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City of Angels (1976)

City of Angels poster
Genre
detective fiction
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 13 episodes
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A private detective works cases in 1930s Los Angeles. The show follows him as he deals with corrupt officials and dangerous criminals.

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What happens

City of Angels is a 1976 American television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. American mystery novelist Max Allan Collins has called City of Angels "the best private eye series ever." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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