drama
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2020s
Dept. Q (2025)
Byte-Sized Overview Dept. Q is Netflix’s Edinburgh-set take on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Danish cold-case novels, relocated to the Scottish capital and…
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2000s
Spooks (2002)
Byte-Sized Overview Spooks is the BBC One spy thriller that made MI5 feel less like a distant government acronym and…
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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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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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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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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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1960s
The Prisoner (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview The Prisoner is the sort of television series that arrives, does something gloriously odd with the idea of…
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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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1950s
Wagon Train (1957)
Byte-Sized Overview Wagon Train is a classic American Western about a moving community crossing the post-Civil War frontier, with each…
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2020s
Tehran (2020)
Byte-Sized Overview Tehran is a taut spy thriller about Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad hacker-agent sent on her first mission into…
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