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1980s
Juliet Bravo (1980)
Byte-Sized Overview Juliet Bravo is a BBC police drama from 1980 to 1985 that centres on female inspectors running a…
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1970s
The D.A. (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview The D.A. is a 1971 American legal drama built around the work of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney…
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1960s
Maigret (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Maigret is the BBC’s black-and-white take on Georges Simenon’s famously patient Parisian detective, with Rupert Davies as Commissaire…
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1950s
The Cisco Kid (1950)
Byte-Sized Overview The Cisco Kid is a breezy, half-hour Western about a charming Mexican outlaw and his equally charmingly bewildered…
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1950s
The Detectives (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Detectives is the lean, hard-boiled American crime drama that put Robert Taylor in charge of a plainclothes…
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2000s
White Collar (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview White Collar is a glossy, character-driven crime drama about an unlikely professional partnership between FBI Special Agent Peter…
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1980s
Tour of Duty (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Tour of Duty is a Vietnam War drama that follows an American infantry platoon through the daily grind…
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1970s
Shoestring (1979)
Byte-Sized Overview Shoestring is a brisk, shaggy BBC detective drama with a very specific selling point: its hero, Eddie Shoestring,…
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1960s
Special Branch (1969)
Byte-Sized Overview Special Branch is a London-set police drama about the Metropolitan Police unit that deals with espionage, subversion and…
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1950s
Lock Up (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Lock Up is a hard-boiled legal drama from the end of the 1950s, set in Philadelphia and built…
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2010s
Mindhunter (2017)
Byte-Sized Overview Mindhunter is a chilly, meticulously observed crime drama set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the…
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1990s
The West Wing (1999)
Byte-Sized Overview The West Wing is a political drama set inside the White House, following President Josiah Bartlet and the…
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