When was the last time you were working late with Bob in accounting, crunching those numbers together late into the night, when you looked over at him and just had to kiss him? Or maybe Judy in production was looking so particularly lovely one day in her fitted shirt and low-cut blouse that you not only had to let her know how hot she looked, but also had to pull her into a dipped kiss right there next to the copier?

Probably not too often, because your ass would be so fired and then hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit soon after. But that’s only in the pesky real world. On television, anything goes, especially in the crime-solving world.

On TV, the sole purpose of teaming up a man and a woman for a work partnership is to create sexual tension, which inevitably leads to inappropriate behavior like flirting, kissing, and sometimes even … sex!

Here’s a look at 8 of TV’s past and present crime-solving partners where the sexual tension between them is palpable.

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Mrs. Amanda King and Lee “Scarecrow” Stetson

The ’80s was obviously a time where unqualified women could become government agents just because they felt like it, and as long as they had a highly trained male partner they could flirt with, the government was just fine with it. In 1983, hot off the heals of her success with Charles Angels, Kate Jackson signed on to star in the action-comedy Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Jackson played Amanda King, a divorced housewife who teams up with a government agent named Lee Stetson (“Scarecrow”) played by Bruce Boxleitner, a relatively unknown actor who became known for his lead role in TV’s scifi classic Babylon 5. After accidentally becoming involved in one of Scarecrow’s missions, the persistent Mrs. King decided that she was going to help out with all of his cases. Mrs. King wormed her way into “The Agency” to eventually become a full Agent; she also worked her way into Scarecrow’s heart, because by the series’ end in 1987, the partners were secretly married.

Cover Up

Dani Reynolds and Mac Harper

In the mid-80s, the short-lived Cover Up was a big hit on television until its male lead, Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally killed himself on the set during a break in filming. The show starred former Cover Girl Jennifer O’Neill as a Dani Reynolds, a fashion photographer who becomes a government agent after her husband is killed and she learns that he was actually a CIA agent (see how easy it is? The government doesn’t mind, they need all the help they can get, whether you’re qualified or not!). Keeping her cover as a photographer, she teams up with Mac Harper (Hexum), a ridiculously gorgeous former Green Beret, who always posed as her model. The duo traveled the world on special assignments and often found themselves hiding together in close quarters, making out as part of their cover, or Mac coming to Dani’s rescue. Hexum only appeared in eight episodes before his death, but it was obvious that the show was planning to nurture the sexual tension between its attractive stars, even though O’Neill was nine years older than the 27-year-old Hexum (this was the ’80s, where shows like Dynasty promoted women being with younger men, yowza!).

Burn Notice

Fiona Gienanne and Michael Westen

On the current USA Network show Burn Notice, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is a former intelligence agent who’s inexplicably been served a “burn notice,” which has blacklisted him from working in the intelligence field. Fiona Gienanne (Gabrielle Anwar) is his ex-girlfriend, a wild gun-totin’ former IRA operative. While they’re technically not a couple anymore, there’s still a strong chemistry between them and often partner up to do freelance spy work and bounty hunting. Together, they make one crazy rogue team. Fiona wants Michael to put her first, but his preoccupation with finding out who burned him and why is more than just his first priority, it’s his obsession.

Remington Steele

Laura Holt and Remington Steele

Finding the field of private investigating quite sexist, PI Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) invents a male boss for herself named Remington Steele (this was the ’80s after all). Business picks up, but then Laura meets a handsome con man (Pierce Brosnan) who assumes the Remington Steele identity and becomes the face of the agency. The suave Steele turns on the charm with Laura from the very beginning and there’s plenty of romantic undercurrents between the two. The biggest obstacle in their personal and professional relationship was the fact that he was the pretty face who got all the credit, while Laura did all the hard work (finally, a 1980’s show where it’s the woman who’s the qualified one!). They went four and a half seasons without sealing the deal, though they made out enough times, but the series finale alludes to them finally being together.

Bones

Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and Agent Seeley Booth

Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is a forensic anthropologist who works on special cases for the FBI, and namely, with FBI Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). Bones is highly intelligent, focused, and no-nonsense. She’s a hard woman who’s unintentionally incredibly sex. Not surprisingly, Bones and the hot as hell Booth (hey, this is Angel we’re talking about) are nothing alike — she’s the brains, he’s the heart. But all that bone handling and feisty bickering between the two leads to lots of sexual tension.

Moonlighting

Maddie Hayes and David Addison

Cybill Shepherd played Maddie Hayes, a former model who owns a detective agency for tax purposes. A young Bruce Willis played David Addison, the private eye who runs the agency and convinces the now-broke Maddie to keep the business going with the two of them as partners. Though they argued and insulted one another quite a bit, they had a great chemistry together. David was self-confident, loud-mouthed, and basically a borderline jerk, but something about him was so likable; while the beautiful, yet uptight and pampered Maddie did her best to resist him. The partners eventually did hook up and release all that sexual tension, and when Shepherd became pregnant in real life, it was written into the show with a “who’s the Daddy?” plot, which changed the dynamic of their formally enjoyable-to-watch relationship.

Get Smart

Agent 99 and Agent Maxwell Smart

In the 1960’s spy spoof Get Smart, Don Adams starred as Maxwell Smart, a James Bond-type secret agent that was part suave, part bumbling. In the pilot episode, he’s partnered with the young Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon), a long-legged, dark-haired beauty who was immediately smitten with Smart. The capable Agent 99 would be considered a great catch for any man, but Smart was too oblivious to notice her and mainly treated her mainly like a protege. It wasn’t until Agent 99 was under a paralyzing drug that Smart finally took notice of her and stole a kiss. While the current movie remake of the show has Smart and 99 end up as a couple, would you believe it actually took four seasons of flirtations, petty jealousies, and 99 nearly marrying someone else for the agents to finally get together and tie the knot?

The X-Files

Agent Dana Scully and Agent Fox Mulder

Seriously, is there any other crime-solving duo with the same amount of sexual tension as The X-Files‘ FBI Agents Mulder and Scully? And is there any other partners we desperately want to see together forever and ever more than Mulder and Scully? In the long-running Fox television series, special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully Gillian Anderson) are assigned to the FBI’s “X-Files,” unsolved cases that involve the paranormal. When the show first aired in 1993, the young Agent Scully, who is also a pathologist, was teamed up with the “spooky” Agent Mulder to keep an eye on him for the FBI. It didn’t take very long for sparks to fly between the two agents and for Scully’s role to change from snoop/protege to full partner and colleague, and let’s face it, the love of Mulder’s life. The show ran for nine seasons and spun-off two movies (the second which opens in theaters this Friday), yet somehow creator/writers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz managed to keep the sexual tension growing and the couple never fully together. But there’s no denying the intensity of Mulder and Scully’s personal relationship.