An Australian cop show shown on the ABC in the early nineties. Comprised of two seasons of thirteen episodes each.
Very much a police procedural, Phoenix had an ultra-realistic feeling. The set was meticulously modelled on the real offices of a police task force in Melbourne. Conversations overlapped, and were littered with obscenities. Each of the two seasons covered a single investigation, rather than crimes being solved in a single hour long episode.
The first season began with a car bomb exploding outside a police ball, killing one police officer and horribly burning another. The Phoenix task force is formed, and spends the next thirteen episodes investigating the crime and eventually arresting the culprits.
The second season detailed the investigation of a drug smuggling operation, but the real focus of the season was the internal affairs investigations into the task force. There were allegations of police brutality, planting of evidence and corruption, all of which brought visits from the toecutters - the internal affairs investigators.
In my opinion, simply the best cop show ever.