I can remember the first time MSM was shown on Dutch TV. It must have been in September 1997 (school had just started, and it was still warm). It was aired on Saturday night. I didn't like it. It really took a while for it to grow on me.
Back then you either had Serious Police Drama (Morse, A Touch of Frost, Dalziel and Pascoe, etc) or police comedy series such as The Thin Blue Line (with Rowan Atkinson). Cozies that weren't cutesy or gimmicky weren't a thing back then, at least not on Dutch TV.
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