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51. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Big Spender (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Smith Brothers, a vicious group of mobsters, abandon their usual strong-arm tactics to run a parking ticket scam at a car park.

Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Warren Mitchell

Votes: 134

52. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Contact Breaker (1975)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After Danny Keever, a convict on weekend release and due for parole, is framed in a bank robbery, Regan works to clear him.

Director: William Brayne | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Warren Clarke

Votes: 145

53. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Cover Story (1975)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

It's unclear whether a beautiful crime reporter is involved with a criminal gang or just a catspaw.

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Prunella Gee

Votes: 144

54. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Thin Ice (1975)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Regan clashes with an arrogant police superintendent when a crime kingpin is allowed to leave the country and go to France.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Alfred Marks

Votes: 163

55. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Breaking Glass: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The CCS is alerted to sexual abuse of young boys in care homes. The team race to identify the murderer before his vengeful victims reach him.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 140

56. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: False Flag: Part 1 (2004)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a garage is demolished, the mummified body of a long vanished young man with IRA sympathies is found along with a car bomb.

Director: Suri Krishnamma | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 159

57. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Final Cut: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a mummified body opens an investigation into a supposedly fictional film from the 1960s. It transpires that the gangster responsible for the bodies behind the walls in the Notting Hill house is still active today.

Director: Betsan Morris Evans | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 160

58. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Bleak Midwinter (2007)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The death of a woman in a munitions factory becomes linked with the murder of Milner's estranged wife as he falls under suspicion and Foyle strives to clear his name.

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Kate Ambler, Gavin Brocker, Ann Beach, Sian Brooke

Votes: 627

59. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Casualties of War (2007)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Gerard Kearns, Harry Eden, Stanley Townsend, Kate Fleetwood

Votes: 621

60. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.1356 (1996)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Geoff Feld | Stars: Michael French, Pam St. Clement, Michelle Collins, Adam Woodyatt

61. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: Gently Go Man (2007)

TV-MA | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Following the murder of his wife by notorious gangster Webster, Inspector George Gently is pondering retirement. When he hears about Webster attending a funeral of a murder victim, he delays his retirement to take on this case.

Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: Martin Shaw, Maria Tecce, Mark Lambert, Phil Davis

Votes: 712

62. 24 Hours in Police Custody (2014– )
Episode: Murder in the Woods - Part 2 (2020)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary, Crime

In the second half of this double episode, the DCI believes that he knows who was behind the murder. Cameras follow the case as detectives decide to arrest the victim's friends.

Directors: Andrew Slater, Graeme McAulay | Star: Zawe Ashton

Votes: 34

63. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: False Flag: Part 2 (2004)

Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd and the team find that the murdered young man presumed to be Irish was really working for the English under a "false flag."

Director: Suri Krishnamma | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 144

64. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Allegory of Love (2009)

TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The fabulously successful Oxford-based fantasy novelist seems to Lewis to be the key to solving the bizarre murder of a beautiful woman with a mirror.

Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Katia Winter, Tom Mison, Louise Dylan, Olly Alexander

Votes: 757

65. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: The Red Dahlia: Part 1 (2010)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of the mutilated body of a young woman seems to echo that of the notorious unsolved Los Angeles 'Black Dahlia' murder of the 1940s.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 758

66. Our Cops in the North (2019–2021)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2021)

57 min | Documentary, Crime

Northumbria Police respond to an array of crimes - from armed robbery and distraction burglaries to arson - all connected in some way by one thing: drugs.

Directors: Edmund Davis, Nick Gardner, Jack Macinnes, Dan Nightingale, Ally Roberts, Phillip Wood, Imogen Wynell-Mayow, Holly Challinor, Bart Corpe, Nick Leader | Star: David Leon

67. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: The Red Dahlia: Part 3 (2010)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Langton is sure arrogant, aristocratic Charles Wickenham , aided and abetted by his incestuous family is guilty of the horrific copycat murders.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 160

68. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Falling Darkness (2010)

TV-PG | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During a Halloween, one of Dr Hobson's college roommates is found dead with a stake through her heart and a garlic bulb in her mouth.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Kevin Whately, Clare Holman, Niamh Cusack, Lucy Griffiths

Votes: 695

69. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Deadly Intent: Part 1 (2011)

46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Mexico someone is having plastic surgery. On a London estate disgraced ex-cop Frank Brandon is found shot dead in a crack den and Anna,now an inspector,joins the hunt for the killer. ... See full summary »

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 120

70. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Deadly Intent: Part 3 (2011)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Julia's husband Anthony Collingwood is an alternate identity for international drug dealer Alexander Fitzpatrick, who only seems to care about his son.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Celyn Jones

Votes: 109

71. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: Peace & Love (2010)

TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When an academic is found dead after a CND rally, Gently and Bacchus are dispatched to Durham University to investigate his background - and find themselves in the midst of a wave of social and sexual rebellion.

Director: Daniel O'Hara | Stars: Lee Ingleby, Simon Hubbard, Sarah Lancashire, MyAnna Buring

Votes: 382

72. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: Goodbye China (2011)

TV-MA | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gently and Bacchus look into the suspicious death of Gently's old friend and ex-snout, China.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: James Acton, Jay Miller, Niek Versteeg, Martin Shaw

Votes: 466

73. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Silent Scream: Part 3 (2012)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Felicity's dead body is found in the mirror and it's revealed that Jeanie Bale was blackmailing Amanda's parents with her diary.

Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Michelle Holmes

Votes: 94

74. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Down Among the Fearful: Part 2 (2013)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Reuben's killer also murders his co-researcher and suspicion falls on fellow psychic Frank Mclean and tarot reader Justine Skinner.

Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Beatie Edney, Emily Joyce, Catherine Steadman, Adam Wadsworth

Votes: 482

75. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)
Episode: Operation Nadine: Part 2 (1992)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Series 2, Tennison has proven herself and won her colleagues' grudging respect. When she is assigned to head a murder inquiry in the African Caribbean community, it seems further ... See full summary »

Director: John Strickland | Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis

Votes: 278

76. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Above Suspicion: Part 2 (2009)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Langton permits rookie Anna Travis to go on a date to the ballet with actor Alan Daniels, the prime suspect in serial killings involving low-rent prostitutes to gain information and mislead him.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Durr, Shaun Dingwall

Votes: 183

77. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)
Episode: Above Suspicion: Part 1 (2009)

69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

For eight years, some has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time. The most recent victim doesn't fit the profile, but evidence links her to the others. Anna volunteers to go undercover to crack the case.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Durr, Shaun Dingwall

Votes: 195

78. Elementary (2012–2019)
Episode: Step Nine (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Holmes and Watson travel to London to help track down an old mentor and investigate an unsolved mystery.

Director: John Polson | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 1,366

79. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Muggings & Mayhem (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

Rescue helicopter India99 saves three women from drowning and helps police on the ground track a band of graffiti artists, all of it caught on camera.

Stars: Nick Wallis, Mandy Hargreaves, Amanda Octave, Andy Stocker

Votes: 9

80. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Beware: The Cops Are Watching (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

A huge increase in crimes from motorcycles, mopeds and bikes lead to a special police operation to stop increasingly violent and well-organized gangs.

Stars: Nick Wallis, Spencer Barnett, Viv Brownley, Raffaele D'Orsi

Votes: 8