Munch to Appear on The Wire

For fans of Homicide and L&O SVU, Richard Belzer is going to appear in an episode of the acclaimed crime drama, The Wire.

And now The Wire has Detective John Munch. That’s the character played by Richard Belzer in no less than nine other TV shows, setting a world record only slightly more impressive than doing a Rubik’s Cube in seconds. A recently shot episode of The Wire’s fifth and final season features an appearance by Munch, which is sort of a homecoming – he began life on Homicide: Life on the Streets, a TV series set in the Baltimore murder police unit, based on a non-fiction book by David Simon, the guy who would go on to create The Wire.