police procedural
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1990s
Between the Lines (1992)
Byte-Sized Overview Between the Lines is a British police drama with teeth, set inside the Metropolitan Police’s Complaints Investigation Bureau,…
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2000s
NCIS (2003)
Byte-Sized Overview NCIS is a naval crime procedural with the sort of premise that sounds immediately practical and, on paper,…
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1980s
Cagney & Lacey (1982)
Byte-Sized Overview Cagney & Lacey is the CBS police drama that put two working women at the centre of a…
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2010s
Luther (2010)
Byte-Sized Overview Luther is a British psychological crime thriller built around DCI John Luther, a brilliant detective who solves savage…
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2000s
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Byte-Sized Overview CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the forensic procedural that made a crime lab feel like the coolest place…
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1950s
Dragnet (1951)
Byte-Sized Overview Dragnet is the stiff-backed, deadpan police procedural that helped define television crime drama before most of the genre…
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1990s
Law & Order (1990)
Byte-Sized Overview Law & Order is the archetypal New York crime machine, built on a simple but remarkably durable split:…
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2000s
Southland (2009)
Byte-Sized Overview Southland is a hard-bitten LAPD drama set in Los Angeles, where the sunshine is mostly decorative and every…
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2010s
Happy Valley (2014)
Byte-Sized Overview Happy Valley is a West Yorkshire crime drama that starts with a local police sergeant, Catherine Cawood, doing…
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2000s
The Wire (2002)
Byte-Sized Overview The Wire is a five-season HBO crime drama set in Baltimore, where a police detail, drug crews, docks,…
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1990s
NYPD Blue (1993)
Byte-Sized Overview NYPD Blue is the sort of police drama that looked at network television in the early 1990s and…
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2020s
The Responder (2022)
Byte-Sized Overview The Responder is a Liverpool-set police drama that spends less time solving crimes than it does showing how…
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