Homicide: Second Shift

{{Short description|Internet web series}}

Homicide: Second Shift was an Internet web series presented in a static script/comic book format (there was no streaming video) that tied into the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. The web-show started 21 February 1997.{{cite news | work = Canoe.ca | url = http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/H/Homicide_Life_On_The_Street/1997/02/23/735074.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120711104253/http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/H/Homicide_Life_On_The_Street/1997/02/23/735074.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = July 11, 2012 | title = Homicide's second shift on net | first = Jeff | last = Craig | date = 1997-02-23 | accessdate = 2007-09-27 }} The show featured detectives of the homicide squad that worked the second shift, after the television detectives went home for the day. Several of the characters from Homicide: Second Shift had cameos on Homicide: Life on the Street, and the show had one story crossover with the television show.

The on-air/online crossover—the first such crossover for NBC{{cite news | title = 'Homicide' in cyberspace | first = David | last = Zurawik | work = Baltimore Sun | date = 1999-02-05 }}—was a three-part story-line. "Homicide.com", a season 7 episode Homicide: Life on the Street, was the middle part of the crossover with Homicide: Second Shift. Though the television episode was self-contained, parts one and three which were online only provided expanded context for the story.{{cite magazine | first = Josh | last = Wolk | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,84131_3%7C14154%7C%7C0_0_,00.html | title = Life on the Web. 'Homicide' welcomes its website cast to the show -- a first step in NBC's plans to nab TV defectors | magazine = Entertainment Weekly | date = 1999-02-05 | accessdate = 2007-09-27 }}