"Homicide: Life on the Street"
Gone for Goode (1993)

Director:

Barry Levinson

Writers:

Paul Attanasio (written by)
Paul Attanasio (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993)

Original Air Date:

31 January 1993 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Italian American Cop | Bookends | Jewish Cop | Glock | Detective John Munch

Cast

Daniel Baldwin	...	Det. Beau Felton
Ned Beatty	...	Det. Stanley "The Big Man" Bolander
Richard Belzer	...	Det. John Munch
Andre Braugher	...	Det. Frank Pembleton
Clark Johnson	...	Det. Meldrick Lewis
Yaphet Kotto	...	Lt. Al Giardello
Melissa Leo	...	Det. Sgt. Kay Howard
Jon Polito	...	Det. Steve Crosetti
Kyle Secor	...	Det. Tim Bayliss
Wendy Hughes	...	Dr. Carol Blythe, M.E.
Leonard Jackson	...	Cemetery Manager
Steve Harris	...	Bernard (as Steve J. Harris)
Mary Joy	...	Jerry Jempsen's Ex-wife
Beverly Brigham	...	Mrs. Goode
Alexander Chaplin	...	Johnny (as Alexander Gaberman)

Runtime:

USA:48 min

Trivia:

Joe Hansard, who plays suspect "Jimmy Lee Shields" on the first episode of the first season of "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993), also portrays transient "Nathan Levi Boston" in the fifth episode of the fifth season of David Simon's sister show "The Wire" (2002) (entitled "React Quotes"). Both episodes of both shows aired after The Superbowl.

Quotes:

[it is Detective Tim Bayliss' first day in the homicide unit]
Det. Tim Bayliss: Excuse me, hi - where could I get a cup of coffee?
Det. John Munch: There's a machine on the first floor.
[Bayliss leaves]
Det. Stan Bolander: There's coffee right in there.
Det. John Munch: That's our coffee.

Movie Connections:

References The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Dallas Cowboys 52,Buffalo Bills 17

The afore-mentioned final score was from Super Bowl XXVII,which was the event that this,the premiere episode of this awesome and ground-breaking show piggy-backed on,the evening of January 31,1993.That would add this show to a select(and perhaps infamous)fraternity of shows that have gotten their christening voyage on that un-official American holiday("The A*Team", "Airwolf" and "The Wonder Years" would count among them). A little trivia for ya there.

I recall watching this show on that evening as somewhat of a curiosity,since I was more into the game that night and knew only a token amount of info about the show itself. I recall watching the first half and half-time show(featuring a bizarre lip-synching that occurred halfway through Michael JAckson's halftime show)at a local bar--The Dugout I believe was the name if I recall correctly--which was something for me because I just reached legal drinking age earlier that month,before going back to my college campus apartment to finish the game. The game was a blow-out,but I figured I'd stick around to catch the show on after it,primarily due to the small amount of knowledge about the show I'd had coming in(i.e. produced by Barry Levinson,co-stars Belzer and Beatty)was positive. When I did,I recall that while I wasn't enraptured with it,it was intriguing enough for me to want to catch the next show,which was run the following Tuesday.

I stayed with the initial run of the show for as long as I could that winter. I was impressed with the crispness of the dialog and the dry humor incorporated,but I believe the network's reticence to hold onto the show pretty much caused me to believe that the network was giving up on the show(The four episode abortive mid-season filling shows the following year wouldn't inspire much confidence where that was concerned,either). Thankfully,that would SO NOT be the case.