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1970s
Poldark (1975)
Byte-Sized Overview Poldark (1975) is the first BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Cornish saga, following Ross Poldark as he returns…
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1960s
Softly: Softly (1966)
Byte-Sized Overview Softly, Softly is the BBC’s 1966 police procedural spin-off from Z-Cars, built around Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Barlow…
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1950s
Naked City (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Naked City is the 1958 American police drama that took the grimy, argumentative energy of Jules Dassin’s 1948…
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2020s
Fool Me Once (2024)
Byte-Sized Overview Fool Me Once is a British thriller built around one outrageously useful question: what if your supposedly dead…
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2010s
True Detective (2014)
Byte-Sized Overview True Detective is HBO’s anthology crime drama, launched in 2014, and it begins with a pair of Louisiana…
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1990s
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Dalziel and Pascoe is a long-running British detective drama set in Yorkshire, built around an exquisitely mismatched police…
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2000s
Damages (2007)
Byte-Sized Overview Damages is a legal thriller built like a trap. At first glance it is about a fiercely intelligent…
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1980s
Airwolf (1984)
Byte-Sized Overview Airwolf is a glossy, gloriously overcaffeinated 1980s action series about a super-helicopter, the brooding ace who flies it,…
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1970s
Baretta (1975)
Byte-Sized Overview Baretta is a 1970s American crime drama about Detective Tony Baretta, a plainclothes cop who dresses down, talks…
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1960s
The Baron (1966)
Byte-Sized Overview The Baron is a polished 1960s spy-adventure series with a slightly posher wardrobe than most of its rivals…
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1950s
Peter Gunn (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Peter Gunn is the sort of late-fifties detective series that arrives in a trench coat, orders a black…
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2020s
The Night Agent (2023)
Byte-Sized Overview The Night Agent is a brisk political conspiracy thriller with the sort of set-up that tells you exactly…
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