This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members centered on police investigators, detectives or organized crime, spanning classic police procedurals (Dragnet, Columbo, Hill Street Blues, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), prestige crime dramas (The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Peaky Blinders, Babylon Berlin), and the heist drama Money Heist.
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Era of EmergenceDragnet (1951) is documented as a turning point for the TV subgenre, not stated as its first; the procedural traces to 1860s literature and Kurosawa's 1949 film Stray Dog in other media. Browse By
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Police procedural, Early history sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Police procedural, Early history section
Dragnet marked a turn in the depiction of the police on screen.
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