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Smuggler (1981)

A former naval officer turned smuggler, who operates with a Robin Hood-like sense of justice, is at odds with both local criminals and the authorities, earning him the ire of rival gangs and the watchful eye of the law

The Secret Service (1969)

Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service, which was a mixture of live-action with marionettes, was his last Supermarionation series of the 1960s, mainly because it's awful concept made for an equally awful series

Manimal (1983)

A shape-shifting man who can turn himself into any animal he chooses uses this ability to help the police solve crimes

Amerika (1987)

Ten years after a bloodless Soviet takeover of the United States, leading to slave-labour camps for some, collaboration or rebellion for others, a maverick politician is released from prison hoping to end the occupation

The Perfect Couple (2024)

Nicole Kidman is a guest at a wedding weekend in Nantucket that gets disrupted when one of the guests turns up dead. Everyone is a suspect!

Jango (1961)

A professor in criminology at Nairobi University is temporarily attached to Scotland Yard. Jango is a 'funny, scruffy geezer with glasses, a dirty raincoat, tweed hat and a twisted walking stick who is operating a one-man law business.'

Kane & Abel (1985)

Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have

My Lady Jane (2024)

In an alternate 16th century England, Lady Jane Grey is coerced by her mother into marrying Lord Guildford Dudley, who just happens to turn out to be a shape-shifter who can take animal form

Automan (1983)

Glen A. Larson produced series that follows the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer who has created an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program

Department S (1969)

"Whilst the cases which made up the bulk of the show's episodes were often fun, ingenious riffs on the standard spy/caper craze of that particular decade, where the series really scored was in the interplay between the three central characters involved."