Crime and Punishment Series/Detective Drama

Live-Action TV Series in the Mystery Fiction and Detective Drama genres. Often uses a Mystery of the Week format.

For related tropes, see Mystery Tropes and Crime and Punishment Tropes

See also Mystery Literature and Crime Fiction.

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Series

• A Touch of Frost
• Fringe
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979-1986 Soviet series starring Vasily Livanov)
• Baantjer
• Banacek
• Black and White (2009 Taiwanese Series)
• Campion
• The City Hunter (A 2011 Korean Drama starring Lee Min Ho)
• Columbo
• Crazy Like a Fox
• Diagnosis Murder
• Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor (1993 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• Endgame
• Foyle's War
• The Glades
• Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries
• Inspector Lynley
• Inspector Morse
• Inspector George Gently
• Jonathan Creek
• Kamen Rider Double
• Law and Order
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Law and Order Special Victims Unit
• Law & Order: UK
• Law and Order LA
• The Last Detective
• Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre (1993 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• Lewis
• Life
• The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
• Meitantei no Okite
• Monk
• Magnum, P.I.
• Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer (1992 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• McMillan and Wife
• Midsomer Murders
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'
• The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries
• Mrs. Columbo
• Murder, She Wrote
• Peter Gunn
• Red Riding
• The Rockford Files
• The Roman Mysteries (TV adaptation)
• Rosemary and Thyme
• Remington Steele
• Sherlock: A 2010- series, a modern updating of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sherlock Holmes
• Simon and Simon
• Terriers
• Veronica Mars is an example of a Teen Detective Drama, with a healthy helping of Crime-Time Soap stirred into the mix.
• Wallander