Oz (1997)

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.

TV Series · Crime, Drama · 6 seasons · Rated 8.0/10 on TMDB · First aired July 12, 1997 · Ended

Overview

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Created by Tom Fontana

Cast

• Lee Tergesen as Tobias Beecher
• Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill
• Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reily
• Eamonn Walker as Kareem Saïd
• Ernie Hudson as Leo Glynn
• Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
• Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
• J.K. Simmons as Vernon Schillinger
• Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
• Craig muMs Grant as Poet
• BD Wong as Father Ray Mukada
• Tom Mardirosian as Agamemnon Busmalis

Seasons

• Season 1 · 8 episodes · 1997
• Season 2 · 8 episodes · 1998
• Season 3 · 8 episodes · 1999
• Season 4 · 16 episodes · 2000
• Season 5 · 8 episodes · 2002
• Season 6 · 8 episodes · 2003

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