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Pulaski

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United Kingdom
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How it feels

An American actor plays a detective on a British TV show. He gets drawn into solving real crimes with his co-star.

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What happens

Pulaski is a British television drama series produced by the BBC in 1987. Created by Roy Clarke, the series was a pastiche detective drama in which Larry Summers, an American actor starring in a British detective series in the title role of Pulaski, who finds himself involved in real life cases. He was assisted by his co-star Kate Smith, who played his sidekick Briggsy in the series. The theme music was performed by The Shadows. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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