The seventh season of Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...

 aired in the United States on the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 television network from 1998-09-25 to 1999-05-21 and contained 22 episodes.

The seventh season marked the debut of characters FBI Agent Michael Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito is a Danish-born American film and television actor and director.-Early life:Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father and African-American mother. His mother was an opera and nightclub singer from Alabama, who once appeared on the same...

) and Detective Rene Sheppard

Rene Sheppard

Rene Sheppard is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street, played by Michael Michele. At 29, Sheppard first appeared in Season 7. Rene was Miss Anne Arundel County sometime prior to joining the Baltimore Police Department...

 (Michael Michele

Michael Michele

Michael Michele is an American film and television actress. She played Dr. Cleo Finch on the medical drama ER and Det. Rene Sheppard on the police procedural Homicide: Life on the Street...

). Recurring character Detective Terri Stivers

Terri Stivers

Terri Stivers is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street. She was played by actress Toni Lewis....

 (Toni Lewis

Toni Lewis

Toni Lewis is an actress best known for playing Terri Stivers on Homicide: Life on the Street. The role led to her receiving a nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series...

) became a regular cast member as of season 7.

The DVD box set of season 7 was released for Region 1 on 2005-06-28. The set includes all 22 season 7 episodes on six discs.

During the sixth season

Homicide: Life on the Street (season 6)

The sixth season of Homicide: Life on the Street aired in the United States on the NBC television network from 1997-10-17 to 1998-05-08 and contained 23 episodes....

, NBC had been considered canceling the show in the face of consistently low ratings, but a number of unexpected shocks at NBC increased Homicide's value. Among those factors were the loss of the popular series Seinfeld

Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

 and the $850 million deal needed to keep ER

ER (TV series)

ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

 from leaving the network. As a result, the network approved a 22-episode seventh season.

List of episodes

#	Episode	Director	Writer(s)	Original air date	Production code