1960 police tv shows: 59 Photos
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60’s - 50’s TV
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Heartbeat. Although Heartbeat was broadcast over 18 years from 1992 to 2010, the show remained set in the 1960s throughout its entire run. Series 1, which broadcast in 1992, was set in 1963 at the very earliest, but mostly in 1964, due to mentions of Christine Keeler in the first episode, the Dallas police at John F.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(i9zFZv7uHbKG0PEPnuyByQM__39,
Following the beat of shows like Adam-12, The Mod Squad and Hawaii Five-O, procedural police shows blossomed that decade. Columbo, Police Story, Police Woman, The Rookies, S.W.A.T. , The Street of San Francisco, Kojak — there were dozens of series depicting crime and punishment on city streets.
Top-rated United States television programs of 1960–61
Rank | Program | Rating |
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1 | Gunsmoke | 37.3 |
2 | Wagon Train | 34.2 |
3 | Have Gun – Will Travel | 30.9 |
4 | The Andy Griffith Show | 27.8 |
the first TV police detective, Inspector Holt (played by J B Rowe, UK) in the first crime show on TV - Telecrime (BBC, 1938–39) – later known as Telecrimes (1946).
Grantchester is a British ITV detective drama set in the 1950s in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.