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

• 19-2 (Partially)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979-1986 Soviet series starring Vasily Livanov)
• The Afterparty
• Agatha Raisin
• Alert: Missing Persons Unit
• Alexandra Ehle
• Almost Human
• Almost Paradise
• Alta Mar
• Ancient Detective
• Annika (2021)
• Arne Dahl
• Astrid
• Baantjer
• Babylon Berlin
• Backstrom
• Badger
• Baghdad Central
• Banacek
• Barnaby Jones
• Battle Creek
• Behzat Ç.
• Bergerac
• Beyond Paradise (2023)
• The Blacklist
• Black Work
• The Bletchley Circle
• Bloodlands (2021)
• Blue Lights
• Bodyguard (UK 2018)
• Bosch
  • Bosch: Legacy
• The Break
• The Bridge (2011) (a Swedish/Danish series)
• Broadchurch
• The Brokenwood Mysteries
• Burke's Law
• Caïn
• Campion
• Cannon
• Cardinal
• Cape Town
• A Case for Two
• Case Histories
• Castle
• The City Hunter (A 2011 Korean Drama starring Lee Min Ho)
• Cold Case
• Colonel March of Scotland Yard
• Columbo
• Il Commissario Montalbano
• The Coroner
• Cops: L.A.C.
• Cracker
• Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa
• Crisis (2017)
• Crazy Like a Fox
• Dalziel and Pascoe
• DCI Banks
• Deadloch
• Dead Lucky
• Death and Other Details
• Death in Paradise
  • Beyond Paradise (2023)
• Delhi Crime
• Department S
• Diagnosis: Murder
• District 31
• The Doctor Blake Mysteries
• DIRay
• D.☆P. (Partially from the military police perspective)
• Dublin Murders
• Elementary
• Sherlock Holmes: The Eligible Bachelor (1993 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• Ellery Queen
• Endgame
• EZ Streets
• The Fall (2013)
• Father Dowling Mysteries
• FBI: Most Wanted
  • FBI: International
• Flashpoint (Partially)
• Foyle's War
• The Following
• Frankie Drake Mysteries
• Fringe
• Fujiko
• Galileo
• Gang Related
• The Glades
• Glue
• Golden Boy (2013)
• Gracepoint
• Hannibal
• The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
• Harrow
• Harry O
• Hightown
• Hometown (2021)
• Honey West, although it used the tropes of Spy Fiction
• Hudson and Rex
• I Am the Night
• The InBESTigators
• Innocent
• Inspector George Gently
• Inspector Lynley
• Inspector Rex
• Inspector Zenigata
• Jack Taylor
• Jake and the Fatman
• Jonathan Creek
• Jordskott
• Kamen Rider Double
• La Mante
• The Law According to Lidia Poët
• Law & Order
  • Law & Order
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Law & Order: UK
  • Law & Order: LA
• The Last Detective
• Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre (1993 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• Lessons for a Perfect Detective Story
• Lewis
• Life
• Line of Duty
• Longstreet
• Lucifer (2016)
• Luther
• Maigret (various adaptations)
• Maigret (2016)
• The Magician
• The Mallorca Files
• Mannix
• The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
• Monk
• Magnum, P.I.
• Marple
• Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer (1992 telefilm starring Jeremy Brett)
• McDonald & Dodds
• McMillan & Wife
• The Method
• Midsomer Murders
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
• Mindhunter
• The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED
• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
• Miss Marple (1984)
• Miss S
• Miss Sherlock
• Mob City
• Mop Girl
• "Morseverse":
  • Inspector Morse
  • Lewis
  • Endeavour
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
• Mrs. Columbo
• A Murderous Affair In Horizon Tower
• Murder Rooms
• The Murders
• Murder, She Wrote
• Murdoch Mysteries
• The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
• Mystery Road
• Nancy Drew (2019)
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery
• Nestor Burma
• New York Undercover
• OCTB
• Only Murders in the Building
• Open Heart
• Ordeal by Innocence
• Over My Dead Body (1990)
• Paradox
• Peter Gunn
• Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie: A series of French adaptations of Agatha Christie's short stories and novels, set in 1930s and 1950s France.
• Partners For Justice
• The Penthouse: War in Life (Mystery)
• Pie in the Sky
• The Pinkertons
• Poirot
• Poker Face
• Prodigal Son
• Professor T (2021)
• Project Blue Book (Partially)
• Ransom
• Red Riding
• Resident Alien
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
• The Rockford Files
• The Roman Mysteries (TV adaptation)
• RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi
• Rosemary & Thyme
• Remington Steele
• Ripper Street
• Rush (2008) (Partially)
• Salamander
• Savage River
• Seibu Keisatsu
• Serangoon Road
• 77 Sunset Strip
• Sight Unseen (2024)
• Shades of Blue
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
• Sherlock: A 2010- series, a modern updating of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sherlock Holmes
• Shoestring
• Signora Volpe
• Simon & Simon
• Sister Boniface Mysteries
• Sleepy Hollow
• The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
• SOKO Potsdam
• Sorjonen
• The Spencer Sisters
• SS-GB
• Stalker (2014)
• Stingers
• Strike (2017)
• Stumptown (2019)
• S.W.A.T. (2017) (Some detective work is involved)
• Switch (1975)
• Taiyo Ni Hoero
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe combines the detective drama format with that of the sitcom.
• Terriers
• Tiger Cubs (Partially this due to the involvement of the OCTB)
• Top of the Lake
• Training Day
• Tokyo Vice
• A Touch of Frost
• True Detective
• The Tunnel
• Turner & Hooch (2021) (some detective work is involved)
• Twin Peaks
• Vera
• Veronica Mars is an example of a Teen Detective Drama, with a healthy helping of Crime Time Soap stirred into the mix.
• Vienna Blood
• Wallander
  • Young Wallander
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• Water Rats
• Wild Bill
• Wild Card
• Will Trent
• The Wire could be considered an example, although it encompasses a rather large number of other genres as well
• Y Gwyll
• Zen