The Job’, portraying it as repetitive, spiritually draining, an existential threat to one’s psyche, often glamour and glory free but, nonetheless, a social necessity.

In the 2000 TV movie filmed after the series ended, Homicide: The Movie, the squad’s former lieutenant, Al Giardello, is running for mayor (on a controversial pro-drug-legalization platform, a reference to Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke) and is close to victory when he is shot during a campaign speech.

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