Best Detective Television Series
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Carnival Row is a television series centered around displaced mythical creatures seeking refuge in Victorian-era London. The narrative focuses on these refugees’ struggle for survival amidst societal...
Strike is a television series adapted from the Cormoran Strike novels by J.K. Rowling’s Robert Galbraith. It premiered on BBC One in August 2017 following initial screenings at the British Film Instit...
Reacher is an Amazon Prime Video series adapting Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. Alan Ritchson portrays a former military police officer who journeys across the United States investigating crimes and...
The Bridge is a crime drama originating from a collaboration between Swedish and Danish broadcasters. The series was developed by Hans Rosenfeldt and has achieved international distribution across ove...
Midsomer Murders is a British television series centered on murder investigations within the fictional county of Midsomer. The show follows Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his partner as they in...
Murder, She Wrote was an American crime drama series created in 1984 and running for 12 seasons. The show centered on Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer who investigated murders primarily in Cabot Cov...
Seventeen Moments of Spring is a 1973 Soviet television series comprised of twelve episodes. It was directed by Tatyana Lioznova and adapted from Yulian Semyonov’s novel of the same name. The producti...
Elementary is a contemporary adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Jonny Lee Miller as the detective and Lucy Liu as his medical consultant, Dr. Joan Watson. The series ran for...
Agatha Christie’s Poirot is a British mystery drama television programme adapted from Agatha Christie's crime fiction series. David Suchet portrays the fictional private investigator Hercule Poirot, w...
Sherlock is a British crime drama television series adapting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman portray the iconic detective and his companion, r...
The Rockford Files followed the cases of Los Angeles private investigator Jim Rockford, played by James Garner. Noah Beery Jr. appeared as his father, Joseph “Rocky” Rockford, in this NBC series which...
Miss Marple is a British television series adapting Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple murder mysteries, featuring Joan Hickson as the titular character. The show ran from 1984 to 1992 on BBC One and prese...
Yargı is a Turkish psychological thriller series created by Ay Yapım and starring Kaan Urgancıoğlu and Pınar Deniz. The show aired from September 2021 to May 2024, receiving recognition as the Best Te...
Nancy Drew is a television series adapting stories from the Nancy Drew mystery novel series. Developed by Noga Landau, Josh Schwartz, and Stephanie Savage, it’s produced by CBS Studios in collaboratio...
