The Sweeney and NYPD Blue:The Best Old Cop Shows
By Dirk Robertson
August 30, 2011Television serves up memorable police stories both sides of the Atlantic. The old ones are the best. Good plots, great characters and tales that were not too sentimental. The ingredients really worked. Many missed the mark, of course. There was a U.S. horror, the name escapes me, that was a musical. The detectives would burst…