The best TV cop show - ever

[Pevenseagull]

Starsky & Hutch

I have box sets .... sometimes it's difficult to work out if the were ripping off a film or if the episode was ripped off by a film .... anyway, it's bloody marvellous

notable mentions to Bergerac, The Sweeney & Inspector Morse

Miss Marple and Murder She Wrote (entertaining as they were) don't count as cop shows because whilst crime was involved they weren't affiliated to even the same extent as 'Quincy', 'Cracker' or 'Rockford' and anyhow they were just meddling old bitches who missed out on a good dose of cock back in the day so had nothing better to do with their lives.

And Cagney and Lacey was just a watered down Starsky and Hutch without testicles

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Just looking at some of the TV cop shows on wiki, made me realise that a poll would've been near impossible!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_television_dramas

 

[Stevie Boy]

only one and that is CHiPS

 

[Norman Potting]

Police Squad.

Good call - all six episodes available on DVD for not very much. On a similar tack how about "Operation Good Guys" (later just "Good Guys") which some people recall with affection and laid the foundations for spoof reality programmes such as "The Office".

Also "Life on Mars" which was (sort of) a Detective show and owed a huge debt to "The Sweeney". IMHO Gene Hunt is one of the great TV characters of recent years.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

columbo (peter falk)

 

[countryman]

Life On Mars has to be my favourite even if I did not fully understand the end of the sequel Ashes To Ashes.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

I've just watched The Sweeny on ITV 4 and it got me thinking - which is the most popular TV cop show, past or present? There's only one group of pollsters to ask and that's the good, the bad and the ugly of NSC.

You have just watched an episode of the best cop series ever to be made no question,i have the box set and both films can`t beat it.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

'Homicide. Life on the Street' was a great programme. Consistently brilliant.
Life on Mars was also very good, and so was the much maligned American version.

 

[Ringmer Seagull]

Lots of good calls on this. I give you ....Kojak. Who loves ya baby.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

The bill.

 

[vegster]

Hill Street Blues, all the way

 

[wunt be druv]

Starsky and Hutch,a 70's Icon second only to the mighty Peter Wards' perm.Liked Policewoman with Angie Dickinson but only after she got her tits out in some film I can't remember.

 

[Norman Potting]

A late call for "Dixon of Dock Green" perhaps, "evenin' all". Saturday teatimes have never been the same since this finished. Precursor to Life on Mars in the sense that the main character died and was brought back to life.

 

[Eric Potts]

Life On Mars has to be my favourite even if I did not fully understand the end of the sequel Ashes To Ashes.

Errrrr................ They were all dead , mate .

 

[Mutts Nuts]

Lots of good calls on this. I give you ....Kojak. Who loves ya baby.

Good call

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Hill Street Blues
Z Cars
Dixon of Dock Green
The Sweeny
Softly Softly

 

[PFJ]

Cannon starring William Conrad

 

[mreprice]

The Professionals!!!!

Either daylight or Life on Mars second.