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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'.

The Rockford Files: Season 1 - Part 1 (1974)

8.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: James Garner, James Woods, Ned Beatty, Abe Vigoda, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somer...

The world's most unlikely detective, offbeat ex-con Rockford solves the cases others can't. James Garner stars as the P.I. who would rather fish than... Read more

The Rockford Files: Season 1 - Part 2 (1974)

8.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: James Garner, James Woods, Ned Beatty, Abe Vigoda, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somer...

The world's most unlikely detective, offbeat ex-con Rockford solves the cases others can't. James Garner stars as the P.I. who would rather fish than... Read more

Callan (1974)

7/10
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Mohner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Russell...

TV viewers first met secret agent Callan in a one-off armchair theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", in which the disgraced former top secret service... Read more

Sutherland's Law (1973)

7.5/10
Starring: Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson

In Scottish Law the Procurator Fiscal is the public prosecutor, and in that role Iain Cuthbertson as John Sutherland strode the landscape like a colos... Read more

Thriller: Series 1 and 2 (1973)

8.4/10
Starring: Dennis Waterman, Helen Mirren, Robert Powell, Jeremy Brett, Diana Dors, Denholm...

Following his immense success with 'The Avengers', British producer Brian Clemens made this spine-chillingly good series, with each episode a differen... Read more

The Protectors: Series 1, Episodes 1-8 (1973)

7.3/10
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt

Harry Rule (Robert Vaughn) is an American lone wolf in London. Contessa di Contini (Nyree Dawn Porter) is a beautiful British aristo abroad. Paul Buch... Read more

Kojak: Season 1 (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas

He's got style, street smarts and a penchant for lollipops (something Savalas himself introduced as he was trying to quit smoking) - Lieutenant Theo... Read more

Baffled! (1972)

5.9/10
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles

Years ahead of its time before series about strange phenomenon became a cult, this feature-length pilot to a series that never was mixes ESP with myst... Read more

Banacek: Season 1 (1972)

7.6/10
Starring: Broderick Crawford, George Peppard, Jessica Walter, Margot Kidder, Stella Steven...

There's an old Polish proverb that says...High class and high mystery is the world of suave, Polish-American Thomas Banacek. Boston's leading insuranc... Read more

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 1, Volume 2 (1972)

7.3/10
Starring: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas

Hit series stars Karl Malden as veteran homicide detective Mike Stone, and in a role that put him on the map, Michael Douglas as his idealistic young... Read more