Boomers“remnants of generation X” and some Millenials will still remember the first American crime and adventure television series broadcast by Rai and by the “new” private TV channels of Mediaset born between the 70s and 80s. TV showas they were called then, very successful, remained imprinted in the collective imagination where the muscle cars Americans, the most beautiful Italian supercarsand not only that, they were the absolute protagonists and fueled octane dreams by instilling, directly or indirectly, a passion for engines in young Italian men and women, as well as the “virtues” of the so-called american dream. There Dodge Charger R/Tbetter known as the General Lee, the Ferrari of Magnum PI and those of Miami Vice, the Peugeot of Lieutenant Colombo, the Lamborghini Countach of Automan. We have selected ten absolute jewels of the TV series from the 70s and 80s who have made the history of television, let’s discover them together.