"We're not coming to kick the tires!"
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"We're not coming to kick the tires!"
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While Scotty continues to maintain that David Simon's "The Wire" (2002-2008) is the greatest television show of all-time, NBC's under-seen but critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street" -- which ran from 1993 to 1999 and was based on Simon's 1991 nonfiction book "Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets" -- is often seen is its spiritual predecessor. And, like "The Wire" after it, "Homicide" often took its gripping TV narratives from real-life.
One such fact-based storyline is that of season one's "Calpurnia Church," who was based on Baltimore's "Black Widow," Geraldine Parrish. On this week's episode, Scotty tells Amelia (and the listeners) the wild and dark tale of Parrish, and explains how bigotry and institutional incompetence in the police may have allowed a genuine monster to run amok for years in West Baltimore.