Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete First Series on DVD

Recently shown on ITV4 having originally been broadcast in the 1990s on Channel 4, Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete First Series captures the gritty reality of life for a team of homicide detectives in the front line of crime fighting. The ensemble cast includes Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Superman II), Andre Braugher (Poseidon), and Yaphet Koto (Alien) as members of the squad who combat gangland killings, serial murders and crimes of passion on the streets of Baltimore. The officers use their team spirit, loyalty and humour to keep them sane.

At it’s time, the show was unique in its style, featuring no car chases and gunfights but focussing on the closing of cases and the act of the crime that is usually never seen. Cases are kept track of on a board, with open cases under the primary detective's name shown in red ink and when the case is closed the red is replaced by black ink.

The series was shot entirely with handheld cameras on location in the Fells Point Community of Baltimore, MD and based on the book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon who spent a year with members of Baltimore's homicide unit making this one of the most reality- based police drama that has ever aired on television.

Homicide: Life on the Street is available to buy now!

Thanks to Fremantle Home Entertainment, Digital Spy is giving FIVE lucky readers the chance to walk away with a copy of the DVD box set each.

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Homicide: Life on the Street originally aired on which channel?

a) BBC One
b) ITV1
c) Channel 4

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