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2020s
The Day of the Jackal (2024)
Byte-Sized Overview The Day of the Jackal is a sleek, globe-trotting spy thriller built around a very simple, very dangerous…
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2020s
The Gentlemen (2024)
Byte-Sized Overview The Gentlemen is Guy Ritchie’s television return to the same slick, swaggering criminal universe as his 2019 film,…
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1970s
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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1960s
The Mod Squad (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview The Mod Squad arrived in 1968 with a pitch that felt cheeky, contemporary and just a little bit…
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1950s
The Untouchables (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Untouchables is the hard-boiled, black-and-white crime drama that turned Eliot Ness and his federal squad into television…
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1980s
The Equalizer (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview The Equalizer is the 1980s CBS drama in which Edward Woodward plays Robert McCall, a retired intelligence operative…
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1970s
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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1950s
Bonanza (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Bonanza is the grand old Cartwright western, set on the Ponderosa Ranch outside Virginia City, Nevada, in the…
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1980s
Dempsey and Makepeace (1985)
Byte-Sized Overview Dempsey and Makepeace is a glossy, punchy British crime action series that throws together two people who would…
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1950s
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview 77 Sunset Strip is the glossy, wisecracking private-eye drama that helped define the TV detective boom of the…
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2020s
Vigil (2021)
Byte-Sized Overview Vigil is a high-pressure British thriller that begins with a suspicious death aboard HMS Vigil, a Royal Navy…
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1980s
The A-Team (1983)
Byte-Sized Overview The A-Team is a glossy, punchy action-adventure about four ex-Special Forces men who are wrongly branded as fugitives…
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