The Greatest 70s Cop Shows

So much nostalgia TV in one place, you can almost smell the crimebusting. In case you feel like watching the entire run of a 70s cop show from the beginning but you have no idea which one, this collection is, like, a total godsend. Here are the very first episodes—not the pilots, when the cast and concept of a series are often wildly different from the real show, but the actual season-one openers—of five of the polyester decade’s most well-known police dramas: Starsky & Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, S.W.A.T., Police Woman and The Rookies. (Well, the Angels were really private eyes, not cops, but then you’d have to title the DVD Four Great 70s Cop Shows and Also a Private-Eye Show, or Five Shows That Often Feature Criminals With Feathered Hair, and the boys in marketing probably said no to that.) If you do find your interest piqued by these (ahem) arresting examples of Me Decade programming, know that the complete first seasons of Angels and S.W.A.T. are both out on DVD by the end of spring, followed by the second Angels movie and a Samuel Jackson-led remake of S.W.A.T. in summer.