What is Your All Time Favorite Cop TV Show(1950--2008)

[Duke Junior]

Just pure cops.No Private Eye's,Special or Secret Agents,no Crime Scene Investigator's,no lawyers who occasionally pull a gun.
We can do these guy's some other time!
Of course, some of these cops rarely pulled their iron.But they are included because their shows made a social impact.
Again ,the 16 max limit makes the selection process difficult.Some folks favorite will not be on the list.Please let us know your selections.
Baretta,Chips,Columbo,Cops,Kojak and Nash Bridges would have rounded out to a top 22 for me.
The decades are very equally divided:
50's-2
60's- 2
70's-4
80's-3
90's-3
00's-2
So many cops,not enough choices!
All comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated.

 

[NavajoNPaleFace]

Dragnet

 

[Loosedhorse]

First 3 years of L&O.

 

[Tommygunn]

There are a number of shows on that list I enjoy, but I still have a liking for the early '60s drama NAKED CITY. The 1948 Jules Dassin movie was a veritable time capsule of New York City in the late 40s and the TV show does the same thing in the early 60s.
A number of actors who went on to make big names for themselves appeared in the series, including Robert Duvall, William Shatner, and Dustin Hoffman.
Real New York City locales were used as the show was shot in Manhatten, and the exterior of the Midtown North Precinct on 306 West 54th St. stood in for the TV series 65th precinct. That precinct was originally the 18th precinct, and there is now no real 65th precinct, though what used to be the 65 precinct is now the 48th precinct which isn't in Manhattan.
"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," was the tag line uttered by Mark Hellinger in the movie, by actor Lawrence Dobkin in every episode of the TV series, and the city's population is almost the same today.

 

[KC0QGL]

Dragnet, hands down.

 

[Duke Junior]

[There are a number of shows on that list I enjoy, but I still have a liking for the early '60s drama NAKED CITY. The 1948 Jules Dassin movie was a veritable time capsule of New York City in the late 40s and the TV show does the same thing in the early 60s/QUOTE]

Great comment Tommy.A fine job of explaining the background of this very special production.One of the top ten TV shows of all time to my mind and seriously under appreciated.
The tag line sticks to me to this day.
Again thank you for the fine,incise commentary.

 

[Justin]

Sorry, but this is off-topic.