crime drama
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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
Longstreet (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview Longstreet is a 1971 ABC crime drama with a neat hook and a rather less neat world: insurance…
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2020s
P-Valley (2020)
Byte-Sized Overview P-Valley is a glossy, bruised and often surprisingly tender drama set in and around The Pynk, a strip…
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2000s
Waking the Dead (2000)
Byte-Sized Overview Waking the Dead is the sort of BBC crime drama that politely pretends to be a procedural, then…
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1960s
Maigret (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Maigret is the BBC’s black-and-white take on Georges Simenon’s famously patient Parisian detective, with Rupert Davies as Commissaire…
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1950s
The Detectives (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Detectives is the lean, hard-boiled American crime drama that put Robert Taylor in charge of a plainclothes…
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2000s
White Collar (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview White Collar is a glossy, character-driven crime drama about an unlikely professional partnership between FBI Special Agent Peter…
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1950s
Lock Up (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Lock Up is a hard-boiled legal drama from the end of the 1950s, set in Philadelphia and built…
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2010s
Mindhunter (2017)
Byte-Sized Overview Mindhunter is a chilly, meticulously observed crime drama set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the…
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1980s
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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1960s
Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased (1969)
Byte-Sized Overview Randall and Hopkirk: Deceased is a late-1960s British private-eye series with a gloriously daft supernatural hook: Jeff Randall…
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1950s
Johnny Staccato (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Johnny Staccato is a sleek, smoke-laced private-eye series with a jazz pulse and a distinctly nocturnal mood. John…
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