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The 10 Best Cops Shows of All Time
Popular Mechanics. ^ | Apr 29, 2014 | no author listed

Posted on 04/07/2018 5:57:32 PM PDT by Leaning Right

In the television entertainment system, the viewers are entertained by two separate yet equally important kinds of shows: the straight cop show, with clear good guys and bad guys, and the morally hazy shows that blur the lines. These are our choices.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: copshows; hollywood; leo; top10; vanity
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Here's something to argue over that doesn't involve politics. I'll start with this complaint: "Southland" should have been on the list inside of the lightweight "Miami Vice".

For the click-adverse, their top-ten:

10. Hawaii Five-O
9. Wiseguy
8. Dragnet
7. Miami Vice
6. CSI Miami
5. Law & Order
4. NYPD Blue
3. The Wire
2. The Shield
1. Hill Street Blues

1 posted on 04/07/2018 5:57:32 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

What? Where’s “M Squad”?


2 posted on 04/07/2018 5:59:10 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Leaning Right

Gunsmoke...


3 posted on 04/07/2018 5:59:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: All

Click The Pic

4 posted on 04/07/2018 6:00:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Car 54 Where Are You?


5 posted on 04/07/2018 6:00:41 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Leaning Right

Dragnet

Boston Blackie

Tales from the Highway Patrol

Andy Griffith Show

Honorable Mention:

Car 54 Where are you?


6 posted on 04/07/2018 6:00:45 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Leaning Right

The Andy Griffith Show.


7 posted on 04/07/2018 6:01:37 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Leaning Right

The Untouchables was better than any except maybe Dragnet.


8 posted on 04/07/2018 6:01:43 PM PDT by yarddog
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10. New York Undercover
9. The Streets of San Francisco
8. Surfside 6
7. Magnum PI
6. NYPD Blue
5. Cold Case
4. The Wire
3. Hill Street Blues
2. Rockford Files
1. Blue Bloods
9 posted on 04/07/2018 6:02:10 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Leaning Right

Bakersfield PD :o)

10 posted on 04/07/2018 6:02:28 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Leaning Right

No ‘Homicide:Life on the street’? Their list is crap.


11 posted on 04/07/2018 6:02:33 PM PDT by Thunder 6
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To: Leaning Right

Crime Story should be on this list


12 posted on 04/07/2018 6:02:57 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Leaning Right

Where’s Barney Miller?


13 posted on 04/07/2018 6:03:48 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Leaning Right

Popular mechanics?? This is click bait material for the pop world immediate syndicates


14 posted on 04/07/2018 6:05:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Leaning Right

California highway patrol The black-and-white show not chips. They did episodes about illegal immigrants being smuggled into the country and being confronted by law officials over 50 years ago


15 posted on 04/07/2018 6:06:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: yarddog

I agree.

Police Story is very good.


16 posted on 04/07/2018 6:06:42 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Leaning Right

No untouchables?


17 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Sybeck1

Crime Story had one of the best story lines going.

“Hey, Paulie, did you find us a place to stay?”

“Boss, It’s perfect.”

Paulie had found a fully stocked brand new home........at ground zero of a hydrogen bomb test.


18 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:09 PM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: Carl Vehse

Dittos to that! I loved that show!


19 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:35 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Psalm 73

What about Carter country


20 posted on 04/07/2018 6:07:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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