NOTES: You'll recognize this location as the same street and house Barry Levinson used for his feature films "Tin Men" (Danny DeVito throwing furniture out the window) and "Avalon," among others.

This was the very first day of filming on the Homicide TV series. This episode, "Gone For Goode," was very true to the book written by best selling author David Simon. Throughout the episode, homicide detectives John Munch (Richard Belzer) and Stanley Bolander (Ned Beatty) were searching for hit-and-run driver Jimmy Lee Shields (me). Here they finally locate their prey and confront him at his house.

The suspect was blond but dyed his hair black to evade witnesses who could place him at the scene of the crime. You might say he was wanted: dyed or alive -- oh, sorry... I had long blond hair at the time, so Hair Stylist Ardis Cohen made it black, using a permanent dye. I've often wondered why Mr. Levinson didn't cast an actor whose hair was already black, but I'm glad he hired me. It was really hard to get that black dye out of my hair, it turned a sickly green color about a month later. All my friends made fun of me.