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Crime dramas

Order by the year each series first aired. You place all 50 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the crime dramas timeline game

Each card is a crime drama series about cops, detectives, gangsters, killers and the people chasing them. The network or channel that first aired it is printed under the name. Order the shows by the year each first aired. One series is placed for you with its year showing. Put each new card into a gap. A correct call reveals the year; a wrong call costs one of three lives, though the show still moves to its proper place.

The deck runs from the earliest police shows on network television through gritty precinct dramas, long-running franchises and the cable and streaming series that changed the genre. American shows make up most of it, with a handful of British favorites. The network line helps a lot, because cable channels and streaming services only arrive later. Long runs and reruns can fool you: a show you watched for years may have begun well before you found it.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 50 cards you might be dealt, with 22 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Dragnet NBC
  • Perry Mason CBS
  • The Fugitive ABC
  • Kojak CBS
  • Starsky & Hutch ABC
  • Magnum, P.I. CBS
  • Cagney & Lacey CBS
  • Murder, She Wrote CBS
  • Law & Order NBC
  • Prime Suspect ITV
  • NYPD Blue ABC
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NBC
  • The Shield FX
  • NCIS CBS
  • Bones Fox
  • Prison Break Fox
  • Breaking Bad AMC
  • The Mentalist CBS
  • Sherlock BBC One
  • Justified FX
  • Luther BBC One
  • Line of Duty BBC Two
  • Peaky Blinders BBC Two
  • Fargo FX
  • Happy Valley BBC One
  • Narcos Netflix
  • Ozark Netflix
  • Reacher Prime Video

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