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77 Sunset Strip (1958)

Byte-Sized Overview 77 Sunset Strip is the glossy, wisecracking private-eye drama that helped define the TV detective boom of the…

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Byte-Sized Overview Wagon Train is a classic American Western about a moving community crossing the post-Civil War frontier, with each…

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Byte-Sized Overview Maverick is the amiable rogue’s answer to the television Western. Set on the frontier, it follows the travelling…

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Byte-Sized Overview Have Gun – Will Travel is a post-Civil War Western with a rather splendid sense of self-importance, which…

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Byte-Sized Overview The Adventures of Robin Hood is the 1955 British television version of the outlaw legend, made for ITV…

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Byte-Sized Overview Highway Patrol is a lean, gravel-voiced police action series set on the highways and back roads of the…

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Byte-Sized Overview Gunsmoke is the sort of long-running American western that helped teach television how to grow up. Set in…

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Byte-Sized Overview Dixon of Dock Green is the sort of television institution that helped define British police drama before the…