1990s
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Spender (1991)
Byte-Sized Overview Spender is a BBC1 crime drama with a distinctly Geordie swagger, built around Freddie Spender, a rough-edged detective…
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House of Cards (1990)
Byte-Sized Overview House of Cards (1990) is the BBC’s original political thriller, a four-part miniseries that turns Westminster into a…
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The West Wing (1999)
Byte-Sized Overview The West Wing is a political drama set inside the White House, following President Josiah Bartlet and the…
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Jonathan Creek (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Jonathan Creek is a British mystery-comedy built around an appealingly odd central idea: a man who designs stage…
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Midsomer Murders (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview Midsomer Murders is the sort of crime drama that makes the English countryside look like a place where…
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La Femme Nikita (1997)
Byte-Sized Overview La Femme Nikita is a Canadian action-drama about a woman forced into a secret government outfit called Section…
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Millennium (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Millennium is Chris Carter’s bleak, feverish follow-up to The X-Files, set in the last, twitchy stretch of the…
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Profiler (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Profiler is a glossy American crime thriller built around Dr Samantha Waters, a former forensic psychologist turned federal…
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The Sentinel (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview The Sentinel is a pulpy, lightly supernatural police drama with a neat hook: Jim Ellison, a Cascade detective,…
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Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Dalziel and Pascoe is a long-running British detective drama set in Yorkshire, built around an exquisitely mismatched police…
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JAG (1995)
Byte-Sized Overview JAG is a military legal drama about the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the Navy lawyers and investigators who…
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Murder One (1995)
Byte-Sized Overview Murder One is a glossy, nervy Los Angeles legal thriller built around one very large question: can a…
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