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| Baretta | | Lived in Apartment 2-C of the King Edward |
Had a pet cockatoo named Fred
| Barnaby Jones | | Retired Detective Passes His Business to His Son, Hal |
Starred Buddy Ebson
| Barney Miller | | Wry Humor in New York City’s 12th Precinct |
Starred Hal Linden and Abe Vigoda
| Cannon | | Rotund Detective Lives in a Penthouse on Sunset Strip |
Has a penchant for expensive things
| Car 54 Where Are You? | | The Genre’s First Sitcom |
Starring Joe Ross and Fred Gwynne
| Charlie's Angels | | “Once Upon a Time, There Were Three Little Girls . . .†|
John Forsythe was the voice of Charlie
| City of Angels | | TV Knockoff of Chinatown With Jake Axminster |
Jake would always look both ways to see if the cops were laying for him
| Colombo | | We Never Knew His First Name |
Modeled after Petrovich in Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
| The Defenders | | Father/son Lawyer Duo Take on Contemporary Issues |
1961-1965
| The Fugitive | | Classic Man-on-the-run Plot Line |
David Jansen starred as Richard Kimball
| Get Christie Love! | | Teresa Graves Plays a Black Undercover Agent |
Based on The Ledger by Dorothy Uhnak
| Hawaii Five-O | | Fictional State Police Led by Steve McGarrett |
Actor Jack Lord played Steve
| Honey West | | The Genre’s First Female Private Eye |
Produced by Aaron Spelling
| Ironside | | A Sniper’s Bullet Paralyzed Him from the Waist Down |
Broadcast as A Man Called Ironside in the UK
| I Spy | | Featured the Genre’s First African-American Hero |
Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott
| Kojak | | Greek-American Detective Fond of Lollipops |
"Who loves ya, baby?". The lollipop was introduced after Telly Savalas gave up smoking.
| Mannix | | Featured Mike Connors As an Armenian-American Private Investigator |
Produced by Bruce Geller
| McCloud | | Wore a Stetson and a Sheepskin Coat |
Starred Dennis Weaver
| McMillan and Wife | | Police Commissioner of San Francisco With a Shrewd Housekeeper Named Mildred |
Starred Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James
| Mission Impossible | | Featured Intricate Weekly Espionage Assignments |
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . ."
| Mod Squad | | Hip Crime Fighters Deal With Counter-culture Issues |
Produced by Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas
| Police Woman | | Pepper Anderson is an Undercover Prostitute |
Starred Angie Dickenson
| Quincy, M.E. | | Based on Canadian TV Series Wojeck |
Played by Jack Klugman
| The Rockford Files | | Lived in a House Trailer Near Malibu, California |
Played by James Garner
| The Saint | | Simon Templar Fights Crime Using Criminal Methods |
First appeared in 1928, making Templar the longest running character in contemporary detective fiction
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