Crime Story TV Series
Posted at 8:38 am | Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Awards Shows, Classic Television
In America, the genre was popularized by Raymond Chandler, whose novels were the basis of several film noir movies, including The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Films about maverick private investigators have prevailed ever since. TV shows have also been dominated by crime story series. The 1970s was the decade of Starksy and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey and Charlie’s Angels. Michael Douglas’s career was launched in The Streets of San Francisco. Some of these shows tried to look different, as in Ironside, which featured a wheelchair bound detective. There were shows just for escapism and those, which were grittier.
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