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1. Homicide: Life on the Street- it got no better than when Pembleton had a suspect in "the box"
2. Kojak- started watching on Hulu and got hooked. For a 70s cop show it's pretty darn good
3. Law & Order- stayed good (to me anyway) despite the many cast changes. Can't see another scripted drama going 20 years
4. Columbo- despite the beat up Peugot and the scruffy look, the man was a brilliant investigator and never once had to use his gun. Possibly a 1st when it comes to cop shows
Homicide: Life on the Street - Concur with above. The last season was mostly pretty darn weak, but the first three to five seasons were great and I like the finale of season six. (Even if it's maybe too violent/action-packed for their original concept) Pembleton's of course legendary, but Kay Howard's to me among the best female cop characters in TV history. Glad that actress, Melissa Leo, has ultimately landed on her feet after the series.
As we can only list two the second is hard. There's two "non-US cop shows with weird elements" I like, the original British "Life on Mars" and Canada/US "Due South." There's also "The Closer" which I like quite well. I've considered that in some ways Brenda is a kind of bubbly "Bizarro world" Frank Pembleton. Her job is to get confessions, and she's zealous on that, but rather than being philosophical and tormented she's more quirky and fun-loving. (And I considered calling Frank "theological" instead of "philosophical" as Brenda is occasionally philosophical, but I'm not sure she's even remotely as interested in theological concerns as Pembleton. Not in the "it's all a lie, the great light show" atheistic period of Pembleton or the "God gave wisdom to the fool" Jesuit-education side of Pembleton. Brenda's strikes me as like an agnostic or vaguely "spiritual but not religious" kind of gal) Both of them I suppose are stubborn and obsessive.
So as I talked about it more "The Closer", I guess, although somehow it doesn't quite feel like a cop show to me. For one that "feels" like a cop show to me I guess the original "Life on Mars."
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