Top 10 Detective TV Series

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TV Series in this Ranking:
10. Bosch (2014–2021): (00:29)
9. Broadchurch (2013–2017): (01:20)
8. Luther (2010–2019): (02:09)
7. Poirot (1989–2013): (02:59)
6. The X Files (1993–2018): (03:47)
5. Mindhunter (2017–2019): (04:42)
4. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1985): (05:42)
3. Twin Peaks (1990-1991): (06:34)
2. True Detective (2014–2019): (07:26)
1. Sherlock (2010–2017): (09:20)

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[davidjohnson-fwco]

True Detective, Mind Hunter are both fantastic

[mt-eubi]

The mentalist is the best show I watched .

[Red-llvn]

Real list!

1.) The Mentalist
2.) White Collar
3.) Sherlock
4.) Psych
5.) Bones
6.) Leverage
7.) The Blacklist
8.) Criminal Minds
9.) Castle
10.) Monk

[wendellbenedict]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in my opinion is the best potrayals of both Holmes and Watson.

[MoodysMood]

To add to your lists are: Vera, A Touch of Frost, Southcliffe Shetland, Lewis, Wire in the Blood, A Touch of Frost, A Touch of Cloth, and many more! I love British Crime/Detective series! Not to forget The Fall is a great suspense/psychological crime drama as well.

[screamingperson]

Monk is solid, it should have been on this list and not just an honorable mention

[reesescuptn]

Shetland, Inspector Lewis, Morse, Midsomer Murders, Line of Duty….I could go on actually. British murder mystery shows are much better than American shows, in my opinion.

[QuixoticAf]

The mentalist is top of the list for me

[wajj]

First, I'm not sure there's ever been a better detective series than "True Detective" season 1. Bosch is my favorite continuing series (7 seasons and a spinoff) TV detective show.

[tracyyarbrough]

Sherlock BBC’s series is the only tv series I have ever purchased on dvd. It’s the only tv series I’ve ever purchased besides XFiles. I loved Columbo, Monk, Murder She Wrote, Perry Mason, Magnum PI and Matlock as well but never purchased chased them. My husband bought me Moonlighting, which we both loved

[mendezme]

Patrick Jane is the best, I love The Mentalist so much

[Fancy_PotHead]

My top 5 would be
True Detective S1 >> The Killing >> Mindhunter >> Sharp Objects >> Black Bird

[Prototype-ycfv]

And what about Columbo? The greatest and most iconic detective series that everyone seems to have forgotten about for some reason lol. No list is complete without it!

[Vicky-ozcn]

My fav: 1)True detective(season 1), 2) Sherlock (s1 and s2 ), 3)Mindhunters, 4)The Killing, 5)The Bridge(Bron Broen not the english version), 6) Broadchurch

[aakasharya]

Korean drama mouse is better than true detective .since last 5 years more than 10 mind blowing and intense heart throbbing serial murder mystery korean shows are produced .i watched all of them and compared with English -America shows and Korean were better and mouse was the best among them. Those who are just stuck to English shows should try
1. Mouse
2. Voice
3.signal
4.Tunnel
5. Beyond evil
6. Strangers from hell
7. Guest
8. 365 repeat the year
9. train
10. flower of evil
11. Memorist

[Kng_Rat]

Midsomer Mysterys, Endeavour, Gorge Gently, Poirot and Granchester are English iconic series you must watch, as a person who watched many detective series, this ones are one of the best

[mindfuleffort]

Bosch
Broadchurch
Luther
Xflies
Twin peaks
Adventure of sherlock
Mindhunter
Mentalist
True detective

[aakasharya]

True detective story development and scenes and background music is mind blowing and far better than Sherlock .the intense heart melting and morbid activities of criminal just give a high pulse beat rate of detective show lovers . Twin peaks is also somehow like that if you like to watch a single crime story and investigation for longer duration and more no. of episodes.

[fwdt]

For me its 1) Sherlock, 2) Mindhunters, 3) True detective (only season 1) 4) Endeavour (not on this list), 5) Mentalist

[RabbiSteve]

Nice list. But for me, I’d have to include THE ROCKFORD FILES and COLUMBO.