Oh! I remember Cracker -- it aired here on A & E, and then there was a pale USian copy that flunked out on a big network. The original with Robbie Coltrane was so much better.

Nutty - have you read the original Homicide book?

Have I read? My fandom goes both deep and wide. It's an entertaining book, and a little creepy to read if you pick it up after having seen and known the TV series for years.

Oh, I loved Cracker. The remake was deadly, though.

Heh. Funniest part of the finale of the series for many Baltimorans (I think it was the finale): two detectives eating their way through Little Italy and Fells Point, IIRC. For locals it was neat how true they stayed to the actual geography and neighborhoods of the city,

I think it was the finale

Either that or the movie.

So far? My own take is that the original Cracker and H:LOTS were the tw best cop-shows ever. Of course, I'l still waiting to see "The Bill" and it comes highly recced.

The one that made it final final. A couple years ago.

For locals it was neat how true they stayed to the actual geography and neighborhoods of the city,

My aunt lives in Baltimore, and watched the show faithfully, like the evening news. She reports that the only time the geography or proper names were ever wrong was the name of the school in the Jerry Uba episode. (The one with the pet pig.) She said it was probably because the school didn't want its name associated with hostages and violence, not a mistake on the writers' part.

This is the "police force" that used to shoot on the streets of Baltimore, and a fleeing purse-snatcher tried to surrender to the cast one day between shots. The real cops showed up in hot pursuit a few minutes later, and laffed and laffed at the poor dumb actors.

Nutty, that's one of my favourite anecdotes about H:LOTS. They sort of referred to it in the episode where in the beginning, Lewis and Kellerman chased a robbery guy down an alley, he jumped into a scene being shot, and Barry Levinson glared and yelled "CUT!"

That's the documentary episode, which has scenes of the various detectives talking about Miranda warnings. In the Box.

I moved to B'more 6 years ago, after having watched HLOTS only now & then before that (no tv). But after moving here? Oh definitely, and not just because it helped me get the neighborhood figured out (they aren't on maps as such!)

Nutty - have you read the original Homicide book? There's fantastic sequence where Simon explains that there are no circumstances whatsoever where waiving your right of silence isn't a dumb-ass move.

Yesssss. Also the sequence where they discuss how homicide detectives get confessions.