This is a list of police television program

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

s.

Dramas involving Police procedural

Police procedural

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 work, and private detectives, secret agents, and the justice system have been a mainstay of broadcast television since the early days of broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

. Shows that aren't dramatic programming

Dramatic programming

Dramatic programming in the UK, or television drama and television drama series in the US, is television program content that is scripted and fictional along the lines of √a traditional drama. This excludes, for example, sports television, television news, reality show and game shows, stand-up...

 are indicated (e.g. Reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

, Television comedy

Television comedy

Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era — singers and comedians amongst them...

 or Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...

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• 10-8: Officers on Duty (USA, 2003-2004)
• 21 Jump Street
  21 Jump Street
  21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focused on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools,...
  
   (USA, 1987-1991)
• 24
  24 (TV series)
  24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
  
   (USA, 2001-2010)
• 240-Robert
  240-Robert
  240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1979-1981)
• 77 Sunset Strip
  77 Sunset Strip
  77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....
  
   (USA, 1958-1964)

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• The Academy
  The Academy (TV series)
  The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2007-2008)
• Adam-12
  Adam-12
  Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by Jack Webb who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a...
  
   (USA, 1968-1975)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK, 1984-1994)
• The Agatha Christie Hour (UK, 1982)
• Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
  Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
  Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie. It was directed by John A. Davis and Tony Wharmby, and starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis in the leading roles of husband and wife sleuths Tommy and...
  
   (UK, 1983-1984)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
  
   (UK, 1989 to present)
• Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (Germany, 1996 to present)
• Alias
  Alias (TV series)
  Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
  
   (USA, 2001-2006)
• Der Alte (Germany, 1976-present)
• The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone is an American radio crime drama series based on the John Malone series of mystery novels by Craig Rice...
  
   (USA, 1951-1952)
• America's Most Wanted
  America's Most Wanted
  America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...
  
   (Reality; USA, 1988-present)
• Amy Prentiss
  Amy Prentiss
  Amy Prentiss is an American police drama television series which aired on NBC. It is a spinoff of Ironside, and aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie from 1974-1975. Jessica Walter stars as Amy Prentiss, a relatively young investigator who becomes Chief of Detectives for the San Francisco Police...
  
   (USA, 1974-1975)
• Andy Barker P.I. (Comedy; USA, 2007)
• The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1960-1968)
• Angela's Eyes
  Angela's Eyes
  Angela's Eyes is an American drama that premiered on July 16, 2006 on Lifetime TV and ran for 13 episodes. The show aired Sundays at 10 pm. Lifetime announced that the show would not be picked up for a second season....
  
   (USA, 2006)
• Anna Lee
  Anna Lee (TV series)
  Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. These were broadcast in the U.S. on the A&E cable network....
  
   (UK, 1993-1994)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (UK, 1997-2001)
• A Place of Execution
  A Place of Execution
  A Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, often cited as her magnum opus, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by the New York Times as one...
  
   (UK, 2008)
• Ashes to Ashes
  Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
  Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.The series began airing on BBC One in February 2008. A second series began broadcasting in April 2009...
  
   (UK, 2008-2010)
• A Touch of Frost
  A Touch of Frost (TV series)
  A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
  
   (UK, 1992-2009)
• The Avengers
  The Avengers (TV series)
  The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
  
   (UK, 1961-1969) See also: The New Avengers

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• Backup
  Backup (TV series)
  Backup was a BBC drama series about the work of a police Operational Support Unit .It ran for two series, between 1995 and 1997.*Series One - Eight episodes , 1995...
  
   (UK, 1995-1997)
• Bakersfield P.D.
  Bakersfield P.D.
  Bakersfield P.D. was a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94.The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track...
  
   (USA, 1993-1994)
• Banacek
  Banacek
  Banacek is a short-lived, light-hearted detective TV series starring George Peppard on NBC from 1972 to 1974. It alternated in its timeslot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season...
  
   (USA, 1972-1974)
• Banyon
  Banyon
  Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972-73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971. The series was a Quinn Martin Production Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC...
  
   (USA, 1972-1973)
• Baretta
  Baretta
  Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma...
  
   (USA, 1975-1978)
• Barlow
  Barlow at Large
  Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role.Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
   (UK, 1974-1976)
• Barlow at Large
  Barlow at Large
  Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role.Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
   (UK, 1971-1974)
• Barnaby Jones
  Barnaby Jones
  Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, the show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement...
  
   (USA, 1973-1980)
• Barney Miller
  Barney Miller
  Barney Miller is a situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1975-1982)
• Baywatch Nights
  Baywatch Nights
  Baywatch Nights was an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the popular television series, Baywatch.-Synopsis:The original premise of the show...
  
   (Sci-Fi; USA, 1995-1997)
• The Beat (Canada, 2000)
• The Beiderbecke Tapes
  The Beiderbecke Tapes
  The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne...
  
   (UK, 1987)
• Bergerac
  Bergerac (TV series)
  Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show...
  
   (UK, 1981-1991)
• Between the Lines (UK, 1992-1994)
• Beverly Hills Buntz
  Beverly Hills Buntz
  Beverly Hills Buntz was a short-lived spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987-88 season.-Overview:The show was a 30-minute 'dramedy', that was a hybrid between light private eye fare and a sit-com. The main character, Norman Buntz, was previously seen as a morally and...
  
   (USA, 1987-1988)
• Big Apple
  Big Apple (TV series)
  Big Apple is an American television drama series that was originally broadcast in the United States on CBS in 2001. The story centers on two New York City Police Department detectives Mooney and Trout working with the FBI to solve a murder with ties to organized crime...
  
   (USA, 2001)
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
   (UK, 1984-2010)
• B.J. and the Bear
  B.J. and the Bear
  B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.-Plot:Greg Evigan stars as B.J...
  
   (USA, 1979-1981)
• Bloodlines
  Bloodlines (TV drama)
  Bloodlines is a one-off 2005 detective thriller starring a released suspect played by Kevin McNally and on-screen daughter Emma Pierson as a new police officer keen to investigate the circumstances of her mother's recent death....
  
   (UK, 2005)
• Blue Bloods
  Blue Bloods (TV series)
  Blue Bloods is an American police procedural/drama series on CBS, filmed on location in New York City. The show premiered on September 24, 2010, with episodes airing on Fridays at 10:00 pm Eastern and Pacific/9:00 PM Central and Mountain....
  
   (USA, starting in 2010)
• Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers
  Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
  
   (Australia, 1994-2006)
• The Blue Knight
  The Blue Knight (TV series)
  The Blue Knight was a CBS Crime TV series, running in 1975 and 1976, starring George Kennedy as Officer Bumper Morgan. The show was a based on a novel by author Joseph Wambaugh and produced by Lorimar Productions.- Plot :...
  
   (USA, 1975)
• Blue Murder (Canada, 2001-2004)
• Body of Proof
  Body of Proof
  Body of Proof is an American medical drama television series created by Chris Murphey and produced by ABC Studios. Starring Dana Delany as medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt, the series premiered on March 29, 2011 on ABC....
  
   (USA, 2011-present)
• Bones
  Bones (TV series)
  Bones is an American crime drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. The show is based on forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology, with each episode focusing on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent...
  
   (USA, 2005-present)
• Booker
  Booker (TV series)
  Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series was a spin-off of 21 Jump Street...
  
   (USA, September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990)
• Boon
  Boon (TV series)
  Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV...
  
   (UK, 1986-1992, 1995)
• Boomtown (USA, 2002-2003)
• Border Security: Australia's Front Line
  Border Security: Australia's Front Line
  Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television programme that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as...
  
   (Australia, 2004-present)
• Boston Blackie (USA, 1951-1953)
• Bourbon Street Beat
  Bourbon Street Beat
  Bourbon Street Beat is a private detective series which aired on the ABC network from 1959-1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which...
  
   (USA, 1959-1960)
• Brimstone
  Brimstone (TV series)
  Brimstone was a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission is to return to Hell 113 spirits who have escaped to Earth. The series ran for only one partial season....
  
   (USA, 1998-1999)
• Brit Cops
  Brit Cops
  Brit Cops is a British reality television series following the work of police officers in the UK. It was first broadcast on Bravo. Since the closing of Bravo on January 1, 2011, older episodes were shown on Channel One until the channel closed down on February 1, 2011 and Series 5 is continuing on...
  
   (UK, 2008-present)
• Broders (Peru, 2009)
• Brooklyn South
  Brooklyn South
  Brooklyn South is an American ensemble police drama series that aired on CBS for only one season during the 1997-98 television season. The series was co-created by Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, David Milch and William M. Finkelstein. Bochco is the creator of many well-known police dramas such as Hill...
  
   (USA, 1997-1998)
• The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan is an American crime drama television series that aired in syndication from September 24, 1960, and July 15, 1961.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1960-1961)
• Der Bulle von Tölz
  Der Bulle von Tölz
  Der Bulle von Tölz is an Austrian-German television series which has been produced and broadcast by SAT.1 and the ORF since 1996. As of January 2009, 69 self-contained feature-length episodes have been made.-Genre:...
  
   (Germany, 1996-present)
• Bulman
  Bulman
  Bulman was a Granada TV series which ran from 1985-1987 and followed the fortunes of the major character from the earlier XYY Man and Strangers series....
  
   (UK, 1985-1987)
• Burn Notice
  Burn notice
  A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons...
  
   (USA, 2007 to present)

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• Cadfael (UK, 1994-1998)
• Cagney & Lacey
  Cagney & Lacey
  Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from October 8, 1981 to May 16, 1988...
  
   (USA, 1982-1988)
• Campion
  Campion (TV series)
  Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two seasons were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus...
  
   (UK, 1989-1990)
• Cannon
  Cannon (TV series)
  Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....
  
   (USA, 1971-1976)
• Car 54, Where Are You?
  Car 54, Where Are You?
  Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963. Episodes had various directors, the most recognized being Al De Caprio. Stanley Prager and Nat Hiken also directed several episodes. Most of its filming was on location in The Bronx, and at Biograph...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1961-1963)
• Castle
  Castle (TV series)
  Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios. On January 10, 2011, Castle was renewed for a fourth season...
  
   (Comedy-drama; USA, 2009-present)
• C.A.T.S. Eyes
  C.A.T.S. Eyes
  C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.-Premise:The series was a spin-off from The Gentle Touch and saw Jill Gascoine reprise her role as Det. Insp. Maggie Forbes, having left the police force to join a private detective agency called "Eyes" that is...
  
   (UK, 1985-1987)
• The Champions
  The Champions
  The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company...
  
   (UK, 1968-1969)
• CHAOS (TV series)
  Chaos (TV series)
  CHAOS is an American television series for the CBS network. The one-hour comedic drama premiered on April 1, 2011, as a midseason replacement for The Defenders.-Premise:...
  
   (USA, April 1, 2011- April 19, 2011)
• Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...
  
   (USA, 1976-1981)
• Charlie Wild, Private Detective
  Charlie Wild, Private Detective
  Charlie Wild, Private Detective was a half-hour detective series that aired on three of the four major American television networks of the 1950s...
  
   (USA, 1950-1952)
• Chase
  Chase (2010 TV series)
  Chase is an American police procedural drama television series created by Jennifer Johnson for the NBC network. The series follows a U.S. Marshals fugitive-apprehension team, based out of Houston, Texas. Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnson serve as executive producers for the one-hour drama...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2010-2011)
• The Chicago Code (USA, 2010)
• The Chinese Detective
  The Chinese Detective
  The Chinese Detective is a British television series, transmitted by the BBC between 1981 and 1982 and created by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had previously devised The Sweeney and Juliet Bravo....
  
   (UK, 1981-1982)
• CHiPs
  CHiPs
  CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
  
   (USA, 1977-1983)
• C.I.D. (India, 1998-present)
• C.I.D. Special Bureau (India, 2005-2006)
• City Homicide
  City Homicide
  City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne...
  
   (Australia, 2007-2011)
• Close to Home (USA, 2005-2007)
• The Closer
  The Closer
  The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...
  
   (USA, 2005-present)
• Cold Case (USA, 2003-2010)
• Cold Squad
  Cold Squad
  Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
  
   (Canada, 1998-2004)
• Columbo (USA, 1971-1994)
• The Commander (UK, 2003-2008)
• Control - Hanzai Shinri Sousa (Japan, 2011)
• Cool Million
  Cool Million
  Cool Million was a detective drama aired in the United States by NBC as an element in its "wheel series" The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie during its 1972-73 schedule....
  
   (USA, 1972)
• Coronado 9
  COronado 9
  Coronado 9 is a syndicated crime drama set in San Diego, California, starring Rod Cameron as Dan Adams, a former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective. Coronado 9 is Adams's address; the numeral 9 on a rock shown near his front door in the opening credits denotes the...
  
   (USA, 1969-1961)
• The Cops
  The Cops (TV series)
  The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...
  
   (UK, 1998-2000)
• COPS
  COPS (TV series)
  Cops is an American documentary/reality television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities...
  
   (Reality; USA, 1989-present)
• Cop Shop
  Cop Shop
  Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....
  
   (Australia, 1977-1984)
• Cops L.A.C.
  Cops L.A.C.
  Cops L.A.C. is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales...
  
   (Australia, 2010)
• The Corridor People
  The Corridor People
  The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd....
  
   (UK, 1966)
• Courage in Red
  Courage in Red
  Courage in Red is a 13 part television documentary that details many aspects of crime that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police must contend with on a daily basis...
  
   (Reality; Canada, 2009 to present)
• Covert Affairs
  Covert Affairs
  Covert Affairs is a USA Network television series starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham. The one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The show concluded its first season on September 14, 2010 and was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010. The second season began airing on...
  
   (USA, 2010-present)
• Cracker (UK original)
  Cracker (UK TV series)
  Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...
  
   (UK, 1993-1995, 1996 and 2006)
  • Cracker (US remake)
    Cracker (US TV series)
    Cracker is an American crime drama series produced by Granada Entertainment for ABC and based upon the British television crime drama of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern....
    
     (USA, 1997-1999)
• Crash Investigation Unit
  Crash Investigation Unit
  Crash Investigation Unit is an Australian factual television series on the Seven Network hosted by Damian Walshe-Howling. The series premiered on 27 August 2008....
  
   (Reality; Australia, 2008-present)
• Crime Photographer (USA, 1951-1952)
• Crime & Punishment
  Crime & Punishment
  Crime & Punishment is a 2002 reality television spin-off of the Law & Order franchise. It premiered on NBC on Sunday, June 16, 2002, and ran through the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004.-Description:...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2002-2004)
• Crime Story
  Crime Story (TV series)
  Crime Story is an NBC TV drama created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically —...
  
   (USA, 1986-1988)
• Crime Traveller
  Crime Traveller
  Crime Traveller is a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes....
  
   (Science Fiction; UK, 1997)
• Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2005-present)
• Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
  Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
  Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior was an American police procedural drama on CBS. The show debuted in 2011 as a spin-off from the successful Criminal Minds, which premiered in 2005. This edition's profiling team also works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit in...
  
   (USA, February 16, 2011 – May 25, 2011)
• Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan
  Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medical Examiner's Office...
  
   (USA, 2001-2007)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2000-present)
  • CSI: Miami
    CSI: Miami
    CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
    
     (USA/Canada, 2002-present)
  • CSI: NY
    CSI: NY
    CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
    
     (USA/Canada, 2004-present)

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• Dalgliesh (UK, 1983-1998 and 2003)
• Dalziel and Pascoe
  Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
  Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
  
   (UK 1996-2007)
• Dan August
  Dan August
  Dan August is a short-lived 1970-1971 crime drama television series, which starred Burt Reynolds as the title character: a police lieutenant who investigated homicide cases in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California...
  
   (USA 1970-1971)
• Danger Man
  Danger Man
  Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
  
   (UK, 1960-1962 and 1964-1968)
• Dark Blue
  Dark Blue (TV series)
  Dark Blue was an action/drama television series which premiered on TNT on July 15, 2009, at 10 pm . It ended its run on September 15, 2010. The series is set in Los Angeles, California. It revolves around Carter Shaw , the leader of an undercover unit...
  
   (USA, 2009-2010)
• David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
  David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
  David Cassidy: Man Under Cover is an American police drama starring David Cassidy, four years after his run starring in the The Partridge Family. The series pilot first aired as a two-hour episode of another show, Police Story, which featured Cassidy playing an undercover police officer...
  
   (USA, 1978-1979)
• DaVinci's Inquest (Canadian) 91 episodes produced
• The Dead Zone
  The Dead Zone (TV series)
  The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2002-2007)
• The Defenders (USA, 1961-1965)
• Dempsey & Makepeace
  Dempsey & Makepeace
  Dempsey & Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham...
  
   (UK, 1985-1986)
• Derrick
  Derrick (TV series)
  Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings Derrick is a...
  
   (West Germany, 1974-1998)
• The Detectives
  The Detectives
  The Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It was a spoof of police dramas, which were numerous in the 1990s, and it was aired on BBC One...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1993-1997)
• The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season...
  
   (USA, 1959-1962)
• Detroit 1-8-7
  Detroit 1-8-7
  Detroit 1-8-7 is an American crime drama series about Detroit's leading homicide unit, created by Jason Richman for ABC. It features an ensemble cast of actors including Michael Imperioli and James McDaniel...
  
   (USA, 2010-2011)
• Dexter
  Dexter (TV series)
  Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...
  
   (USA, 2006 to present)
• Diagnosis: Murder
  Diagnosis: Murder
  Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman...
  
   (USA, 1993-2001)
• Dick and the Duchess
  Dick and the Duchess
  Dick and the Duchess is a rare 1950s CBS situation comedy filmed and set in London, England, and starring Patrick O'Neal and Hazel Court. O'Neal, a cousin of actor Ryan O'Neal, starred as Dick Starrett, an American insurance claims investigator based in London, who is married to Jane, an attractive...
  
   (USA, 1957-1958)
• Dick Spanner, P.I.
  Dick Spanner, P.I.
  Dick Spanner, P.I. was a 1986 British stop-motion animated comedy series which parodied Chandleresque detective shows. The titular character and main protagonist was Dick Spanner, voiced by Shane Rimmer, a robotic private detective who works cases in a futuristic urban setting...
  
   (Animated Comedy; UK, 1986-1987)
• The District
  The District
  The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department .-Premise:...
  
   (USA, 2000-2004)
• Division 4
  Division 4
  Division 4 was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 300 episodes....
  
   (Australia, 1969-1975)
• Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol
  Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol
  Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol is an American reality television series produced by Cheri Sundae Productions. The US version is narrated by Robert Patrick...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2006-present)
• Dixon of Dock Green
  Dixon of Dock Green
  Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:...
  
   (UK, 1955-1976)

Doha heroes (reality ; Qatar 2011)

• Dragnet
  Dragnet (series)
  Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners...
  
   (USA, 1951-1959, 1967-1970, 1989-1991 and 2003-2004)
• Due South
  Due South
  Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...
  
   (Canada/USA, 1994-1999)
• Duggan
  Duggan (TV series)
  Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...
  
   (New Zealand, 1999)

E

• Echo Four-Two (UK, 1961)
• Eleventh Hour (UK, 2006)
• Eleventh Hour
  Eleventh Hour (U.S. TV series)
  Eleventh Hour is an American science-based drama television series, which is based on the 2006 British series of the same name. The series originally ran on CBS from October 9, 2008 to April 2, 2009 and aired on Thursdays at 10 pm . The series was a joint venture between Jerry Bruckheimer...
  
   (USA, 2008-2009)
• Ellery Queen
  Ellery Queen (TV series)
  Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC. It starred Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, and David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen...
  
   (USA, 1975-1976)
• Der Ermittler
  Der Ermittler
  Der Ermittler is a German television series....
  
   (Germany, 2001-2005)
• Eureka
  Eureka (TV series)
  Eureka is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006. Since then four seasons have aired, and a fifth is currently being filmed. The second half of season 4 began on SyFy on July 11, 2011 and ended on September 19, 2011...
  
   (USA, 2006 to present)
• Eyes
  Eyes (TV series)
  Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short...
  
   (USA, 2005)

F

• Fabian of the Yard
  Fabian of the Yard
  Fabian of the Yard was a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, made by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest police procedural to be made for British TV, sharing...
  
   (UK, 1954-1956)
• Fala Zbrodni (Poland, 2003-2008)
• Fallen Angels
  Fallen Angels (TV series)
  Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....
  
   (USA, 1993-1995)
• Fallen Angels
  Fallen Angels (Australian TV series)
  Fallen Angels was an Australian television series screened on the ABC in 1997. There was only one series of 20 episodes produced. The series was set around a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney...
  
   (Australia, 1997)
• The F.B.I. (USA, 1965-1974)
• The FBI Files
  The FBI Files
  The FBI Files is an American television docudrama series that originally ran from 1998 to 2006. It was carried by the Discovery Channel cable network and produced by New Dominion Pictures of Suffolk, Virginia...
  
   (Documentary, USA; 1998-2006)
• Ein Fall für Zwei
  Ein Fall für Zwei
  Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on the broadcasting corporation ZDF. The series, which is situated in Frankfurt am Main, shows two main characters, a defense attorney and a private investigator, who solve crimes.The character of the private...
  
   (Germany, 1981 to present)
• Fastlane
  Fastlane (TV series)
  Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from 2002 to 2003. On August 14, 2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series. After finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped airing on G4...
  
   (USA, 2002-2003)
• Father Dowling Mysteries
  Father Dowling Mysteries
  Father Dowling Mysteries is an American television mystery series that appeared between November 30, 1987 and May 2, 1991. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC network for its last two seasons...
  
   (USA, 1987-1991)
• The First 48
  The First 48
  The First 48 is an American documentary television series that airs on A&E. Filmed in various cities in the United States, the series offers an insider's look at the real-life world of homicide investigators...
  
   (USA, 2004 to present)
• FlashForward
  Flashforward
  A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
  
   (USA, 2009-2010)
• Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
   (Canada, 2008-present)
• Follow the Sun
  Follow the Sun (TV series)
  Follow the Sun is an American drama series which ran for thirty episodes on the ABC television network from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1960-1961)
• The Force
  The Force (Channel 4 television series)
  The Force was a series of three observational documentary programmes created for Channel 4 by Oxford Film and Television and Patrick Forbes, following the work of Hampshire Constabulary...
  
   (Reality; UK 2009)
• The Force: Behind the Line
  The Force: Behind the Line
  Episodes of The Force consist of three to four individual stories featuring police officers going about every day duties, including burglaries, drug-related cases, traffic cases and murder investigations. The choice of stories is usually balanced to include action-oriented stories as well as...
  
   (Reality; Australia, 2005 to present)
• Foyle's War
  Foyle's War
  Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
  
   (UK, 2002 to present)
• Fraud Squad
  Fraud Squad
  A Fraud Squad is a police department which investigates fraud and other economic crimes. The largest Fraud Squad in the United Kingdom is run by the City of London Police who are responsible for policing London's and the UK's main financial hub....
  
   (UK, 1969-1970)
• Fraud Squad TV
  Fraud Squad TV
  Fraud Squad TV is a Canadian half-hour documentary television series aimed at bringing awareness to the public about the global problem of fraud. The series premiered September 24, 2007, on Court TV Canada. The show interviews real people who have been the victims of a fraud as well as experts in...
  
   (Reality; Canada, 2007 to present)
• Fringe
  Fringe (TV series)
  Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
  
   (USA, 2008 to present)
• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (TV series)
  The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
  
   (USA, 1963-1967 and 2000-2001)
• Funky Squad
  Funky Squad
  Funky Squad was a short-lived 1995 Australian comedy television series which satirised '70s-era U.S. police television dramas, such as The Mod Squad. Only 7 half-hour episodes were produced, which were broadcast on the ABC...
  
   (Comedy; Australia, 1997)

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• Gabriel's Fire
  Gabriel's Fire
  Gabriel's Fire is an American television series that ran on ABC in the USA in 1990–1991. A revamped version of the series, entitled Pros and Cons, aired briefly the following season.-Overview:...
  
   (USA, 1990-1991)
• Galileo (Japan, 2007)
• The Gentle Touch
  The Gentle Touch
  The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of...
  
   (UK, 1980-1984)
• Gideon's Way
  Gideon's Way
  Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey . The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series...
  
   (UK, 1965-1966)
• Gorilla - The Police 8th Investigation Unit (Japan, 1989)
• Griff
  Griff (TV series)
  Griff is a 13-episode ABC crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974. Nine months after the expiration of his nearly 14-year role as Ponderosa Ranch patriarch Ben Cartwright on NBC's Bonanza western series, the Canadian native Greene...
  
   (USA, 1973-1974)
• Grimm
  Grimm (TV series)
  Grimm is an American fantasy/mystery/crime drama series that made its debut on NBC on October 28, 2011. It airs Fridays at 9:00 pm ET/8:00 pm CT. The show has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist.....
  
   (USA, 2011-present)

H

• Hack (USA, 2002-2004)
• Hamish Macbeth
  Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
  Hamish Macbeth is a television series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton . The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the north coast of Scotland. The titular...
  
   (UK, 1995-1997)
• Hardcastle and McCormick
  Hardcastle and McCormick
  Hardcastle and McCormick is a 1980s action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983–1986, starring Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick.The show's premise involves the...
  
   (USA, 1983-1986)
• Harry O (USA, 1974-1976)
• Hart to Hart
  Hart to Hart
  Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg...
  
   (USA, 1979-1984)
• Hawaii Five-O
  Hawaii Five-O
  Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...
  
   (USA, 1968-1980)
• Hawaii Five-0 (USA, 2010-present)
• Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.-Premise:...
  
   (USA, 1959-1963)
• Hawaiian Heat
  Hawaiian Heat
  Hawaiian Heat is an American drama television series that premiered on ABC on September 14, 1984. It starred Robert Ginty and Jeff McCracken as two Chicago cops who quit their jobs in the Windy City to become detectives in Hawaii. Their boss at the Honolulu Police Department was played by veteran...
  
   (USA, 1984)
• Hawk
  Hawk
  The term hawk can be used in several ways:* In strict usage in Australia and Africa, to mean any of the species in the subfamily Accipitrinae, which comprises the genera Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis and Megatriorchis. The large and widespread Accipiter genus includes goshawks,...
  
   (USA, 1966)
• Hazell
  Hazell (TV series)
  Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.-Overview:James Hazell was a cockney private detective character created by journalist and novelist Gordon Williams and footballer-turned-manager Terry Venables...
  
   (UK, 1977-1978)
• Heartbeat (UK, 1992-2010)
• Heartlanders
  Heartlanders
  Heartlanders is an English language television drama telecast on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. Based on the encounters of two officers of the Singapore Police Force. The first season aired on 5 July 2002, and has since another three seasons have aired, with the last season being shown from 12 July 2005...
  
   (Singapore, 2002-2005)
• Heat of the Sun
  Heat of the Sun
  Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya...
  
   (UK, 1998)
• Hec Ramsey
  Hec Ramsey
  Hec Ramsey is a television Western, a production of Jack Webb's production company, Mark VII Limited, in association with Universal Studios, broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel show during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 seasons.-Overview:This series was...
  
   (USA, 1972-1974)
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
  Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
  Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a genteel British crime–comedy drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on BBC One. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character , Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, Dominic Monaghan as their lodger Geoffrey Shawcross...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1996-1998)
• High Incident
  High Incident
  High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson...
  
   (USA, 1996-1997)
• Highway Patrol (USA, 1955-1959)
• Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
  
   (USA, 1981-1987)
• HolbyBlue
  HolbyBlue
  HolbyBlue was a British police drama series that aired on BBC One from 2007 to 2008. Produced by the BBC, Red Planet Pictures and Kudos for BBC One, it is a spin-off of the successful BBC One medical drama Holby City, itself a spin-off of the long-running series Casualty.The first series was...
  
   (UK, 2007)
• Homicide (Australia, 1964-1977)
• Homicide: Life on the Street
  Homicide: Life on the Street
  Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...
  
   (USA, 1993-1999)
• Honey West
  Honey West (TV series)
  Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series stars Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner Sam Bolt....
  
   (USA, 1965-1966)
• Hong Kong
  Hong Kong (TV series)
  Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
  
   (USA, 1960-1961)
• Hot Pursuit
  Hot Pursuit (TV series)
  Hot Pursuit is an American reality television series running on truTV.Hot Pursuit's current series slogan is "The Chase Is On".-Production:Hot Pursuit first aired on February 1, 2006. In early 2007, the series aired on Thursdays at 8:00pm and 8:30pm ET...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2006 to present)
• Hot Shots
  Hot Shots (TV series)
  Hot Shots was a short-lived Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBS in the United States in 1986, and CTV in Canada in 1987.The series, produced by CTV for the CBS Late Night block of crime drama series, starred Dorothy Parke and Booth Savage as Amanda Reed and Jake West, crime...
  
   (Canada, 1986)
• Human Target (USA/Canada, 2010-2011)
• Hunter (USA, 1984-1991)
• The Huntress
  The Huntress (TV series)
  The Huntress is an American TV series that appeared on the USA Network over subsequent summers of the 2000 and 2001 television seasons. It was inspired by a book about the real bounty hunter, Dottie Thorson, and is also a belated sequel to the 1980 Steve McQueen film, The Hunter.-Cast:*Annette...
  
   (USA, 2000-2001)

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• In the Heat of the Night
  In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
  In the Heat of the Night is a television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995...
  
   (USA, 1988-1994)
• In Justice
  In Justice
  In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST. It was cancelled after its...
  
   (USA, 2006)
• In Plain Sight
  In Plain Sight
  In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series on USA Network. The series revolves around Mary Shannon , a Deputy United States Marshal attached to the Albuquerque, New Mexico office of the Federal Witness Security Program , more commonly known as the Federal Witness Protection Program...
  
   (USA, 2008 to present)
• Im Namen des Gesetzes
  Im Namen des Gesetzes
  Im Namen des Gesetzes is a German television series....
  
  
• Inspector George Gently (UK, 2007 to present)
• Inspector Lewis (UK, 2006 to present) - See also: Lewis
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...
  
   (UK, 2001-2007)
• Inspector Morse
  Inspector Morse (TV series)
  Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....
  
   (UK, 1987-2000)
• Inspector Rex (Austria/Germany, 1994-2004)
• Inspector Wexford
  Inspector Wexford
  Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 debut From Doon With Death, and has since been the protagonist of 20 more stories; his latest outing was the 2009...
  
   (UK, 1987-2000)
• The Investigators
  The Investigators (U.S. TV series)
  The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1961)
• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
  
   (USA, 1967-1975)
• It Takes a Thief (USA, 1968-1970)

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• JAG
  JAG (TV series)
  JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
  
   (USA, 1995-2005)
• Jake and the Fatman
  Jake and the Fatman
  Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series...
  
   (USA, 1987-1992)
• Jango
  Jango (TV series)
  Jango was a crime-comedy series produced in 1961 by Associated Rediffusion for British television. It starred Robert Urquhart in the lead role of Jango Smith, with Moira Redmond as Dee Smith, his wife...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1961)
• Jigsaw (USA, 1972-1973)
• J. J. Starbuck
  J.J. Starbuck
  J.J. Starbuck was a short lived NBC series about a cornpone-spouting J.J. Starbuck, a Texan millionaire who wears ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and fancy western shirts...
  
   (USA, 1988)
• Joe Forrester (USA, 1975-1976)
• Johnny Staccato
  Johnny Staccato
  Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1959-1960)
• Johnny Midnight
  Johnny Midnight (TV series)
  Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1960)
• Jonathan Creek
  Jonathan Creek
  Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
  
   (UK, 1997-2004 and a one-off in 2010)
• Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense
  Judd, for the Defense is an American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to September 19, 1969.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1967-1969)
• Judge John Deed
  Judge John Deed
  Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove...
  
   (UK, 2001-2007)
• Juliet Bravo
  Juliet Bravo
  Juliet Bravo is a British television series, which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1985. The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over control of a police station in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire.-Programme name:...
  
   (UK, 1980-1985)
• Justified
  Justified (TV series)
  Justified is an American television drama series created by Graham Yost. It is based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole". Its central character is Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal. The series is set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky...
  
   (USA, 2010 to present)
• Juvenile Jury
  Juvenile Jury
  Juvenile Jury is an American children's game show which originally ran on NBC from April 3, 1947 to August 1, 1954. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured a panel of kids aged ten or less giving advice to solve the problems of other kids.-Controversy:...
  
   (Game-show, USA, 1947-1954)

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• Kavanagh QC
  Kavanagh QC
  Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....
  
   (UK, 1995-2001)
• Keen Eddie
  Keen Eddie
  Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard...
  
   (USA, 2003)
• Kidnapped
  Kidnapped (TV series)
  Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007...
  
   (USA, 2006-2007)
• The Killing (Denmark, 2007 to present) Danish title Forbrydelsen.
• The Killing (USA, 2011)
• Kojak
  Kojak
  Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...
  
   (USA, 1973-1978 and 2005)
• Kilo Tango Mike KTM (Nepal, 2010 to present)
• Der Kommissar (West Germany, 1969-1975)
• Die Kommissarin
  Die Kommissarin
  Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006....
  
   (Germany, 1994 to present)
• Kriminaltango
  Kriminaltango
  "Kriminaltango" or "Kriminal-Tango" is a traditional pop song or Schlager, that was released in 1959. The Italian original by Piero Trombetta only achieved a modest success, whereas the German version performed by Hazy Osterwald became a big hit in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.The song...
  
  
• K-Ville
  K-Ville (TV series)
  K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina...
  
   (USA, 2007)
• Kryminalni
  Kryminalni
  Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total...
  
   (Poland, 2004-2008)

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• L.A. Heat (USA, 1999)
• La Gran Sangre
  La Gran Sangre
  La Gran Sangre is a Peruvian action adventure television series about a fictional group of social outcasts who work as soldiers of fortune in the city of Lima, Peru....
  
   (Peru, 2006-2007)
• Lanigan's Rabbi
  Lanigan's Rabbi
  Lanigan's Rabbi is a short-lived American crime drama series that aired on NBC during the first half of 1977.-Synopsis:Based upon a series of novels by Harry Kemelman, the series starred Art Carney as Police Chief Paul Lanigan, who fights crime in a small California town with the help of his best...
  
   (USA, 1977)
• LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life On the Beat
  LAPD: Life on the Beat , was an American reality television series which aired in syndication, about the Los Angeles Police Department that aired from 1995-1999,...
  
   (Reality; USA, 1995-1999)
• The Last Detective
  The Last Detective
  The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this...
  
   (UK, 2003-2007)
• Las Vegas
  Las Vegas (TV series)
  Las Vegas was an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the ficticional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and...
  
   (USA, 2003-2008)
• The Law and Harry McGraw (USA, 1987-1988)
• Law & Order
  Law & Order
  Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
  
   (USA, 1990-2010)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
    
     (USA, 1999 to present)
    • Закон и порядок: отдел оперативных расследований (Law & Order: Division of Field Investigation) - Official foreign adaptation of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Russia, 2007 to present)
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
    
     (USA, 2001-2011)
    • Paris Enquêtes Criminelles
      Paris enquêtes criminelles
      Paris enquêtes criminelles is a French television series broadcast since May 3, 2007 on TF1.-Synopsis:Adapted from Law & Order: Criminal Intent , it follows the investigations of two police detectives with very different methods of investigation. Vincent Revel is very intuitive, while his partner...
      
       (Paris Criminal Investigations) - Official foreign adaptation of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (France, 2007–2008)
  • Law & Order: Trial by Jury
    Law & Order: Trial by Jury
    Law & Order: Trial by Jury is an American television drama about criminal trials set in New York City. It was the third spin-off from the long-running Law & Order. The show's almost exclusive focus was on the criminal trial of the accused, showing both the prosecution's and defense's preparation...
    
     (USA, 2005-2006)
  • Law & Order: UK (UK, 2009 to present) Official foreign adaptation of Law & Order
  • Law & Order: Los Angeles
    Law & Order: Los Angeles
    Law & Order: LA, originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles, is an American police procedural and legal drama television series set in Los Angeles, where it was produced...
    
     (USA, 2010-2011)
• Leg Work
  Leg Work
  Leg Work is an American detective drama television series created by Frank Abatemarco that premiered on CBS on October 3, 1987. The show was short-lived and only 10 episodes were produced, of which only six were aired prior to the show's cancellation. The final episode aired on November 7, 1987...
  
   (USA, 1987)
• Leverage
  Leverage (TV series)
  Leverage is an American television drama series on TNT that premiered in December 2008. The series is produced by director/executive producer Dean Devlin's production company Electric Television...
  
   (Drama; USA, 2008 to present)
• Lewis (UK, 2006 to present) - Screened in the US as Inspector Lewis (See Above)
• Lie to Me
  Lie to Me
  Lie to Me is a 2009-2011 American television series.Lie to Me may also refer to:* Lie to Me , a South Korean drama series* "Lie to Me" , an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
  
   (USA, 2009-2011)
• Life (USA, 2007-2009)
• Life on Mars (UK Original)
  Life on Mars (TV series)
  Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....
  
   (UK, 2006-2007)
  • Life on Mars (US remake) (USA, 2008-2009)
• Lincoln Heights
  Lincoln Heights (TV series)
  Lincoln Heights is an American drama television series about Eddie Sutton, a Mission Vista police officer who moves his family back to his old neighborhood, Lincoln Heights, to start a new life and to help out his old neighborhood...
  
   (USA, 2007-2009)
• Link Men (TV Series) (Australia 1970-1971)
• Longstreet
  Longstreet (TV series)
  Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season . A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1971-1972)
• Luther
  Luther (TV series)
  Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. A first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC One from 4 May to 8 June 2010. The second series of four episodes was shown on BBC One in summer 2011...
  
   (UK, 2010 to present)

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• Madigan (USA, 1972)
• Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I.
  Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....
  
   (USA, 1980-1988)
• Maigret (UK, 1960-1963)
• Maigret (UK, 1992-1993)
• Manhunt (USA, 1959-1961)
• Man in a Suitcase
  Man in a Suitcase
  Man in a Suitcase is a 1967 television series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.-Origins and overview:Man in a Suitcase was effectively a replacement for Danger Man, whose production had been curtailed when its star Patrick McGoohan had decided to create his own series, The Prisoner...
  
   (UK, 1967-1968)
• Mannix
  Mannix
  Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...
  
   (USA, 1967-1975)
• The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960. The Man From Blackhawk was created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.In The Man From Blackhawk, Rockwell...
  
   (USA, 1959-1960)
• Man with a Camera (USA, 1958-1960)
• Markham (USA, 1959-1960)
• Marple (UK, 2004 to present) - See also: "Miss Marple"
• Martial Law
  Martial Law (TV series)
  Martial Law was a TV crime drama that ran on CBS from 1998 to 2000, and was created by Carlton Cuse. The title character, Sammo Law, portrayed by Sammo Hung, was a Chinese law officer and martial arts expert who came to Los Angeles in search of a colleague and remains in the US.The show was a...
  
   (USA, 1998-2000)
• Martin Kane, Private Eye (USA, 1949-1955)
• Matlock
  Matlock (TV series)
  Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of attorney Ben Matlock. The show originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced The A-Team, then from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.The show's format was similar...
  
   (USA, 1986-1995)
• Matlock Police
  Matlock Police
  Matlock Police was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....
  
   (Australia, 1971-1975)
• Matt Houston
  Matt Houston
  Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1982-1985)
• McCallum
  McCallum
  McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions .Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders...
  
   (UK, 1995-1998)
• McCloud (USA, 1970-1977)
• McCoy
  McCoy (TV series)
  McCoy is the title of an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC during the 1975-1976 season.The series starred Tony Curtis as a con man who "out-cons" bad guys in order to steal back their ill-gotten gains and return the loot to its rightful owners...
  
   (USA, 1975-1976)
• McMillan & Wife (USA, 1971-1977)
• Medium
  Medium (TV series)
  Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
  
   (USA, 2005-2011)
• Meet McGraw
  Meet McGraw
  Meet McGraw is an American dramatic television series starring Frank Lovejoy in the role of the hard-hitting detective McGraw, a man specifically given no first name in the program. Forty-one half-hour episodes aired on NBC during the 1957-1958 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The series was...
  
   (USA, 1957-1958)
• Memphis Beat
  Memphis Beat
  Memphis Beat is an American drama series that debuted on TNT on June 22, 2010 and ended on August 16, 2011. Memphis Beat was officially canceled on October 14, 2011.-Overview:...
  
   (USA, 2010 to present)
• The Mentalist
  The Mentalist
  The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also the show's executive producer...
  
   (USA, 2008 to present)
• Merseybeat
  Merseybeat (TV series)
  Merseybeat is a British police procedural television series shown on BBC One, with a total of four series broadcast between 2001 and 2004. The series follows the personal and professional lives of one shift of police officers from the fictional Newton Park police station on Merseyside, England.In...
  
   (UK, 2001-2004)
• Metamorphosis
  Metamorphosis (TV series)
  Metamorphosis is a Singaporean Chinese action thriller drama which is being telecast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. It made its debut on 18 September 2007, screening at 2100 hours every night on weekdays. The serial consists of 20 episodes...
  
   (Singapore, 2007)
• Miami Vice
  Miami Vice
  Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
  
   (USA, 1984-1990)
• The Michael Richards Show
  The Michael Richards Show
  The Michael Richards Show is a sitcom that debuted on NBC in 2000. The show starred Michael Richards as reality-challenged but successful private detective Vic Nardozza who gets the job done despite his unconventional methods.- History :...
  
   (USA, 2000)
• Michael Shayne (USA, 1960-1961)
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
  Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
  Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer...
  
   (USA, 1958-1960 and 1984-1985)
• Midnight Caller
  Midnight Caller
  Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio...
  
   (USA, 1988-1991)
• Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
   (UK, 1997 to present)
• Millennium
  Millennium (TV series)
  Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington...
  
   (USA, 1996-1999)
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
  The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
  The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure sitcom that ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981. For its second season the show was renamed Lobo. The program aired Tuesday nights, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. The lead character, Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo, played by Claude Akins, was a spin-off...
  
   (USA, 1979-1981)
• Miss Marple
  Miss Marple (TV series)
  Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels have been dramatised. The screenplays were written by T. R...
  
   (UK, 1984-1992) - See also: "Marple"
• M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team
  M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team (TV series)
  MIT: Murder Investigation Team was a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long running series, The Bill. The series is based around the investigations of a London Murder Investigation Team, and is closely styled after the American series CSI:...
  
   (UK, 2003-2005)
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
  
   (USA, 1968-1973)
• Monk
  Monk (TV series)
  Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a mystery series, although it has dark and comic touches.The series debuted on July...
  
   (USA, 2002-2009)
• Moonlighting
  Moonlighting (TV series)
  Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes...
  
   (USA, 1985-1989)
• Moonlight
  Moonlight (TV series)
  Moonlight was an American paranormal romance television drama created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, who was also executive producer for all episodes with Joel Silver, Gerard Bocaccio, Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman. The series follows private investigator Mick St...
  
   (USA, 2007-2008)
• Moon Over Miami
  Moon Over Miami (TV series)
  Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.-Synopsis:Gwen Cross runs away from her own wedding and Walter Tatum , a private detective, is hired to find her. Wanting her life to take a new direction, Gwen suggests working as a secretary at Walter's firm...
  
   (USA, 1993)
• Ein Mord für Quandt
• Mortimer's Patch
  Mortimer's Patch
  Mortimer's Patch was a popular TVNZ police drama from the early 1980s. It featured actors Terence Cooper, Sean Duffy, Don Selwyn and Jim Hickey and depicted detective and police work in the fictional town of "Cobham". It was filmed in and around Henderson, New Zealand.**...
  
   (New Zealand, 1982)
• Most Wanted
  Most Wanted (TV series)
  Most Wanted is an American crime drama series shown on ABC from October 16, 1976 until August 20, 1977. It starred Robert Stack, Jo Ann Harris, Shelly Novack, and Hari Rhodes...
  
   (USA, 1976-1977)
• Murder 101
  Murder 101
  Murder 101 is the name of a series of two-hour TV movies appearing regularly on the Hallmark Channel since 2006. In it, Dick Van Dyke stars as professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell, an absent-minded and brilliant criminologist. His son Barry Van Dyke co-stars as a former cop who is working as a private...
  
   (USA, 2006 to present)
• Murder Call
  Murder Call
  Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...
  
   (Australia, 1997-2000)
• Murder City
  Murder City (TV Series)
  Murder City is a British police drama that centres on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases. Murder City premiered on 18 March 2004 on the ITV Network at 9pm. BBC America began airing the series on 17 August 2006.-Cast:...
  
   (UK, 2004-2006)
• Murder in Suburbia
  Murder in Suburbia
  Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.-Plot summary:The series focused on various murders in the fictional suburban England town of Middleford; filming took place in North West London, including Northwood.-Regular cast and characters:-Episode...
  
   (UK, 2004-2005)
• Murder One
  Murder One (TV series)
  Murder One is an American legal drama series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson.-Premise:...
  
   (USA, 1995-1997)
• Murder Rooms (UK, 2000-2001)
• Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
  
   (USA, 1984-1996)
• Murphy's Law
  Murphy's Law (TV series)
  Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...
  
   (UK, 2001-2007)
• Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...
  
   (Canada, 2008-present)

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• Naked City
  Naked City (TV series)
  Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format....
  
   (USA, 1958-1963)
• Nash Bridges
  Nash Bridges
  Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. The show ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29, 1996 to May 4, 2001 with a total of...
  
   (USA, 1996-2001)
• NCIS
  NCIS (TV series)
  NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
  
   (USA, 2003 to present)
  • NCIS: Los Angeles (USA, 2009 to present)
• New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam (TV series)
  New Amsterdam is an American television drama, which premiered March 4, 2008 on Fox, and ended after its eighth episode.-Premise and plot:...
  
   (USA, 2008)
• The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
  The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
  The New Adventures of Charlie Chan was a syndicated television crime drama series made in 1957. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America.The series,...
  
   (USA/UK 1957-1958)
• The New Avengers (UK, 1976-1977)
• The New Detectives
  The New Detectives
  The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science is a documentary true crime television show that aired two to three different cases in forensic science per episode. Episode reruns currently air on the Discovery Channel, TLC and the Investigation Discovery network...
  
   (Documentary; USA, 1996-2005)
• New Scotland Yard (UK, 1972-1974)
• New Tricks (UK, 2004 to present)
• New York Undercover
  New York Undercover
  New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 to 1998. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's 4th Precinct who were assigned to...
  
  (USA, 1994-1998)
• Night Court
  Night Court
  Night Court is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 20, 1992. The setting was the night shift of a Manhattan court, presided over by the young, unorthodox Judge Harold T. "Harry" Stone...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1984-1992)
• Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
   (Canada 1985-1989)
• No Hiding Place
  No Hiding Place
  No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967....
  
   (UK, 1959-1967)
• N.Y.P.D. (USA, 1967-1969)
• NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
   (USA, 1993-2005)
• Numb3rs
  NUMB3RS
  Numb3rs is an American television drama which premiered on CBS on January 23, 2005, and concluded on March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes...
  
   (USA, 2005-2010)

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• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
  Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
  Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974...
  
   (USA, 1971-1974)
• Ohara
  Ohara (TV series)
  Ohara is an American television series that first aired on the ABC television network from January 17, 1987, until May 7, 1988, starring Pat Morita in the title role of Lt. Ohara. Morita also co-created the series along with Michael Braveman and John A. Kuri. Kevin Conroy, Jon Polito, Rachel...
  
   (USA, 1987-1988)
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American television crime drama broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the...
  
   (USA, 1971-1972)
• Operation Good Guys
  Operation Good Guys
  Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. It was first screened on BBC Two from 1997 - 2000. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1997-2000)

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• Pacific Blue
  Pacific Blue (TV series)
  Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes...
  
   (USA, 1996-2000)
• Painkiller Jane
  Painkiller Jane (TV series)
  Painkiller Jane was an American-Canadian science fiction and action television series based on the comic book character of the same name. Airing on the Sci Fi Channel in the US starting April 13, 2007 and Global in Canada, it starred Kristanna Loken as the titular character...
  
   (USA, 2007)
• Palace Guard
  Palace Guard
  Palace Guard was a drama series that was briefly broadcast by CBS as part of its 1991 fall lineup. It was produced by Stephen J. Cannell.Palace Guard was the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan Palace Guard was a drama series that was briefly broadcast by CBS as part of its...
  
   (USA, 1991)
• Parco P.I.
  Parco P.I.
  Parco P.I. was a reality television program that airs on Court TV. The series was about the cases of New York City-based private investigator Vincent "Vinny" Parco, his family, his daughter Dani Parco, his twin sons Chris Parco and Vincent Parco Jr., Rho and a number of the female investigators who...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2006)
• Paris Enquêtes Criminelles
  Paris enquêtes criminelles
  Paris enquêtes criminelles is a French television series broadcast since May 3, 2007 on TF1.-Synopsis:Adapted from Law & Order: Criminal Intent , it follows the investigations of two police detectives with very different methods of investigation. Vincent Revel is very intuitive, while his partner...
  
   (France 2007 to present) - See also: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"
• Paul Temple (UK, 1969-1971)
• Perry Mason
  Perry Mason (TV series)
  Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
  
   (USA, 1957-1966)
• Person of Interest
  Person of Interest (TV series)
  Person of Interest is an American crime drama television series broadcasting on CBS. It is based on a screenplay developed by J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan. The series was officially picked up by CBS on May 13, 2011, and debuted on September 22, 2011. On October 25, 2011 the show was picked up...
  
   (USA, 2011 - present)
• Peter Gunn
  Peter Gunn
  Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator was Blake Edwards...
  
   (USA, 1958-1961)
• Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
  Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
  Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series featured Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.-Synopsis:The series...
  
   (UK, 1983-1986)
• Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
  
   (UK, 1989 to present)
• Police
  Police (TV series)
  Police was a BBC Television documentary television series about Thames Valley Police, first broadcast in 1982. Produced by Roger Graef and directed by Charles Stewart, it won the BAFTA award for best factual series....
  
   (Documentary; UK, 1981)
• Police Academy: The Series
  Police Academy: The Series
  Police Academy: The Series is a syndicated 1997 television series spin-off from the Police Academy series of films. Michael Winslow was the only actor from the Police Academy films to have a recurring role on the show, although several of the film's cast made occasional guest appearances. The...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1997-1998)
• Police & Thief
  Police & Thief
  Police & Thief is a 2004 Singaporean sitcom that airs on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. The sitcom tells the story of a single-father police officer whose neighbour is an ex-gangster. The two constantly bicker but sometimes help each other's families out...
  
   (Comedy; Singapore, 2004-2007)
• Police Camera Action!
  Police Camera Action!
  Police, Camera, Action! is a police video programme made by Optomen Television for ITV and broadcast on the ITV Network and ITV4. The program was originally commissioned through Carlton Television....
  
   (Reality; UK, 1994 to present)
• Police Interceptors
  Police Interceptors
  Police Interceptors is a TV documentary series that profiles the work of a police ANPR Intercept Team in Essex, United Kingdom and in series 4 profiles the work of South Yorkshire Police's Road Crime Unit...
  
   (Reality; UK, 2008 to present)
• Police Squad!
  Police Squad!
  Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series was packed with ZAZ's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1982)
• Police Story (USA, 1973-1977)
• Police Woman
  Police Woman (TV series)
  Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1974-1978)
• Police Woman of Broward County (USA, 2009)
• Police Woman of Maricopa County (USA, 2010)
• Politiet (Reality; Norway, 2004 & 2009 to Present)
• The Pretender
  The Pretender (TV series)
  The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...
  
   (USA, 1996-2000)
• Prime Suspect Series
  • Prime Suspect 1 (UK, 1991)
  • Prime Suspect 2 (UK, 1992)
  • Prime Suspect 3 (UK, 1993)
  • Prime Suspect 4 (UK, 1995)
  • Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement (UK, 1996)
  • Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (UK, 2003)
  • Prime Suspect: The Final Act (UK, 2006)
• Prison Break
  Prison Break
  Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...
  
   (USA, 2005-2009)
• The Profiler
  Profiler (TV series)
  Profiler was an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia....
  
   (USA, 1996-2000)
• Pros & Cons
  Pros and Cons (TV series)
  Pros and Cons is an American television series that ran on ABC in the USA in 1991–1992. It is a revamped version of Gabriel's Fire, which aired on ABC the previous season.-Overview:...
  
   (USA, 1991-1992)
• The Protectors
  The Protectors
  The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It is Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in the present day...
  
   (UK, 1972-1974)
• Psych
  Psych
  Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts...
  
   (USA, 2006 to present)
• Public Eye (UK, 1965-1975)

R

• Raines
  Raines
  Raines is a crime drama television series that ran from March 15, 2007 to April 27, 2007 on NBC in the United States. The show premiered as a mid-season replacement, as well as airing on CH in Canada, TV3 in Ireland, ITV3 in the UK and on Network Ten in Australia.The series focused on Michael...
  
   (USA, 2007)
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
  Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
  Randall and Hopkirk , first transmitted during 1969-70, is a British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk, respectively. The series was originally created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman...
  
   (UK, 1969-1970)
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
  Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
  Randall & Hopkirk is a British television series, produced by Working Title Films for BBC One. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk and stars Vic Reeves as Hopkirk and Bob Mortimer as Randall, Emilia Fox as Jeannie, and Tom Baker as Wyvern.- Background :Two series...
  
   (UK, 2000)
• Rebus
  Rebus (TV series)
  Rebus is the title of the detective drama based on the Inspector Rebus novels by the Scottish author Ian Rankin set in and around Edinburgh produced by STV Productions for the ITV Network....
  
   (UK, 2000-2007)
• Remington Steele
  Remington Steele
  Remington Steele is an American television series, co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. The series blended the genres of romantic...
  
   (USA, 1982-1987)
• Reno 911!
  Reno 911!
  Reno 911! is an American comedy television series on Comedy Central that ran from 2003 to 2009. It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary shows, specifically COPS, with comic actors playing the police officers. Most of the material is improvised, using a broad outline, and...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 2003–2009)
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.-Radio:...
  
   (USA, 1957-1960)
• Riptide
  Riptide (TV series)
  Riptide is a TV detective series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. Riptide was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter...
  
   (USA, 1983-1986)
• Rizzoli & Isles
  Rizzoli & Isles
  Rizzoli & Isles is a TNT television series starring Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. The one-hour drama is based on the Rizzoli & Isles series of novels by Tess Gerritsen...
  
   (USA, 2010-present)
• Road Wars (Reality; UK, 2003 to present)
• RoboCop: The Series
  RoboCop: The Series
  RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2...
  
   (Sci-Fi; 1994)
• The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...
  
   (USA, 1974-1980)
• Rockliffe's Babies
  Rockliffe's Babies
  Rockliffe's Babies was a British television drama produced by the BBC which ran for two series between 1987 and 1988. The series was devised by Richard O`Keeffe and produced by Leonard Lewis. Writers included Richard O`Keeffe, Don Webb, Charlie Humphreys and Nick Perry...
  
   (UK, 1987-1988)
• Rookies
  Rookies (TV series)
  Rookies is a reality television series which airs on the A&E television network. The show follows the training periods of rookie police officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana and Tampa, Florida as they train on the beat with their Field Training Officers for their first 12 weeks. The episodes...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2008 to present)
• The Rookies
  The Rookies
  The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...
  
   (USA, 1972-1976)
• Rookie Blue (CAN, 2010 to present)
• Rosemary & Thyme
  Rosemary & Thyme
  Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007...
  
   (UK, 2003-2007)
• Rumpole of the Bailey
  Rumpole of the Bailey
  Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer which starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients...
  
   (UK, 1975-1992)
• Rush
  Rush (2008 TV series)
  -DVD releases:-Achievements:-International distribution:-External links:...
  
   (Australia, 2008 to present)
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 1987 and 2000.-Description:The series comprises adaptations of the works of Ruth Rendell, many of which are based on her extensive range of short stories...
  
   (UK, 1987-2000)

S

• Saving Grace
  Saving Grace (TV series)
  Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...
  
   (USA, 2007-2010)
• The Saint
  The Saint (TV series)
  The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...
  
   (UK, 1962-1969)
• SCU: Serious Crash Unit
  SCU: Serious Crash Unit
  SCU: Serious Crash Unit is a New Zealand documentary series, which airs on TV2 in New Zealand, and other networks around the world. The show is currently in production of a 4th series, due to be released early 2008, while an Australian version of SCU is premiering in 2008 under the title Crash...
  
   (Reality; New Zealand, 2006 to present)
• Search
  Search (TV series)
  Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe...
  
   (USA, 1972-1973)
• Second Verdict
  Second Verdict
  Second Verdict was a six-part BBC television series from 1976, of dramatised documentaries in which classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history were re-appraised by fictional police officers...
  
   (UK, 1976)
• Seletar Robbery
  Seletar Robbery
  Seletar Robbery is a 90-minute Singaporean action drama produced by Singapore Broadcasting Corporation in 1982.-Story:...
  
   (Singapore, 1982)
• Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
  Challenge of the Yukon
  Challenge of the Yukon was a radio series that began on Detroit's station WXYZ , and an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on February 3, 1938...
  
   (USA, 1955-1958)
• The Shield
  The Shield
  The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
  
   (USA, 2002-2008)
• The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective is a BBC television miniseries written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon, and was directed by Jon Amiel. The six episodes were "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It"....
  
   (UK, 1986)
• Shaft (USA, 1973-1974)
• Shark in the Park
  Shark in the Park
  Shark in the Park wasa New Zealand television drama series. A police procedural, it revolved around the professional and private lives of a group of officers at a Wellington police station under the command of Inspector Brian "Sharky" Finn...
  
   (New Zealand, 1989-1992)
• Sharman
  Sharman (TV series)
  Sharman is a television series starring Clive Owen, based on the "Nick Sharman" books written by London based author Mark Timlin.-Cast and characters:...
  
   (UK, 1995-1996)
• Shoestring (UK, 1979–1980)
• Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley...
  
   (USA, 1959-1961)
• Shields Of Justice (USA, 1972–1983)
• Silent Number
  Silent number
  In telephony, a silent number, unlisted number , ex-directory number or private number is a telephone number that is intentionally not listed in telephone books....
  
   (Australia, 1974-1975)
• Silent Witness
  Silent Witness
  Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
  
   (UK, 1996 to present)
• Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings
  Silk Stalkings is a TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. After CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in 1993, the series ran exclusively on USA until its finale in the...
  
   (USA, 1991-1999)
• Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...
  
    (USA, 1981-1989)
• Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche
  Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche
  Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche is a German television series....
  
  
• Siska
  Siska (TV series)
  Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street...
  
   (Germany, 1998 to present)
• Sky Cops
  Sky Cops
  Sky Cops is a British reality TV show revealing the work of the air police in the UK. The BBC show follows police helicopters from the South Yorkshire Air Operations Unit and the Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit...
  
   (Reality; UK, 2006-2008)
• SOKO 5113
  SOKO 5113
  SOKO 5113 is a long running German police television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.-Longest serving cast:...
  
   (Germany/Austria, 1978 to present)
  • SOKO Leipzig
    SOKO Leipzig
    SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on the 31st of January 2001, on German television channel ZDF...
    
     (Germany/Austria; 2001 to present)
  • SOKO Kitzbühel
    Kitzbühel
    -Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
    
     (Germany/Austria, 2003 to present)
  • SOKO Köln
    Cologne
    Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
    
     (Germany/Austria, 2003 to present)
  • SOKO Wismar
    Wismar
    Wismar , is a small port and Hanseatic League town in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,about 45 km due east of Lübeck, and 30 km due north of Schwerin. Its natural harbour, located in the Bay of Wismar is well-protected by a promontory. The...
    
     (Germany/Austria, 2004 to present)
  • SOKO Donau
    Danube
    The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
    
     (Known in Germany as SOKO Wien
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
    
    ); (Germany/Austria, 2005 to present)
  • SOKO Rhein-Main - Originally known as Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main (Germany/Austria; 2006 to present)
  • SOKO Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
    
     (Germany/Austria, 2009 to present)
• Solo One
  Solo One
  Solo One is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network and screened in 1976. There were 13 half hour episodes....
  
   (Australia, 1976)
• Softly, Softly
  Softly, Softly (TV series)
  Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern - supposedly in the Bristol and Chepstow area of the UK...
  
   (UK, 1966-1969)
• Softly, Softly: Taskforce
  Softly, Softly: Taskforce
  Softly, Softly the popular BBC television police drama series, was revamped in 1969, partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to BBC 1...
  
   (UK, 1969-1976)
• Sonny Spoon
  Sonny Spoon
  Sonny Spoon was a detective program aired in the United States on the NBC television network in 1988. The series was created by Michael Daly, Dinah Prince, Stephen J. Cannell and Randall Wallace and produced by Stephen J...
  
   (USA, 1988)
• South Africa: Special Task Force (Reality; UK, 2005)
• Southland
  Southland (TV series)
  Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...
  
   (USA, 2009 to present)
• South of Sunset
  South of Sunset
  South of Sunset is an American TV detective series, starring musician/actor Glenn Frey, that only aired one episode on CBS in 1993.Frey played Cody McMahon, a private eye whose offices were located just south of Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. As a result, he calls his business the Beverly Hills...
  
   (USA, 1993)
• Snoops (USA, 1989-1990)
• Snoops (Comedy; USA, 1999-2000)
• SP
  SP (TV series)
  is a Japanese television drama based on the real life security police unit of Japan which is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign VIPs. The series script was written by famed GO author Kazuki Kaneshiro and marks his first time writing for a television drama.Two film adaptations of the...
  
   (Japan, 2007-2008)
• Special Branch
  Special Branch (TV series)
  Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.The first two series were...
  
   (UK, 1969-1974)
• Specials (UK, 1991)
• Special Unit 2
  Special Unit 2
  Special Unit 2 is a short-lived, American sci-fi/comedy television series, filmed in Vancouver, BC and aired on UPN for two seasons from April 2001 through February 2002...
  
   (USA, 2001-2002)
• Spenser: For Hire
  Spenser: For Hire
  Spenser: For Hire is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, developed for TV by John Wilder, differs from the novels, mostly in its lesser degree of detail....
  
   (USA, 1985-1988)
• Standoff
  Standoff (TV series)
  Standoff is an American drama series that premiered on the Fox network on September 5, 2006. Created by Craig Silverstein, the series focused on an FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit whose members negotiated hostage situations and shared relationships. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox Television...
  
   (USA, 2006-2007)
• Star Cops
  Star Cops
  Star Cops is a British science fiction television series first broadcast on BBC Two in 1987. It was devised by Chris Boucher, a writer who had previously worked on the science fiction television series Doctor Who and Blake's 7 as well as crime dramas such as Juliet Bravo and Bergerac...
  
   (UK, 1987)
• Starsky and Hutch
  Starsky and Hutch
  Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...
  
   (USA, 1975-1979)
• Stingray
  Stingray
  The stingrays are a group of rays, which are cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes, and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae , Plesiobatidae , Urolophidae , Urotrygonidae , Dasyatidae , Potamotrygonidae The...
  
   (USA, 1986-1987)
• Stone Undercover
  Tom Stone (TV series)
  Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on the CBC for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover...
  
   (Canada/USA, 2002-2004) Syndicated title of program originally called Tom Stone
• Strangers
  Strangers (TV series)
  Strangers was a UK police drama that appeared on ITV between 1978 and 1982.After the success of the TV series The XYY Man, adapted from books by Kenneth Royce, Granada TV devised a new series to feature the regular characters of Detective Sergeant George Bulman and his assistant Detective...
  
   (UK, 1978-1982)
• Street Justice
  Street Justice
  Street Justice is an American action crime drama series starring Carl Weathers and Bryan Genesse. The series began airing in syndication in 1991, and was canceled in 1993 after two seasons.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1991-1993)
• Street Legal
  Street Legal (TV series)
  Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...
  
   (Canada, 1987-1994)
• Street Legal
  Street Legal (2000)
  Street Legal is a New Zealand drama focused on the lives of a small group of lawyers. A total of 52 episodes were aired and reruns currently can be seen around the world...
  
   (New Zealand, 2000-2003)
• The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
  
   (USA, 1972-1977)
• Street Wars (reality; UK, 2005 to present)
• The Strip (USA, 1999-2000)
• The Strip (Australia, 2008)
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
  Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
  Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a Canadian-American television series that premiered in the United States in 2002 and Canada in 2003. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on PAX. In September 2009, Gospel...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2002-2005)
• Surfside Six (USA, 1960-1962)
• S.W.A.T.
  S.W.A.T. (TV series)
  ----S.W.A.T. is a 1970s American television series about the adventures of the WCPD's Olympic Division Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city....
  
   (USA, 1975-1976)
• Sweating Bullets
  Tropical Heat
  Tropical Heat was a Canadian TV series produced in cooperation with Mexico and Israel that aired between 1991 and 1993 ....
  
   (Canada/Mexico/Israel, 1991-1993) - Alternative title for Tropical Heat
• The Sweeney
  The Sweeney
  The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...
  
   (UK, 1975-1978)
• Switch
  Switch (TV series)
  Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who worked as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation...
  
   (USA, 1975-1978)

T

• Taggart
  Taggart
  Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
  
   (UK, 1983 to present)
• Taking the Falls
  Taking the Falls
  Taking the Falls was a Canadian dramedy series, which aired on CTV in the 1995-96 television season.The show starred Cynthia Dale as Terry Lane, a former police officer turned private investigator in Niagara Falls who solved crimes with the help of her lawyer friend Katherine MacVicar...
  
   (Canada, 1995-1996)
• Target (UK, 1977-1978)
• Telecrimes (UK, 1938-1939 and 1946)
• Tenafly
  Tenafly (TV series)
  Tenafly is a drama series and one of the TV shows for the NBC Mystery Movie for the 1973-74 season.-Overview:It starred James McEachin as Harry Tenafly, a former cop turned detective who finds himself in one pickle after another. It was also one of the few series that had a main black character on...
  
   (USA 1973-1974)
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
  Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January through June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1980)
• The Academy
  The Academy (TV series)
  The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox...
  
   (Reality; USA, 2007-2008)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK, 1994-2004)
• The Agatha Christie Hour (UK, 1982)
• The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone
  The Amazing Mr. Malone is an American radio crime drama series based on the John Malone series of mystery novels by Craig Rice...
  
   (USA, 1951-1952)
• The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1960-1968)
• The Avengers
  The Avengers (TV series)
  The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
  
   (UK, 1961-1969) See also: The New Avengers
• The Beat (Canada, 2010)
• The Beiderbecke Tapes
  The Beiderbecke Tapes
  The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne...
  
   (UK, 1987)
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
   (UK, 1984-2010)
• The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan is an American crime drama television series that aired in syndication from September 24, 1960, and July 15, 1961.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1960-1961)
• The Champions
  The Champions
  The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company...
  
   (UK, 1968-1969)
• The Chicago Code (USA, 2010)
• The Chinese Detective
  The Chinese Detective
  The Chinese Detective is a British television series, transmitted by the BBC between 1981 and 1982 and created by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had previously devised The Sweeney and Juliet Bravo....
  
   (UK, 1981-1982)
• The Closer
  The Closer
  The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...
  
   (USA,2005 to present)
• The Commander (UK, 2003-2008)
• The Commish
  The Commish
  The Commish is a television series that aired on ABC in the United States from 1991 to 1996. The series focused on the work and home life of a suburban police commissioner in upstate New York....
  
   (USA, 1991-1995)
• The Cops
  The Cops (TV series)
  The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...
  
   (UK, 1998-2000)
• The Corridor People
  The Corridor People
  The Corridor People is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1966, devised and written by Edward Boyd....
  
   (UK, 1966)
• The Dead Zone
  The Dead Zone (TV series)
  The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...
  
   (USA/Canada, 2002-2007)
• The Defenders (USA, 1961-1965)
• The Detectives
  The Detectives
  The Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It was a spoof of police dramas, which were numerous in the 1990s, and it was aired on BBC One...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1993-1997)
• The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season...
  
   (USA, 1959-1962)
• The District
  The District
  The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department .-Premise:...
  
   (USA, 2000-2004)
• The F.B.I. (USA, 1965-1974)
• The FBI Files
  The FBI Files
  The FBI Files is an American television docudrama series that originally ran from 1998 to 2006. It was carried by the Discovery Channel cable network and produced by New Dominion Pictures of Suffolk, Virginia...
  
   (Documentary, USA; 1998-2006)
• The First 48
  The First 48
  The First 48 is an American documentary television series that airs on A&E. Filmed in various cities in the United States, the series offers an insider's look at the real-life world of homicide investigators...
  
   (USA, 2004 to present)
• The Force
  The Force (Channel 4 television series)
  The Force was a series of three observational documentary programmes created for Channel 4 by Oxford Film and Television and Patrick Forbes, following the work of Hampshire Constabulary...
  
   (Reality; UK 2009)
• The Force: Behind the Line
  The Force: Behind the Line
  Episodes of The Force consist of three to four individual stories featuring police officers going about every day duties, including burglaries, drug-related cases, traffic cases and murder investigations. The choice of stories is usually balanced to include action-oriented stories as well as...
  
   (Reality; Australia, 2005 to present)
• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (TV series)
  The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
  
   (USA, 1963-1967 and 2000-2001)
• The Gentle Touch
  The Gentle Touch
  The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of...
  
   (UK, 1980-1984)
• The Glades
  The Glades (TV series)
  The Glades is an A&E Network drama television series created by Clifton Campbell. The one-hour drama premiered on Sunday, July 11, 2010. The series stars Matt Passmore as Det...
  
   (USA, 2010-present)
• The Huntress
  The Huntress (TV series)
  The Huntress is an American TV series that appeared on the USA Network over subsequent summers of the 2000 and 2001 television seasons. It was inspired by a book about the real bounty hunter, Dottie Thorson, and is also a belated sequel to the 1980 Steve McQueen film, The Hunter.-Cast:*Annette...
  
   (USA, 2000-2001)
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...
  
   (UK, 2001-2007)
• The Investigators
  The Investigators (U.S. TV series)
  The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 1961)
• The Last Detective
  The Last Detective
  The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this...
  
   (UK, 2003-2007)
• The Law and Harry McGraw (USA, 1987-1988)
• The Kill Point
  The Kill Point
  The Kill Point is a television series that follows a group of U.S. Marines recently returned from serving in Iraq as they come together to pull off a major bank heist of a Three Rivers Bank branch in Pittsburgh. The series, produced by Mandeville Films and Lionsgate Television, is the first drama...
  
   (USA, 2007)
• The Knock
  The Knock
  The Knock was a primetime UK drama series, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise....
  
   (UK, 1994 - 2000)
• The Last Precinct
  The Last Precinct
  The Last Precinct was a short lived TV series on NBC that starred Adam West as Capt. Rick Wright, leading a group of misfit police academy rejects. The pilot for the Stephen J. Cannell series debuted after Super Bowl XX in 1986, but the show was canceled within two months of its April premiere....
  
   (Comedy; USA, 1986)
• The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960. The Man From Blackhawk was created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.In The Man From Blackhawk, Rockwell...
  
   (USA, 1959-1960)
• The Mentalist
  The Mentalist
  The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also the show's executive producer...
  
   (USA, 2008 to present)
• The Michael Richards Show
  The Michael Richards Show
  The Michael Richards Show is a sitcom that debuted on NBC in 2000. The show starred Michael Richards as reality-challenged but successful private detective Vic Nardozza who gets the job done despite his unconventional methods.- History :...
  
   (USA, 2000)
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
  The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
  The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure sitcom that ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981. For its second season the show was renamed Lobo. The program aired Tuesday nights, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. The lead character, Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo, played by Claude Akins, was a spin-off...
  
   (USA, 1979-1981)
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
  
   (USA, 1968-1973)
• The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
  The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
  The New Adventures of Charlie Chan was a syndicated television crime drama series made in 1957. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America.The series,...
  
   (USA/UK 1957-1958)
• The New Avengers (UK, 1976-1977)
• The New Detectives
  The New Detectives
  The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science is a documentary true crime television show that aired two to three different cases in forensic science per episode. Episode reruns currently air on the Discovery Channel, TLC and the Investigation Discovery network...
  
   (Documentary; USA, 1996-2005)
• The Pretender
  The Pretender (TV series)
  The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with "the ability to become anyone he wants to be," i.e., to flawlessly impersonate anyone in virtually any line of work...
  
   (USA, 1996-2000)
• The Professionals
  The Professionals (TV series)
  The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon...
  
   (UK, 1977-1983)
• The Profiler
  Profiler (TV series)
  Profiler was an American crime drama that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series follows the exploits of a criminal profiler working with the fictional FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force based in Atlanta, Georgia....
  
   (USA, 1996-2000)
• The Protectors
  The Protectors
  The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It is Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in the present day...
  
   (UK, 1972-1974)
• The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...
  
   (USA, 1974-1980)
• The Rookies
  The Rookies
  The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...
  
   (USA, 1972-1976)
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 1987 and 2000.-Description:The series comprises adaptations of the works of Ruth Rendell, many of which are based on her extensive range of short stories...
  
   (UK, 1987-2000)
• The Saint
  The Saint (TV series)
  The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...
  
   (UK, 1962-1969)
• The Shield
  The Shield
  The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
  
   (USA, 2002-2008)
• The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective is a BBC television miniseries written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon, and was directed by Jon Amiel. The six episodes were "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It"....
  
   (UK, 1986)
• The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
  
   (USA, 1972-1977)
• The Strip
  The Strip (US TV series)
  The Strip is a short-lived American action drama series which aired on the UPN television network during the 1999-2000 season.-Synopsis:Sean Patrick Flanery and Guy Torry portray former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives who are hired by the owner of Caesars Palace to serve as...
  
   (USA, 1999-2000)
• The Strip (Australia, 2008)
• The Sweeney
  The Sweeney
  The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...
  
   (UK, 1975-1978)
• The Thin Blue Line
  The Thin Blue Line (TV series)
  The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996...
  
   (Comedy; UK, 1995-1996)
• The Thin Man
  The Thin Man (TV series)
  The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. The 72 episodes were produced by MGM Television and shown on NBC for two seasons from 1957–1959 on Friday evening.-Overview:...
  
   (USA, 1957-1959)
• The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
  
   (USA, 1959-1963)
• The Untouchables (1993 TV series)
  The Untouchables (1993 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the...
  
   (USA, 1993-1994)
• The Unusuals
  The Unusuals
  The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series which premiered on ABC on April 8, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police...
  
   (USA, 2009)
• The Vice
  The Vice (TV series)
  The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police forces vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences...
  
   (UK, 1999-2003)
• The Vise
  The Vise
  The Vise is a half-hour dramatic anthology television series which aired at 9:30 p.m. EST on Fridays on ABC from December 1955 to June 1957....
  
   (USA, 1954-1955)
• The Wire
  The Wire (TV series)
  The Wire is an American television drama series set and produced in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States...
  
   (USA, 2002-2008)
• The X-Files
  The X-Files
  The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
  
   (USA/Canada, 1993-2002)
• The XYY Man
  The XYY Man
  The XYY Man began life as a series of novels by Kenneth Royce, featuring the character of William 'Spider' Scott, a one-time cat-burglar who leaves prison aiming to go straight but finds his talents still to be very much in demand by both the criminal underworld and the British secret service...
  
   (UK, 1976-1977)
• Thief Takers
  Thief Takers
  Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad...
  
   (UK, 1996-1997)
• Third Watch
  Third Watch
  Third Watch is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in 6 seasons of 22 episodes each....
  
   (USA, 1999-2005)
• This Man Dawson
  This Man Dawson
  This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city. The thirty-three episodes, in which Andes portrayed Chief Frank Dawson, aired during the 1959-1960...
  
   (USA, 1959-1960)
• T.J. Hooker (USA, 1982-1986)
• The Listener
  The Listener (TV series)
  The Listener is a Canadian science fiction drama set in Toronto about a young paramedic named Toby Logan with the ability to listen to people's minds. The series premiered on Fox International Channels beginning with the Arabic-speaking area of northern Africa and south-western Asia on March 1, 2009...
  
   (Canada, 2009-present)
• Tom Stone
  Tom Stone (TV series)
  Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on the CBC for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover...
  
   (Canada, 2002-2004) - Also known as Stone Undercover when syndicated in the US.
• Traffic Blues
  Traffic Blues
  Traffic Blues is a documentary series broadcast on RTÉ One. It follows various traffic officers from the Garda Síochána.The first series follows the Garda Traffic Corps in a six-part series...
  
   (Reality; Ireland 2009, 2011)
• Traffic Cops
  Traffic Cops
  Traffic Cops is a documentary series on BBC One which follows traffic officers from various British police forces. The current series follows Bedfordshire Police. Previous series have followed Cheshire, Hampshire, Humberside, South Wales, South Yorkshire and Sussex police forces...
  
   (Reality; UK 2003 to present)
• Triangle (Japan, 2009)
• Tribulacion (Peru, 2011)
• Triple Nine
  Triple Nine
  For the Triple Nine Society, see this pageTriple Nine is an English language television police procedural telecast on what was then the Television Corporation of Singapore's Channel 5 from 1995 to 1999...
  
   (Singapore, 1995-1998)
• Tropical Heat
  Tropical Heat
  Tropical Heat was a Canadian TV series produced in cooperation with Mexico and Israel that aired between 1991 and 1993 ....
  
   (Canada/Mexico/Israel, 1991-1993) - Also known as Sweating Bullets
• True Files
  True Files
  True Files is an English language television docu-drama telecast on MediaCorp Channel 5, with each episode re-enacting some major cases of crime in Singapore...
  
   (Singapore, 2002-2007)
• True Heroes
  True Heroes (TV series)
  True Heroes revolves around the daily lives of three police officers in a Neighbourhood Police Centre in Singapore. The show was endorsed by the Singapore Police Force, which opened up facilities such as the Old Police Academy and the Ang Mo Kio Police Divisional Headquarters, and loaned real...
  
   (Singapore, 2003)
• Twin Peaks
  Twin Peaks
  Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...
  
   (USA, 1990-1991)
• The Bridge
  The Bridge (TV series)
  The Bridge was a Canadian police drama commissioned by CTV and CBS starring Aaron Douglas. The name of the series is derived from the bridge which separates the wealthy Rosedale neighborhood of Toronto with one of its poorest, St. James Town....
  
   (Canada, 2010-present)

U

• Underbelly
  Underbelly (series)
  Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama which originally broadcast on the Nine Network. Each series contains 13 episodes and is based on real-life events including the Melbourne gangland killings between 1995-2004, the Griffith drug trade between 1976-1987, and the Kings Cross scene...
  
   (Australia, 2008-2009)
• Unforgettable
  Unforgettable (TV series)
  Unforgettable is an American crime/mystery television series about a police detective with an unusually detailed memory. The hour-long program, which is based on J...
  
   (USA, 2011-present)
• The Unusuals
  The Unusuals
  The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series which premiered on ABC on April 8, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police...
  
   (USA, 2009)

V

• Van der Valk (UK, 1972)
• Vanished
  Vanished
  Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21, 2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10, 2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the sudden disappearance of the wife of a Georgia senator, which is...
  
   (USA, 2006)
• Vega$
  Vega$
  Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series, was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas...
  
   (USA, 1978-1981)
• Vengeance Unlimited
  Vengeance Unlimited
  Vengeance Unlimited was a TV series broadcasted during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen as Mr. Chapel, a mysterious and pragmatic character keen on serving justice to those who have been ignored by the law...
  
   (USA, 1998-1999)
• The Vice
  The Vice (TV series)
  The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police forces vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences...
  
   (UK, 1999-2003)
• The Vise
  The Vise
  The Vise is a half-hour dramatic anthology television series which aired at 9:30 p.m. EST on Fridays on ABC from December 1955 to June 1957....
  
   (USA, 1954-1955)
• V.I.P.
  V.I.P. (TV series)
  V.I.P. is an American action/comedy-drama series starring Pamela Anderson. Created by J. F...
  
   (USA, 1998-2002)
• Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
  
   (USA, 2004-2007)

W

• Waking the Dead
  Waking the Dead (TV series)
  Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
  
   (UK, 2000 to present)
• Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger
  Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...
  
   (USA, 1993-2001)
• Wallander
  Wallander (Swedish TV series)
  Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films were produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell...
  
   (Sweden, 2005 to present)
  • Wallander (UK, 2008 to present)
• Warehouse 13
  Warehouse 13
  Warehouse 13 is an American fantasy television series that premiered on July 7, 2009 on the Syfy network.Executive-produced by Jack Kenny and David Simkins, the dramatic comedy from Universal Media Studios has been described as borrowing much from 1980s television series Friday the 13th: The...
  
   (USA, 2009 to present)
• Water Rats
  Water Rats (TV series)
  Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...
  
   (Australia, 1996-2001)
• Whitechapel
  Whitechapel (TV series)
  Whitechapel is a three-part British television drama series produced by Carnival Films, which first broadcast in the UK on 2 February 2009 and which dealt with the murders of Jack the Ripper....
  
   (UK, 2009-2011)
• White Collar
  White Collar (TV series)
  White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con-man Neal Caffrey and Tim DeKay as Special Agent Peter Burke. It premiered on October 23, 2009. In December 2009, White Collar was renewed for a second season that began on July 13, 2010...
  
    (USA, 2009 to present)
• Wild Card
  Wild Card (TV series)
  Wild Card is an American comedy-drama series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime, and on the Global Television Network in Canada from August 2003 to July 2005.-Synopsis:...
  
   (USA, 2003-2005)
• The Wire
  The Wire (TV series)
  The Wire is an American television drama series set and produced in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States...
  
   (USA, 2002-2008)
• Wire in the Blood
  Wire in the Blood
  Wire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with...
  
   (UK, 2002-2008)
• Without a Trace
  Without a Trace
  Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
  
   (USA, 2002-2009)
• Wolcott (UK, 1981)
• Wolf
  Wolf (TV series)
  Wolf was a 1989 CBS television series starring Jack Scalia and Nicolas Surovy. It featured Scalia as Tony Wolf, a former San Francisco cop turned private detective and Surovy as the district attorney who had caused him to be discharged from the force...
  
   (USA, 1989-1990)
• Women's Murder Club
  Women's Murder Club
  Women's Murder Club is an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California and is based on the 'Women's Murder Club' series of novels written by James Patterson...
  
   (USA, 2007-2008)
• Wycliffe
  Wycliffe (TV series)
  Wycliffe is a British TV series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe . It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a...
  
   (UK, 1994-1998)
• White Collar Blue
  White Collar Blue
  White Collar Blue was an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003.Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and...
  
   (Australia, 2002-2003)
• Wiseguy
  Wiseguy
  Wiseguy is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to December 8, 1990 for a total of four seasons. Starring Ken Wahl, the series was produced by Stephen J...
  
   (USA, 1987-1990)

Y

• Yellowthread Street
  Yellowthread Street
  Yellowthread Street was a 1990 ITV police drama about detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police based on the novels by William Leonard Marshall....
  
   (UK, 1990)
• Young Lions
  Young Lions (TV series)
  Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station.The program rated poorly...
  
  (Australia, 2002)

External links

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