#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $2000: In 1829, while serving as Home Secretary, he created London's Metropolitan Police Force Robert Peel |
#9057, aired 2024-03-12 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $200: Legally, it means so visible that the cops didn't have to search to find it; something obvious is "hiding" there in plain sight |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1600: Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this birth control |
#8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1200: "Forget it, Jake, it's... hold on--Evelyn's okay. The bullets missed her in the car. She's fine & the cops are letting her go" Chinatown |
#8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $200: "Have it your way"! In 2016 a Neb. man threatened to rob this fast food place, left, came back & the cops were waiting Burger King |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $200: Christine & Mary Beth were the first names of this title police twosome played by Sharon & Tyne Cagney and Lacey |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $400: This New Jersey strip club was a place to hang out & discuss mafia business on "The Sopranos" Bada Bing! |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $600: The exploits of a real-life criminal gang in early 20th century Birmingham, England were the basis for this series Peaky Blinders |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $800: As Lilly Rush on this show, Kathryn Morris was a cop determined not to let forgotten crimes & victims stay that way Cold Case |
#19, aired 2023-05-24 | COPS & ROBBERS TV $1000: From 1967 to 1975 Raymond Burr battled evildoers from his wheelchair as this crimefighter Ironside |
#18, aired 2023-05-23 | CLASSIC CAR TV $800: Huggy Bear says word on the street is these 2 title cops were drivin' a red Ford Gran Torino, also called the Striped Tomato Starsky and Hutch |
#8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $400: For 2 homicide cops, "The 9th Girl" in Tami Hoag's thriller is the year's ninth of these, a name for anonymous female decedents Jane Doe |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | THAT '70s OR '80s SHOW $600: Hollywood folklore says NBC's Brandon Tartikoff scribbled down a quick note--"MTV cops"--which led to this hit '80s show Miami Vice |
#8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Quentin Tarantino took home the Critics' Prize at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival for this cops & robbers tale Reservoir Dogs |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February |
#8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $400: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell S.W.A.T. |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | TV THEME SONGS $1600: In the theme song for "Cops" performed by Inner Circle, this question follows "Bad boys, bad boys" whatcha gonna do |
#8597, aired 2022-03-15 | TV NEWS $400: "Deadline" (13 episodes) focused on the New York Ledger, which covered the cops on this show (450+ episodes) Law & Order |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | LYRICS TO REMEMBER $1200: DJ Khaled & this man:
"Cops pullin' up like I'm givin' drugs out, nah, nah, I'm a popstar, not a doctor" Drake |
#8567, aired 2022-02-01 | KILLER TV SHOWS $1200: Good cops CCH Pounder & Forest Whitaker hounded killer cop Michael Chiklis & the strike team on this FX series The Shield |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $1000: This actor bares all in his memoir "Greenlights"
"I've had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I have bongoed naked until the cops arrested me." (Matthew) McConaughey |
#8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1200: As cops roll up mid-scene in this 1994 film about a director, Johnny Depp realizes, "We don't have a permit! Run!" Ed Wood |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $200: Like cops, a process server may have to endure hours on one of these, sitting in a car looking for the target to come out a stakeout |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $2000: This Nevada-set "Cops" parody features inept deputies & police uniform short shorts for men Reno 911! |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | 1984 TV SHOW DEBUTS $400: Philip Michael Thomas & this actor were the too cool cops on the mean streets of "Miami Vice" Don Johnson |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: 1987 & 1989 saw this movie & its first sequel featuring cops Riggs & Murtaugh Lethal Weapon |
#8340, aired 2021-02-19 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $400: 1991: 2 women go on the run from the cops after one commits a homicide Thelma & Louise |
#8325, aired 2021-01-29 | TO PHRASE A COIN $800: To "drop" one of these is to inform on someone, like by calling the cops from an old payphone a dime |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | CLUES FROM A 1965 JEOPARDY! HOME GAME $400: COPS & ROBBERS: "Slang for police because they stick like lint" fuzz |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | GIVE US A DATE $200: 1929: Dressed like cops, Capone gang members line up Bugs Moran's guys against a wall & take them out in a "Massacre" February 14th |
#8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Generations of Big Apple cops join forces as Det. Andy Sipowicz reports to police commissioner Tom Selleck NYPD Blue Bloods |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | OSCAR-WINNING ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1971: Ernest Tidyman, based on Robin Moore's nonfiction account of NYC cops & drug smuggling The French Connection |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | REVELATIONS $400: After cops closed a 2017 exhibit in Genoa, 20 of 21 of these attributed to Amedeo Modigliani & Moïse Kisling were revealed to be fakes paintings |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $400: Before his PM-ship Robert Peel organized the London police force & his nickname gave the cops this moniker Bobbies |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK $1200: The theme song of this show now in its 32nd season asks, "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?" Cops |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $400: Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show Law & Order |
#7997, aired 2019-05-21 | KEY "KEY" $1200: They were the silent slapstick lawmen in Mack Sennett movies the Keystone Cops |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $1600: A May 1963 "Children's Crusade" helped civil rights as cops' treatment of kids in this Ala. city shocked the nation Birmingham |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $1000: Leonard Maltin, on No. 5 in this series about cops: "What can you say about a sequel... Steve Guttenberg won't even appear in?" Police Academy |
#7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS $600: A Bangles song says, "All the cops in the donut shop say ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh", this title instruction "Walk Like An Egyptian" |
#7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: This type of traffic lane is fairly new to China, hence the motorcycle cops keeping an eye on it a carpool lane |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MYSTERIES & THRILLERS $1600: Anne Hillerman continues dad Tony's series about cops of this Southwest nation in books like "Song of the Lion" Navajo |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | MUMMY DEAREST $800: Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists a fen (or a bog) |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | NO MORE COVER-UP $2000: One thread that unraveled the LAPD Rampart scandal: cops moonlighting as security for this "morbid" record label Death Row |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $1600: A typical hard-boiled line: these guys "never say goodbye. They're always hoping to see you again in the line-up" the cops |
#7509, aired 2017-04-13 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW $800: "Affluenza" teen Ethan Couch was busted in Mexico after cops traced a call to this pizza chain (but didn't arrive in 30 min.) Domino's |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $400: She played officer Stacy Sheridan on "T.J. Hooker" at the same time she played bad girl Sammy Jo on "Dynasty" Heather Locklear |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $800: Her experience as Det. Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" led her to start a nonprofit group to help victims of assault Mariska Hargitay |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $1200: On this show Kathryn Morris cracked old unsolved crimes in Philadelphia Cold Case |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $1600: As the LAPD's leading homicide interrogator, she was "The Closer" of the title Kyra Sedgwick |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | FEMALE TV COPS $2000: Everything was hip for Peggy Lipton as undercover cop Julie Barnes on this swinging 1960s series The Mod Squad |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES $1600: Leo & Matt Damon have competing squad goals as Boston cops in this drama The Departed |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $400: Lieutenant Frank Drebin was on the case in this series of police comedies Naked Gun |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $800: He won an Oscar for his powerful performance as rogue detective Alonzo Harris in "Training Day" Denzel Washington |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $1200: Title tour that security guard Kevin Hart got to take with a cop played by Ice Cube Ride Along |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $1600: Last names of the 2 cops played by Mel Gibson & Danny Glover in the "Lethal Weapon" movies Riggs & Murtaugh |
#7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $2000: Harvey Keitel plays an unnamed, unhinged cop with serious drug & gambling addictions in this film Bad Lieutenant |
#7170, aired 2015-11-13 | POP CULTURE $1200: Season 2 of this HBO series had 3 cops on the case, including Colin Farrell True Detective |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $1200: Movie:
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence are cops;
song:
used as the theme to "Cops" Bad Boys |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | NUMERICAL TV $1200: Among the colorful characters on this "Cops" parody was Lt. Jim Dangle in short shorts Reno 911! |
#7029, aired 2015-03-19 | "G"-OLOGY $600: Call the cops! Specifically, these French military ones Gendarme |
#6975, aired 2015-01-02 | POLICE LINGO $200: I need this, assistance from other cops that sounds like an additional vocalist backup |
#6975, aired 2015-01-02 | POLICE LINGO $600: When trying to locate a suspect, cops will often check this, his "L.K.A." last known address |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES $1200: Hey, "Bad boys! Whatcha gonna do when" these title TV guys come for you? Cops |
#6929, aired 2014-10-30 | GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984 $1200: These cops are the enforcers of mental & political correctness the Thought Police |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | TV THEN & NOW $1200: Woody Harrelson & Matthew McConaughey are cops on a 17-year hunt for a serial killer on this HBO series True Detective |
#6837, aired 2014-05-13 | POLICE & FIREFIGHTERS $1000: To New York City cops, this vehicle is a "bus" an ambulance |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | TV COPS $400: Detective Jim Brass, who's learned a lot about forensics since 2000 CSI |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | TV COPS $800: Danno Williams, at heart a Caan man Hawaii Five-O |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | TV COPS $1200: Sergeant Joe Friday, long ago Dragnet |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | TV COPS $1600: Seattle detective Sarah Linden on AMC The Killing |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | TV COPS $2000: Officers Quinn & Campo, known to break into song Cop Rock |
#6805, aired 2014-03-28 | TV TITLE PAIRS $800: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul Starsky and Hutch |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | ACTUAL 911 CALLS $1000: A man reported the theft of these pipes, like the one Alice's caterpillar smokes; the cops came & made a pot-growing bust hookahs |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $400: The U.S. Mint Police Treasury |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $800: The Bureau of Diplomatic Security State |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $1200: The U.S. Marshals Service Justice |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $1600: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Law Enforcement Interior |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | CABINET DEPARTMENT BY COPS $2000: The U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement & Investigations unit Agriculture |
#6648, aired 2013-07-10 | OCCUPATIONAL VERBS $1200: TV cops get frustrated when a suspect in custody does this 2-word slang phrase meaning "get an attorney" lawyer up |
#6577, aired 2013-04-02 | GOOD & BAD MUSIC $1200: Whatcha gonna do? This reggae song was the theme to the TV show "Cops" "Bad Boys" |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | YOUR FRIENDS, THE POLICE $800: If a city in crisis has a "dusk to dawn" one of these, the cops will make sure you obey it curfew |
#6499, aired 2012-12-13 | ORDINAL NUMBER PHRASES $200: If the cops are questioning you intensively, they're giving you this numeric phrase the third degree |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | TV THEME SONG HITS $600: 1993:
"Bad Boys" Cops |
#6266, aired 2011-12-12 | INITIAL TV $800: Ponch & Jon were motorcycle cops on this '70s police drama CHiPs |
#6234, aired 2011-10-27 | ADDRESS ME $800: Holly Robinson & Peter DeLuise were youthful cops on the show named for this address 21 Jump Street |
#6191, aired 2011-07-11 | CABINET DEPARTMENTS $1000: One of its agencies is COPS, short for Community Oriented Policing Services the Justice Department |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $600: The statement "No" these "shall issue, but upon probable cause" has frustrated many cops wanting to search a house a search warrant |
#6106, aired 2011-03-14 | DUMB CRIMINALS $800: 3 Penn. muggers stole an iPhone but didn't turn off this 3-letter feature, which cops used to track & catch them GPS |
#6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Forget it, Jake, it's... hold on--Evelyn's okay. The bullets missed her in the car. She's fine & the cops are letting her go" Chinatown |
#6035, aired 2010-12-03 | HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY $1600: In 2009 the entire cast of "A Steady Rain" was Daniel Craig & this Australian as Chicago cops Hugh Jackman |
#5902, aired 2010-04-20 | DUMB CRIMINALS $600: A Tennessee man saw his stolen furnace for sale on this .org; the criminal even helped the cops load it on a truck before getting busted Craigslist |
#5827, aired 2010-01-05 | IS THIS A RERUN? $1000: If you missed the first Sat. night episode of this reality show on Fox, there's usually another right after Cops |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | THE "END" ZONE $200: Term meaning to give oneself up, as to the cops surrender |
#5635, aired 2009-02-20 | THE "-STING" $400: The cops are doing this--not to keep the furniture clean, but for prints dusting |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | MOVIE "NIGHT" $1000: Joaquin Phoenix hides that he's from a family full of cops, including brother Mark Wahlberg in this 2007 drama We Own the Night |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | MOVIE-MOBILES $1200: In this 1977 film Burt Reynolds avoids cops while making a major beer run in a Trans Am Smokey and the Bandit |
#4987, aired 2006-04-25 | DANCE IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: This centuries-old English dance "was up" for the bank robber when the cops arrived jig |
#4975, aired 2006-04-07 | LIFE IN THE FAST LANE $800: A fuzzbuster is one of these devices that helps motorists elude cops trying to catch them speeding a radar detector |
#4910, aired 2006-01-06 | STREET-WISE TV $1200: Johnny Depp & Richard Grieco were armed & fabulous as cops on this Fox series 21 Jump Street |
#4903, aired 2005-12-28 | OBSTACLES $200: In Indianapolis v. Edmond, the Supreme Court said cops may not set these up mainly to look for drugs in cars a roadblock |
#4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS IN BLUE $200: Some sources say policemen were informally called this because of what their badges were made from cops (or coppers) |
#4788, aired 2005-06-01 | HARDBOILED SLANG $1200: This slang term may be used of the cops or a man's very short haircut fuzz |
#4653, aired 2004-11-24 | HIT TV THEME SONGS $400: Whatcha gonna do? This "Cops" theme song by Inner Circle peaked at No. 8 in 1993 "Bad Boys" |
#4561, aired 2004-06-07 | FOOD ACROSS AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Bill Rosenberg opened the first shop in this chain in 1950 in Quincy, Ma. (we don't know when the cops came) Dunkin' Donuts |
#4533, aired 2004-04-28 | POETIC JUSTICE $2000: The cops might bury you in a deep pit, but they have to produce you if they're shown this "great writ" habeas corpus |
#4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEDE MYSTERY $1600: Boston cops were baffled by the murder of Karina Holmer, a Swede working as this French-named type of domestic au pair |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TV THEME SONGS $1000: "Bay Boys" appeared on Inner Circle's 1987 album "One Way" long before it became the theme to this series Cops |
#4015, aired 2002-02-01 | TAKE THE "MONEY" & RUN $1600: As NYC transit cops, Snipes & Harrelson chase a cash-laden subway car in this 1995 big screen thriller Money Train |
#3899, aired 2001-07-12 | ON THE BEAT WITH ANDY SIPOWICZ $200: (Franz reads the clue.) Some cops use this soft powdery limestone to mark tires; homicide cops, like Andy, see it used more for outlines chalk |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | FORDS ON FILM $300: Ford Sterling ineptly enforced the law as the chief of these silent movie policemen Keystone Cops |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | LAW $400: We wonder if Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul will hook up again as these TV cops; word is, Huggy Bear wonders too Starsky & Hutch |
#3831, aired 2001-04-09 | "FU" $200: Someone on the run from the cops Fugitive |
#3790, aired 2001-02-09 | THAT '70s SHOW $1000: Martin Milner & Kent McCord were on the beat as a couple of cops on this series Adam-12 |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | CRACKERS $400: The name of this Sunshine Biscuit Co. cracker sounds like a slang phrase used when the cops are coming Cheez-It |
#3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $1000: Cops Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia tangle with the Japanese mafia in this 1989 film Black Rain |
#3558, aired 2000-02-09 | MY "BAD" $100: The theme to the TV show "Cops" asks them "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" Bad boys |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | COPS $100: These important pieces of evidence might contain loops, arches & whorls Fingerprints |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | COPS $200: It's the "unfashionable" name for officers who do not wear uniforms when on duty Plainclothes |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | COPS $300: From the Middle English for "lively", it's the police activity seen here: Frisking |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | COPS $400: When cops put out an APB on a suspect, APB stands for this All Points Bulletin |
#3507, aired 1999-11-30 | COPS $500: It's the numerical response that means "Message confirmed", good buddy 10-4 |
#3474, aired 1999-10-14 | TV TO FILM $200: (Hi, I'm Steve Harris of The Practice.) I played detective Briggs in the 1999 movie revival of this television series featuring youthful undercover cops The Mod Squad |
#3466, aired 1999-10-04 | THINGS I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES $300: Honest, hardworking cops usually get gunned down 3 days before they're due for this event Retirement |
#3457, aired 1999-09-21 | ROCK & ROLL RHYME TIME $100: Iggy's policemen Pop's cops |
#3453, aired 1999-09-15 | TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $1000: The cops' acquittal in the 1992 trial for beating this man resulted in the worst riots in L.A. since 1965 Rodney King |
#3418, aired 1999-06-16 | QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS $600: Cops ask this of someone in a hurry; in 1871 a good answer would have been "Chicago" Where's the fire? |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | GANGSTER'S DICTIONARY $100: I hates it when the cops put these "bracelets" on me after a bust Handcuffs |
#3402, aired 1999-05-25 | A DRIVING TOUR $100: Drive by the cops when you put the pedal to the metal on most of these high-speed German highways autobahns |
#3351, aired 1999-03-15 | MANHATTAN $300 (Daily Double): Cops once chased girlwatchers from the windy corner of 5th & 23rd, perhaps originating this phrase 23 skidoo |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $200: The TV cops of New York's 13th precinct included this Greek-American title lieutenant Kojak |
#3229, aired 1998-09-24 | COPS $100: The HQ of the London Metropolitan Police, it's named for a palace that once housed Scottish royalty Scotland Yard |
#3229, aired 1998-09-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $400: The cops, or part of a peach
(4) Fuzz |
#3229, aired 1998-09-24 | COPS $400: A famous symbol of the Pinkerton Detective Agency is an eye and the slogan "We Never" do this Sleep |
#3229, aired 1998-09-24 | COPS $500: This "Buckaroo Banzai" was "RoboCop" twice Peter Weller |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $100: Actors who have played cops on this series include S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth & Paul Sorvino Law & Order |
#3082, aired 1998-01-13 | THE COPS $100: In the U.S. these political divisions employ sheriffs & their deputies Counties |
#3082, aired 1998-01-13 | THE COPS $200: California, Florida & Ohio are 3 of the states with these state police forces Highway patrol |
#3082, aired 1998-01-13 | THE COPS $400: Seattle started a national trend in 1987 by putting patrol cops on these vehicles Bicycles |
#3082, aired 1998-01-13 | THE COPS $500 (Daily Double): (Hello, I'm Benjamin Bratt.) This piece of police equipment comes in a steel variety opened with a key & in a plastic version that has to be cut handcuffs |
#3082, aired 1998-01-13 | THE COPS $500: Because of this constitutional amendment, the police must have a warrant to search your property 4th Amendment |
#3033, aired 1997-11-05 | PARTY GEOMETRY $1000: 2 angles with a common vertex & a common side, or the position of the house next door that called the cops Adjacent |
#3019, aired 1997-10-16 | "COLOR" MOVIES $600: In this 1988 film Sean Penn & Robert Duvall were cops on street gang patrol Colors |
#3011, aired 1997-10-06 | SYMBOLS $100: These symbols worn by cops are made, appropriately, of copper Badges |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $100: On this sitcom Laurie Metcalf played Jackie, who left police work to become a trucker "Roseanne" |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $200: In 1983 letters from viewers helped save this Sharon Gless-Tyne Daly series from cancellation "Cagney And Lacey" |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $300: This FOX series teamed a human cop with a newcomer from another planet "Alien Nation" |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $400: In 1998 Lauren Velez joined the cast of this hip big-city FOX police drama as detective Nina Morena "New York Undercover" |
#2999, aired 1997-09-18 | TV COPS $500: Andre Braugher plays detective & stroke survivor Frank Pembleton on this cop show "Homicide: Life on the Street" |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | TV COPS $100: Sonny Crockett in the '80s, he became Nash Bridges in 1996 Don Johnson |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | TV COPS $200: On this series Chicago detective Ray Vecchio is aided by Canadian Mountie Benton Fraser Due South |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | TV COPS $300: The USA Network's "Pacific Blue" features cops who patrol on these vehicles bicycles |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | TV COPS $400: This NBC police drama is subtitled "Life on the Street" Homicide |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | TV COPS $500: Comedy series on which Al Molinaro played Murray the cop The Odd Couple |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | TV COPS $100: This cop series was syndicated for a while under the title "Badge 714" Dragnet |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | TV COPS $200: He's "NYPD Blue"'s detective Simone Jimmy Smits |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | TV COPS $300: Detectives on this comedy series included Dietrich, Yemana, Harris & Fish Barney Miller |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | TV COPS $400: This LAPD officer-turned-author came up with the concept for "Police Story" Joseph Wambaugh |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | TV COPS $500: She's detective chief inspector Jane Tennison in the "Prime Suspect" series on PBS Helen Mirren |
#2445, aired 1995-03-31 | TELEVISION $200: This Don Johnson series was derived from a 2-word note by NBC's president: "MTV cops" Miami Vice |
#2275, aired 1994-06-24 | COMEDIANS $200: Ford Sterling is best remembered as the leader of this silent movie police force the Keystone Cops |
#1677, aired 1991-12-10 | CHARLIE CHAPLIN $400: Chaplin's first film, "Making a Living", was made for this studio headed by Mack Sennett Keystone |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $400: There are no cops on its plates, but there is a keystone Pennsylvania |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | FIRE $100: After fast fire engines came out in the 1920s cops began to ask speeders this burning question Where's the fire? |
#1453, aired 1990-12-19 | TV COPS $100: In 1982 all 5 nominees for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama were from this NBC police series Hill Street Blues |
#1453, aired 1990-12-19 | TV COPS $200: Confined to a wheelchair, this former chief of detectives served as a consultant to the police Ironside |
#1453, aired 1990-12-19 | TV COPS $300: In "Police Woman", Sgt. Suzanne Anderson was better known by this "hot" nickname Pepper |
#1453, aired 1990-12-19 | TV COPS $400: Wo Fat was the arch nemesis of this detective played by Jack Lord Steve McGarrett |
#1453, aired 1990-12-19 | TV COPS $500: "In the Heat of the Night" features Howard Rollins as this chief of detectives (Virgil) Tibbs |
#1258, aired 1990-02-07 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $400: In this Fox series Johnny Depp & Holly Robinson are cops who go undercover in schools 21 Jump Street |
#1197, aired 1989-11-14 | TELEVISION $300: Sgt. John Bunnell & Officer Harry Jackson are 2 of the "stars" of this real-life police show on Fox Cops |
#1076, aired 1989-04-17 | RECORDERS $500: The cops' daily record book, it isn't there to just soak up ink the (police) blotter |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | TV COPS $100: Hutch's other half Starsky |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | TV COPS $200: Cagney's companion Lacey |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | TV COPS $300: Makepeace's man Dempsey |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | TV COPS $400: Gannon's sergeant at arms Joe Friday |
#1023, aired 1989-02-01 | TV COPS $500: He tooled around with Toody Muldoon |
#924, aired 1988-09-15 | TRANSPORTATION $300: Some say this van's name came from the Irish cops using it; others say, from the Irishmen locked inside it a paddy wagon |
#729, aired 1987-11-05 | TV COPS $100: Rank of TV cops T.J. Hooker, Joe Friday & Pepper Anderson sergeant |
#729, aired 1987-11-05 | TV COPS $200: This 7-year-old show had its last roll call on May 5, 1987 Hill Street Blues |
#729, aired 1987-11-05 | TV COPS $300: The late night lineup on CBS includes reruns of this NBC series starring Fred Dryer Hunter |
#729, aired 1987-11-05 | TV COPS $400: FOX TV's "21 Jump Street" puts undercover cops into these institutions high schools |
#729, aired 1987-11-05 | TV COPS $500: Formerly Howard Cunningham, he plays sheriff Amos Tupper on "Murder, She Wrote" Tom Bosley |
#702, aired 1987-09-29 | ACTRESSES $1000: They both made Mr. Blackwell's 1986 "Worst Dressed" list though for TV cops they dress OK Tyne Daly & Sharon Gless |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $100: It was Thursday, 9 o'clock; turned on this show; cop named Friday wanted "Just the facts, ma'am" Dragnet |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $200: Of "Harry-O", "Cannon", or "Banacek", the one who wasn't an ex-cop Banacek |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $300: He once described his series "Bronk" as "Stupid" - believe it or not Jack Palance |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $400: Former Olympic decathlon star who filled in for Erik Estrada during salary dispute on "CHiPs" Bruce Jenner |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $500: Detective whose writing a novel, "Blood on the Badge", became a running joke on "Barney Miller" (Ron) Harris |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | TV COPS $200: Ex-con Mark Sanger pushed him around, but never too far Chief Ironside |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | TV COPS $400: Police Chief Paul Lanigan on "Lanigan's Rabbi" was played by this former TV sewer worker Art Carney |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | TV COPS $600: Murray the cop was a regular character on this sitcom The Odd Couple |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | TV COPS $800: Critics referred to the lead in this ABC series as "Dirty Harriet" & "Skirty Harry" Lady Blue |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | TV COPS $100: Perhaps the only cop who ever asked a crook "Who loves ya, baby?" Kojak |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | TV COPS $200: Its lead character introduced himself with, "My name's Friday; I'm a cop" Dragnet |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | TV COPS $300: Series William Shatner has starred in since he came down to Earth T.J. Hooker |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | TV COPS $400: Comic question asked of officers Toody & Muldoon Car 54, Where Are You? |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | TV COPS $500: This show only gained popularity in re-release after Burt Reynolds became a star Dan August |