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This is fresh air. I'm TV Critic David Bienkule.

It must seem like every TV series ever made is available on some streaming service somewhere, but that's not true.

Try finding W.K.R.P. in Cincinnati or China Beach, or Frank's Place Place or Brooklyn Bridge.

However, one show that has been missing from streaming services until now,

one of TV's very best, finally arrives Monday,

when Peacock begins streaming all seven seasons of Homicide Life on the Street.

That cop show, set in Baltimore, ran on NBC from 1993 to 1999. Its executive producers were Tom Fontana from St elsewhere and

film director Barry Levinson. It was based on a book by David Simon who later wrote for

the show, then created a string of his own brilliant

TV series, starting with The Wire.

Homicide was groundbreaking TV in several different ways. Entire scenes were acted from start to finish like a stage play,

and filmed with a single camera.

That process was repeated several times

with the camera operator capturing different angles.

And then, finally, pieces from those different takes

were edited together into one jarringly intense sequence.

Homicide also reflected the diverse population of Baltimore by having at the time the most

integrated series cast on network television.

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