Boomtown

Boomtown

2002
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 24 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 45 min/episode
MysteryDramaAction & Adventure
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.

Seasons

Season 1
2002 • 18 Episodes
The circumstances leading to the murder of a teenager and the wounding of a little girl in a drive-by shooting unwind from the points of view of the deputy district attorney, police, paramedics and reporters who report to the scene, and finally, that of one of the perpetrators and his grandfather. David McNorris, the deputy district attorney, manipulates the tragedy to feed his insatiable appetite for power, prestige, and media exposure. Detectives Joel Stevens and Bobby ""Fearless"" Smith and Officers Ray Hechler and Tom Turcotte encounter protective parents, traffic accidents, and a near-drowning as they investigate the shooting and track down the teenaged suspects. Paramedic Teresa Ortiz tends to the wounded young girl and provides the detectives with the information they need to solve the case. Reporter Andrea Little flirts with danger as she strikes up a conversation with her lover's wife to get one scoop on the story, and shows humanity when she refuses to capitalize on a man's gri
Season 2
2003 • 6 Episodes
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

Crew

Producer
Jon Avnet, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Graham Yost

Network

NBC

Production

Nemofilms, DreamWorks Television, NBC Studios

Keywords

californialos angeles, californiacriminal investigation