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Naples. The Pizzofalcone police station is in disarray: four officers implicated in drug trafficking have been dismissed. They will be replaced by discarded policemen from nearby offices.

Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.

Kostas Charitos is head of the Homicide Section of the Athens Police. Tenacious, he does not lose heart even when faced with the most difficult cases. Kostas is married to Adriana and has a daughter, Caterina, for whom he feels total love. In The commissioner's family background looms over the despotic figure of his policeman father at the time of the Colonels' dictatorship and passive spectator, if not accomplice, of the interrogations and violence inflicted on the regime's opponents.

The adventures of hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist. The Millennium TV miniseries is a compilation of the three Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's book series of the same name, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest with extended scenes, adding more depth in both the stories and the characters.

The "Doctor" series follows the misadventures of the Medical personnel at St Swithin's Hospital. the first 2 series entitled "Doctor In the House" sees a group of students trying to achieve the "Doctor" title Inside St Swithin's. This Group was constituted by Michael Upton (Barry Evans), Dick Stuart- Clark (Geoffrey Davies), Paul Collier (George Layton), Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell), Huw Evans (Martin Shaw), Dave Briddock (Simon Cuff) and Danny Hooley (Jonathan Lynn). The third series Entitled "Doctor At Large sees Robin Nedwell, Martin Shaw, Simon Cuff and Jonathan Lynn out of the series. By this time we get the chance to see Doctor Upton's career as a medical doctor, and the obvious disasters that come with it. Also in that series is Richard O'Sullivan's introduction as Dr. Lawrence Bingham. The 4th and 5th series Entitled "Doctor In Charge" Saw Barry Evans departure from the series, and the return of Robin Nedwell.

History of the "Alligatore" (alias of Marco), who spent some years in prison. When he comes out, he start work as private detective, trying to do something good. Based on books of Massimo Carlotto.

The epic story of how in the 1990s Bari crime transformed into a real mafia in the same years in which the Cosa Nostra attack on the heart of the state took place in Sicily with the massacres of Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and of their respective stocks.

Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons.[1] It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer.