Homicide: Life on the Street: classic or the best show ever created?

I have not read the book, I'll try and find it.

They explain this away by having someone (Kellerman?) confront him about it once he becomes a Homicide detective and he says that later (after the patrolman call episode) he got beat up in the process of chasing somebody and it forced him to confront his fears and realize that the fear of injury was worse than the actual injury. It's kind of a b.s. brushoff explanation, but it is an attempt at an explanation.

xpost, oh yeah, he was McNulty's judge pal.

These must be season seven characters. Should I even bother with season seven? I'm kind of curious given all the hints about stuff that happens to Bayliss.

I loved watching all the Homicides. I'm shocked there's a 7th season? I thought the finale, which I thought was the last episode of season 6, had a really strange ending. So I guess Bayliss lives then? Does he have any trouble recovering like Pembleton did with his stroke?

Though, you know, I thought I remembered someone saying Bayliss was the only character in ALL of the seasons, so I thought it was weird that pembleton was still around in 6. But now I know there's a 7th and that pembleton leaves...

One thing I didn't like about the show was how many of the main characters were killed off. I think they could have come up with better explanations for taking the characters off the show. On the other hand, some of the explanations they did come up with (like for the female ex-shift commander who ends up in France) seemed totally thrown together. They'd mention it for like one second and then act like that person never existed after that (except for her character, actually, since she did come back when Beau got shot).

Remind me how all their stories end, because I can't remember (ie: where the characters supposedly end up).

The movie sounds so AWFUL based purely on the plot summary amy gave way upthread. Enough with the crew getting shot already!

Also, what was up with Russert being related to Tim Russert? Did some crew member just have a Tim Russert connection they wanted to exploit?

Pembleton: Ends up teaching.
Bayliss: WATCH THE FINAL SEASON AND THEN THE MOVIE
Lewis: No diff.
Howard: Transfers out.
Kellerman: Eats a lot of food.
Gee: WATCH THE MOVIE
Russert: Goes to France, comes back a lot.
Munch: Fucks off to New York to hang with Ice T, leaves Lewis holding the bag, Waterfront-wise.
Bolander: Never visits.
Latter-days cast: NOT MUCH.
Mike Giardello: Beats people up while Kellerman eats food.
Felton & Crosetti: WATCH THE MOVIE!
Scheiner: Falls asleep at parties.

I remember reading in Homicide: Life on the Streets. The Official Companion that he also got arrested in between seasons for brandishing a gun in public.

He also appeared in Beautiful Girls if I remember correctly.

From here:
http://userweb.suscom.net/~homicide/glossary.htm

Kellerman was on Law and Order last night!

And I was watching, um, "Escape from L.A." the other day and hot coroner lady and her mole were in it.

um, was 'Ghost Of A Chance', the second epsiode:
http://epguides.com/HomicideLifeontheStreet/

A good friend tells me that the video editors for The Wire work next door to him, so I might get some advance poop on the new season, set to start in March. Ideally, you know, their edit suite would be some Narnia-like room where I could suddenly become the rookie cop on the show, but I'm not sure exactly how that works so I don't want to get too excited in advance if that part doesn't work out.

"itv 4 will launch in full on sky on 07/11/05... itv4 will be on epg at 120..."

so it should be available now.

(i have episode 2 if you need it)

was wondering this morning whether anyone had a complete list of the names on the board and which episodes they feature in.

itv4 are dicking around with the schedules a bit, episodes are being dropped for random films and stuff (between parts 2 and 3 of the last storyline for instance) and this week there appears to be a friday episode on top of the sunday episode.

(i have started the aforementioned list of names on the boards in my palm pilot. some numbers have 3 names associated with them.)