Before forensic labs, digital tracking, and streaming mega-franchises like CSI or True Detective, television’s sleuths solved crimes with sharp instincts, trench coats, and charm. The 1970s and ’80s ...

The 1970s were an expansive time for American television. There was the gradually increasing diversity in casts, gritty detective tales, socially conscious Norman Lear series, the female “jiggle ...