1970s
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Longstreet (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview Longstreet is a 1971 ABC crime drama with a neat hook and a rather less neat world: insurance…
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The D.A. (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview The D.A. is a 1971 American legal drama built around the work of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney…
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Shoestring (1979)
Byte-Sized Overview Shoestring is a brisk, shaggy BBC detective drama with a very specific selling point: its hero, Eddie Shoestring,…
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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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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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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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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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Charlie’s Angels (1976)
Byte-Sized Overview Charlie’s Angels is the glossy, feather-haired crime drama that turned three private investigators into household names and made…
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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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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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Starsky & Hutch (1975)
Byte-Sized Overview Starsky & Hutch is the kind of 1970s cop show that arrives with a high-energy swagger and a…
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Harry O (1974)
Byte-Sized Overview Harry O is a 1970s private-eye drama with more melancholy than swagger and a lot less wisecracking than…
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