All time favorite police show?

[answerbok]

The Bill, Zcars, Julet Bravo Miami vice or what? vote please..

[Elle]

Gotta be columbo. The seventies ones though, not the newer ones.

[KEJ2000]

"COPS". ...Non-fiction!!!

[LeMarchand]

"CSI" (original, not "Miami" - though that's tolerable), though if "Due South" is allowed, I'd pick the mountie's adventures!

[Cetti]

Cagney and Lacey - the best. It had everything, great characters, great stories, fast action - and New York!! Nothing else comes near. Starsky and Hutch, Columbo and Chips were all good fun, but not in the same league!!

[anthomson]

Columbo, with Frost a close second.

[jorton]

Blimey, the arts and literature section is barren enough withought posting TV questions in it.
[Now moved to Films & TV. - AB editor]

[katejess]

I have to agree with LeMarchand....CSI (and again, I prefer the Las Vegas one to the Miami one.....there are too many squeaky voices in the Miami one!)

[darth vader]

Columbo? that was a set of films not a series! Lets say that my vote goes to Police Squad (ok "That my vote goes to Police Squad!"). I'll get me coat.....

[answerbok]

no, Darth, cops is cops, Columbo counts, as would Dixon of Dock Green but not The Blue Lamp as it was a one off movie. Anything that had a series.. my own favorite was the one with the Fat Scouse piggy that was shot with wobbly cameras as if a documentary but actually fiction; the fatto was always clipping rogues round the ear quite hard and i don't remember what it was called 'Cops' maybe and it was on BBC2 i think.. is that the same one as KEJ2000 [thought he was in usa?]

[Elle]

Columbo - A collection of films? That would be one hell of a collection. There were around 70 episodes made! It was more of an occasional series.

[Elle]

A bit like Inspector Morse.

[coggles]

I had a huge crush on Paul Michael Glaser (even in those cardigans) so I always watched S & H. I thought The Sweeney was great but I think because David Jason is such a hugely versatile actor, Frost must be one of my favourites. I just about remember Dixon of Dock Green and Z cars too - what would they make of the world today...!? Evening all.

[answerbok]

3 stars for all, anyway. Thx. to P.C.'s Plod and Nab too :-)

[KEJ2000]

Hi answerbok! No, the "COPS" I am thinking of is a different one. This is where a cameraman and a microphone-guy (sound man) ride around in a police car with a REAL police officer and film everything that goes on, without any editing or scripting. There are no 'regular' characters. It is a different police officer and a different police department every time. It is indeed American, and although they travel around to different cities to film, they seem to have a predilection for Atlanta, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and cities in Florida. I know this show is aired in Canada too...