 | The Wire - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $23.93 It doesn't get any more real than this. HBO started this series 2002 about a Baltimore police task force and the drug dealers they're trying to get hard evidence on. There's no good guys or bad buys, no easy answears, and lots of red tape in this 5 star drama.
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 | Barney Miller - The First Season
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $10.70 Ask a cop and they'll tell you, Barney Miller get's it right. From 1975 to 1982 the men and sometimes woman of New York's 12th precinct delt with streakers, nut jobs, and the occiasional criminal in the hit ABC comedy.
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 | The Shield - The Complete First Season
Buy used from: $8.18 Vic Mackey is a bad cop who thinks he's a good cop (and everyone knows it) but knowing and proving are two different things and until Vic is behind bars he runs the Strike Team in L.A.s nortious Farmington section. Aired on FX starting in 2002.
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 | Homicide Life on the Street - The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $10.77 In Baltimore's dectective unit there's a board with black and red names on it. These are the names of murdered men and women and the goal is to take their names from red (unsolved) to black (solved). Ran from 1993 to 1999 on NBC.
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 | Prime Suspect 1
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $19.45 Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is a rare female in the world of a male dominated police force. This British import ran from 1991 into 2006 and there are 7 "Prime Suspect" cases.
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 | Hill Street Blues - Season 1
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $13.97 This multi arch drama followed the lives of various police offers in a "Chicago Like" police station. Ran on NBC from 1981 to 1987.
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 | NYPD Blue - Season 1
Buy used from: $7.68 Known for it's gritty, realistic, and offen frank story telling, NYPD Blue ended up telling the story of Det./Sgt. Andy Sipowicz. Sipowicz, a gruff, ex-drunk would be the only charcater to appear in all 261 episodes. Ran on ABC from 1993 to 2005.
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 | The Job - The Complete Series
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $12.22 Mike McNeil is a mess, he has affairs, he takes drugs, he drinks, oh and he's also a New York cop. This dark comedy ran for one season in 2001 on ABC.
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 | Dexter: The First Season
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $24.98 A serial killer is on the loose, luckly the best cop to catch him is also a serial killer. Is that lucky? It is for the viewer in this very creepy, very graphic TV show from Showtime. Still on air.
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 | Adam-12 - Season One
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $10.00 From 1968 to 1975, "Adam-12" told the story of squad car 1-Adam-12 and the two cops that patroled the steets of L.A.
Ran on NBC.
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 | Reno 911 - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.98 A comic satire of "Cops", "Reno 911" looks like a reality show as cameras follow Reno's sheriff's department, but it is an all out comedy as apperently all you need is a G.E.D. to work in the Reno's Sheriff Department. First aired on Comedy Central in 2003.
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 | Dragnet 1967 - Season 1
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $4.74 Starting as a radio show in 1949 Dragnet moved to TV in 1951 and followed Sergeant Joe Friday as he walk viewers through actual police capers. It ran off and on until 1970 on NBC.
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 | Law & Order - The First Year
Buy new: $46.99 / Used from: $18.99 Starting in 1990 NBC ran this inovative series where the first half hour was the police case and the second was the trial.
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 | Police Squad! The Complete Series
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.67 ABC ran this very short lived satire in 1982 that spoof most of the police shows that ran before it, especially ones like Mannix, Ironside, etc. Ironically it would go on to be a hit comedy movie series.
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 | Cops - Caught in the Act
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.00 Cops started airing on FOX in 1989 and has over 600 episodes to it's name already. This popular reality show followed various police units all over the country as they made their arrests.
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 | C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.00 This cop show took us behind the curtain to the crime scene unit. The show is slick with gross out special effects but bends reality quite a bit with beautiful scientist cops who apparently can interrogate and arrest their suspects. First aired on CBS in 2002.
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