The answer is only L.A. LAW if you leave when Smits and Hamlin do at the end of s5. They get by for a bit in s6 between Spencer, Donohoe, and Dey, but after that it's a sharp cliff.
Billions and Warrior have been my favorite treadmill shows. Billions isn't super high action but it usually moves at a fast pace until the last two seasons.
Psych and Burn Notice from other your replies here are also great ideas and are going straight to my treadmill list
Oh, and Formula 1: Drive to Survive is perhaps not the style of show you're looking for, but I find it so motivating for treadmill work that I have to moderate how often I let myself watch it.
non-medical drama suggestions: psych, xena, burn notice. not treadmill, but they've all worked for me for a background to sewing. maybe a star trek? (not ds9)
I've seen virtually all of 24, and rewatched a good chunk while writing Revolution Was Televised. Not good enough to merit additional viewings beyond that.
Seasons 1 and 7-21 of Gunsmoke are streaming on Pluto. You could fill in the gap with The Rockford Files (was on Freevee, now Sling, I don't know how even someone who covers TV for a living is supposed to keep track of this).
Rockford Files is still great! Garner is so appealing & thankfully not just a superhero- when he gets punched, he goes down, and he gets punched a lot. The recently Stuart Margolin is a lot of fun as Angel. And the cops are often as much the antagonists as the villain of the week- refreshing.
Nice. I was surprised that some of the Colombo episodes were really light on plot, and so heavily padded. A lot of cheap annoying stock characters in some episodes too.
Not sure if you've seen it, but I found Star Trek Voyager to be an oddly good show for when on the treadmill. Low on action (and stakes generally) but the episodic alien-of-the-week structure of most of the 7 seasons helped runs fly by
Chicago Med is not secretly awesome. It's a decent enough medical drama most of the time, if you can put up with people occasionally yelling things like "I don't care about HIPAA!" and frequently violating patients' rights.
Have you ever watched the original Cowboy Bebop? Less than 13 hours in total, but very compelling episodic storytelling with some cool action sequences.
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(I'm a Blankie looking forward to your forthcoming Midnight Run pod.)
Psych and Burn Notice from other your replies here are also great ideas and are going straight to my treadmill list
I often watch it on a broadcast subchannel network (GetTV) and they regularly speed up sections to make time for commercials.
Also Garner's knee problems make me wince.
Great show still.
Maybe, X-Files or Supernatural, they get pretty uneven eventually but there’s good stuff there.
NYPD Blue.