Book ’em, Dano!
The TV cop show has been a staple of the American television ever since there was television.
Broderick Crawford starred as Dan Matthews in Highway Patrol. Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-O. Dannis Franz was Detective Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue.
There were the cops. There were bad guys. There was gunplay! It was gritty….. And it was all broadcast into our living rooms for our viewing pleasure.
These are the top 25 cop shows of all time.
(older list, but it will serve the purpose)
- The Wire
- Hill Street Blues
- Homicide: Life on the Streets
- The Shield
- Cagney & Lacey
- Columbo
- Naked City
- SouthLAnd
- Police Squad!
- True Detective
- Barney Miller
- Luther
- NYPD Blue
- Justified
- Crime Story
- Miami Vice
- The Mod Squad
- 21 Jump Street
- Law & Order
- S.W.A.T.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Sledge Hammer!
- Starsky & Hutch
- The Unusuals
- Dragnet
WHAT!?!?!… No Hawaii Five-O?
Flavorwire’s top 25 cop shows of all time
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