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Name 150 British cop/detective drama tv series

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    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    Can it be done?

    I'll start off with a few and update the list as we go along. Enjoy the ride.

    A mind to kill
    A Touch of Frost
    Accused
    Adam Adamant
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Advocate
    Ashes to Ashes
    Avengers
    Barlow at large
    Beiderbeck Tapes
    Bergerac
    Between the Lines
    Bill
    Blake's 7
    Blue Murder
    Body Farm
    Broadchurch
    Budgie
    Bulman
    Burnside
    Cadfael
    Callan
    Campion
    Captain Scarlet
    Case Histories
    CATS eyes
    Champions
    Charles Endell Esq
    Chief
    Chinese detective
    Cold Blood
    Commander
    Cops
    Cracker
    Crimewatch
    Dalziel and Pascoe
    Danger Man
    Danger Mouse
    Dempsey and Makepeace
    Department S
    Dixon of Dock Green
    Double Deckers
    Dr Who
    Endeavour
    Famous Five
    Fireball XL5
    Fox
    Foyle's War
    Gentle Touch
    Good cop
    Gumshoe
    Hamish MacBeth
    He kills coppers
    Heartbeat
    Hetty Wainthrop
    Holby Blue
    Identity
    Injustice
    Inside Men
    Inspector George Gently
    Inspector Lynley mysteries
    Jason King
    Jericho
    Joe 90
    Jonathan Creek
    Judge John Deed
    Juliet Bravo
    Kavanagh QC
    Kidnap and Ransome
    Knock
    Last Detective
    Law and Order UK
    Lewis
    Life on Mars
    Line of Duty
    Liverpool 1
    Lock, Stock
    Long firm
    Looking after Jo Jo
    Love/Hate
    Lovejoy
    Low winter sun
    Luther
    Maigret
    Maisie raine
    Mersey beat
    Messiah
    Midsommer Murders
    Minder
    Miss Marple
    Missing
    Morse
    Moses Jones
    Mr Benn
    Mrs Biggs
    Murder Most Horrid
    Murderland
    New Tricks
    No Hiding place
    No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
    Operation Good Guys
    Out of the Blue
    Paradise Club
    Persuaders
    Pie in the Sky
    Poirot
    Prime Suspect
    Professionals
    Protectors
    Quatermass
    Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)
    Rebus
    Red Hand Gang
    Redcaps
    Ripper Street
    Rockliffe's Babies
    Rose and Maloney
    Rosemary and thyme
    Saint
    Sapphire and Steel
    Sarah Jane adventures
    Scott and Bailey
    Shadow Line
    Sherlock
    Shoestring
    Singing detective
    Softly Softly
    Softly Softly Task force
    Special Branch
    Spender
    Stingray
    Strangers
    Supercar
    Sweeney
    Taggart
    Target
    Terrahawks
    Thin Blue Line
    Thunderbirds
    Tomorrow People
    Torchwood
    Touching Evil
    Trial and retribution
    Tunnel
    UFO
    Van der Valk
    Vera
    Vexed
    Vice
    Vincent
    Waking the Dead
    Whitechapel
    Wire in the Blood
    Wycliffe
    Z Cars

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    The Chinese detective
    Rockliffe's Babes
    Juliette Bravo
    Cops
    Between the Lines
    Prime Suspect
    Shoestring
    Wycliffe
    Bergerac
    Softly Softly
    Ashes to Ashes
    Life on Mars
    Heartbeat

    25 down <laugh>
     
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    Dempsey and Makepeace
     
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    Does Wire in the Blood count?
    Touching Evil.
     
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    Yes added along with Lewis.
     
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    Waking the Dead
    Messiah (why is this never repeated?)
    Heartbeat <whistle>
     
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    Wonder if some of our older members (Dev, ER, etc) who actually watched Dixon of Dock Green when it was first broadcast might know quite a few that we relative youngsters have never heard of.
     
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    Does redcaps count?
     
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    New Tricks

    Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)?
     
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    Inspector George Gently

    No Hiding place (anybody else remember that)

    Jason King
    The Saint
    The Avengers
    The Persuaders
    Hetty Wainthrop
    CATS eyes
     
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    Crocodile Shoes?
     
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    rosemary and thyme
     
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    Sherlock?
     
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    Of course - the world's most famous fictional detective. There have probably been a few series centered on him, there was that one with Jez Brett was it? I need names.
     
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    Cadfael
    Luther
     
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    The Vice
    Liverpool 1
    Holby Blue
    Good cop
    Inspector Lynley mysteries
    Barlow at large
    Miss Marple
    Low winter sun (originally set in Edinburgh now remade as a yank show)
    Budgie
    Broadchurch
    Rebus
     
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    Whitechapel
    Ripper Street
    I kill coppers
    Target
    The singing detective
    Trial and retribution.

    That's me all polissed out now I'm afraid.
     
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    Sorry that should have been He kills coppers not I.
     
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    was there one called into the blue? think the Scottish bloke in 4 weddings was in it
     
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