Alan North

Alan North

Alan North was an American actor. After serving in the Navy during World War II, North became a stage manager in New York. He first acted on Broadway in "Plain and Fancy" (1955), which led to further roles in diverse productions, ranging from musical comedy to straight dramatic parts. His film career included roles in Plaza Suite (1971), Serpico (1973), The Formula (1980), Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983), Thief of Hearts (1984), Highlander (1986), Act of Vengeance (1986), Billy Galvin (1986), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Lean on Me (1989), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), Glory (1989) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996). On television, he played Captain Ed Hocken in the 1982 television series Police Squad!. He also appeared on the soap opera Another World in the recurring role of Captain Sean Delaney from 1984 to 1988.

  • Title: Alan North
  • Popularity: 0.7714
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-12-23
  • Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
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Alan North Movies

  • 1980
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    The Formula

    The Formula

    5.5 1980 HD

    While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.

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  • 1996
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    I'm Not Rappaport

    I'm Not Rappaport

    5.6 1996 HD

    Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.

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  • 1989
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    See No Evil, Hear No Evil

    See No Evil, Hear No Evil

    6.755 1989 HD

    A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

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  • 1989
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    Penn & Teller Get Killed

    Penn & Teller Get Killed

    5.5 1989 HD

    The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to kill me. It would give focus to my life, excitement. I'd be like James Bond." Twenty million people hear him. One decides to deliver a punchline he'll never forget. Made by people who thought Psycho was a comedy, Penn & Teller Get Killed (they also wrote the piece) features Caitlin Clarke as the femme fatale and David Patrick Kelly as the Edgar Allan Poe-esque nutcase with a new mission. Arthur Penn, known for hip masterpieces like Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man, directs with roller-coaster pacing and subversive intelligence.

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  • 1986
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    Highlander

    Highlander

    6.861 1986 HD

    He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

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  • 1982
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    Muggable Mary: Street Cop

    Muggable Mary: Street Cop

    7 1982 HD

    Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

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  • 1999
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    I'll Take You There

    I'll Take You There

    6 1999 HD

    Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a man is forced by his sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.

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  • 1979
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    ...And Justice for All

    ...And Justice for All

    7.08 1979 HD

    An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.

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  • 1984
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    Thief of Hearts

    Thief of Hearts

    5.3 1984 HD

    A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

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  • 1972
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    Bordellet

    Bordellet

    5.7 1972 HD

    A young country girl moves to Copenhagen for adventure and ends up working in a brothel.

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  • 1992
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    Lincoln and the War Within

    Lincoln and the War Within

    1 1992 HD

    First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.

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  • 1986
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    Billy Galvin

    Billy Galvin

    5 1986 HD

    Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.

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  • 1996
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    The Long Kiss Goodnight

    The Long Kiss Goodnight

    6.582 1996 HD

    Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

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  • 1989
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    Glory

    Glory

    7.474 1989 HD

    Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

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  • 1989
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    Lean On Me

    Lean On Me

    7.265 1989 HD

    When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.

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  • 1989
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    Rachel River

    Rachel River

    7 1989 HD

    A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

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  • 1990
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    Crazy People

    Crazy People

    5.9 1990 HD

    A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.

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  • 1966
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    Unholy Matrimony

    Unholy Matrimony

    3.3 1966 HD

    Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.

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  • 1986
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    The Christmas Star

    The Christmas Star

    5.6 1986 HD

    A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

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  • 1983
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    Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer

    Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer

    1 1983 HD

    A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

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  • 1986
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    Act of Vengeance

    Act of Vengeance

    5.6 1986 HD

    In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

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  • 1973
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    Serpico

    Serpico

    7.529 1973 HD

    New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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  • 1995
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    The Jerky Boys

    The Jerky Boys

    4.3 1995 HD

    When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.

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  • 1987
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    The Fourth Protocol

    The Fourth Protocol

    6.3 1987 HD

    Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

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  • 1971
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    Plaza Suite

    Plaza Suite

    6.1 1971 HD

    Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.

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  • 1986
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    Liberty

    Liberty

    5 1986 HD

    Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

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  • 1990
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    Kojak: It's Always Something

    Kojak: It's Always Something

    6 1990 HD

    After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.

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  • 1988
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    Clinton and Nadine

    Clinton and Nadine

    3.4 1988 HD

    Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.

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  • 1993
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    Twenty Bucks

    Twenty Bucks

    5.7 1993 HD

    A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

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  • 1977
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    The Deadliest Season

    The Deadliest Season

    6 1977 HD

    Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.

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  • 1991
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    Darrow

    Darrow

    5.5 1991 HD

    The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.

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  • 1997
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    Cafe Society

    Cafe Society

    4.7 1997 HD

    New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.

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  • 1991
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    Eyes of a Witness

    Eyes of a Witness

    1 1991 HD

    Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering protected species, then raiding Masai villages and forcing them to help carry their ill-gotten gains across the border. Roy flies to Kenya to convince her to leave and becomes a suspect for murder when the village is raided and he tries to help a UN doctor shot by the raiders. The only witness is a young Masai boy, who is reluctant to come forward because of possible retribution against his tribe.

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  • 1985
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    The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn

    The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn

    1 1985 HD

    Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.3 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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  • 1984
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    Kate & Allie

    Kate & Allie

    5.9 1984 HD

    Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

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  • 1985
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    Spenser: For Hire

    Spenser: For Hire

    6.781 1985 HD

    Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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  • 1984
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    The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show

    6.986 1984 HD

    The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • 1982
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    Newhart

    Newhart

    7.136 1982 HD

    Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.6 1951 HD

    Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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  • 1982
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    Police Squad!

    Police Squad!

    7.9 1982 HD

    In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations.

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  • 1981
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    Love, Sidney

    Love, Sidney

    2.3 1981 HD

    A middle-aged gay artist shares his New York apartment with a single mother and her little girl. Based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.

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  • 1982
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    The Powers of Matthew Star

    The Powers of Matthew Star

    5 1982 HD

    The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton as the title character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris. Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as Matthew’s guardian Walt ‘D’hai’ Shepherd. In 2002, The Powers of Matthew Star was ranked #22 on the list of TV Guide's "50 Worst TV Shows of All Time".

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  • 1993
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    Family Album

    Family Album

    1 1993 HD

    Family Album is an American sitcom that aired from September 24 until November 12, 1993.

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  • 1987
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    Everything's Relative

    Everything's Relative

    5.5 1987 HD

    The Beeby brothers – Julian, a divorced, hard-working 33-year-old businessman and Scott, a single 25-year-old womanizing construction worker – share a loft apartment in the SoHo section of lower Manhattan despite their different lifestyles, values, careers and social lives.

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  • 1986
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    Tough Cookies

    Tough Cookies

    5 1986 HD

    Tough Cookies is sitcom that aired on CBS from March 5 to April 23, 1986. The series centers on the young detective Cliff Brady, played by Robby Benson.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.3 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.3 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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  • 1981
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    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

    7.6 1981 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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  • 1981
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    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues

    7.6 1981 HD

    A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

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  • 1963
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    The Lawbreakers

    The Lawbreakers

    6 1963 HD

    Lee Marvin narrates this series which reenact various crimes that occurred around the United States. Although some were based on well-known events, others were more obscure.

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  • 1980
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    Texas

    Texas

    5.7 1980 HD

    Texas is an American daytime soap opera which aired on NBC from August 4, 1980 until December 31, 1982. It was sponsored and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios in Brooklyn, New York City. Texas is a spinoff of Another World. It was co-created by head writers John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and executive producer Paul Rauch of Another World. Rauch would hold the title of executive producer for the parent series and its spin-off until 1981.

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