There were several TV detectives stories from the 1980's. Three of the shows were Cagney and Lacey, Magnum P.I., and Miami Vice.
Oh yeah! The 80s were awesome man! Video games, Computers, Television was so awesome back then! Especially music!
Policeman, police detective
To entertain themselves there was no TVS no video games no plastic toys so heck read or tell funny,scary,short,long ,iteresting stories.
This question cannot be answered. "Better" is a subjective opinion based on different criteria.... one person may have had a great 80s and a dreadful 90s... but another might have found them both to be equally horrible. On top of that - what 'better' is being judged - economic prosperity, personal freedom, world poverty, famine war and pestilence..... or is it just television sit-coms we're talking about?
TV series, 1990's; "China Beach" concerning US Military female nurses. Film: Deer Hunter (about 1976) Film: Apocalypse Now (1970's) Film: Platoon (about 1986)
Popular TV detective stories from the 1950s include Ellery Queen, Dragnet, and Martin Kayne, Private Eye. The 1960s popular detective shows include Honey West, Mannix, and Ironside. Popular in the 1970s were Barnaby Jones, Cannon, and The Rockford Files. Popular TV detective stories from the 1980s include Murder, She Wrote, Magnum PI, and Simon and Simon.
I am not entirely sure these were from the 1950s, they may have been in the early 1960s, but I loved watching the detectives and private eyes of early television! There was "77 Sunset Strip" that had that cute, cute Edd Byrnes! He would enter a scene, stop and comb his hair, then carry on! My sisters and I really thought it funny, and enjoyed it! He was just a side issue sort of person on the show. The two leading men were handsome and fun to watch, but I can't remember their names. Near the end of this show, the radio had started playing a song, that went, "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb." Kookie, of course, was Edd Byrnes. I think that was his name on 77 Sunset Strip, too. Then, there was "Surfside 6", with the blonde beachboy we loved--Sandy. I can't remember his real name. The two leading men were also handsome, dashing, etc. We loved watching them jump into a boat and take off after the bad guys! Those are the only detective shows I can think of. I was born in 1949, so my memory more likely starts around the 1960s. I hope this helps you find what you are looking for.?
Off the top of my head, here goes..... Mannix, Jake and the Fat Man, and Streets of San Francisco.
It wasn't easy to find. It's a Canadian tv-series called Adderly that run a couple of years in the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderly
The Epic of Detective Mandy Book Three - Satan Claus II The Elves of Doom - 1993 TV was released on: USA: 5 January 1993
I believe its a tv show called "Tropical Heat" aka "Sweating bullets"
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Mating and Dating in the '80s - 1980 TV was released on: USA: 14 June 1980
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Detective Dan Tanna drove around the streets of Las Vegas in his 1957 Thunderbird on the TV show "Vegas." Robert Urich played Dan Tanna for all three seasons of the show.
Frauke Lange has written: 'Untersuchung zur Dramaturgie von Krimiserien am Beispiel des Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehens' -- subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery television programs, Film and video adaptations, History and criticism, Television programs, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
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