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Cop / Detective / Mystery Series

"We had technical advisers on Cagney & Lacey the first two years. They flew a woman in to advise us. I always remember she had a cut across her face, it was a knife cut -- all the way across. A woman cop. Got it on the job." - Sharon Gless

Cop/Detective/Mystery series describes shows featuring recurring protagonists who engage in solving or preventing crimes.

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  • 21 Jump Street
  • A
  • Adam 12
  • B
  • Baretta
  • Brooklyn South
  • C
  • Cagney & Lacey
  • Charlie’s Angels
  • Christine Cromwell
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • D
  • Dragnet
  • F
  • F.B.I., The
  • H
  • Hart to Hart
  • Hawaii Five-O
  • Hill Street Blues
  • I
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Ironside
  • L
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • M
  • M Squad
  • McCloud
  • Miami Vice
  • Moonlighting
  • Murder, She Wrote
  • N
  • New York Undercover
  • NYPD Blue
  • P
  • Peter Gunn
  • Players
  • R
  • Rockford Files, The
  • S
  • Starsky and Hutch
  • Streets of San Francisco
  • Swift Justice
  • Switch
  • T
  • T.J. Hooker
  • Treasury Men in Action
  • U
  • Untouchables, The
  • Untouchables, The: "The White Slavers"

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Watch Interview Highlights

  • Steven Bochco on the elements that defined NYPD Blue
  • Sharon Gless on creating a realistic cop show, and on Tyne Daly and Gless  being honored by the New York Police Department for Cagney & Lacey
  • Mike Post on working on Hill Street Blues  with writer/producer Steven Bochco
  • Steven Bochco on L.A. Law
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