Mystery of the Week: Difference between revisions

 

Almost every [[Detective Drama]] sticks primarily to this format, though some recent shows (eg. the ''[[CSI]]'' franchise) has upped the ante to '''two''' murders per week, one in the A plot and the other in the B plot. Notable exceptions are ''[[Murder One]]'', which devoted an entire season to each case and the early seasons of ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'', in which detectives would typically work three or four cases at the same time, each case taking several episodes to close (In fact, sometimes they wouldn't solve the case at all, and a case opened in the first episode remained open in the finale). In later seasons, they yielded to [[Executive Meddling|network pressure]] and became a standard [[Mystery of the Week]] show.

 

* ''[[Columbo]]''

* ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]''