Boston Blackie Boston Blackie knows both sides of the law. A reformed thief with a rag-tag group of friends, Blackie couldn’t help but get involved in cases big and small. He was known as ‘an enemy of those who make him an enemy, the friend of those who have no friend.’ The series ran from 1951-1953 and starred Kent Taylor.
	Bourbon Street Beat The least successful of the Warner Bros. slick detective series from the late 1950’s, Bourbon Street Beat had an exotic atmosphere going for it, if not much else. Andrew Duggan, Richard Long and handsome hunk, Van Williams, starred as a trio of detectives who prowled the historic French Quarter in New Orleans.
	Burke’s Law Money isn’t everything, is it? Amos Burke, played by a slick Gene Barry, was a millionaire who could have lived the life of luxury. However, in Burke’s Law, this Mr. Moneybags was also the Chief of Detectives in Los Angeles. He may have been a cop, but Burke rode to work in a Rolls Royce.
	Dragnet Dragnet made history as the first popular cop drama on television. Produced, written and starring the solemn actor Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday, this b&w classic made the LAPD famous before they became notorious. Webb’s deadpan acting was the perfect foil to an ever changing roll call of Dragnet guest stars who were as entertainingly quirky as Sgt. Friday was dedicated and dull.