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Detective John Munch is a fictional character played by the actor Richard Belzer. Munch is notable for his crossover appearances in a number of different television series' fictional universes.
Character development
Detective Munch first appeared as a homicide detective in a fictional police department in Baltimore as a central character in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. After 20 years service in Baltimore, he took his pension and moved to New York to join a sex crimes investigation unit, as one of the main characters in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Although Munch was established as an interesting, three-dimensional character in the ensemble "Homicide" (in which he was depicted as a cynical conspiracy theorist) his move to "SVU" has largely stripped him of many of the character's defining characteristics; the size of his role has become increasingly small as the show progresses.
Other crossovers
In addition, Munch has also appeared as a character in episodes of four other series:
- Law & Order - 4 episodes
- The X-Files - 1 episode: "Unusual Suspects"
- The Beat - 1 episode: "They Say It's Your Birthday"
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury - 1 episode: "Skeleton (2)"
Munch's appearance on Trial by Jury, which aired April 15, 2005, made him the first fictional character played by a single actor to appear on six different television shows.
Munch also made an appearance in the TV movie Homicide: The Movie.
John Munch is the most prolific character in a fictional universe known as the Tommy Westphall Universe, named after a character on St. Elsewhere. Producer Tom Fontana worked on both series and conciously expands the universe with most of the new series he creates.
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