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The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018)
6.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Two British veterans of wartime codebreaking join American women with their own wartime experience. They bring pattern recognition to crimes that look unrelated at first. Pick it for separate cases tied together by a team and its life outside the investigation.
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Nancy Drew (2019)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Nancy and other young people in Horseshoe Bay investigate after finding themselves tied to a death. Choose the CW version for amateur detective work that becomes intertwined with real supernatural events, with the larger mystery carrying over between episodes.
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
The young amateur detectives take turns leading cases in this 1970s series, with a few crossovers once the shows are established. Try it for self-contained adventure mysteries whose sleuths have to work with the everyday access a teenager has.
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
The gang unmasks suspects in individual cases and gradually collects clues about Crystal Cove itself. It works when you want an animated team solving clues the police write off, with a substantially bigger story reaching across the cases.
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The Pale Horse (2020)
6.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Mark Easterbrook’s name turns up on a list connected to deaths. He tries to learn why, using contacts and asking questions before anyone can offer him a clear official answer. Choose it for an amateur mystery with a more oppressive mood and a personal reason to keep digging.
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Scrublands (2023)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
A journalist goes to a rural Australian town to cover the anniversary of a shooting. People’s stories make him question the established explanation. Choose it for a thriller in which reporting on one subject becomes the means of investigating a larger one.
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Population 11 (2024)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A visiting American banker goes looking for his missing father in a tiny Australian town. He has to ask people who all know the town better than he does and have their own reasons to keep things quiet. Pick it for a comic serial investigation with an outsider at the center.
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Father Brown (1974)
6.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Kenneth More plays Father Brown in the earlier British series based on G. K. Chesterton’s stories. He relies on his understanding of people and conscience when others are looking mostly at appearances. Choose it to compare a quieter version of the priest with the later village procedural.
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Professor T (2021)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
In the British version, Cambridge criminology professor Jasper Tempest is drawn into police work that he was doing only at an academic distance. Pick it for cases where an expert’s classroom habits and uneasy relationships with official investigators affect how he offers help.
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Professor T. (2015)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
The original Flemish-language series follows Antwerp professor Jasper Teerlinck as he supplies an outsider’s interpretation of crimes. Choose it for the university setting and the friction that comes from a professor sharing an answer before he has shared his reasoning.
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HIP - High Intellectual Potential (2021)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
The French original follows Morgane, whose talent for spotting a contradiction lands her a role with police. She starts the story working as a cleaner. Pick the original to see her take on an individual case before comparing it with the U.S. adaptation, High Potential.
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Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)
6.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A veteran Swedish investigator is retired when a television producer draws him back into a string of cases. Choose it for a former professional working outside the usual police role and a partner who sees the same clues through the demands of making a show.
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Quincy, M.E. (1976)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
The medical examiner takes an active part when a body raises questions the original account does not answer. Pick it for a classic series where examining the evidence and going out to learn what happened are both part of a doctor’s investigation.
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The Hardy Boys (2021)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Brothers Frank and Joe look into a death that brings them back to a town where the adults have reasons to keep quiet. Choose the 2020 series for a larger mystery that grows through several episodes, with the boys relying on local friends as well as one another.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
The original animated series sends the friends and their dog into places where someone has arranged a scare. Pick it for short, self-contained cases built around clues, a comic chase, and finding out who was behind the costume.
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The Snoop Sisters (1973)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Two older sisters with a shared interest in writing mysteries take on actual ones. Choose the run of cases from the 1970s for a deliberate, sometimes comic approach built around two people who know how a suspect’s story ought to fit together.
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Mrs. Columbo (1979)
5.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Kate Mulgrew plays a local newspaper reporter with a habit of asking about crimes she encounters. The series changed titles during its run, ending as Kate Loves a Mystery. Choose it for the curiosity of a working reporter who has a life to keep up alongside her cases.
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Death and Other Details (2024)
6.7/10on IMDb
First aired
During a murder investigation aboard a ship, Imogene makes an uneasy team with a professional detective she already knows. They disagree about what to notice and what to believe. Try it for a single serialized case in which the amateur has a personal reason to stay involved.
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Lord Peter Wimsey (1972)
First aired
Ian Carmichael plays Dorothy L. Sayers’s amateur aristocratic detective in the 1970s BBC adaptations. His connections and Bunter’s help let him ask questions in rooms closed to most people. Choose it for one extended investigation at a time.
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Edward Petherbridge’s Lord Peter Wimsey investigates cases that also involve crime novelist Harriet Vane. Try this separate 1987 adaptation for the partnership between two amateurs and their growing willingness to question each other’s conclusions.
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