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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767057233
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767057236
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Running Time: 1000 minutes
Sales Rank: 9208
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1993
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
If the first two seasons introduced one of the great television crime dramas, Homicide really came into its own during the third. Instead of the mere 13 episodes scattered between 1993 and 1994, NBC ordered up a full 20 for the 1994-1995 season. The entire terrific cast is back, with the exception of Jon Polito, whose absence is explained in the fourth episode ('Crosetti'). There are other changes, like the addition of Megan Russert (Isabella Hofmann) as shift commander. Aside from the fact that the mostly male staff now has a woman to report to (alongside Yaphet Kotto's Lt. Giardello), it turns out that Russert has a 'history' with one of the detectives. Homicide always excelled in its exploration of racial and office politics; now sexual politics would become a bigger issue. Religion also comes to the fore as Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is finally forced to confront the loss of his faith while working on a case ('The White Glove Murders') involving several aid workers (episodes 1-3). Meanwhile, his partner, Bayliss (Kyle Secor), is coming to resemble the naive young rookie of the first two seasons less and less by the second... while getting to enjoy a little more romance than the rest of the squad--especially the hapless Meldrick (Clark Johnson). But all is not sturm and drang. Humor still finds a place in each episode and Munch (Richard Belzer) still gets many of the best lines. In the season premiere ('Nearer My God to Thee'), for instance, he tells Bolander (Ned Beatty), 'There is no such thing as gratuitous sex. Gratuitous violence, yes... Sex cannot and will not ever be gratuitous.' He could be describing Homicide itself, in which nothing is ever gratuitous, especially the sudden loss of human life, which is never--and should never be--treated lightly. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Show But No Closed Captions
So far, the third season of this show is still my favorite, I think the writers and the actors really started to hit their stride and do the show right. After this season, I feel the show started to slip a little bit, possibly by over-reaching to compete with the more shock-driven Law & Order. As a fan of both shows, I don't feel this was really necessary.
My only complaint is that the DVDs do not feature Closed Captions or English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired. There are a lot of instances of rushed or mumbled dialog, and it would have been nice to have some help understanding what was being said. Deaf fans of this show are completely out of luck. I'm watching the fifth season now, and it seems like they didn't caption any of the seasons of this show. If you are in any way hard of hearing, this is going to be a real tough show for you to follow. I wouldn't have given my money to this company if I'd known about this earlier. Shame on A&E Home Video for leaving deaf customers out in the cold.
Rating:  - Gritty, realistic, well-written police drama
Hands down, this is the primo TV police series of all time - and please believe me when I say I know whereof I speak. Everything about this series - the somewhat run-down, out-of-date precinct house, the squabbles over cases - even the lunch thefts from the community refridgerator - all ring true and fresh. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) presides over a squadroom of detectives who are prickly, proud, argumentative - but dogged in their pursuits of homicide perpetrators. They squabble ceaselessly amongst themselves, they engage in collaborations outside the scope of the squadroom - both romantic and financial, in the case of joint ownership of a local bar - they complain about the job; they complain about each other; but they club together like a dysfunctional but secretly adoring family. It's clear that all of them harbour enormous respect for Giardello, whom they all refer to as "Gee", and he deals with each of them with sometimes simmering forebearance (and in one case with gleeful deceit, taking Bayliss (Kyle Secor) for just about everything in a marathon game of Hearts during a lull in work).
This was my favourite season in a stellar series. By Year Three, the personalities were set and familiar, and in the opening episode had suffered the first casualty in the lineup when veteran detective Crosetti was found drowned. His ex-partner, Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson), had to come to terms with his death, and you truly feel sorry for Lewis's painful final acceptance.
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Rating: - I love this show!
Season 3 was better than I tought it was going to be. I'm just upset that this show isn't on the air anymore because it's so good!
Rating:  - Needs captions, more extras, but great, great show
Excellent series. Many terrific episodes in this season. I'd've given it five stars, but it hasn't any captions and the extras seem rather paltry. Lots of great characters and nice storylines. Good story arcs with the detective shootings, the bar opening, etc. Two of the stand-out episodes are "Every Mother's Son" and "Gas Man."
Rating: - Best season of TV's best crime drama ever
In my opinion, season three, the first full season of Homicide, was the best. The ratings had been anemic in seasons one and two, so that it was often called during that time "the best TV show you're not watching". Hoping to improve ratings, NBC insisted on a number of changes, both cosmetic and thematic. Unfortunately, talented but unphotogenic veteran actor Jon Polito was ordered dropped from the cast as the network clamored for more on-screen romance and violence. In order to have episodes the network considered more sensational air during "sweeps" periods, NBC sometimes aired episodes out of order, often to the detriment of story arcs that had developed over several episodes. Probably the most infamous of such gaffes during this season was NBC's decision to broadcast an episode featuring the program's first sex scene ("A Model Citizen") prior to the airing of the much acclaimed episode, "Crosetti"; it was in this latter hour that the death of Detective Steve Crosetti, Jon Polito's character, was revealed and explained. The detective had been in Atlantic City on vacation since the end of the second season's four episodes. For reasons never fully explained or understood, especially considering Crosetti's deep religious beliefs mentioned on the show during the first two seasons, he returns to Baltimore and kills himself rather than return to his job. As a result of this deviation from the producers' intended order, viewers of "A Model Citizen" found out from a comment made by his ex-partner, detective ... Read More
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