Taking things into my own hands, then.
Unless someone stops me, I shall monopolize this thread.
Very long and self-indulgent posts will be forthcoming!
Watched a rerun of CSI tonight,
Xtremely gory show at times,
Yet fascinating.
Zero innovation television seems to show, however. Consider:
Adam-12 was a television show about two L.A. cops who solved crimes.
Burke’s Law was a television show about a debonaire millionaire police chief who solved crimes.
CHiPs was a television show about a two motorcycle riding cops who solved crimes.
Dragnet was a television show about two utterly humorless cops who solved crimes.
Ellery Queen was a television show about a mystery writer who solved crimes.
Farraday and Company was a television show about an ex-convict who solved crimes.
Get Christie Love was a television show about a black woman cop who solved crimes.
Harry O was a television show about an ex-cop turned private eye who solved crimes.
Ironside was a television show about a crippled police chief who solved crimes.
Jigsaw John was a television show about a police investigator who solved crimes.
Kojak was a television show about a bald cop who solved crimes.
Longstreet was a television show about a blind insurance investigator who solved crimes.
Murder She Wrote was a television show about a mystery writer who solved crimes.
**N.**Y.P.D. Blue is a television show about New York police detectives who solved crimes.
Outsider was a television show about a ex-convict turned private investigator who solved crimes.
Perry Mason was a television show about a defense lawyer who solved crimes.
Quincy was a television show about a medical examiner who solved crimes.
Rockford Files was a television show about a ex-convict turned private investigator who solved crimes.
Shaft was a television show about a black private investigator who solved crimes.
Toma was a television show about a police officer who solved crimes.
Untouchables was a television show about Treasury agents who solved crimes.
Vega$ was a television show about a private investigator who solved crimes.
Wild, Wild West was a television show about a special agent for the President who solved crimes.
However, as far as I can tell:
X was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes.
Y was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes.
Z was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes.
And there you have it, would-be script writers, the perfect opening for a show that is Brand New and yet exactly like everything that has gone before.
Umm, what’ll happen if I go backwards?
BTW, that post took care of 31 consecutive letters. I think that’s a record for this thread.
Can’t do that, Morkfromork! That would make the page count go backwards, too, and we’d NEVER reach 100 pages.
Dazzling! 80 already?
Entertaining list of crime fighting nostalgia, SBS. May I suggest the X-Files?
From what time zone do you post? You seem to be up late surveying your kingdom (Queendom?)
Going to bed sounds good…but…must…keep…posting…
Here I am in Eastern. Vermont, to be more specific.
I have a terminally screwed-up internal clock – too many years of rotating shifts will do that.
(X-Files! D’oh! Now, can you come up with a Y and Z?)
Jelly and peanut butter.
Okay is backwards.
’K, SBS. How 'bout Zorro and, er…Yogi Bear?
there was that thing about the pic-a-nic basket theft and all…
Looks kind of dubious to me.
Let it be known that this is the best simulpost of the thread.
Most amusing.
Now I think I did 30 for my alphabetical LOTR so you got me beat by one SBS.
Oh, and Yu Yu Hakusho is a Japanese anime on CN about a spirit detective who solves crimes. Spirit crimes.
Poor Osiris, you’ll just have to try harder. I’m thinking of trying SF titles next.
Proud am I to inform you that Z Cars was a BBC series from 1968 about cops in cars who solve crimes.
Quizzical looks on faces do I see.
Really that was nothing. tvtome.com just makes this too easy. Of course off my head I know no Z crime fighting shows.
Simulpost was hilarious, Osiris, it made me laugh out loud too.
Tenaciously, I insist that Zorro fought crime!
Unfortunate coincidence it was. (I giggled, too. Famous last words…)
Very sleepy I’m getting.
Wow! Closing in on 2 a.m. and I have to be up at, er, 5:30??
Yeowch!
Zod-oN ni kcots yub : pit toH
And now I can toddle off to bed, content that we have compiled a full set of alphabetical crime fighters. 
Breakfast! I haven’t placed my order yet…
Cook’s choice, I think. Watcher, please use your own imagination.
Don’t disappoint me, now! I’m counting on you.