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5 days ago · T.J. Hooker was also a good crime show that aired in the 1980s. TV viewers got a look inside the dramatic lives of a group of Hill Street police officers in the '80s crime dramas Hill Street Blues. Other good cop shows that appear on this top 1980s crime drama TV shows list include Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street and L.A. Law.
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- The Wire. So much has been written about David Simon and Ed Burns’ five-season HBO masterpiece that it seems impossible to sum up what makes it great in a mere paragraph.
- Hill Street Blues. With its melancholy opening theme and images of grey, overcast streets, Hill Street was a marked departure from the stylish, action-packed cop shows of its era; creators Steven Bochco (again!)
- Homicide: Life on the Streets. In 1991, a Baltimore newspaper reporter published a riveting book called Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, the result of a year-long embed with the Baltimore PD.
- The Shield. Shawn Ryan’s seven-season FX cop drama centered on a four-man anti-gang unit in the Los Angeles police department, and drew its style from theirs: fast, mean, and rough-and-tumble, shooting first and asking questions later.
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2. Magnum, P.I. The adventures of a Hawaii-based private investigator. 3. Simon & Simon. Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency. 4. Miami Vice. -Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami ...
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- Hill Street Blues (1981-1987) Created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll and still celebrated, still hugely influential, and still the cop show to which almost everything that has come since owes a huge debt.
- The Sweeney (1975-78) It has become so caricatured and parodied in recent years that it’s easy to overlook the fact that The Sweeney made Z Cars look as antiquated as the former did Dixon of Dock Green a decade earlier.
- Inspector Morse (1987-2000) Such is the renown of the celebrated television adaptation of Colin Dexter’s novels featuring the enigmatic real-ale swilling, arts loving, crossword buff detective, that there’s very little left to say apart from it’s basically a brilliant variation on the classic English whodunit, Kevin Whately’s Lewis is to John Thaw’s Morse as Dr Watson was to Sherlock Holmes, and Thaw is simply wonderful.
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-98) Baltimore native Barry Levinson was a natural fit as executive producer of this ultra-realistic police procedural, based on The Wire creator David Simon’s book chronicling his experiences following homicide detectives at work in the so-called “City of Firsts”.
Oct 23, 2015 · 32. The Bridge. Considering the sheer amount of detective shows that have existed over the decades, it’s incredibly rare to find one that can bring something legitimately new to the table. The ...
Carrie Wells, a former police detective, has a rare ability to remember virtually everything she experiences including detailed visual recall. She returns to police work and uses her ability to solve crimes. Creator John Bellucci Ed Redlich Stars Poppy Montgomery Dylan Walsh James Hiroyuki Liao. 11. Damages.
