Mysteries: Old
List of mystery series that are no longer in production. Once one of these series is completely viewed, it should be moved to the “Mysteries: Viewed” list
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- CreatorMåns MårlindHans RosenfeldtBjörn SteinStarsSofia HelinRafael PetterssonSarah BobergWhen a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
- CreatorJimmy McGovernStarsRobbie ColtraneGeraldine SomervilleKieran O'BrienDr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.
- CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsMichael KitchenHoneysuckle WeeksAnthony HowellAs WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
- StarsHelen MirrenJohn BenfieldTom BellA female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
- CreatorTed ChildsSusan RogersStarsJohn ThawOliver Ford DaviesNicholas JonesA crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
- CreatorJanet TamaroStarsAngie HarmonSasha AlexanderJordan BridgesDetective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles team up to solve crimes in Boston.
- StarsWilliam SimonsDerek FowldsTricia PenroseThe 1960s lives and adventures of the police constabulary, medical staff, and residents of Ashfordly and Aidensfield.
- StarsSuranne JonesLee MasseyDavid OyelowoA five-part mini-series that revolves around the disappearance of a young mother in a quiet British suburb and the circumstances that leave her children abandoned far from home.
- CreatorStuart OrmeStarsIain GlenNora-Jane NooneKillian ScottIrish ex-cop Jack Taylor solves crimes as a maverick private investigator. Based on Ken Bruen's crime-drama books.
- CreatorColin BatemanStarsJames NesbittDel SynnottClaudia HarrisonAs a maverick cop with a dark past, DS Tommy Murphy fails a psychiatric assessment but is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment.
- CreatorAndrew PayneStarsRichard GriffithsMaggie SteedMalcolm SinclairDI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty.
- CreatorLynda La PlanteStarsGareth MarksPaul BettanyEmily WoofStudents get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?.
- CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsJames PurefoyCharlie Creed-MilesSasha BeharA defense barrister is faced with the proposition: what can you do when you have defended the indefensible?
- DirectorMichael WhyteStarsAmanda BurtonMatthew MarshNicholas JonesCommander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison but is now out on parole and is a successful author with a best-selling book. Blake's colleagues however, especially DCI Mike Hedges, believe Lampton is responsible for another murder and are out to prove his guilt. Things become complicated when Blake and Lampton become intimate and the question arises whether he is being honest with her or is simply a master manipulator.
- StarsMatt CostelloJayd JohnsonBronagh GallagherGlasgow 1982, a young girl investigates mysterious murders in a world of men.
- StarsAidan GillenSam SpruellSophie OkonedoMayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.
- CreatorSteve KnapmanKris WyldStarsDon HanySusie PorterAaron Fa'aosoEast West 101 is set around the Major Crime Squad in metropolitan Sydney. It is based upon the experiences of actual detectives in a crime unit in Sydney's western suburbs.
- StarsLeo McKernJonathan CoyJulian CurryThe cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
- StarsKen StottClaire PriceJennifer BlackSet in Edinburgh, the mercurial Detective Inspector John Rebus's investigations lead him through the city's ancient beauty and into its more sinister quarters.
- StarsHelen MirrenStephen TompkinsonLaura GreenwoodApproaching retirement, Jane Tennison investigates the murder of a missing girl. But the cracks soon begin to show as Jane struggles with an alcohol problem and her father's death.
- StarsHelen MirrenLiam CunninghamOleg MenshikovDetective Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.
- StarsHelen MirrenJohn BrobbeyJulia LaneSuperintendent Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss.
- DirectorPaul MarcusStarsHelen MirrenPip DonaghyTim WoodwardA series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.
- DirectorSarah Pia AndersonStarsHelen MirrenThomas RussellJames LaurensonA seemingly straightforward sex murder investigation by Superintendent Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) leads to a hidden political scandal.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsHelen MirrenBeatie EdneyRobert GlenisterSuperintendent Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, but events take a turn for the worse when personal emotions cause complications.
- StarsHelen MirrenTom BellKaren TomlinAssigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.
- StarsHelen MirrenColin SalmonJohn BenfieldDetective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
- CreatorJosh AppelbaumAndré NemecScott RosenbergStarsJason O'MaraMichael ImperioliGretchen MolA present day car accident mysteriously sends a detective back to the 1970s.
- StarsMaurice DenhamAngela EasterlingChristopher WrenA collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisJames WarwickReece DinsdaleAgatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonLou ShawStarsJack KlugmanJohn S. RaginRobert ItoThe cases of a brilliant, if Irascible, coroner who investigates suspicious deaths which usually suggest murder.
- CreatorNeil CrossStarsIdris ElbaDermot CrowleyMichael SmileyJohn Luther is a brilliant homicide detective with a knack for getting inside the minds of murderers. Unfortunately, his unconventional methods and personal demons put him at odds with his team.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsPeter DavisonBrian GloverAndrew BurtIn 1930s England, a man from an aristocratic family takes up the pseudonym Albert Campion and, with the help of his ex-burglar manservant, solves mysteries.
- StarsAlan DobieWilliam SimonsDavid WallerThe Victorian era cases of Detective Sergeant Cribb of Scotland Yard's newly formed Criminal Investigation Department.
- StarsHywel BennettCheryl CampbellBelinda CarrollDr. Edmund Bickleigh is a man who is very careful and very determined. And he is especially determined to not get caught committing the perfect murder of his wife. In the end he succeeds but then finds circumstances are "agin him".
- CreatorAndrew BrownStarsFrank DuncanJames BolamMaria AitkenSuspense and mystery-themed anthology series.
- CreatorSøren SveistrupStarsSofie GråbølMorten SuurballeLars MikkelsenPolice detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.
- CreatorAdam PriceStarsSidse Babett KnudsenBirgitte Hjort SørensenSøren MallingA political drama about a prime minister's rise to power, and how power changes a prime minister.
- CreatorPatrick HarbinsonStarsBrooke HaynesHelen McCrorySam SwainsburyEmma Banville (Helen McCrory), a human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes, sets out to prove the innocence of Kevin Russell (Sam Swainsbury), who was convicted for the murder of a school girl fourteen years earlier.
- StarsDerek JacobiMichael CulverJulian FirthThe medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.
- StarsJemma RedgraveJohn HannahAce BhattiBrian Wicklow is jailed after a killing spree so macabre that he has become one of Britain's most notorious murderers. Vilified by the popular press and despised by fellow inmates, his notoriety is compounded by the fact that detectives, including Jake Osbourne, investigating his crimes have never found the body of his last victim. However no one is safe with Wicklow behind bars.
- CreatorPerry ChafeAllan HawcoMalcolm MacRuryStarsAllan HawcoKrystin PellerinMark O'BrienJake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John's, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings - not all of them on the right side of the law.
- StarsNeil DudgeonDiana RiggPeter DavisonPaired with her reliable and devoted chauffeur, Mrs Bradley's finely honed skills of investigation seek out the truth behind the mysteries surrounding a death at the opera, crimes of passion at a circus, poisoning and family secrets.
- CreatorRobert DohertyStarsJonny Lee MillerLucy LiuAidan QuinnA crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London, eccentric Sherlock escapes to New York where his father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.
- CreatorMatthew GrahamAshley PharoahStarsPhilip GlenisterKeeley HawesDean AndrewsAfter being shot in 2008 while investigating DCI Sam Tyler, DI Alex Drake wakes up in 1981.
- StarsPavel ReznícekSarah HavacovaAles PetrásProfesor T. is a Czech TV crime series set in Prague about an eccentric professor at Charles University, Jachym Tauber, who is an advisor to the police.
- CreatorHenning MankellStarsKrister HenrikssonFredrik GunnarssonMats BergmanA Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.
- StarsHarriet WalterEdward PetherbridgeRichard MorantA gentleman sleuth solves mysteries and falls in love with a detective novelist.
- StarsMark GreenstreetAngela BrowneFrederick TrevesWhen a lookalike agrees to impersonate a presumed dead heir, he suspects the death wasn't accidental as he gets close to the family.
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsHelen MirrenHarry AndrewsDavid SuchetWhen a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.
- StarsRobin BaileyMichael AldridgeTessa Peake-JonesTwo cricket-loving Englishman, now elderly, get involved in a bizarre plot which seems to involve espionage.
- StarsDavid TroughtonRobert LindsayCiarán McMenaminDetective Chief Inspector Michael Jericho of Scotland Yard is a respected, uncompromising and forward thinking detective investigating high-profile murders in 1950s London.
- StarsPeter BarkworthRonald FraserJoan BenhamA writer finds himself the prime suspect in his wife's murder.
- StarsGeraldine ChaplinChristopher GuardJohn ShrapnelA young Englishman becomes convinced that his friend and guardian has been murdered by his mysterious second wife.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsJonathan PryceCherie LunghiCarmen Du SautoyA middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
- StarsSam NeillMichael BryantNorman RodwayA dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
- StarsNorma WestAnnette Wilkie-MillerFrancesca Annis"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsJeremy BrettDavid BurkeRosalie WilliamsSherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.
- StarsDavid TennantToby KebbellBrid BrennanA junior barrister celebrated for spiriting people out of tight legal corners represents an accused murderer.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsJeremy BrettEdward HardwickeRosalie WilliamsSherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of the devil's foot, Silver Blaze, Wisteria Lodge and the Bruce-Partington Plans.
- DirectorJohn AlexanderStarsJared HarrisDoña CrollDavid HarewoodSally Lockhart and friends investigate the disappearance of a steamship, a magician who is threatened by thugs, a psychic with dark visions, and a heartless industrialist.
- StarsDiana QuickIan RichardsonJohn ShrapnelIn Victorian England, Laura and her half-sister Marian are entwined in a terrifying web of deceit. Laura's doppelganger, a mysterious woman dressed all in white, may hold the key to unlock the mystery.
- StarsIan HolmAngela DownIain CuthbertsonIn the London of the 1910s, a self-effacing, decent man of fifty confronts what appears to be the perfect opportunity to rid himself of his unloved, nagging wife and be free for a blissful life with his mistress.
- StarsRufus SewellCaterina MurinoStanley TownsendDetective Aurelio Zen brings justice to modern-day Italy.
- CreatorEric Ellis OvermyerStarsTitus WelliverJamie HectorAmy AquinoAn L.A.P.D. homicide detective works to solve the murder of a 13-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer.
- CreatorCarol HayMichelle RicciCal CoonsStarsLauren Lee SmithChantel RileyRebecca LiddiardThe series follows Frankie Drake, a female private detective operating in Toronto in the 1920s.
- StarsSian GibsonJohnny VegasSarah HadlandJohnny Vegas and Sian Gibson return to Gold's whodunit comedy caper for a new three-part original series from the minds behind Murder on the Blackpool Express, Death on the Tyne and Dial M for Middlesbrough.
- StarsRoy MarsdenRicci HarnettBritta SmithDalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a top flight lawyer with an abrasive reputation and turbulent private life.
- StarsRoy MarsdenIan BannenCathryn HarrisonCenters on takeover of Peverell Press by new CEO Gerard Etienne. Etienne wants big changes, but is killed mysteriously. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates, believing the motive lies in Peverell's dark history.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsRoy MarsdenMairead CartySean ScanlanScotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases. Dalgliesh and his team can't quite figure out why they've been assigned to what seems to be a straightforward murder case but it's clear that his superiors want him to get in and out as quickly as possible. There is any number of possible suspects and as Dalgliesh is fond to say, the motive for murder is inevitably greed or love.
- DirectorJohn DaviesStarsRoy MarsdenSimon ChandlerKenneth ColleyCommander Dalgleish of Scotland Yard investigates the apparent murder of a well-known author who is found floating in a dinghy with his hands chopped off. The man, Maurice Seton, had recently been ejected from a private club when he was caught photographing some of its members at the gambling tables. The club had been under suspicion of laundering large amounts of cash and had been the object of a police investigation for some time. The case becomes more complex when the autopsy reveals that Seton died of natural causes and that his hands had been removed post-mortem. As the investigation continues, there appear to be no end to the number of people who would like to have seen Seton dead, including his brother Digby, who stands to inherit, and literary critic Oliver Latham who was perpetually in debt. In his personal life, Dalgleish's relationship with Deborah Riscoe comes to a crossroads when the investigation interferes with their private life.
- StarsRoy MarsdenWendy HillerFiona FullertonSir Paul Berowne a prominent Government Minister turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home.
- StarsRoy MarsdenSusannah YorkGemma JonesWhilst on holiday on the English coast in Norfolk, Commander Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the hunt for the serial killer - The Whistler - amidst a backdrop of mystery and intrigue surrounding the running of a local nuclear power station.
- StarsRoy MarsdenMartin JarvisJohn Franklyn-RobbinsMajor Dalgliesh investigates mysterious deaths at Toynton Grange, a home for the disabled, where his former teacher, Father Baddeley, who invited him there, resides.
- StarsRoy MarsdenPhyllis CalvertMel MartinFollows Adam Dalgliesh as he investigates the death of Alice Liddell. A woman who ran a home for unwed mothers.
- StarsRoy MarsdenJoss AcklandSheila AllenWhen a student nurse with a penchant for petty blackmail is lethally poisoned during a routine procedure, Commander Dalgliesh and Inspector Massingham have to discover which, of the many guilty secrets held by the staff and students at Nightingale House, was a strong enough motive for murder.
- StarsRoy MarsdenBarry FosterRay BrooksForensic scientist Dr. Edwin Lorrimer is murdered. Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is assigned the case, having recently investigated another killing in the area. His pursuit of the truth unravels a web of dark secrets.
- CreatorBarbara MachinStarsTrevor EveSue JohnstonWil JohnsonDrama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.
- CreatorBen HarrisStarsAdam PålssonLeanne BestEllise ChappellFollow recently graduated police officer Kurt Wallander as he investigates his first case.
- CreatorJed MercurioStarsMartin CompstonVicky McClureAdrian DunbarDrama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.
- CreatorStephen M. IrwinLeigh McGrathStarsIoan GruffuddDarren GilshenanDamien GarveyHarrow tells the story of Dr. Daniel Harrow, a forensic pathologist with a total disregard for authority.
- CreatorClélia ConstantineClothilde JaminStarsTomer SisleyYannig SamotPhilypa PhoenixFacing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.
- CreatorNeil ForsythStarsMark BonnarEmun ElliottHenry PettigrewTwo brothers accidentally run over and kill an old man. They cover their tracks, but their lives start to fall apart when neighbors and relatives of the dead doubt the way he died.
- CreatorMatthew HallStarsEve MylesBradley FreegardMark Lewis JonesFaith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.
- CreatorChris MurrayStarsMarc WarrenMaimie McCoyDarrell D'SilvaA Dutch detective takes on criminal cases in Amsterdam using insightful human observation and his natural street smarts.