If You Liked Elementary, Watch These Next
Finished Elementary (2012) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Elementary, most of them are drama, mystery, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Baretta(1975)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its…
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2.Homicide: Life on the Street(1993)
8.1MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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3.Unforgettable(2011)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case.…
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4.Without a Trace(2002)
7.2CrimeMysteryAction & AdventureAlso crime and mystery
The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.
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5.Barnaby Jones(1973)
7.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of…
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6.Murder in a Small Town(2024)
6.9DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
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7.Agatha Christie's Marple(2004)
7.8DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's…
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8.Murder in Suburbia(2004)
7.5DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005. Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst, a graduate of a posh girls' academy, has a sharp, analytical mind; her working-class partner, Detective Sergeant Emma Scribbins, relies on her instincts. Together this sassy, sexy investigative…
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9.Signora Volpe(2022)
7.2CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.
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10.Annika(2021)
7.0MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
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11.Coroner(2019)
7.0DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
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12.Ironside(1967)
6.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by…
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13.Professor T(2021)
7.3CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.
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14.The Mysteries of Laura(2014)
7.2MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband — also a cop — who just can't seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to…
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15.The Rockford Files(1974)
7.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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16.CSI: Miami(2002)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI…
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17.Dragnet(1967)
7.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
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18.The Crow Girl(2025)
6.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.
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19.Perception(2012)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social…
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20.Agatha Christie's Poirot(1989)
8.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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