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1980s
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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1960s
Checkmate (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Checkmate (1960) is a glossy American detective drama with a rather appealing premise for anyone who likes their…
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1980s
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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1970s
The D.A. (1971)
Byte-Sized Overview The D.A. is a 1971 American legal drama built around the work of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney…
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1970s
Shoestring (1979)
Byte-Sized Overview Shoestring is a brisk, shaggy BBC detective drama with a very specific selling point: its hero, Eddie Shoestring,…
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1960s
Special Branch (1969)
Byte-Sized Overview Special Branch is a London-set police drama about the Metropolitan Police unit that deals with espionage, subversion and…
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1970s
Hazell (1978)
Byte-Sized Overview Hazell is a London-set private-eye drama with a distinctly late-Seventies swagger, built around James Hazell, a Cockney investigator…
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1950s
Hawaiian Eye (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Hawaiian Eye is a glossy, sunlit detective series set in Honolulu, where private investigators Tracy Steele and Tom…
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1980s
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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1960s
It Takes a Thief (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview It Takes a Thief is a glossy late-1960s American action-adventure caper built around Alexander Mundy, a suave professional…
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1970s
Target (1977)
Byte-Sized Overview Target is a hard-charging BBC police drama from the late 1970s, set in Southampton and built around the…
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2010s
Better Call Saul (2015)
Byte-Sized Overview Better Call Saul is the slow-burn prequel to Breaking Bad, but it is not content to be just…
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