HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET: FULL COURT PRESS (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic police series about a department of reflective homicide detectives in Baltimore, Maryland. In this episode, a high school basketball star is murdered, and the death toll linked to the Mahoney organization mounts. Mark McCarron was a legend in his high school and among basketball lovers and college recruiters everywhere. When Munch and Gharty investigate, they hear glowing reports of a golden boy who was the apple of everyone's eye. But as they dig deeper, they learn that Mark had a hidden sadistic streak that might have made him some enemies among the student body. Also, Ballard and Kellerman investigate the shooting of a man named Calvin Barnes and find that he is the fifth murder victim in two weeks affiliated with the Mahoney family. Increasingly jaded, Kellerman has contempt for Barnes and other drug runners who are killed, and he sneaks over to the FBI in an effort to get Judge Gibbons in trouble for his shady dealings with the Mahoney family. Meanwhile, Ballard, Stivers, and Falsone are confounded by what appears to be a civil war among Georgia Rae Mahoney's people. And although Lewis is suspended from the department, he is secretly conducting his own undercover investigation. Falsone is the only one aware that Lewis is involved in the Mahoney war, but Lewis insists on keeping his master plan to himself. Finally, when Pembleton and Bayliss try to track down a small-time stick-up man, they stumble upon a major drug trafficker, much to Barnfather and Giardello's delight. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by The Marc Haas and Helen Hotze Haas Foundations, 1999.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: April 3, 1998 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:46:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:52592
- GENRE: Drama, police
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1993-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Barry Levinson … Executive Producer
- Tom Fontana … Executive Producer
- Jim Finnerty … Co-Executive Producer
- Julie Martin … Supervising Producer
- James Yoshimura … Supervising Producer
- Anya Epstein … Producer
- David Simon … Producer
- Gail Mutrux … Consulting Producer
- Eric Overmyer … Consulting Producer
- Clark Johnson … Director
- Paul Attanasio … Created by
- Philip B. Epstein … Writer
- Anya Epstein … Writer
- Julie Martin … Writer
- David Simon … Based on the book by
- Douglas J. Cuomo … Music by
- Lynn F. Kowal … Theme Music by
- Richard Belzer … Cast, Det. John Munch
- Andre Braugher … Cast, Det. Frank Pembleton
- Reed Diamond … Cast, Det. Mike Kellerman
- Peter Gerety … Cast, Det. Stu Gharty
- Clark Johnson … Cast, Det. Meldrick Lewis
- Yaphet Kotto … Cast, Lt. Al Giardello
- Kyle Secor … Cast, Det. Tim Bayliss
- Jon Seda … Cast, Det. Paul Falsone
- Callie Thorne … Cast, Det. Laura Ballard
- Toni Lewis … Cast, Det. Terri Stivers
- Steve Burns … Cast, David Tarnofski
- Reg. E. Cathey … Cast, Bernard Weeks
- Clayton LeBouef … Cast, Col. Barnfather
- Granville Adams … Cast, Officer Jeff Westby
- Harlee McBride … Cast, Alyssa Dyer
- Jay Spadaro … Cast, Officer Salermo
- Victor Bevine … Cast, Officer Lester Sanders
- Stan Brown … Cast, Rick Janka
- Gregory Michael Cooke … Cast, FBI Agent Bauer
- Mary Ellen Nester … Cast, Claudia Owens
- Steve Watson … Cast, Mark McCarron