If You Liked Father Brown, Watch These Next
Finished Father Brown (2013) 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 Father Brown, most of them are drama, crime, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.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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2.Sister Boniface Mysteries(2022)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
First there was Father Brown. Now, say hello to Sister Boniface. This clever, moped-riding nun is the police's secret weapon for solving murders in this divine Father Brown spin-off.
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3.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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4.Miss Marple: The Body in the Library(1984)
7.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
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5.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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6.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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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.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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9.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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10.Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder(1987)
7.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
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11.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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12.Ordeal by Innocence(2018)
6.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.
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13.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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14.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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15.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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16.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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17.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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18.Grace(2021)
6.8CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success.…
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19.Thorne(2010)
6.4CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
DI Tom Thorne finds himself dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races against time to find a serial killer who carries out unusual attacks on young women.
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20.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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