1st episode of the 1st season of Homicide: Life on the Street
"Gone for Goode"
Homicide: Life on the Street episode
Crosetti and Lewis investigate a crime scene in the first ever Homicide scene
Episode no.
Season 1 Episode 1
Directed by
Barry Levinson
Written by
Paul Attanasio
Cinematography by
Wayne Ewing
Production code
101
Original air date
January 31, 1993 (1993-01-31)
Guest appearances
Wendy Hughes as Dr. Carol Blythe
Leonard Jackson as the cemetery manager
Steve J. Harris as Bernard
Mary Joy as Mrs. Goode
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"Gone for Goode" is the first episode of the first season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on January 31, 1993, immediately following Super Bowl XXVII. The episode was written by series creator Paul Attanasio and directed by executive producer Barry Levinson. "Gone for Goode" introduced regular cast members Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Wendy Hughes, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Jon Polito, and Kyle Secor.
The episode connects several subplots involving the detectives of a Baltimore Police Department homicide unit and establishes story arcs that continued through the first season. Among them are an investigation by Meldrick Lewis (Johnson) and Steve Crosetti (Polito) into a widow killing husbands for insurance money, as well as rookie Tim Bayliss (Secor) being assigned the murder of an 11-year-old girl for his first case. Both of those subplots were taken directly from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the 1991 David Simon non-fiction book from which the series was adapted.
"Gone for Goode" was seen by 18.24 million viewers, the largest viewership of the first season, although NBC was initially disappointed with the ratings. The episode received generally positive reviews upon its original broadcast. Barry Levinson won an Emmy Award for his direction in "Gone for Goode", and was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award. Paul Attanasio received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for the episode's script.
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