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1980s
Midnight Caller (1988)
Byte-Sized Overview Midnight Caller is a late-night network drama with a premise that sounds like it was scribbled on a…
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1960s
Department S (1969)
Byte-Sized Overview Department S is a late-sixties ITC adventure series about an elite Interpol unit that gets the cases everyone…
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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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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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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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1960s
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Byte-Sized Overview Mission: Impossible begins with a tape, a mission briefing and a promise that somebody, somewhere, is in very…
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1970s
Police Woman (1974)
Byte-Sized Overview Police Woman is the 1974 NBC crime drama built around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson, an undercover Los Angeles…
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1960s
The Fugitive (1963)
Byte-Sized Overview The Fugitive is the sort of series that understands one very useful truth about television drama: give a…
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1970s
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Byte-Sized Overview The Streets of San Francisco is a crackling police drama that pairs a weathered homicide lieutenant with a…
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1960s
The Saint (1962)
Byte-Sized Overview The Saint is the suave, globe-trotting British adventure series in which Simon Templar, played by Roger Moore, roams…
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