• the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Night of the Dead Living", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?

Facts on topics related to Night of the Dead Living

Gone for Goode

• the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?

Homicide: Life on the Street

• Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Dog and Pony Show" after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese?
• Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance"?
• Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?
• James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?
• Detective John Munch's pro-drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "And the Rockets' Dead Glare" were based on actor Richard Belzer's real-life past of drug abuse?
• a scene in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", in which detectives convince a suspect that a copy machine is a lie detector, was based on real-life events within the Baltimore Police Department?
• as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Son of a Gun"?
• the New York Yankees refused to allow its logo to appear in the Homicide: Life on the Street three-part episode "Blood Ties", which featured a subplot involving a murderous Yankees fan?
• the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Shot in the Dark" erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?
• the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Night of the Dead Living", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?

Bop Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street)

• Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?

John Munch

• Detective John Munch's pro-drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "And the Rockets' Dead Glare" were based on actor Richard Belzer's real-life past of drug abuse?
• the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?

Frank Pembleton

• the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Shot in the Dark" erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?