Soundtrack: Mike Post

Direction Steven Bochco · Michael Kozoll · Gregory Hoblit · Christian I. Nyby II

Cast Daniel J. Travanti · Michael Conrad · Michael Warren · Bruce Weitz

Plot TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the...

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Roy Huggins · William Wiard · Lawrence Doheny

Cast James Garner · Lindsay Wagner · William Smith · Nita Talbot

Plot TV Series (1974-1980). 123 episodes. Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward,...

Direction Dick Wolf · David Platt · Peter Leto · Constantine Makris

Cast Mariska Hargitay · Ice-T · Dann Florek · Richard Belzer

Plot TV Series (1999-present). Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air...

Direction Steven Bochco · Charles H. Eglee · Channing Gibson · Michael Fresco

Cast Daniel Benzali · Mary McCormack · Stanley Tucci · Anthony LaPaglia

Plot TV Series (1995-1997). 2 seasons. 41 episodes. Courtroom drama set in Los Angeles. The main character is Ted Hoffman -played by Daniel Benzali- who begins by successfully representing a young...

Direction Miles Watkins · Rachel Feldman · Barbara Amato · Richard Compton

Cast Michael Chiklis · Kaj-Erik Eriksen · Theresa Saldana · Melinda McGraw

Plot Tony Scali is the police commissioner in a small town, where solutions to difficult situations often require considerable creativity. Tony's easygoing manner and clever intellect are much more useful to...

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Arnold Laven · Ivan Dixon · Rod Holcomb

Cast William Katt · Robert Culp · Connie Sellecca · Michael Paré

Plot TV Series (1981-1983). 3 Seasons. 44 Episodes. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California...

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Virgil W. Vogel · James Frawley · Harvey S. Laidman

Cast Stephen Collins · Jeff MacKay · John Calvin · Marta DuBois

Plot TV Series (1982). 22 episodes. Jake Cutter is a pilot and adventurer in Boragora, the port in the Marivella Islands in 1938. He flies his Grumman Goose amphibian on inter-island...

Direction David Hemmings

Cast Scott Bakula · Dean Stockwell · Jennifer Runyon · John Allen Nelson

Plot Although the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot about...

Direction Dick Wolf · Constantine Makris · Jace Alexander · Edwin Sherin

Cast Jerry Orbach · Paul Sorvino · Dennis Farina · S. Epatha Merkerson

Plot TV Series (1990-2010). 20 Seasons. 456 Episodes. In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet forever intertwined forces. There's the police...

Direction Paul Simms · Tom Cherones · James Burrows · Alan Myerson

Cast Dave Foley · Stephen Root · Khandi Alexander · Andy Dick

Plot TV Series (1995-1999). 97 episodes. "NewsRadio" is a sitcom that explores office politics, relationships, and crises through a group of co-workers at WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 newsradio station. Dave...

Direction Steven Bochco · Terry Louise Fisher · Win Phelps · Elodie Keene

Cast Jimmy Smits · Corbin Bernsen · Michele Greene · Harry Hamlin

Plot TV Series (1986-1994). 8 seasons. 172 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm. The plots were strongly character-based and dealt with both...

Direction Steven Bochco · David Milch · Mark Tinker · Steven DePaul

Cast Dennis Franz · David Caruso · Jimmy Smits · Gordon Clapp

Plot TV Series (1993 - 2005). 12 Seasons. 261 Episodes. Set against the gritty and volatile backdrop of New York City, NYPD Blue powerfully portrays realistic characters devoting themselves to the...

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael O'Herlihy · Dennis Donnelly

Cast George Peppard · Mr. T · Dwight Schultz · Dirk Benedict

Plot TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 98 Episodes. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.

Direction Dick Wolf · Frank Prinzi · Jean de Segonzac · Steve Shill

Cast Vincent D'Onofrio · Kathryn Erbe · Chris Noth · Julianne Nicholson

Plot TV Series (2001-2011). 10 Seasons. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," takes viewers into the minds of its criminals while following the psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve...

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Glen A. Larson · Michael Vejar · Ivan Dixon

Cast Tom Selleck · John Hillerman · Roger E. Mosley · Larry Manetti

Plot TV Series (1980-1988). 8 Seasons. 162 Episodes. The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator.

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael Lange · Bob Bralver

Cast Perry King · Joe Penny · Thom Bray · Jack Ging

Plot Three vietnam veterans (Nick Ryder, Cody Allen and Murray Bozinsky) now work as private eyes in sunny southern California. Nick and Cody are the muscles and Murray is a computer...

Direction James Whitmore Jr. · Michael Preece · Tony Mordente · Corey Allen

Cast Fred Dryer · Stepfanie Kramer · Charles Hallahan · Perry Cook

Plot Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter and his partner, Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, are homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department. Often they must go undercover to catch a variety of...

Direction Steven Bochco · Gary Fleder · Bobby Roth · John Badham

Cast Ron Eldard · Marisol Nichols · Reno Wilson · Frank Grillo

Plot NYPD Detective Jim Dunbar returns to work after being blinded in the line of duty.

Direction Don Reo

Cast Mayim Bialik · Joseph Lawrence · Ted Wass · Jenna Von Oy

Plot TV Series (1990-1995). 5 Seasons. 114 Episodes. A teenage girl living in a house run by men dreams what life would be like if she lived in a more conventional...

Direction Rick Rosner · Phil Bondelli · John Florea · Gordon Hessler

Cast Erik Estrada · Larry Wilcox · Robert Pine · Paul Linke

Plot 6 Seasons, 139 Episodes (1977-1983). CHiPs was a lightweight action crime drama, which included elements of comedy in every episode (several of the first season episodes play as out-and-out comedies)....