So Lacklustre's Top 5s -- Favourite Cop Shows

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So Lacklustre's Top 5s -- Favourite Cop Shows

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The Sweeney
Columbo
Cannon
Starsky & Hutch
The Rockford Files
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SWAT
Mannix
McMillen and Wife
Streets of San Francisco
Ironside
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Hawaii 5-0
Barney Miller
Columbo
The Untouchables
Adam-12
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Hill Street Blues
Columbo
McMillen & Wife
Rockford Files
Cracker
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Kojak
The Streets Of San Francisco
Rockford Files
Hunter
The Bill
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Homicide
The Andy Griffith Show
Law & Order (with the exception of CI)
Hillstreet Blues
Buffy (if Rockford's a cop show, so is this!)


honorable mention: Kolchak, the Night Stalker
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Picky, picky, picky. Well, Rockford is a cop-for-hire -- PI's and cops have always been lumped together in this sort of thing. "Angel" was, technically, a PI, but I'll leave it off too, since cops rarely go to alternate universes.

Rockford
Homicide
Prime Suspect
Cracker (okay, not a cop, but a cop-helper!)
Law & Order (first 5 or 6 seasons, only)
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Go Moody and Bobster:

Homicide


(wide chasm)


Law & Order (original series)
Hill Street Blues
Rockford
Columbo
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Sledgehammer
Police Squad
Thin Blue Line

err ... mmm

Dixon of Dock Green
Chips

(may be funnier than the 1st three)
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What, no "Cop Rock"?
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x files
hill street blues
monk
miami vice
the untouchables
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I really liked that "Prime Suspect" series with Helen Mirren. Others I've enjoyed for one reason or another:

-"Hawaii Five-O": Great late night fare when I was in college. In fact, it was the only program we could pick up on my roommate's shitty TV. Hawaii Five-O and a bag of Doritos from Store 24 was all we needed to be happy.

-"Adam-12": Watched it obsessively as a kid. I'd probably hate it now. Wooden acting, much like its sister show about paramedics, "Emergency".

-"NYPD Blue": Pre-Ricky Schroeder, when Jimmy Smits was still on the show, this wasn't half bad. Jumped the shark long ago.

-"Starsky & Hutch": My friend Brett Anderson and I used to practice sliding across the hoods of cars. We must have thought it would come in handy one day. It hasn't yet.

I always thought CHiPS was the worst cop show ever.
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I love you, Mme. BA. I was totally waiting for someone to drop the Cop Rock bomb.
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I saw the first episode recently -- sort of compulsory considering me and the musicals and all. Not bad, really. Certainly the last song in the first ep. is a classic, and was later reused by Randy Newman on his "Faust."
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Baretta(love the theme, don't do the crime if you can't do the time)
Police Squad
Hill St. Blues
Chopper one
Charlie's Angels
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Kojak
The Streets Of San Francisco
Rockford Files
Hunter
The Bill
Not in order, btw.
noiseradio wrote:Law & Order (original series)
Noise, been watching some late episodes of Law And Order and it's been very good so I made a mental note to maybe get some seasons on DVD... do you know whether the quality of them varies much?

Others not mentioned:

Inspector Morse
Inspector Rex
21 Jump St
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I would have put Rockford on - best private eye show ever - but it's not a cop show.

Nobody mentioned Dragnet - who can forget the episode where the suburban couple were smoking marijuana and put their kid in the bathtub and were too stoned to remember they'd left him in there - Gannon says - "Twenty years on the job, first time I'm going to be sick Joe" - close up of a bag of weed in Jack Webb's hand - he clenches his fist - cue the music - DUM DE DUM DUM
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Boy With A Problem wrote:Nobody mentioned Dragnet - who can forget the episode where the suburban couple were smoking marijuana and put their kid in the bathtub and were too stoned to remember they'd left him in there - Gannon says - "Twenty years on the job, first time I'm going to be sick Joe" - close up of a bag of weed in Jack Webb's hand - he clenches his fist - cue the music - DUM DE DUM DUM
I seem to remember another episode (or maybe every episode was like that) where they busted a bunch of stoner hippies. You can see the seeds of Rodney King in the ridiculously straightlaced tone of Dragnet.
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... and I forgot to mention 'PC Pinkerton' :shock:
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crash8 -- Chopper One!!

I don't even remember the premise of it. Well, obviously it involved a chopper. I think I liked the theme song, and I think it was on Fridays at 8, followed by an Alaska cop show called Kodiak, which, since we didn't have a CBS affiliate in my town growing up, was the closest I got to Kojak. I remember fighting to watch Chopper One instead of Brady Bunch.

A late season replacement that I don't think was even picked up for a full season.

Unless we're thinking of different shows.
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Barnaby Jones
Hardcastle & McCormick
Fat Man & (someone)
Cannon
Kojak - Who luvs ya, baby?
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Jake and the Fat Man. William Conrad.
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And nobody has picked the Professionals either!!





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the professionals!


and they are???
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Bamboo,

I like the first 5-6 seasons of Law & Order best. But it's stayed fairly consistent. I don't own any of the DVD's, and i think they've release the first 4 seasons and season 14 (because recent fans wanted to see a cast they recognized). I'd start with Season 1 or 2. And I highly recommend that you check out Homicide, as well. Seasons 1 & 2 are on the same DVD set, and they're both great.
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