Detective Munch--He's Everywhere
In 1993, Homicide: Life on the Streets took the air, introducing us to Detective John Munch, ably played by Richard Belzer. Since then, he's been making the rounds and appear in no less than 6 different TV series.
First, there were three seasons in which (I'm guessing to boost the ratings of Homicide (This is how I started watching this excellent show.)) on the Wednesday night episode of Law & Order a crime would somehow have a connection to Baltimore where it would then be resolved on Friday night's Homicide. Munch hit it off well with L&O's Det. Briscoe after discovering that one of them had dated an ex-wife of the other.
The ending of Homicide coincided nicely with the beginning of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and so Munch moved up to New York and to a job in the SVU.
In the fifth season of The X-Files, there is a flashback episode that explains how such diverse characters as Byers, Frohike, and Langly would ever get together to form "The Lone Gunmen." They meet (and meet Agent Mulder) at a computer tradeshow, and when they get arrested they are grilled by none other that Detective John Munch.
The UPN in 2000 tried their hand at a cop show set in New York with the short-lived The Beat starring Mark Ruffalo and Poppy Montgomery. There were only about a dozen episodes, but the second one guest starred Det. Munch, but I have no idea what the show was about.
And now tonight's episode of the new Law & Order: Trial By Jury featured a cameo by Det. Munch trying to find out who shot Det. Green on Wednesday's Law & Order.
To my knowledge, Munch has made no appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but I have no idea why.
First, there were three seasons in which (I'm guessing to boost the ratings of Homicide (This is how I started watching this excellent show.)) on the Wednesday night episode of Law & Order a crime would somehow have a connection to Baltimore where it would then be resolved on Friday night's Homicide. Munch hit it off well with L&O's Det. Briscoe after discovering that one of them had dated an ex-wife of the other.
The ending of Homicide coincided nicely with the beginning of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and so Munch moved up to New York and to a job in the SVU.
In the fifth season of The X-Files, there is a flashback episode that explains how such diverse characters as Byers, Frohike, and Langly would ever get together to form "The Lone Gunmen." They meet (and meet Agent Mulder) at a computer tradeshow, and when they get arrested they are grilled by none other that Detective John Munch.
The UPN in 2000 tried their hand at a cop show set in New York with the short-lived The Beat starring Mark Ruffalo and Poppy Montgomery. There were only about a dozen episodes, but the second one guest starred Det. Munch, but I have no idea what the show was about.
And now tonight's episode of the new Law & Order: Trial By Jury featured a cameo by Det. Munch trying to find out who shot Det. Green on Wednesday's Law & Order.
To my knowledge, Munch has made no appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but I have no idea why.
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