Favorite Cop/Detective Shows From The 70's?

[kes1111]

What's Your Favorite Cop/Detective Show From The 70's?​

Kojak is an American action crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theodopolis "Theo" Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978.

Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978.

Columbo (/kəˈlʌmboʊ/) is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.[2][3] After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978

Mannix is an American detective television series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. It was created by Richard Levinson and William Link, and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller. The title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator played by actor Mike Connors.

Adam-12 is an American television police procedural crime drama television series created by Robert A. Cinader and Jack Webb. The show ran from September 21, 1968 to May 20, 1975 over seven seasons.

The Rookies is an American police procedural series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976.[1] It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD).

Barnaby Jones is an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law, who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was originally introduced as a midseason replacement on the CBS network and ran from 1973 to 1980.

Police Woman is an American police procedural television series created by Robert L. Collins, starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.

Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes.

Starsky & Hutch is an American action television series It was broadcast from April 1975 (pilot movie) to August 1979 on the ABC network.

McMillan & Wife (known simply as McMillan from 1976–77) is an American police procedural television series that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971, to April 24, 1977

Hawaii Five-O (with a capital letter "O" as the last character in the title) is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and created by Leonard Freeman (not to be confused with Hawaii Five-0, with a numeral zero as the last character in the title). Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons on CBS from September 20, 1968, to April 8, 1980,

The Rockford Files is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network from September 13, 1974, to January 10, 1980.

The Streets of San Francisco is a television crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television (QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run).
It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two homicide Inspectors in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between 1972 and 1977, on ABC,

 

[kes1111]

Best Cop Shows from the 1970's
By Winchestery
Influential Television

The most influential television shows from my childhood were the police dramas of the 1970s. In fact I credit shows like Baretta, Charlie's Angels, and Starsky & Hutch for inspiring my initial desire to become a writer. I wanted to recreate those tough no nonsense crime fighters I grew up with in my own fiction. Whether or not I succeed remains to be seen, since I haven't published any of my own writing as yet.

Cop shows dominated the 70s so there was no way to pay credit to them all in this short article. Instead I focused on my personal favorites, the ones I remember watching in the evening with my family. Hopefully there are some of your favorites too.
http://winchestery.hubpages.com/hub/Icons-of-Law-Order-Top-Cop-Shows-of-the-1970s

 

[HAR125LEM]

Which spun off Paul Sorvino in this...

 

[kes1111]

Tenafly is a crime-drama series starringJames McEachin that was part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel for the 1973-74 season. It was created by Richard Levinson andWilliam Link, the creators of popular mystery television shows such as Columbo andMurder, She Wrote. It was the one of the first television series that season to star an African-American character as the protagonist (the other show being Shaft withRichard Roundtree). Due to low ratings,Tenafly only lasted one season.


Get Christie Love! was a short-lived television series on the ABC network (23 episodes from January 22, 1974-April 5, 1975, featuring Charles Cioffi as Love's supervisor Lt. Matt Reardon, who is later replaced byJack Kelly as Capt. Arthur Ryan. Financed on a meager budget and heavily sanitized to conform to Graves' religious morals (she had joined Jehovah's Witnesses since the making of the TV film), the series was soon cancelled.

 

[Brother Blues]

I have always hated cop shows...and especially do now.

The only ones I have ever gotten into are The Shield,and The Wire....

 

[CptMARVEL]

Wow.
I remember ALL that stuff!!!
Nice walk down memory lane...

 

[gameboy]

I have always hated cop shows...and especially do now.

The only ones I have ever gotten into are The Shield,and The Wire....

basically,, only ones i messed with were:

miami vice
new york undercover
the wire

 

[big enos burrnet]

i remember all the show from the cars they drove..

kojak....buick skylark

cannon...lincoln mark iii

barnaby jones...2 door ford ltd..

 

[kes1111]

Hawaii Five-O is an American police proceduraldrama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set inHawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues inreruns. At the airing of its very last episode, it was the longest running cop show in television history at that time.


Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.[2][3] The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective storyformat, which begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the series therefore has no "whodunit" element. The plot revolves around how a perpetrator whose identity is already known to the audience will finally be caught and exposed (which the show's writers called a "howcatchem," rather than a "whodunit").

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

:"RAY-mon BEER-eye"

 

[chefblaise]

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

 

[geechiedan]

Don't forget Quincy

Quincy was the first forensics cop show but because of the way and style police shows were done then they had to keep creating ways for Quincy, a coroner, to not just determine how a victim died but to gather other clues and essentially solve the case by himself.

Today cop/forensic shows are more realistically team based with groups of people involved in the case and everyone plays their smaller part which is why cop shows coming out now are essentially ensemble cast. Back then it was just the one or two cops or lawyers or doctors doing EVERYTHING then calling in the rest to clean up at the end

 

[Djmarkxr7]

i remember all the show from the cars they drove..

kojak....buick skylark

cannon...lincoln mark iii

barnaby jones...2 door ford ltd..

Lol, I remember when Cannon went from a Mark III to a Mark IV!

"Hello, mobile operator?"

 

[grownazzblakman]

Can’t forget these…..

Vega$




The Mod Squad$




Ironside




Mission: Impossible




Quincy, M.E.




McCloud




Bronk




Harry-O




Cannon




Switch




The F.B.I.




Sarge




Delvecchio




Petrocelli

 

[Djmarkxr7]

Don't forget Quincy

Quincy was the first forensics cop show but because of the way and style police shows were done then they had to keep creating ways for Quincy, a coroner, to not just determine how a victim died but to gather other clues and essentially solve the case by himself.

Today cop/forensic shows are team based with groups of people involved in the case and every plays their smaller part. Back then it was just the one or two cops or lawyers or doctors doing EVERYTHING then calling in the rest to clean up at the end

Bruh, Quincy almost began forensic pathology, I can remember an ep where Quincy was trying to get the Coroner's Office & the LAPD to adopt a "chain of custody" system of paperwork, which was new @ the time, this system requires ALL individuals who handle evidence to sign a single piece of paperwork that denotes who, where & what time evidence is collected & turned over to the next individual, and that it is done in a timely manner, this was PIVOTAL in the OJ case which actually found several pieces of evidence FIRST went home with a certain cop BEFORE being turned in, which introduces reasonable doubt!

Another show that doesn't receive the credit it deserves is "Emergency", paramedics (or in today's terms EMS) were a brand new concept in the 70s, ambulance drivers @ the time could NOT administer drugs or IVs, they basically just delivered oxygen and took people to the hospital, because of "Emergency", more departments across the country opted IN to starting their own paramedic services, the pilot ep of "Emergency" actually shows the bill that had to be passed in LA that led to their creation!

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[geechiedan]

you may know Lalo Schifrin best from this

 

[kes1111]

Police Woman is an Americantelevisionpolice drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.


The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television crime drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California .
It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between 1972 and 1977 on ABC, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Quincy, M.E.

always wondered who was that girl on the boat at the end

 

[geechiedan]

always wondered who was that girl on the boat at the end

I always wondered why the nigga was wearing a hot ass sweater on a sunny balmy day??

 

[kes1111]

The Rookies is an American police proceduralseries that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976.[1] It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD).


S.W.A.T. was an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of aSpecial Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified California city. Aspin-off of The Rookies, the series aired onABC from February 1975 to April 1976.

Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced byAaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.

 

[jack walsh13]

Good thread.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

liked the "disco-ized" version of the theme

 

[kes1111]

Kojak was an American crime dramatelevision series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannonseries, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978. In 1999 TV Guide ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.





The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery, Jr., in the supporting role of his father, a retired truck driver nicknamed "Rocky".
The show was created by Roy Huggins andStephen J. Cannell.

 

[Z MONSTER]

These shows bring back memories. Watching them with my grandparents R.I.P.

 

[Adam Knows]

with the exception of m.o.d. squad and s.w.a.t. i didn't gaf about cop shows if it wasn't a cartoon.

with that said the number one private eye:

 

[Ceenote]

Barney Miller

Barney Miller (TV Series 1974–1982) - IMDb

The series focuses on life in Greenwich Village's 12th Precinct station house. Initially, it looks at Capt. Barney Miller and his work and home life, but it gradually becomes about the officers of the precinct, including always-on-the-verge-of-retirement Detective Fish.

Final episode date: May 20, 1982
Theme song: Barney Miller theme song
Network: American Broadcasting Company

 

[ronmch20]

Aaaaaah, brings back good memories.

 

[Ceenote]

Charlie's Angels




Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976 to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 110 episodes. Wikipedia

First episode date: September 22, 1976
Theme song: Theme From Charlie's Angels
Network: American Broadcasting Company

 

[Ceenote]

Starsky & Hutch




Starsky & Hutch is an American cop thriller television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie (originally aired as aMovie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast from April 1975 to May 1979 on the ABC network.

 

[kes1111]

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they rode the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
Created by R. A. Cinader and Jack Webb, also known for creating Dragnet, the series starred Martin Milner and Kent McCord and captured a typical day in the life of a police officer as realistically as possible. The show originally ran from September 21, 1968, through May 20, 1975, and helped introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public in the United States.


O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (on-screen title is O'Hara, United States Treasury) is an American television crime drama starring David Janssen and broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the producer. The series was produced with the full approval and cooperation of the United States Department of the Treasury.

 

[RoomService]

Almost since the beginning of television there has been a cop show or lawyer show on tv

 

[kes1111]

Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974.


Joe Forrester (1975–1976) is an American crime/drama television series, starring Lloyd Bridges as a uniformed foot patrol officer in a run-down neighborhood of Los Angeles. Patricia Crowley co-starred as Georgia Cameron, Joe's romantic interest. Former NYPD Detective Eddie Egan played Sgt. Bernie Vincent, Joe's supervisor. Dwan Smith played Jolene, a resident of the neighborhood Joe patrolled.

 

[blackbull1970]

I remember watching a lot of them shows when I stayed over at my grandparents back in the day.

The interesting thing about the shows is that the police tried to avoid using their firearms in all situations.

Even when they were in a predominantly Black community, pulling their firearm was always the last measure and they tried to avoid it.

Another common theme was the cops did not want to use their firearm and shoot and kill someone because of the amount of paperwork that had to be filed and dealing with Internal Affairs.

 

[kes1111]

McMillan & Wife (known simply as McMillan from 1976–77) was an Americanpolice procedural that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles.


Banacek (pronounced "BAN-a-check") is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974.

 

[ballscout1]

Yeah they was the most physically challenged mofokrs ever.

Fat Ass Frank Cannon
Old Ass Barnaby Jones
Ole Hire The Black Guy To Push Your Chair Ironside
Ole Dead Eye Need a Laundry Columbo