Ordinary Joe

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.

Long-running series about an orphan and the black horse given to him by his foster father. The show was syndicated under the title Brave Stallion.

A rogue, 'Dirty Harry'-type detective enforces his own brand of tough justice and doesn't let red tape stand in the way.

A gifted criminal profiler teams with cunning psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter to solve murders in this crime drama based on the characters from Thomas Harris' novels.

A gripping anthology that portrayed police officers on and off the job, created by author Joseph Wambaugh, a former L.A. cop. There was some conventional law and order action, but the series was also unusually realistic in exploring the psychological effects of the job. It won the Emmy as Outstanding Drama Series for the 1975-76 season. Two characters who were introduced on the series were spun off into their own shows: 'Police Woman' and 'Joe Forrester.'

Struggles for love, wealth and power among diverse families in the lush Southern California city were played out in this Emmy-winning soap, which also had comedy, action and some of the genre's most memorable pairings and players. Among them: sultry socialite Augusta Lockridge, whose onscreen blindness attracted a sympathy letter from President Ronald Reagan.