police procedural
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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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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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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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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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1980s
Inspector Morse (1987)
Byte-Sized Overview Inspector Morse is the sort of British detective drama that makes murder feel almost over-refined. Set in Oxford,…
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1960s
Adam-12 (1968)
Byte-Sized Overview Adam-12 is a plainclothes-and-patrol-cars police drama set on the streets of Los Angeles, following Officers Pete Malloy and…
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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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2000s
Flashpoint (2008)
Byte-Sized Overview Flashpoint is a Canadian action drama about Team One, an elite police tactical response unit in Toronto that…
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1970s
Serpico (1976)
Byte-Sized Overview Serpico is a 1976 American crime drama built around Frank Serpico, the real New York detective whose refusal…
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1960s
Softly: Softly (1966)
Byte-Sized Overview Softly, Softly is the BBC’s 1966 police procedural spin-off from Z-Cars, built around Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Barlow…
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1950s
Naked City (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Naked City is the 1958 American police drama that took the grimy, argumentative energy of Jules Dassin’s 1948…
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1990s
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
Byte-Sized Overview Dalziel and Pascoe is a long-running British detective drama set in Yorkshire, built around an exquisitely mismatched police…
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