Name

Description

Country

Year

Link


Budgie

A wannabe criminal gets into different scams each week. Ah'll break yer arms off at random intervals! UK 1971
-
1972
watch


Cannon

Overweight, sweaty, crime-busting! USA 1971
-
1976
watch


 Dempsey & 
Makepeace

Sgt (Lady) Harriet Makepeace, and a streetwise New Yorker team up for odd-couple crime-solving capers UK 1985
-
1986
watch


Fall Guy, The

Cole Seavers is a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter USA 1981
-
1986
watch


Hardcastle & 
McCormick

Daft crime-busting action that's carried by a mad-looking sports car. USA 1983
-
1986
watch


Hetty Wainthropp

Hetty Wainthropp jumps to conclusions and solves crimes which are often too minor to concern the police UK 1996
-
1998
watch


Hill Street Blues

One of my favourite cop shows of all time. USA 1981
-
1987
watch


Inspector Morse

John Thaw plays an old curmudgeon who stomps around Oxford, solving all murders and that. UK 1987
-
2000
watch


Kojak

Set in New York just as "Miranda Rights" came into force. Always a favourite. USA 1973
-
1978
watch


Matlock

Typical American cop show really, but entertaining enough. USA 1986
-
1995
watch


Sapphire & 
Steel

Sci-fi capers as the protagonists try to maintain the order of time... UK 1979
-
1982
watch


Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with Jeremy Brett. No description required. UK 1984
-
1990
watch


Starsky &
Hutch

Every 70s kid's favourite. If it wasn't yours, there's something wrong with you. USA 1975
-
1979
watch


Streets of 
San Francisco, The

One of the classic cop shows of the 70s. Still great watching.  USA 1972
-
1977
watch


Sweeney, The

YOU'RE NICKED! UK 1975
-
1978
watch


Traffik

Excellent drama about the heroin trade from Afghanistan.  UK
GER
1989 watch


Widows

The wives of a crime gang plan to carry out a blag. UK 1983 watch


Wycliffe

Based on W. J. Burley's novels, each episode deals with a murder investigation UK 1994
-
1998
watch