Today, Murder: Life on the Street has officially given up its title as the best TV show you can’t stream. All 122 episodes of the 90s police drama are now available on Peacock, along with Homicide – The Moviea 2000 TV movie featuring the entire cast – even those whose characters died at some point in the previous seven seasons.

Here are 10 episodes to check out if you want to know what all the fuss is about.

“Gone for Goode” (Season 1, Episode 1)
The killing The pilot introduces the show’s large, impressive ensemble in a shaggy way that should prepare any newcomer for how unconventional the storytelling will be as the series progresses. Highlights include Richard Belzer’s John Munch going on a rant accusing a suspect of lying to him “like I’m Montel Williams,” and the initial collaboration of the duo who would eventually become the main characters: Andre Braugher’s arrogant Frank Pembleton and Kyle Secor’s vulnerable Tim Bayliss.

“Three Men and Adena” (Season 1, Episode 6)
Pembleton and Bayliss spend the first half of the first season investigating the murder of little girl Adena Watson. In “Three Men and Adena,” written by longtime killing Showrunner Tom Fontana, the partners make one last attempt to get their prime suspect, local “Arab” (Baltimore slang for a fruit and vegetable vendor who drives a horse-drawn carriage) Risley Tucker (Moses Gunn), to confess to the crime. It’s an episode-long interrogation that takes place mostly in the interrogation room known as “the box,” and it’s the entire killing Ethos to its logical, captivating conclusion.

“Black and Blue” (Season 2, Episode 2)
This film, the second half of a two-parter (with “See No Evil”), features the ultimate interrogation of Frank Pembleton. Upset when Lt. Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) apparently wants him to not pin a shooting on a colleague, Frank decides to make a point to his boss by convincing the victim’s devastated best friend (a young Isaiah Washington) to confess to a crime everyone in the room knows he didn’t commit.

“Bop Gun” (Season 2, Episode 4)
The series was adapted from Murder: A year on the streets of deatha non-fiction book from that time-Baltimore Sun Police reporter David Simon. The future creator of TheWire began his transition from journalist to future showrunner with his first script (co-written with David Mills), about a tourist (Robin Williams) whose wife is murdered while the family is visiting Baltimore. The episode is peppered with details that would be familiar to a police reporter, such as Williams’ character becoming incensed when he hears lead investigator Beau Felton (Daniel Baldwin) joking about the long hours he has to work on such a high-profile case.

“Crosetti” (Season 3, Episode 4)
Jon Polito, who played cranky Lincoln assassination conspiracy theorist Steve Crosetti in the first two seasons, had an ugly public split from the series before the third season. “The show went from art to mediocrity,” he said after his firing. “I’m relieved they legally released me. I didn’t want to go through another six months of indecision and pain.” Crosetti at least gets an incredible farewell episode, albeit one that doesn’t feature Polito: Steve’s body is found floating in the Chesapeake Bay, and his devastated partner Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson) tries to prevent Stan Bolander (Ned Beatty) from declaring it a suicide. Peacock is thankfully sticking to the planned episode order (which is also found on the DVD box sets) rather than the order in which NBC aired the shows. “Crosetti” is the most notorious example of how this worked: Network executives feared that “Crosetti” would be too depressing to air during the November time slot, so two later episodes were brought forward, one of which has the characters discussing Steve’s death before viewers see the hour of death.

“Every Mother’s Son” (Season 3, Episode 10)
As easy as a killing episode, but with a tragic twist: While Pembleton and Bayliss investigate the shooting of a 13-year-old boy, the mothers of the victim and his killer sit together at the station and discover how much they have in common, even before they find out what one of their sons did to the other.

“The Gas Man” (Season 3, Episode 20)
Barry Levinson, a Baltimore film institution, executive produced the series and directed the pilot episode. He was back behind the camera for this unusual episode, in which an ex-convict (guest star Bruno Kirby, a Levinson regular) stalks Frank Pembleton and plots revenge on the man he blames for ruining his life. “Gas Man” came out when the show’s future was still uncertain, and some fans (including this one) were frustrated that what might be the final episode contained so little material with the main cast. But watching it with the knowledge that it would somehow get four more seasons, it’s a great change of pace, fueled by Kirby’s intensity and a killer ’70s soundtrack.

“The Eyes of a Doll” (Season 4, Episode 4)
A terrific three-part crime thriller that opened the third season introduced the idea that Pembleton was a Catholic whose profession led him to constantly struggle with his faith. Rarely has that faith been tested more than in this terribly sad episode, in which he and Bayliss investigate a mall shooting that leaves a 10-year-old brain dead and the boy’s parents unable to decide whether to donate his organs or put him on life support.

“The Documentary” (season five, episode 11)
Max Perlich’s crime scene videographer JH Brodie, like many of the characters introduced in the later seasons, didn’t fit into the world as seamlessly as the members of the original group. He did, however, lead to a memorable off-format episode in which we finally got to see the documentary he had made about the homicide squad. Fontana and Levinson (who makes a cameo appearance as himself) didn’t slack off here, bringing in legendary documentarian Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) to direct. Since the police officers so often address Brodie’s camera, the writer Eric Overmyer (who later Bosch), to incorporate some passages from Simon’s book that would never have worked as traditional dialogue.

“Subway” (Season 6, Episode 4)
Because of these disparate replacement characters and an often clumsy focus on the cops’ personal lives, the later seasons are much more patchy than the first three. But there are gems in those years too, including what some would call the best episode of all. killing Author James Yoshimura was inspired by an episode of the HBO series Taxi confessions to create a classic installment, with Vincent D’Onofrio guest-starring as John Lange, a man trapped between a subway train and the platform. The physical pressure is the only thing keeping Lange alive, and as Pembleton and Lange come to terms with the latter’s impending death, the cop and the victim develop an unexpected emotional connection.