Boomtown

2002
Boomtown

Seasons & Episodes

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  • 1

EP1 The Love of Money Sep 26, 2003

Joel and Fearless enlist Ray and Tom in an covert op to track down the thieves who killed Wisnicki and Chandler when the detectives assigned to the case fail to go after John Donadoni, the man behind the murders; when tailing Donadoni leads to Sabrina Fithian, Joel and Fearless break into her apartment to wire it, and stumble into a surveillance led by Katherine Pierce, a Robbery/Homicide detective who's been after Sabrina, and knows that Sabrina and her partner Rachel are the cop killers they're after; after Donadoni threatens Kelly and Willy, Joel lets Donadoni know that Donadoni's mother can also find herself in danger; at Joel's urging, Katherine gets herself reassigned to their squad and gets Ron to assign them to her task force; Sabrina is captured after the team interrupts her latest burglary, but not before Sabrina wounds Katherine and then shoots a two-timing Rachel with Katherine's gun; Joel warns Donadoni that he's a marked man, no matter what happens to the case against S

EP2 Inadmissible Oct 03, 2003

David comes out of rehab and lands in the middle of the case against Sabrina and Donadoni, although not in the position he'd like at first; Ray and Katherine get bloodied on the witness stand at the preliminary hearing by Sabrina's attorney; David's struggle to stay sober is sorely tested when his father comes for a visit bearing extremely troubling news; when the diamonds stolen by Sabrina and Rachel can't be found, the task force puts their heads together with David to recover the gems, find the key to getting Sabrina to do a full flip on Donadoni, and put Donadoni behind bars.

EP3 Wannabe Dec 27, 2003

Called to the police academy to investigate a murder, Joel and Fearless discover that the recruit who discovered the body is none other than Teresa; Ray and Tom work with Katherine to stop a ring of thieves posing as police officers.

EP4 Haystack Dec 27, 2003

Bank robbers attempting to flee the scene end up at a local shopping mall and take several hostages, including Teresa, whose ""shoot, don't shoot"" lessons at the academy come in handily at a critical moment.

EP5 The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang Dec 27, 2003

When the body of a college student is found in a house under renovation, David joins forces with Katherine, Joel, and Fearless to determine which of the victim's frat brothers is responsible for his demise and burial in the wall of their former frat house twenty years earlier.

EP6 The Big Picture Dec 28, 2003

Wracked with guilt for not following his instincts on a domestic disturbance call when the woman involved is reported missing and presumed dead several hours later, Tom works with Katherine to uncover the whereabouts of the woman and the person who murdered the chief suspect in her disappearance.
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Released: 29 September 2002 Ended
Producted By: NBC Studios
Country: United States of America
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Synopsis

Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.

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SnoopyStyle It's the hard world of L.A. crime. David McNorris (Neal McDonough) is a righteous A.D.A. married to Marian (Kelly Rowan) but cheating with reporter Andrea Little (Nina Garbiras). Detective Joel Stevens (Donnie Wahlberg) is married to suicidal Kelly (Megan Ward) and is partnered with Bobby Smith (Mykelti Williamson). Officers Ray Hechler (Gary Basaraba) and Tom Turcotte (Jason Gedrick) are beat cops. Teresa Ortiz (Lana Parrilla) is a paramedic who later joins the police.The first season is an ambitious police procedural that depends on impressive writing from show creator Graham Yost. It shows the same crime from different POVs. It may have been too ambitious for network TV. It never received great ratings despite some critical praises. The later changes never really click and it's canceled after 2 seasons.
Scott Ellington I missed the broadcast, serialized weekly television presentation and picked up Season 1 at the suggestion of a friend. I think the program was intended to present a city's infrastructure powered by imperfect people employed in occupations that make impossible demands upon their personal lives. I think we were given a unique cops & lawyers show as a wonderful compromise between what was intended and that which network would allow. Unlike Paris, London and Vienna, Los Angeles, though similarly sired by a great river, now has "a concrete drainage ditch" where that great river once was. Likewise, the multiplicity of central characters are revealed in the course of Season 1 to be significantly different from the persons they appeared to be at the beginning of the series. Their imperfections and the enormous burdens borne by each open slowly through the course of eighteen episodes into a fragrant blossom of great power that smells of intense humanity and the brilliant collaboration of writers, directors and more conventionally "technical" artists of every description. I return to Boomtown frequently, simply because its significantly better than broadcast, serialized, weekly television presentations, and it probably always will be.
tararau I'm watching the first series of Boomtown on DVD, how is it I had never even heard of this show? It's totally brilliant. It is located in Los Angeles and we really are in Los Angeles. We are in Griffith Park for real. It's dramatic,poetic and has some very funny moments. I did laugh out loud. Good timing and uniformly great performances. From the title sequence that references Los Angeles birth in the desert, police brutality, race riots, Bobby Kennedy...The characters live in the present but they walk out of that past. The stories are interesting and surprising. Oh, it's all good stuff. This is a must see. Too bad there's only the first season from what I read. Sad, talent isn't always rewarded apparently. I would love to see more.
Jillicus55 I thought this series excellent, thought-provoking, well written, and easily comparable to The Shield, which series we are still enjoying. I have tried, in vain, to locate Series 2 - what happened to McNorris ? My whole family, from age 15 (son) to age 75 (mother) enjoyed these episodes and we were all disappointed to find that only a further six were made. Is there any way we in England can access these? I have tried NBC, to no avail. All they seem to want is approval on the series currently showing. Has anyone out there seen these extra six or so episodes? If so, please let us know what happens!!! No-one tells us anything over here! Grateful thanks,Jill Coughlan & Family