If You Liked Agatha Christie's Poirot, Watch These Next
Finished Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) 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 Agatha Christie's Poirot, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The ABC Murders(2018)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
1933. Hercule Poirot, older and greyer, receives letters threatening murder. The sender signs themselves only as “A.B.C.” When he takes the letters to the police looking for help, Hercule finds all his old friends have moved on. But soon there is a murder and the once-great detective must take matters into his own…
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2.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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3.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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4.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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5.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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6.Frankie Drake Mysteries(2017)
6.3DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.
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7.The Inspector Lynley Mysteries(2002)
7.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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8.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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9.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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10.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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11.Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries(2012)
7.7CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry…
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12.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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13.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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14.Steal(2026)
7.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who stole £4 billion pounds of people's pensions and why.
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15.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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16.Dalziel and Pascoe(1996)
6.4MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining…
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17.Endeavour(2013)
8.1CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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18.Murdoch Mysteries(2008)
7.7MysteryDramaAlso mystery and drama
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
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19.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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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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