If You Liked Murder, She Wrote, Watch These Next
Finished Murder, She Wrote (1984) 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 Murder, She Wrote, most of them are mystery, crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.A Touch of Frost(1992)
7.6DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases…
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2.Sherlock Holmes(1984)
8.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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3.Haven(2010)
7.5DramaSci-Fi & FantasyMysteryAlso drama and mystery
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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4.Hetty Wainthropp Investigates(1996)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
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5.77 Sunset Strip(1958)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie…
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6.Harry Wild(2022)
6.6MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.
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7.Perry Mason(1957)
7.7MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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8.Banacek(1972)
8.4CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
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9.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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10.Vera(2011)
7.4CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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11.Elementary(2012)
7.6DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
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12.Inspector George Gently(2008)
7.9MysteryCrimeAlso mystery and crime
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
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13.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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14.Father Brown(2013)
7.7DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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15.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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16.Lewis(2007)
7.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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17.The Brokenwood Mysteries(2014)
7.6MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
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18.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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19.Hart to Hart(1979)
6.9Action & AdventureCrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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20.The Chelsea Detective(2022)
6.4CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.
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