Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
First Deadly Sin, The (1980)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Bruce Willis… - Probably Ol' Blue Eyes' last decent film, giving an understated, effective performance as a pressured NYC detective hunting a serial killer and…
Gentle Touch, The (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe
- Ground–breaking police drama featuring Britain's first female TV detective fighting crime and the demands of being a solo mother. Jill Gascoine…
Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)- Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
- Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
Magnum P.I. (TV Series) (1980)- Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley… - After a tour of duty in Vietnam, the ever–affable Tom Selleck cruises Hawaii in his Porsche as a private investigator. Classic,…
Onion Field, The (1979)- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. James Woods, John Savage - Sporadically intense drama based on a real–life cop–killing in 1960s California, notable for James Woods' creepy debut as, you guessed…
Law And Order (TV Mini-Series) (1978)- Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Peter Dean, Derek Martin - Discerning Brit crime series focusing on three men involved in a bungled armed robbery – the Criminal, the Inspector and the Lawyer and played…
Vegas (TV Series) (Vega$) (1978)- Feat. Robert Urich, Tony Curtis
- Although Michael Mann is credited as creator of this splashy 70s detective series (in which Sin City is at its gaudy and ostentatious best), the…
Big Sleep, The (1977)- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Oliver Reed, Robert Mitchum, Joan Collins… - Having switched the setting of Chandler's classic Marlowe mystery to the U.K, it's still a hard act to follow after the magnificent performance of…
Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy
- Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
Professionals, The (TV Series) (1977-1983)- Dir. William Brayne
Feat. Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson - CI5 hard–men Bodie and Doyle shoot first and then ask no questions in their dirty (but necessary) line of work. A seminal TV Series of the…
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