Peter Gunn is a private eye TV series that aired on the NBC and later
ABC television networks from Friday September 22, 1958 to September
18, 1961, for 114 total thirty-minute episodes. The title character was
played by Craig Stevens. The series is remembered most for its music,
especially "The Peter Gunn Theme," which won an Emmy Award and
two Grammys for Henry Mancini and has become a jazz-rock standard.

Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed Kent McCord),
as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their police cruiser, 1-Adam-12. Created
by Jack Webb (Dragnet) the show ran from Saturday September 21,1968 through May
20, 1975 on NBC. The series depicted a typical day in the life of a police officer.

                
Martin Milner                                               Kent McCord

The Legal drama Perry Mason had an original run from September 21, 1957 to
May 22, 1966. The title character was portrayed by Raymond Burr (above).The
show was, at one time, television’s most successful and longest-running lawyer
series.

Perry Mason has been airing syndicated repeats of the show since
1966 as part of it’s afternoon viewing schedule.

 

CHiPs is a television drama series produced by MGM Studios that
originally aired on NBC-TV from September 15, 1977, to July 17,
1983 (139 episodes ). Although the show finished production in
1983, many regions did not complete their runs of the series until
the later 1980s, in some cases almost ten years after the show
had first appeared. The show starred Erik Estrada as Officer
Frank “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his partner,
Officer Jon Baker. 

 
Erik Estrada                                              Larry Wilcox

The State Police assault which ended a four-day prison riot at Attica Correctional
Facility in Attica, New York has been called the bloodiest one-day encounter in
this country since the Civil War. The riot began on September 9, 1971 when
prisoners responded to the death of a black radical activist inmate at San
Quentin Prison in California on August 21. About half of Attica’s inmate
population of 2,200 rebelled and seized control of the facility, taking 33 staff
members hostage and demanded better living conditions. Some agreements  
were reached during the four days of negotiations. On orders from then New  
York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police regained control of the prison 
on the 13th of September. When it was over, at least 39 people were dead,
including ten correctional officers and civilian employees.