1950s
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Decoy (1957)
I can’t confidently identify a British series titled Decoy from 1957. The strongest match in the records is an American…
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M Squad (1957)
Byte-Sized Overview M Squad is a hard-bitten American police drama set in Chicago, though the streets were often conjured in…
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Richard Diamond: Private Detective (1957)
Byte-Sized Overview Richard Diamond: Private Detective is a crisp, low-key slice of 1950s crime television built around a New York…
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Perry Mason (1957)
Byte-Sized Overview Perry Mason is the classic CBS courtroom mystery about a Los Angeles defence lawyer who treats murder trials…
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The Buccaneers (1956)
Byte-Sized Overview The Buccaneers is a 1950s swashbuckler set in the Caribbean in the age of privateers, governors and badly…
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State Trooper (1956)
Byte-Sized Overview State Trooper is a lean, black-and-white American crime drama set in the Nevada of the 1950s, where Rod…
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The Lineup (1954)
Byte-Sized Overview The Lineup is a brisk, hard-bitten American police drama that takes its cue from actual San Francisco police…
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Racket Squad (1951)
1. Byte-Sized Overview Racket Squad is an early 1950s American crime drama built around a simple, endlessly adaptable idea: every…
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Boston Blackie (1951)
Byte-Sized Overview Boston Blackie is a syndicated American crime-adventure series from the early television era, based on Jack Boyle’s long-running…
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Dragnet (1951)
Byte-Sized Overview Dragnet is the stiff-backed, deadpan police procedural that helped define television crime drama before most of the genre…
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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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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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