A brief look at the history of "Homicide: Life on the Street", one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the people on the show, as well as behind the camera. The primary focus of this PBS documentary is the "Subway" episode which aired on December 5, 1997 on NBC. This two-hour documentary follows the "Subway" episode from conception to award nominations.
Direction
Bogosian captures creative chaos without sanitizing it.
Production
Rare peek at NBC's golden age sausage-making.
Director
Ted Bogosian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Subway' episode won a Peabody Award, one of only two episodes in TV history to do so without being a series finale or pilot.
This documentary essentially predicted the modern 'episode companion' podcast format by two decades, treating a single hour of television as worthy of feature-length examination.
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