Adam Graham

Well,

I did find a list.

There are some shows that are listed that I probably wouldn't include, but the ones I would include, I couldn't think of any that were not on this list.

Calling All Cars, which was a program from the 30s that dramatized true police cases.

The FBI in Peace and War, and This Is Your FBI, both of which dramatized cases from the F

FBI, True Detective Mysteries, which was based on stories from true crime magazines, and then there was Unsolved Mysteries.

Not to be confused with the later Robert Stack program.

We've played a couple episodes on the old-time radio Snack Wagon.

Then Tales of the Texas Rangers, Nightwatch, 21st Precinct, True Adventures of the Junior G-Men, and I would also add Gangbusters and Unit 99.

I think you kind of have to take Unit 99 and Nightwatch as being a very separate thing.

Because these were essentially recordings of policemen actually out on calls.

It was like cops, but over radio.

So, not scripted at all.

I do feel I can't give you a full answer to the question, though.

Because most of these series I have encountered...

But I think to list them all in order, it would require having listened to them in enough depth that you could definitively and intellectually explain why you thought, if you did, that the FBI and Peace and War was a more realistic series than Calling All Cars.

It's also hard to measure the accuracy of an entire series, particularly when a lot of it might be missing.

Although, I guess in my opinion, there's one clear winner and leader in the category, and that's Dragnet.

I think there are many ways that

dragnet wins and that's not because they don't occasionally change facts to suit the needs to simplify the case to get it to air or to ensure they don't lose their audience or whatever other reason where i think dragnet wins if i were to put to the one central fact is