It Takes Two: Great Buddy-Cops in History

December 1995, London, England, UK --- Adrain Scarborough and Simon Russell Beale appear in a National Theatre production of 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'.
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Alas, Poor Guildenstern
Technically more like feckless backstabbing spies than hard-nosed crime-fighters, but Hamlet's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the closest the 17th century gets to Starsky and Hutch.

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