Best T.V. Cops?

"......Just one more thing"- Columbo.
"Book 'im Dano;murder one"-Steve McGarrett.
"Heyyy....pussycat..."-Kojak.

What is your favourite t.v. cop show?.
What made you "reach for the sky & spread eagle on the wall?";...............What made you carry a toy gun in a homemade black leather shoulder-holster as a kid???.....Did you learn 'jive' from Huggy Bear????....
Did you start wearing chunky white zebra cardigans??......or pick up the telephone & say "Yeah?" instead of:"Hello,who's calling?"......:lol:

 

Columbo was pretty good. Husky and Starch wasn't too bad.

One thing I always wanted to hear but never did:

McGarrett: "Book him, Dano."

Dano: "Book him yourself!"

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There were more of them in the 80s, such as

McGruder and Loud
Simon and Simon
Cagney and Lacey.

There were many more cop duo shows but they lasted only a few weeks.

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Hands down my favorite was Barnaby Jones, just something about how he captured the bad guy just seconds before the police showed up. I wish it was available on DVD.

 

I'd have to say 'Police Story' from the 70's was very good indeed.

 

I have to say that Barney Fife from the "Andy Griffith Show" was the best T.V. cop for sure, he should be on the list.

 

In black and white, I think. Nobody we knew had a color tv in those days.
"Peter Gunn", he was cool.
A bit of trivia... The very sexy switchboard operator, you never saw her face , just heard her voice and saw her veryyyyy long legs, was Mary Tyler Moore.
It was her first tv role. How I remember this stuff????
......................Alaskan................

 

Where the heck is Dragnet? The LSD/Tim Leary episode is a classic!

 

Dragnet was pretty stereotypical. Not saying it was a bad show, but they always portrayed women as babbling bimbos on that show. Things were different back in that era.

There was another episode where hippie-like militants were grilling him and his partner about the police force. And another one where some hippie-like teens stole some money to start up a promised land.

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Stereotypical? And how many cop shows even dealt with hippies? Starkey and Hutch are on the list but the only hip thing on the show was Antonio Vargas.

Since they were taken from case files, it was way ahead of the curve for cop shows!

Dragnet is the best of the cop shows in the way of acting too, and the only one to have a spinoff of any notoriety in Adam 12.

 

how about Barney Miller? For a comedy it was a great cop show, and it should make the list too. A bit different than the usual cop show.

 

I like Dragnet. Don't get me wrong. It had a personality about it. It was a different era back then. Long before Cagney and Lacey.

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What about the Mod Squad? Now there's a police show with hippies. The lead characters were hippies!

http://www.tv.com/mod-squad/show/677/summary.html

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mod squad is good, and had hot females as investigators long before charlies angels and a very hippy thing goin on. Good call there.

how about Swat? Not much of a show but the theme had more wah-wah pedal than a 70s porn soundtrack!

And what was the name of the PI show Bill Cosby was the sidekick in? I can never remember the name but it was a real hip show for its time, and I dug it then. Havent seen it in years or I would remember the name.

 

Can't remember the one with Bill Cosby. Get Smart did a paraody of that show once with a guy that looked and talked like Bill Cosby. He turned out to be a Kaos agent.

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SWAT was pretty good. Shaft had lots of wah wah pedal too.

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I Spy was the name, with robert culp as the lead, but it was more of a spy thing actually. Had to ponder on that one.

 

What about The Wild, Wild, West which was essentially a cop show set in the Old West with Artemus Gordon and James West, along with a littany of strange arch-enemies like Dr. Loveless


Hotwater

 

That was a strange show. Sort of like a mix of batman and robin, the twilight zone, spy shows, and the old west all rolled up into one.

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