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1960s
The Defenders (1961)
Byte-Sized Overview The Defenders is a US legal drama set in New York, following father-and-son attorneys Lawrence and Kenneth Preston…
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1950s
Boston Blackie (1951)
Byte-Sized Overview Boston Blackie is a syndicated American crime-adventure series from the early television era, based on Jack Boyle’s long-running…
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2020s
Time (2021)
Byte-Sized Overview Time is not a glossy prison thriller interested in clever escapes or swaggering antiheroes. Jimmy McGovern’s BBC One…
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2010s
Luther (2010)
Byte-Sized Overview Luther is a British psychological crime thriller built around DCI John Luther, a brilliant detective who solves savage…
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1990s
Northern Exposure (1990)
Byte-Sized Overview Northern Exposure is what happens when a Manhattan doctor is shunted out of his comfort zone and dropped…
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2000s
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Byte-Sized Overview CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the forensic procedural that made a crime lab feel like the coolest place…
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1980s
Bergerac (1981)
Byte-Sized Overview Bergerac is a Jersey-set detective drama built around Jim Bergerac, a wounded, stubbornly decent investigator with a taste…
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1970s
McCloud (1970)
Byte-Sized Overview McCloud is a breezy, fish-out-of-water police drama with a cowboy hat, a New York badge and a stubborn…
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1960s
Route 66 (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Route 66 is the great American road trip before the phrase became an excuse for beige campervans and…
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1950s
Dragnet (1951)
Byte-Sized Overview Dragnet is the stiff-backed, deadpan police procedural that helped define television crime drama before most of the genre…
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2020s
Mare of Easttown (2021)
Byte-Sized Overview Mare of Easttown is a seven-part crime drama set in a tightly knit Pennsylvania suburb where everyone knows…
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2010s
Justified (2010)
Byte-Sized Overview Justified is a contemporary Western crime drama set in the coal country of eastern Kentucky, where U.S. Marshal…
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