The Bridge took the concept of jurisdictions and turned it into a topical look at border issues, like immigration and drugs. Not to mention, the show’s visually sticking digital renderings of the human anatomy and penchant for gore led to no shortage of highly spirited water cooler moments. The second, to the lawyers who prosecuted the case. Over 199 episodes, the series followed Ironside and his team in his role as consultant to the Police Department as they sorted out the bad guys of the City by the Bay. Creators: Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur, The police station sitcom had basically been dormant for years when Brooklyn Nine-Nine arrived. 2960 watched 526 wanted: 2. Unceremoniously canceled by NBC on the eve of its second season premiere, TNT rescued the show and aired it for four additional seasons. Police procedurals and crime dramas have long been among the most popular shows on television. (Jerry Orbach). This short lived TV series was one of my favorites, primarily because it had a super-cute cast! Image: The Everett Collection. The heart of the show, however, remained the dynamic between Raylan and his longtime frenemy Boyd Crowder (a perfectly cast Walton Goggins). The series ran for 146 episodes. Hannah gives the role his best but was probably too young and lacked the cynical gravitas that Stott gave to Rebus. Creator: Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll, In many ways, the 1980s served as the coming-of-age period for TV crime dramas. The main characters of Law & Order: SVU aren’t necessarily broken people—they’re just people who’ve broken so many times they’ve forgotten what it’s like to feel put-together again. Instead, the crew took everything in stride, washed down with a mug of lukewarm coffee. In this world of the past, he is bumped down a rank and butts heads with his superior officer, the tough-as-nails DCI Gene Hunt (a career-making role for actor Philip Glenister). Indeed, part of the fun in watching the show today is catching the early work of actors who would soon enough become legends in their own right.—Mark Rozeman, Original Run: 2014-present The show takes its name from an actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Rick is a street-smart, good-old-boy Vietnam vet, while A.J. The 20 greatest TV cop shows of all time, from Line of Duty to The Wire Police TV series, a fixture of the small screen since its inception, have … Sort by: Tag popularity - Top Rated - Top Rated Popular - Want to watch - Release Date - Recently wanted - Date Added. Idris Elba is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor supporting category for Luther, {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}. Two actors have played Rebus on screen, John Hannah and Ken Stott. So, you know, it’s a little less awkward to watch.—Chris Morgan, Original Run: 2001-2010 Reno 911!’s phenomenal ensemble of brilliant comedic actors made the series wildly hilarious, along with the endless barrage of strange criminals played by the likes of Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt and Keegan-Michael Key. In the process, it became a defining example for how TV could equal the scope and depth of cinema. (I was eleven when it premiered). )—Andy Crump, Original Run: 2002-2008 British police procedural television series‎ (2 C) British prison television series‎ (2 C, 10 P) S Sherlock Holmes television series‎ (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "British crime television series" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. Creator: Alan Spencer, By the mid-1980s, the “loose cannon cop” archetype popularized by the Dirty Harry franchise (and encouraged by a culture of Regan-era conservatism) had already become a tired staple of film and TV. NYPD Blue (1993-2005) Aping its antecedent Hill Street Blues’ cinema verite style, multi award winning NYPD Blue was a natural progression for co-creator Steven Bochno, who along with David Milsch came up with even grittier storylines, atmospheric New York locations and warts ’n all characters to create a hugely compelling and influential cop show. Samberg’s schtick, in the past, has grated on some, but he has found the right tone on the Nine-Nine. Creator: Allan Cubitt, Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) is bereft of drama, deliberate in everything she does, like a predator that’s long transcended basic human mores. While each generation favours the ones it grew up with, Graeme Ross reckons he has nailed down the best of all time, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Creator: Nic Pizzolatto, So, the second outing on HBO’s anthology crime show kind of sucked. Miller and his crew of hangdog detectives dealt with all manner of crimes, squabbles, and broke open the occasional social issue like drugs and gay rights for examination. If you’ve seen the 2012 movie remake with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, then you already know the premise. A game changer in many ways, Cagney and Lacey explored issues such as rape, abortion and Cagney’s alcoholism head on. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones), its execution was rarely anything less than pitch perfect. Subsequent series concentrated more on Tennison’s inner demons as she began to rely on alcohol to help her cope with the pressures of the job. In its first season, there was a lot of talk about the fabulous performances from Billy Bob Thorton as the truly horrific Lorne Malvo and Martin Freeman as the lifelong loser, Lester Nygaard. Ian Rankin says he has never watched any of the television adaptions of his famously brooding, heavy drinking, loner detective because he didn’t want the actors’ faces replacing how he envisaged Rebus in his head. Since the inception of television, portrayal of crime and justice has been a central feature on television. Despite low ratings in its early days as well as a notable quality drop-off in its latter years, Homicide managed to last for seven season and remains an essential bastion of quality American television. Jack McCoy, are practically synonymous with the series.) It did, however, become an international success particularly in the UK. That’s inexcusable, and the only explanation is that nobody has seen it—if they had, it wouldn’t have been left off. That’s quite a legacy.—Amy Amatangelo, Original Run: 2000-2015 Throw in the fish-out-of-water time travel motif and the tongue in cheek non-PC scripts and characters, and its not hard to see why the series struck a chord with audiences. In 2005, members of a drugs gang claimed they had studied The Wire in order to learn about the latest police surveillance techniques, surely the ultimate example of life imitating art. The two have to balance their head-butting with their completely opposite styles while solving crimes and busting bad guys. If you like your cop yarns morally murky and narratively ambiguous, morals and narratives don’t tend to get murkier or more ambiguous than this. The Fall survived accusations of misogyny and voyeurism to lift a Bafta for best television drama and keep viewers hooked for three series, but remains a troubling, unsettling experience for many. The bond between the two characters was unbreakable despite leading entirely different lives (Lacey was married with a family and supportive husband, Cagney drifted from relationship to relationship). Dragnet is the Great Granddaddy of pretty much every cop/detective show in television history. With similar roles in The Vice and Messiah giving Stott an identifiable acting persona, he perhaps has the same problem as Humphrey Bogart being too much like Bogart to play the definitive Philip Marlowe, but in the absence of any other candidates, Stott is just fine. However, it is because of its aforementioned longevity that Castle is now the butt of all those jokes. An outstanding ratings success for BBC2, Jed Mercurio’s masterful police corruption thriller gripped viewers from the very beginning and kept them guessing until the explosive climax to the third series. Adam-12 is a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. The bold, serpentine and gripping storylines provided the exemplary cast with parts of a lifetime, with the most outstanding feature of Line of Duty undoubtedly the lengthy interrogation scenes as the tension was racked up notch by notch. It has been compared to the works of Dickens and Dostoevsky and lauded as the greatest television programme ever. Yet, here it was—a broadcast network sitcom, although it was one that only ran six episodes. 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. almost makes you wish law enforcement could always be this funny.—Ross Bonaime, Original Run: 1993-2005 Creator: Graham Yost, I still get mad thinking about this show’s cancellation. From the very first episode Life on the Street succeeded in dispelling the myths and stereotypes about the television cop, showing that murder and violence were just a routine parts of the job. Creators: Matthew Graham, Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharoah, This British series verged more into the realm of science fiction, but kept true to its roots as an homage to the hard-nosed ‘70s cop dramas going down in cinema and on the telly. You need to watch it.—Amy Amatangelo, Original Run: 1987-1991 The cop show that more than any other blurred the lines between the good guys and the bad guys. Creator: Sheldon Leonard, Aaron Ruben, Danny Thomas, What began as a guest appearance by Andy Griffith on an episode of The Danny Thomas Show turned into one of the most beloved series of the ‘60s. Beg, borrow or steal the box set and find out why. But let’s be honest, despite a terrific ensemble cast, Dennis Franz as scenery-chewing recovering alcoholic detective Andy Sipowicz, was virtually the whole show, appearing in all 261 episodes and in the process searing his psyche in viewers’ minds. This list may not reflect recent changes . The series, which ran for 20 (!!) Viewers were gripped by the formula; that of each episode reflecting 24 hours in the same murder case, and by the cold-fish female detective protagonist Sarah Lund, while developing an almost fetishist fascination with her knitwear. We continue to learn bits and pieces of Monk’s backstory (his wife Trudy was killed by a car bomb, resulting in his nervous breakdown and worsening of his OCD), we watch as his mental health gradually improves, and through it all we’re treated to an expert blend of comedy and drama that makes it so obvious why Shalhoub was nominated for eight Emmys (taking home three) for the role.—Bonnie Stiernberg, Kenneth Brannagh stars as the older, wounded, but still deeply insightful detective in this show, adapted from the Swedish program (and novels) of the same name. But it was Allison Tolman as Detective Molly Solverson who stole the show—quietly, firmly, determined to solve the crime and not be defeated when everyone told her she was wrong. There were just so many great detective shows with great characters staring in each show. In Sherman, Cudlitz created a groundbreaking character, playing a gay man whose sexuality was not a plot point. Rogue cop Vic Mackey leads the elite “strike force” of LA detectives who routinely break the law to keep the streets safe, but also to feather their own nest. Columbo (1971- 2003) After Bing Crosby turned the role down, Peter Falk became synonymous with the cigar smoking, dishevelled police lieutenant in a shabby raincoat, winning four Emmys and a Golden Globe. From the early days of television, the police in all their guises have been an essential subject for programme makers worldwide. So it goes with Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s tragic and heartrending police drama about just how thick blood must be to make a lifetime of crime worth the trouble. The tropes here, a constellation unto itself, a universe of infinite drinking games, are legion—from the hilarious seething of the dearly missed Elliott Stabler (Christopher Meloni), to the lifelong travails of the forever-strong Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), the characters who day in and day out must endure the depravity of New York City’s never-ending parade of perverts are each a shell of barely contained emotion, be it rage, or trauma, or some viscous, volatile mixture of the two. In the Seventies, cops popped up all over television. It’s a classic formula for TV and film: two cops—usually with extremely different personalities—come together with the common goal to fight crime. 9. —Mark Rozeman, Original Run: 1981-1987 Creator: Anthony E. Zuiker, Concluding earlier this year after 15 years and numerous spin-offs (including the still airing, CSI: Cyber), there’s no question that the CSI franchise had lost a good bit of its luster. Throughout three seasons, The Fall blurs the lines between the good side and the bad side, breaking down justice until it’s little more than justification to a hierarchy of humanity wherein the strongest and smartest deserve more freedom—more life—than the rest of the disposable herd.—Dom Sinacola, Original Run: 2009-2013 Tele savalas who played Kojak and David soul who played Hutch also launched music careers as well as there acting. A. Webb wanted to create a cop show that portrayed police work as realistically as possible. have always been big, but network TV in the 70s and 80s was known for its great cop shows, like these 10. Ironically, it never gained huge audience ratings, but garnered a grand total of 98 Emmy nominations. Z Cars brought some iconic characters into the nation’s living rooms such as detective Charlie Barlow, PC “Fancy” Smith and desk sergeant Bert Lynch. Luther (2010-2016) Like many of his ilk, dedicated near-genius DCI John Luther (a brilliant Idris Elba) is a tormented soul, struggling with his own inner demons, hugely affected by the stomach churning crimes he investigates. It was loaded down with great jokes, weird bits and dumb-funny wordplay. In fact I credit shows like Baretta, Charlie's Angels, and Starsky & Hutch for inspiring my initial desire to become a writer. Groundbreaking, thought provoking, emotional and funny, Hill Street Blues stands tall in the canon of truly great television. Referred to as a “howcatchem” by its’ creators, Columbo deviated from the traditional whodunit in that the audience and, it seemed, Columbo himself, knew the identity of the murderer from the start. The Fall survived accusations of misogyny and voyeurism to lift a Bafta for best television drama and keep viewers hooked for three series, but remains a troubling, unsettling experience for many. 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. Forty years on, the cars, the attitudes and the trousers may have dated, but The Sweeney retains its magnetic hold, and as a microcosm of its time and style, not to mention as landmark television, it has rarely been bettered. There’s only one season so far (the sophomore season is coming in 2016), and the plot centers on a kidnapping in the down-at-the-heels English town of West Yorkshire. Gillian Anderson is the deliberate, dedicated senior detective on the trail of an equally meticulous serial killer in this controversial drama filmed and set in Northern Ireland. Aficionados rate this show even better than The Wire. His already tenuous grasp on civility and basic sanity is tested further by the mind games of a woman (The Affair’s Ruth Wilson, seductive and threatening), he knows to have killed her own parents. 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. 15. Z Cars brought some iconic characters into the nation’s living rooms such as detective Charlie Barlow, PC “Fancy” Smith and desk sergeant Bert Lynch. Indeed, unlike most police shows at the time, Columbo always started by following the perspective of the perpetrator, with the audience then tracking how Columbo would crack the case (referred to by the show’s creative team as a “howcatchem” instead of a “whodunit”). In some, it is superior; a vivid, graphic entertainment that’s no less profound than Simon’s musings on Baltimorean crime and punishment. From the bobby on the beat in the cosy world of Dixon of Dock Green to the emotionally damaged detectives of today, with diversions into police procedurals and Scandinavian noir, the cop show has become a beloved TV institution containing many of the most compelling and memorable characters ever found on the small screen. Creator: Sally Wainwright, It was with dismay that I received the news from Shannon, compiler of this list, that nobody else had picked Happy Valley. See more ideas about 1980s tv, tv, tv shows. “Do you not worry you’re on the devil’s side without even knowing it?” wonders the tormented cop. With so many fantastic performances, it’s a challenge to single out any one actor, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Regina King’s fabulous turn as Detective Lydia Adams. The short-lived NBC drama was the epitome of a show ahead of its time. Actors like Andre Braugher. Creator: Edward Hume, For five seasons, a young Michael Douglas and a not-so-young Karl Malden cruised around the titular avenues and highways of the Bay Area in a Ford Galaxie, solving murders and maintaining the kind of love-hate relationship that has been the heart of buddy cop movies and TV shows for decades. NYPD Blue 70 points - added 3 years ago by redbarron80 - 2. From the very first episode Life on the Street succeeded in dispelling the myths and stereotypes about the television cop, showing that murder and violence were just a routine parts of the job. Created by Ian Kennedy Martin, brother of Z Cars co-creator Troy, The Sweeney was shot in 16mm film and that, along with extensive location shooting, gave it a more cinematic look than other studio-bound rivals. Along the way, Capt. Cop shows had basically been reduced to serious dramas, with serious characters, played by serious actors. Creator: Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow, Premiering just a couple of months after 9/11, 24—which centered on a fictional Counter Terrorist Unit and its star agent Jack Bauer—was a show that came at just the right time in our culture. Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. 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”. The series is fueled by enough doom to make the Bard himself crack a wry smile, and it’s loaded with dubious morality. 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It is Braugher’s stern, deadpan performance as Ray Holt that really makes this show special, and his relationship with Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta has also created a strong foundation from the beginning. —Mark Rozeman, Original Run: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee And damn if Miami Vice didn’t do an amazing job of bringing that to life with a smart use of pop songs (not for nothing did its theme song become a radio hit and a soundtrack album hit #1 on the Billboard album charts), fast-paced editing, and lots of beautiful people in very stylish clothing. Creator: Colin Dexter, Tony Warren, Played by John Thaw, the title character of this influential British detective drama is a refreshingly flawed iteration of the classic “gentleman detective.” Appearing in 33 two-hour episodes spanning 13 years, the figure of Inspector Morse, along with his trusty sidekick, Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately), looms large over more recent series like Idris Elba’s Luther. was nuts. Focusing on the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad, The Sweeney was all booze, cigarettes, car chases, punch-ups and catchphrases that quickly entered the public consciousness. This naturally proves to be easier said than done, considering the sheer neurosis on display, including one detective who is suffering from a brain tumor that induces hallucinations at inopportune times. And while you may not be aware of the series, you are likely aware of the movies that stemmed from the show; The Naked Gun films. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." Between the Lines drew praise for the way it tackled topical issues of the day as it attempted to address the age old moral dilemma, quis custodiet ipsos custodes – who will guard the guards themselves? I still get chills thinking about it.—Amy Amatangelo, Original Run: 2014-present Cagney and Lacey (1981- 88) The cop show that more than any other blew the stereotypical image of female police officers out of the water, and challenged the sexist attitudes of many executives in the television industry. The police officers themselves were portrayed warts and all, with gritty subject matter, including domestic abuse at the hands of a police officer, at the heart of the storylines. It just so happened that this one took place within the dingy, paper-strewn squad room of the 12th Precinct. Ironside (1967-75) Launched to much fanfare as a television movie and boasting a killer theme tune from Quincy Jones, Ironside starred Raymond Burr, who was still hot after his stint as television’s Perry Mason, as San Francisco Chief of Police Robert T Ironside, who is confined to a wheelchair after an attempted assassination. Police Squad! It was fun playing Starsky and Hutch as kids growing up. The Wire may not be the greatest television programme ever, but its realism and authenticity can never be in doubt. (Although a few actors, including Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe and Sam Waterston as A.D.A. Sometimes referred to as a police procedural, the police … That’s fine—The Wire’s laurels are well-earned—but give a little more consideration to The Shield, too, huh? Gritty, heartbreaking, thought-provoking and, at times, hilarious, the series set the bar high for all cop dramas that would follow.
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