I really enjoy the procedurals and whatnot on Sundays: I look forward to it all week. I love going through the shows I’ve always meant to watch, and there’s some stuff I’d love to add but there just isn’t the space. For that reason I’ve decided to launch a new Wednesday show. Hop aboard the Winnebago, get yourself comfortable and take a leisurely weekday evening journey through American procedurals, sitcoms, drama and sci-fi shows of years gone by, stretching all the way from the 60s right up to the close of the century.

Dragnet (1967-1970)

The relaunched 1960s version of the keystone police procedural series, following a tough LAPD detective and his partner in the course of their duties. Starring series creator Jack Webb as Detective Joe Friday, alongside future M*A*S*H stalwart Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon.

CHiPs (1977-1983)

CHiPs follows the escapades of two California Highway Patrol motor officers: the exuberant Frank Poncherello and his level-headed partner Jon Baker. We follow the pair as they try to work as a team despite their differences, whilst enforcing the state’s traffic laws.

Barney Miller (1975-1982)

ABC sitcom. Hal Linden stars as the titular Barney Miller, captain of 12th Precinct in New York City. Miller and his staff deal with the trials and tribulations of the local characters who find their way into the squad room.

Night Court (1984-1992)

NBC sitcom. The young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. Stone (Harry Anderson) presides over the night shift of the Manhattan Criminal Court, dealing with litigants in his own good-humoured way.

Sanford and Son (1972-1977)

Redd Foxx and Desmond Wilson star in the classic CBS sitcom. Some episodes of this were previously shown on Thursdays alongside the Steptoe and Son episodes they were based on.

All in the Family (1971-1979)

Like the preceding show this was based on a British sitcom, in this case Till Death Us Do Part. Carroll O’Connor stars as the infamous Archie Bunker, the narrow-minded patriarch of his working class family.

The White Shadow (1978-1981)

A white basketball player (Ken Howard) is forced to retire as the result of a knee injury, and takes a coaching job at an impoverished urban high school. Created by Bruce Paltrow, who went on to make St. Elsewhere.

M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994-1995)

Starring Carl Lumbly, who Sunday viewers will recognise as Detective Petrie from Cagney & Lacey. A wealthy black scientist is paralysed by a police sniper during a riot. He uses his company’s resources to develop a high-tech suit, becoming the titular vigilante super-hero.

TekWar (1994-1996)

A TV series based on William Shatner’s books, starring the man himself as the mysterious Walter Bascom. In the year 2045, a computer-based reality drug called Tek is spreading at a frightening rate. It’s up to Bascom and his crack team to take on the scourge of this addiction.

Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001)

Kate Mulgrew stars as the enigmatic Captain Janeway in the fourth live action Star Trek series. The crew of a federation starship and a band of Maquis rebels find themselves stranded in the Delta Quadrant, 75 years’ travel from earth. They must work together to survive and make their way home.

The Outer Limits (1995-2002)

The 90s reboot of the legendary sci-fi anthology series. Original series creator Leslie Stevens worked on the show until his death in 1998.

The first show will be on Wednesday the 2nd of August at 4pm. Not all the above programmes will be featured on the first broadcast, as some begin with pilot movies, but from the second show onwards all programmes will be shown in the above order.