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1990s
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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1970s
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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2020s
The Penguin (2024)
Byte-Sized Overview The Penguin is a crime drama set in the soot-stained, flood-ravaged aftermath of The Batman, and it follows…
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2000s
Flashpoint (2008)
Byte-Sized Overview Flashpoint is a Canadian action drama about Team One, an elite police tactical response unit in Toronto that…
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2020s
The Night Agent (2023)
Byte-Sized Overview The Night Agent is a brisk political conspiracy thriller with the sort of set-up that tells you exactly…
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1980s
Miami Vice (1984)
Byte-Sized Overview Miami Vice is the glossy, neon-splashed crime drama that turned undercover policing into a fashion statement and a…
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1970s
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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2000s
NCIS (2003)
Byte-Sized Overview NCIS is a naval crime procedural with the sort of premise that sounds immediately practical and, on paper,…
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2010s
Justified (2010)
Byte-Sized Overview Justified is a contemporary Western crime drama set in the coal country of eastern Kentucky, where U.S. Marshal…
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1980s
Wiseguy (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Wiseguy is a late-1980s CBS crime drama about Vincent Terranova, an undercover operative sent deep into organised crime…
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2020s
Blue Lights (2023)
Byte-Sized Overview Blue Lights is a Belfast-set police drama about three rookie officers dropped into the Police Service of Northern…
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1960s
Mannix (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview Mannix is a Los Angeles private-eye series with a very specific 1960s idea of what “modern” looks like:…
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