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1960s
The Mod Squad (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview The Mod Squad arrived in 1968 with a pitch that felt cheeky, contemporary and just a little bit…
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1950s
The Untouchables (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Untouchables is the hard-boiled, black-and-white crime drama that turned Eliot Ness and his federal squad into television…
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2020s
Blue Lights (2023)
Byte-Sized Overview Blue Lights is a Belfast-set police drama about three rookie officers dropped into the Police Service of Northern…
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1980s
The Equalizer (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview The Equalizer is the 1980s CBS drama in which Edward Woodward plays Robert McCall, a retired intelligence operative…
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1970s
The Professionals (1977)
Byte-Sized Overview The Professionals is a brisk, hard-edged British action-drama about CI5, a secretive crime-fighting unit that is meant to…
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1960s
The Prisoner (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview The Prisoner is the sort of television series that arrives, does something gloriously odd with the idea of…
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1950s
Bonanza (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Bonanza is the grand old Cartwright western, set on the Ponderosa Ranch outside Virginia City, Nevada, in the…
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2020s
The Responder (2022)
Byte-Sized Overview The Responder is a Liverpool-set police drama that spends less time solving crimes than it does showing how…
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1980s
Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview Dempsey and Makepeace is a glossy, punchy British crime action series that throws together two people who would…
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1970s
Quincy, M.E.
Byte-Sized Overview Quincy, more properly Quincy, M.E., is the sort of old-school American procedural that quietly helped invent the modern…
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1960s
Mannix (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview Mannix is a Los Angeles private-eye series with a very specific 1960s idea of what “modern” looks like:…
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1950s
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview 77 Sunset Strip is the glossy, wisecracking private-eye drama that helped define the TV detective boom of the…
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