1970s
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The Rockford Files (1974)
Byte-Sized Overview The Rockford Files is a private-eye drama with a built-in dislike of heroic posturing and a very healthy…
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Police Story (1973)
Byte-Sized Overview Police Story is the 1973 NBC anthology crime drama from Joseph Wambaugh, built around Los Angeles police work…
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The Rookies (1972)
Byte-Sized Overview The Rookies is a 1972 American police drama built around three newly minted officers learning the job the…
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Van der Valk (1972)
Byte-Sized Overview Van der Valk is a mid-seventies British detective series set in Amsterdam, where the canals are picturesque, the…
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Colditz (1972)
Byte-Sized Overview Colditz is a Second World War prison-camp drama about Allied officers held in the supposedly escape-proof castle fortress…
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Upstairs: Downstairs (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview Upstairs, Downstairs is the aristocratic sibling to the modern domestic saga, though it is far less interested in…
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The Persuaders! (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview The Persuaders! is a glossy, cheeky 1971 action-adventure series about two very different rich men who are roped…
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McCloud (1970)
Byte-Sized Overview McCloud is a breezy, fish-out-of-water police drama with a cowboy hat, a New York badge and a stubborn…
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Minder (1979)
Byte-Sized Overview Minder is a very British crime-comedy-drama built around a simple, durable arrangement: Arthur Daley, a swaggering small-time wheeler-dealer,…
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The Professionals (1977)
Byte-Sized Overview The Professionals is a brisk, hard-edged British action-drama about CI5, a secretive crime-fighting unit that is meant to…
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Quincy, M.E.
Byte-Sized Overview Quincy, more properly Quincy, M.E., is the sort of old-school American procedural that quietly helped invent the modern…
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S.W.A.T. (1975)
Byte-Sized Overview S.W.A.T. is a hard-graft, late-afternoon coppering of a series, spun off from The Rookies and set in an…
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