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TV Thrillers

Collected here are the cops and robbers from our collective TV memory. So Peter Falk as the great 'Columbo' sits next to Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in '24'. 'Kojak' shares shelf space with 'Cracker' and 'MacGyver' meets 'Reilly: Ace of Spies'.

Sweeney! (1976)

6.9/10
Director: David Wickes
Starring: Barry Foster, Dennis Waterman, Ian Bannen, John Thaw, Colin Welland, Diane Keen

"Shut it you slag... You're nicked!" The first of two big screen spin-offs from the roughest, toughest and most politically incorrect crime series in... Read more

Taboo: Season 1 (2017)

8.5/10
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Mark Gatiss, Tom Hardy, Stephen Graham, Michael Kelly

Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long d... Read more

Taggart: Love Knot / Hostile Witness (1990)

7.2/10
Starring: Mark McManus, James MacPherson, Jenny Runacre, David Robb, Harriet Buchan, John...

Two feature length editions featuring the Galswegian crime-solver. 'Love Knot' sees the investigation of a woman's murder that leads Taggart and Jard... Read more

Taggart: Volume 1 (1983)

7.2/10
Starring: Harriet Buchan, Neil Duncan, Mark McManus, Robert Robertson

First broadcast in 1983 under the title 'Killer', this paved the way for a generation of detective series and became 'Taggart' in 1985. This hugely po... Read more

Taggart: Volume 2 (1986)

7.2/10
Starring: Mark McManus, Neil Duncan, Robert Robertson, Harriet Buchan

The Maryhill CID continues to investigate gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow, in volume two of the "Taggart Collection... Read more

Taken: Season 1 (2017)

6.7/10
Starring: Clive Standen, Jennifer Beals, Michael Irby, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Adam Goldberg

Driven by personal tragedy, former Green Beret and CIA operative Bryan Mills specializes in deadly rescue missions -- using his "very particular set o... Read more

Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series (1982)

8.2/10
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Stephen Collins, John Calvin, Jeff MacKay, Marta DuBois, Caitlin...

Somewhere in a backwater corner of the South Pacific, Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) is an expatriate American adventurer who often finds himself in th... Read more

The 39 Steps (2008)

6.4/10
Director: James Hawes
Starring: Patrick Malahide, Alex Jennings, Rupert Penry-Jones, David Haig, Lydia Leonard

Based on the beloved spy thriller by John Buchan, and first brought to the screen in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock, "The 39 Steps" is a timeless tale of ac... Read more

The A-Team: Season 1 (1983)

7.6/10
Starring: George Peppard, Derek Benfield, Mr T, Dwight Schultz

At the end of their stint in Vietnam, Col John 'Hannibal' Smith (George Peppard) and his team were framed for robbing the Bank of Hanoi, and sent to a... Read more

The Alienist (2018)

7.8/10
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans, Brian Geraghty, Dakota Fanning

The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Ro... Read more