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- Graeme Ross
- 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”.
- The Wire (2002) Created by David Simon. Starring Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn. Crime, Drama, Thriller. 60 episodes (5 seasons) 9.3 on IMDb. There was never any question in my mind: The Wire is undoubtedly the best TV show about cops and criminals to ever do it.
- Breaking Bad (2008) Created by Vince Gilligan. Starring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn. Crime, Drama, Thriller. 62 episodes (5 seasons) 9.5 on IMDb. Breaking Bad is easily the best show of the last fifteen years, if not of all time.
- The Shield (2002) Created by Shawn Ryan. Starring Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins. Crime, Drama, Thriller. 88 episodes (7 seasons) 8.7 on IMDb.
- Fargo (2014) Created by Noah Hawley. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman. Crime, Drama, Thriller. 41 episodes (4 seasons) 8.9 on IMDb.
UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
After being shot in 2008 while investigating DCI Sam Tyler, DI Alex Drake wakes up in 1981. 2. Blue Lights. Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
TV Series. Follows dirty Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) cops called The Strike Team, who uses mostly illegal methods to maintain law and order, whilst engaging in a series of undercover dealings secretly in order to get rich. Creator Shawn Ryan Stars Michael Chiklis Catherine Dent Walton Goggins. 20.
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May 12, 2022 · The best cop shows and police dramas to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and other streaming services include Chicago P.D., Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Bosch, The Wire, and more.
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