1980s
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The Gentle Touch (1980)
Byte-Sized Overview The Gentle Touch is a police procedural with a quietly radical premise for its time: Jill Gascoine plays…
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Juliet Bravo (1980)
Byte-Sized Overview Juliet Bravo is a BBC police drama from 1980 to 1985 that centres on female inspectors running a…
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Tour of Duty (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Tour of Duty is a Vietnam War drama that follows an American infantry platoon through the daily grind…
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Jake and the Fatman (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Jake and the Fatman is an American crime drama that first aired on CBS in 1987 and ran…
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Inspector Morse (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Inspector Morse is the sort of British detective drama that makes murder feel almost over-refined. Set in Oxford,…
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Crime Story (1986)
Byte-Sized Overview Crime Story is Michael Mann’s widescreen answer to the network crime drama, set in the late 1950s and…
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Edge of Darkness (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview Edge of Darkness is one of those rare television dramas that begins as a grief-stricken murder investigation and…
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MacGyver (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview MacGyver is the kind of 1980s action-adventure series that makes a religion out of improvisation. Richard Dean Anderson…
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Street Hawk (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview Street Hawk is a gleefully daft, slickly produced 1985 action series about Jesse Mach, a former motorcycle cop…
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Murder: She Wrote (1984)
Byte-Sized Overview Murder, She Wrote is the rare long-running crime series that turns comfort viewing into a competitive sport. Angela…
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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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Hunter (1984)
Byte-Sized Overview Hunter is a glossy, streetwise American police drama from the mid-1980s, built around Los Angeles homicide detectives Rick…
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