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.
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 and Order: Criminal Intent
- Law and Order Special Victims Unit
- Law and 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