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1980s
Edge of Darkness (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview Edge of Darkness is one of those rare television dramas that begins as a grief-stricken murder investigation and…
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1970s
Target (1977)
Byte-Sized Overview Target is a hard-charging BBC police drama from the late 1970s, set in Southampton and built around the…
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1960s
The Champions (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview The Champions is a glossy British espionage-adventure series with a sci-fi twist, built around three agents who survive…
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1950s
The Adventures of William Tell (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview The Adventures of William Tell is a brisk, old-school swashbuckler set in 14th-century Switzerland, where the Austrian occupiers…
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2020s
Ripley (2024)
Byte-Sized Overview Ripley is a gorgeously austere psychological thriller built around Tom Ripley, a small-time grifter in early 1960s New…
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2010s
Better Call Saul (2015)
Byte-Sized Overview Better Call Saul is the slow-burn prequel to Breaking Bad, but it is not content to be just…
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1990s
Millennium (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Millennium is Chris Carter’s bleak, feverish follow-up to The X-Files, set in the last, twitchy stretch of the…
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2000s
The Mentalist (2008)
Byte-Sized Overview The Mentalist is a glossy American crime drama built around one gloriously annoying genius, Patrick Jane, a former…
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1980s
MacGyver (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview MacGyver is the kind of 1980s action-adventure series that makes a religion out of improvisation. Richard Dean Anderson…
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1970s
Serpico (1976)
Byte-Sized Overview Serpico is a 1976 American crime drama built around Frank Serpico, the real New York detective whose refusal…
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1960s
The High Chaparral (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview The High Chaparral is a big, dusty Western about the Cannons, an Anglo ranching family trying to hold…
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1950s
Ivanhoe (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Ivanhoe is the 1958 British adventure serial in which Roger Moore wears the armour, stares nobly into the…
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