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Call the Cops
A look at the history of police-based TV drama
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Call the Cops
How Between the Lines proved that the cop show had got to grips with real-life corruption.
Sept 2008
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Call the Cops
Documentary taking a forensic look at the history of the police procedural on British TV.
Aug 2008
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Call the Cops
How a real female Lancashire police inspector inspired the creation of Juilet Bravo.
Aug 2008
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Call the Cops
How The Sweeney ushered in an age where television coppers acted just like the villains.
Sept 2008
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Call the Cops
How Z Cars changed not only police drama but British TV as a whole when it began in 1962.
Aug 2008