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1980s
Jake and the Fatman (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Jake and the Fatman is an American crime drama that first aired on CBS in 1987 and ran…
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1970s
Hazell (1978)
Byte-Sized Overview Hazell is a London-set private-eye drama with a distinctly late-Seventies swagger, built around James Hazell, a Cockney investigator…
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1960s
Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased (1969)
Byte-Sized Overview Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased is a late-1960s British private-eye series with a gloriously daft supernatural hook: Jeff Randall…
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1950s
Johnny Staccato (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Johnny Staccato is a sleek, smoke-laced private-eye series with a jazz pulse and a distinctly nocturnal mood. John…
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2020s
Task (2025)
Byte-Sized Overview Task is a grimly humane crime drama set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, where an FBI task…
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2010s
Ozark (2017)
Byte-Sized Overview Ozark is a bleak, brisk crime drama about a Chicago financial adviser who discovers that good bookkeeping can…
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1990s
Jonathan Creek (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Jonathan Creek is a British mystery-comedy built around an appealingly odd central idea: a man who designs stage…
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2000s
Lie to Me (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview Lie to Me is the sort of network drama that arrives with a premise so neat you can…
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1980s
Inspector Morse (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Inspector Morse is the sort of British detective drama that makes murder feel almost over-refined. Set in Oxford,…
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1970s
The Sandbaggers (1978)
Byte-Sized Overview The Sandbaggers is a lean, bruising British spy drama set at the cold, paper-cut edge of the Cold…
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1960s
Adam-12 (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview Adam-12 is a plainclothes-and-patrol-cars police drama set on the streets of Los Angeles, following Officers Pete Malloy and…
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