crime TV Shows & Characters

Explore the best crime TV shows, characters, and fan communities on TVCeleb.com.

141
Shows
423
Characters

About crime Television

The crime genre has produced some of the most compelling and culturally significant television of the modern era. TVCeleb profiles 141 crime series spanning networks including Cinemax / HBO Max, Showcase, CBS, NBC, with streaming available on platforms like Max, Netflix, CBS. These shows represent the full breadth of what crime television can achieve, from intimate character studies to sweeping narratives that have shaped how audiences engage with the medium.

Across these 141 series, TVCeleb profiles 423 distinct characters who have captivated audiences and inspired dedicated fan communities. Among the most popular are Sarah Lund from The Killing (Forbrydelsen) (played by Sofie Grabol), Troels Hartmann from The Killing (Forbrydelsen) (played by Lars Mikkelsen), Jan Meyer from The Killing (Forbrydelsen) (played by Soren Malling), Joaquin Manchado from Iron Reign (played by Eduard Fernandez), Rocio Manchado from Iron Reign (played by Natalia de Molina). Each character profile includes detailed arc analysis, key episodes, fan ecosystem mapping, and Fan Heat Index scoring that measures engagement, social activity, and cultural impact.

Whether you're a longtime fan of crime television or discovering these shows for the first time, TVCeleb provides the most comprehensive resource for exploring the characters, relationships, and storylines that make crime series so compelling. Our detailed profiles go beyond basic plot summaries to examine what makes each character resonate with audiences, how they contribute to their show's themes, and why they've inspired such passionate fan communities.

crime Shows (141)

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Cinemax / HBO Max Ended

Warrior

2019-2023 · 3 Seasons

A martial-arts prodigy is swept into the deadly Tong Wars of 1870s San Francisco Chinatown in this saga built from Bruce Lee's own concept.

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Showcase Ended

Continuum

2012-2015 · 4 Seasons

A cop from a corporate-ruled 2077 is flung back to 2012 with the terrorists she was guarding, forcing her to police the past to protect the future.

sci-fitime-travelcrime
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CBS Ended

Magnum, P.I.

1980–1988 · 8 Seasons

A laid-back Vietnam vet turned private eye solves crimes from a Hawaiian estate, a red Ferrari, and a borrowed life of luxury.

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NBC Ended

Miami Vice

1984–1989 · 5 Seasons

Two Metro-Dade vice detectives work undercover against drug traffickers and organized crime in a stylish, neon-lit 1980s Miami.

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ABC Ended

Moonlighting

1985–1989 · 5 Seasons

An ex-model and a fast-talking detective run a Los Angeles agency together, trading rapid-fire banter and dodging romance while solving cases.

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NBC Ended

The Rockford Files

1974–1980 · 6 Seasons

James Garner stars as Jim Rockford, an easygoing ex-con private eye who works closed and cold cases out of a Malibu trailer, relying on wit and fast talk more than fists.

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NBC Ended

Hill Street Blues

1981–1987 · 7 Seasons

Landmark 1981–1987 NBC police drama following the ensemble of an overburdened inner-city precinct, known for its gritty realism, overlapping storylines, and serialized arcs.

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CBS Ended

Cagney and Lacey

1982-1988 · 7 Seasons

A CBS police drama following two women NYPD detectives, the single and ambitious Christine Cagney and the married mother Mary Beth Lacey, whose partnership and friendship anchor stories about crime and social issues.

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NBC Ended

Quincy, M.E.

1976–1983 · 8 Seasons

An NBC crime drama starring Jack Klugman as a crusading Los Angeles medical examiner whose autopsies keep turning into full-blown investigations, often spotlighting social issues.

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NBC Ended

Matlock

1986-1995 · 9 Seasons

Folksy but sharp Atlanta defense attorney Ben Matlock solves murders and wins acquittals with last-minute courtroom gotchas.

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ABC Ended

Charlie's Angels

1976–1981 · 5 Seasons

Three women leave the police academy to become private investigators for the unseen Charlie, taking on glamorous and dangerous undercover cases in this 1970s ABC ratings smash.

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tvN Ended

Signal

2016 · 1 Season

A present-day profiler and a 1989 detective communicate through a mysterious walkie-talkie to reopen and solve long-cold cases, discovering that the past can change the present.

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SonyLIV Ended

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

2020 · 1 Season

A biographical drama tracing stockbroker Harshad Mehta's rise and the 1992 Indian securities scam, based on the book by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal.

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tvN Ended

Stranger (Secret Forest)

2017–2020 · 2 Seasons

A near-emotionless prosecutor and an empathetic detective uncover corruption linking prosecutors, police, and a conglomerate in tvN's acclaimed Korean legal-crime thriller.

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Netflix Ended

Juvenile Justice

2022 · 1 Season

A stern, principled judge who openly dislikes juvenile offenders pursues rigorous justice on a Korean juvenile court, exposing the systemic failures behind youth crime.

dramalegalcrime
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tvN Ended

Little Women (2022)

2022 · 1 Season

Three poor but devoted sisters are pulled into a deadly mystery surrounding a vast fortune and the powerful family guarding it.

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JTBC Ended

Beyond Evil

2021 · 1 Season

A 2021 JTBC psychological crime thriller in which an eccentric, much-suspected rural detective and a sharp, distrustful elite inspector circle a small town's long-buried disappearances and each other.

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SBS Ended

Through the Darkness

2022 · 1 Season

A 2022 SBS procedural, based on a real profiler's memoir, about the pioneers of criminal profiling in Korea's police and the quiet, empathetic analyst Song Ha-young who proves the discipline's worth.

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SBS Returning

Taxi Driver

2021–present · 2 Seasons

A secret deluxe taxi company called Rainbow Taxi, led by ex-special-forces driver Kim Do-gi, quietly helps victims of crime find justice when the law fails them, in this SBS action drama adapted from a hit webtoon.

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Amazon Prime Video Returning

Farzi

2023–present · 1 Season

A gifted but struggling artist is drawn into running an elaborate counterfeit-currency operation while a volatile task-force officer hunts him down, in Raj and DK's Hindi crime thriller.

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Netflix Returning

Bloodhounds

2023 · 1 Season

Two upstanding young boxers join a kind-hearted elderly moneylender to take on a predatory loan-shark operation in this 2023 Netflix Korean action drama built on loyalty and camaraderie.

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Netflix Returning

A Killer Paradox

2024 · 1 Season

An ordinary college student, Lee Tang, becomes entangled in a series of deaths and comes to believe he only harms people who deserve punishment, while a dogged detective closes in. A moody Netflix thriller about guilt, vigilantism, and whether killing can ever be justified.

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JTBC Ended

Behind Your Touch

2023 · 1 Season

A small-town veterinarian who can read memories by touch teams up with a by-the-book detective to solve local crimes, in a warm 2023 Korean comedy mystery.

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Amazon Prime Video Returning

Dahaad

2023 · 1 Season

A tenacious lower-caste policewoman in small-town Rajasthan links a string of overlooked disappearances to a single predator, confronting caste and gender bias as she investigates.

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Netflix Returning

Tokyo Swindlers

2024 · 1 Season

A sleek 2024 Netflix Japanese thriller about jimenshi, land swindlers who forge documents and impersonate owners to fraudulently sell prime Tokyo real estate, led by cold mastermind Harrison Yamanaka and haunted negotiator Takumi Tsujimoto.

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Netflix Returning

Guns and Gulaabs

2023–present · 1 Season

A 1990s-set Netflix retro crime-comedy from Raj and DK, following a lovelorn mechanic, a quirky cop, and assorted gangsters whose lives collide over a single opium deal in a small north Indian town.

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MBC Ended

Chief Detective 1958

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 MBC and Disney+ Korean period crime drama and prequel to Chief Inspector, following righteous young detective Park Yeong-han and his ragtag team taking on corruption and crime in 1950s Korea with fists and heart.

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Netflix Ended

Killer Soup

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Netflix Indian dark-comedy crime series in which aspiring cook Swathi Shastri and her look-alike lover replace her businessman husband after a death, sparking an escalating cover-up farce as a bumbling police investigation closes in.

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Disney+ Hotstar Returning

Aarya

2020–present · 3 Seasons

A devoted mother is forced to take control of her family's dangerous business to protect her children after her husband is killed.

crimethrillerdrama
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Netflix Ended

Karma

2025 · 1 Season

A Netflix Korean thriller in which six strangers find their fates entangled by a chain of debt, deceit, and a single violent event whose consequences ripple across all their lives.

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Netflix Ended

Mercy for None

2025 · 1 Season

A man who left the gang world years ago returns to the criminal underworld to find out who killed his brother, cutting through rival organizations toward the truth in this stylish 2025 Netflix Korean action-noir.

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Netflix Ended

The Frog

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Netflix Korean mystery-thriller from Mo Wan-il in which two timelines at the same remote countryside pension follow owners whose quiet lives are upended by the arrival of a mysterious, dangerous guest.

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TV Chosun Ended

The Confidence Queen

2025 · 1 Season

A 2025 Korean crime caper in which a brilliant con artist, Yoon Yi-rang, and her team run elaborate, glamorous stings on the corrupt and the greedy. A remake of Japan's Confidence Man JP.

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SBS Ended

Buried Hearts

2025 · 1 Season

A betrayed insider survives a near-fatal incident and returns to dismantle a corrupt chaebol-and-political network, matching wits with a ruthless power broker in this 2025 SBS and Disney+ Korean revenge thriller.

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Netflix Ended

Dabba Cartel

2025 · 1 Season

Suburban women running a home tiffin service in Thane slide into a risky new trade, juggling family life and a dangerous double life in this women-led crime dramedy.

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JTBC Ended

The Nice Guy

2025 · 1 Season

A 2025 JTBC Korean romance-melodrama: Park Seok-cheol, the gentle eldest son of a provincial gang family, carries a decades-long first love for Kang Mi-young in a sweeping, star-crossed story of devotion and sacrifice with a noir edge.

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Netflix Released

Dhoom Dhaam

2025 · 1 Season

A mismatched newlywed couple, the cautious Veer and the free-spirited Koyal, are thrown into one chaotic night on the run from gangsters and police over a mysterious name, Charlie, forcing the near-strangers to trust each other.

comedyactionromance
74
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ENA Ended

Salon de Holmes

2025 · 1 Season

Four overlooked housewives in an aging apartment complex turn their domestic instincts into detective work, solving neighborhood crimes out of their own salon in a witty Sherlock-flavored whodunit.

mysterycomedydrama
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Netflix Ended

Black Warrant

2025 · 1 Season

A 2025 Netflix Hindi prison drama from Vikramaditya Motwane, based on a true memoir, following idealistic young jailer Sunil Gupta inside Delhi's Tihar Jail in the 1980s.

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Prime Video Released

Stolen

2025 · 1 Season

When an infant is snatched from a railway platform, two brothers of very different temperaments are pulled into a tense overnight chase to recover the child, colliding with class divides and rising mob suspicion.

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ZEE5 Released

Costao

2025 · 1 Season

The true story of Costao Fernandes, a Goa customs officer who took on a powerful gold-smuggling operation in the 1990s and paid a heavy personal price for refusing to be bought.

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Netflix Ended

Khakee: The Bengal Chapter

2025 · 1 Season

An upright IPS officer wages a methodical war on a Kolkata crime syndicate and its political patrons in this Bengali-rooted installment of the Khakee franchise.

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SonyLIV Ended

Kankhajura

2025 · 1 Season

A SonyLIV crime drama set in Goa, where a man released from prison returns to his brother's family and old wounds and buried secrets resurface.

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Netflix Ended

Mandala Murders

2025 · 1 Season

A suspended cop and a CIB officer investigate a chain of ritualistic killings in the town of Charandaspur, tracing them across a dual timeline to a secret cult chasing a dark idea of perfection.

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Netflix Released

Demon City

2025 · 1 Season

A quiet hitman, framed and left for dead by a masked cabal hiding behind respectable faces, returns to tear the conspiracy apart in this stylized 2025 Japanese revenge thriller.

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ATV Ended

Black Money Love

2014-2015 · 2 Seasons

A grieving Istanbul detective and an elegant jeweler are drawn together as they investigate the suspicious deaths of his fiancee and her father, uncovering corruption, betrayal, and an unexpected love.

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MX Player Returning Series

Aashram

2020-2023 · 3 Seasons

A charismatic self-styled godman builds a vast devoted following at his ashram while concealing the corruption and abuses of power behind a saintly facade, as a few seekers and a dogged investigation begin to uncover the truth.

dramathrillercrime
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Netflix Returning Series

Berlin

2023-2024 · 1 Season

A Money Heist prequel following master thief Berlin in his golden years as he assembles a slick new crew for a dazzling jewel heist in Paris.

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RUV Ended

Trapped

2015-2019 · 3 Seasons

In a snowbound, blizzard-cut-off Icelandic fishing town, police chief Andri Olafsson must solve a brutal mystery before the thaw lets the culprit escape, in a slow-burn, atmosphere-driven Nordic-noir.

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DR Ended

The Killing (Forbrydelsen)

2007-2012 · 3 Seasons

The landmark Danish Nordic-noir series in which Copenhagen detective Sarah Lund works single, season-long investigations that braid police work with family grief and political fallout.

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Netflix Ended

Suburra: Blood on Rome

2017-2020 · 3 Seasons

Netflix's first Italian original follows three young men, an Ostia clan heir, a Sinti-family outsider and a striving police officer's son, who form an uneasy alliance to seize control of a lucrative coastal land deal that the mob, politicians and the Vatican all covet.

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Netflix Ended

The Great Heist

2020 · 1 Season

A six-part Colombian dramatization of the legendary 1994 Banco de la Republica robbery, following a debt-ridden schemer and his hand-picked crew as they meticulously plan and tunnel their way toward the largest cash heist in the country's history.

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Sky Italia Ended

Romanzo Criminale - La Serie

2008-2010 · 2 Seasons

In 1970s-80s Rome, three childhood friends rise from petty crime toward control of the city's underworld, only to be undone by ambition, politics, and one another.

crimedramaitalian
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Netflix Ended

The Mire

2018-2021 · 2 Seasons

In 1980s communist-era Poland, a veteran reporter and a young journalist investigate a tangle of crimes in a provincial town and uncover a long-buried local secret.

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Amazon Prime Video Returning Series

Cangaco Novo

2023-present · 1 Season

A sheltered Sao Paulo bank clerk learns his late father led a modern-day cangaco in the Brazilian sertao, and is pulled back to the Northeast to confront a family and a legacy he never knew, in a stylish drama steeped in folklore and regional music.

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Amazon Prime Video Returning Series

The Bad Guy

2022-present · 2 Seasons

An Italian dark comedy in which a disgraced Sicilian anti-mafia prosecutor, framed for the crimes he fought, adopts the identity of a criminal to clear his name in a stylish satire of the mafia-drama genre.

comedycrimesatire
66
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HBO Ended

Beforeigners

2019-2021 · 2 Seasons

When flashes in the Oslo fjord begin depositing people from the Stone Age, the Viking era, and the 1800s into the present, a burned-out detective is paired with Norway's first Viking-age police officer in a witty sci-fi crime drama about time migrants and the allegory of migration.

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Een Ended

The Twelve

2019-2022 · 2 Seasons

Twelve ordinary Belgians are called for jury duty and must decide the fate of a woman accused of two murders, as the pressures of the trial collide with their own lives.

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Een (VRT) Ended

Undercover

2019-2022 · 3 Seasons

Two police officers pose as a holidaying couple at a campground to get close to a suspected synthetic-drug kingpin, in a tense Belgian-Dutch cat-and-mouse drama about the toll of a double identity.

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Movistar+ Ended

Hierro

2019-2021 · 2 Seasons

On the remote volcanic island of El Hierro, an unconventional judge arrives just as a murder shakes the community, and finds herself locked in a wary cat-and-mouse with a powerful local businessman who is her prime suspect.

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Amazon Prime Video Returning Series

Poacher

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Indian crime drama in which Kerala forest officers and an NGO race to dismantle one of India's largest ivory poaching networks, based on a real investigation.

crimedramaindian
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NPO Ended

Penoza

2010-2017 · 4 Seasons

When her husband is murdered, an ordinary wife and mother is forced to take over his hidden criminal enterprise to protect her children and survive Amsterdam's underworld.

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Netflix Ended

El Reino

2021-2023 · 2 Seasons

After a presidential candidate is assassinated, his running mate, a charismatic evangelical pastor, is pushed toward power in this acclaimed Argentine Netflix thriller about faith, corruption, and the price of ambition.

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Netflix Ended

Good Morning, Veronica

2020-2024 · 3 Seasons

A frustrated Sao Paulo police-department clerk starts secretly investigating the cases on her desk and is pulled out from behind it into real danger in this acclaimed Brazilian Netflix crime thriller.

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Netflix Ended

The Chestnut Man

2021 · 1 Season

Two mismatched Copenhagen detectives hunt a methodical killer who leaves a small chestnut figure at each scene, a case that tangles with a politician's daughter's year-old disappearance.

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TF1 Returning Series

HPI

2021-present · 3 Seasons

A chaotic single mother and police-station cleaner with a genius IQ becomes an exasperating, brilliant consultant to a by-the-book Lille detective.

comedycrimedrama
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Rai 1 Returning Series

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone

2017-present · 4 Seasons

A band of misfit detectives, reassigned to a troubled Naples precinct after a scandal, redeem themselves by solving cases against the vivid backdrop of the city in this Rai 1 procedural based on Maurizio de Giovanni's novels.

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Viaplay Returning Series

Wisting

2019-present · 3 Seasons

A veteran Norwegian detective and his crime-journalist daughter work parallel threads of the same case as an American FBI team arrives in rural Norway, in a Nordic-noir drama based on Jorn Lier Horst's Cold Case Quartet novels.

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Netflix Ended

Iron Reign

2024 · 1 Season

A powerful logistics family controls cargo at the Port of Barcelona until a disrupted shipment threatens their grip and ignites a war.

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France 2 Ended

Black Spot

2017-2019 · 2 Seasons

An atmospheric French crime drama set in Villefranche, a forest-ringed town with a sky-high murder rate and no phone signal, where a determined gendarmerie major and an eccentric prosecutor investigate cases edged with folklore and the uncanny.

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Netflix Ended

O Mecanismo

2018-2019 · 2 Seasons

A Brazilian Netflix crime thriller in which two obsessive federal agents unravel a sprawling money-laundering and bribery network reaching the top of business and politics.

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Netflix Ended

Snabba Cash

2021-2022 · 2 Seasons

A Swedish Netflix crime drama in which an ambitious startup founder, Leya, is drawn into Stockholm's criminal economy as the worlds of finance and the street collide.

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Netflix Returning Series

Detective Forst

2024 · 1 Season

An unorthodox Krakow detective hunts a killer in the Tatra mountains while a journalist chases the same case, in Netflix's Polish thriller from Remigiusz Mroz's novels.

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Amazon Prime Video Ended

Dom

2021-2024 · 3 Seasons

A former police drug-enforcement consultant watches in anguish as his son drifts into addiction and becomes a notorious Rio armed-robbery gang leader, their two destinies mirroring each other across a generation in this Brazilian crime drama loosely based on a true story.

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Sky Italia Ended

Blocco 181

2022 · 1 Season

Three young people from different backgrounds navigate friendship, first love, and loyalty in the multicultural housing blocks of suburban Milan, set to the Italian rap and trap scene.

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TV Asahi Ended

Dele

2018 · 1 Season

A reclusive programmer who erases the digital data of the dead and the energetic young man he hires keep getting pulled into the mysteries their late clients leave behind.

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Netflix Ended

The Believers

2024 · 1 Season

Three struggling friends turn a failing temple into a wildly profitable faith-business empire, and money, power, and deception pull them into escalating danger.

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Netflix Ended

42 Days of Darkness

2022 · 1 Season

When a woman vanishes, her determined sister battles police indifference and a flawed investigation to find the truth in this restrained Chilean drama loosely inspired by a real case.

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Netflix Returning Series

The Victims Game

2020-2024 · 2 Seasons

A forensic investigator on the autism spectrum fears his estranged daughter is tied to a string of deaths, and teams with a dogged journalist to find the truth.

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Netflix ended

Turn of the Tide

2023 · 1 Season

In an Azorean fishing village, a group of young friends find a fortune washed ashore and are tempted to change their hard lives, drawing danger to the island.

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Netflix Ended

Blood Sisters

2022 · 1 Season

When a bride's controlling fiance disappears at their lavish engagement party, she and her fiercely loyal best friend go on the run, unraveling a powerful Nigerian family's secrets.

thrillerdramanigerian
62
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RTS Returning

Shadows over Balkans

2017-2019 · 2 Seasons

In 1930s Belgrade, a principled police inspector unravels a string of bizarre cases entangling emigres, a secretive cult, and the political intrigue of interwar Yugoslavia.

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Netflix Ended

King of Boys: The Return of the King

2021 · 1 Season

A formidable businesswoman and former underworld power returns from exile to seize political authority in Lagos, navigating rivalries, family, and ambition.

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ICTV Ended

The Sniffer

2013-2019 · 4 Seasons

A consultant with a superhumanly acute sense of smell helps a special bureau crack baffling cases, deducing astonishing detail from scent while paying a quiet social cost for his gift.

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Puhu TV Ended

Sahsiyet (Persona)

2018 · 1 Season

A retired Istanbul court clerk newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's uses his remaining lucid time to right an old wrong, as a sharp young detective steadily closes in.

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M-Net / Showmax Ended

Reyka

2021-2023 · 2 Seasons

In the sugarcane country of KwaZulu-Natal, a brilliant criminologist who survived a childhood abduction profiles a serial offender while navigating her unresolved bond with the man who once held her captive.

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RUV / Netflix Ended

The Valhalla Murders

2019 · 1 Season

In a wintry, grey-skied Reykjavik, detective Kata and a profiler recalled from Norway, Arnar, work a troubling case that leads back to the buried secrets of a shuttered boys' home, in a slow-burn Icelandic Nordic-noir.

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Viaplay Ended

Furia

2021-2024 · 2 Seasons

An undercover investigator living quietly in a small Norwegian town tracks a cross-border web of online radicalization in this Viaplay thriller.

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Netflix Ended

Maldivas

2022 · 1 Season

A young woman arrives at a glossy gated condominium in Rio to find her mother missing, and with a band of eccentric neighbors she unravels the scandals and secrets hidden behind its manicured facades.

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Yle / Netflix Ended

Bordertown

2016-2020 · 3 Seasons

A brilliant detective moves his family to a quiet Finnish border town, only to face cases that test his unusual mind.

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Videoland Ended

Mocro Maffia

2018-2024 · 6 Seasons

Three childhood friends rise through Amsterdam's drug underworld, their loyalty tested by ambition and betrayal in this Dutch crime drama.

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Netflix Ended

Dear Child

2023 · 1 Season

A German Netflix thriller in which a woman's escape after years in captivity unravels a deeper mystery, as police and a grieving father piece together the truth and the survivors begin to recover.

thrillermysterydrama
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ENA Ended

Crash

2024 · 1 Season

An elite Traffic Crime Investigation unit, led by a math-genius former civil servant turned detective, cracks the hidden crimes buried inside road accidents in this clever Korean procedural.

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Netflix Ended

The Green Glove Gang

2022-2024 · 2 Seasons

Three quick-witted older women hide out in a retirement home after a heist goes sideways and keep pulling clever capers from inside.

comedycrimepolish
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Netflix Ended

Anthracite

2024 · 1 Season

In the French Alps, an online sleuth and a local man with a troubled past uncover the buried legacy of a 1990s sect while searching for her missing father.

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Netflix Ended

The Breakthrough

2025 · 1 Season

A four-part Swedish Netflix drama about a sixteen-year-old cold case cracked when a dogged detective teams with a pioneering genealogy-DNA expert, making forensic history.

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NPO 3 Ended

The Spectacular

2022 · 1 Season

A Dutch crime drama based on real events: in the late-1980s Limburg border region, detective Jeanine Maes leads an investigation into a wave of attacks on British soldiers, weighing idealism against the human cost.

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HBO Latin America Ended

Fugitives

2011-2013 · 2 Seasons

A Chilean HBO Latin America crime thriller in which four very different men, thrown together after a deal in the northern desert goes catastrophically wrong, are forced to flee south across the country, hunted by police and criminals alike as their pasts close in and an unlikely bond forms under pressure.

crimethrillerdrama
57
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Netflix Returning

Rana Naidu

2023-2025 · 2 Seasons

A slick Mumbai fixer who cleans up the messes of the rich and famous sees his carefully managed life upended when his estranged, volatile father is released from prison and re-enters the family, in Netflix's Hindi adaptation of Ray Donovan.

dramacrimeindian
57
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SBS Ended

The Fiery Priest

2019 · 1 Season

A hot-tempered Catholic priest with a hidden past teams up with a bumbling detective and a sharp prosecutor to expose the corruption behind his mentor's death in this hit Korean action-comedy.

actioncomedycrime
59
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SBS Ended

The Killing Vote

2023 · 1 Season

A masked figure asks the public to vote by text on whether criminals who escaped justice should be condemned, and a principled detective races to stop the scheme in this 2023 Korean thriller that turns vigilante justice into a moral debate.

dramathrillercrime
56
Netflix Renewed

Criminal Code

2023 · 1 Season

A Federal Police squad chases a meticulous robbery crew across the Brazil-Paraguay border in a tense, real-events-inspired investigation.

crimethrillerbrazilian
56
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Netflix Ended

A Nearly Normal Family

2023 · 1 Season

A Swedish limited series in which a pastor father and lawyer mother are pushed to moral extremes when their teenage daughter becomes a murder suspect, with the same events retold from each family member's perspective.

dramacrimethriller
55
Tabbar title image
SonyLIV Ended

Tabbar

2021 · 1 Season

A retired, mild-mannered family man in Punjab is pushed to increasingly desperate measures to protect his children after one fateful night, testing how far an ordinary father will go.

crimedramathriller
56
WOWOW Released

Gold Boy

2024 · 1 Season

A brilliant, cold teenager films a serious crime by chance and turns the footage into a chilling game of blackmail with the man responsible, in a chess-like battle of wits and nerve.

thrillercrimedrama
54
Netflix Renewed

Unseen

2023 · 1 Season

An overlooked Cape Town cleaning woman searches for her newly released husband and finds that her invisibility to society becomes her sharpest tool in a dangerous world.

thrillerdramasouth-african
54
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SonyLIV Ended

Undekhi

2020-2024 · 3 Seasons

When a brutal crime at a powerful family's lavish wedding is accidentally caught on camera, a dogged policeman and a conscience-stricken videographer race to expose the truth before the Atwals can bury the evidence.

crimethrillerdrama
55
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Netflix Miniseries

Pssica

2025 · 1 Season

On the rivers of the Atlantic Amazon, three lives collide amid river piracy, a desperate search, and the haunting folklore of Para in this four-part Brazilian Netflix miniseries.

dramathrillerbrazilian
54
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ENA Ended

Longing for You

2023 · 1 Season

A relentless violent-crime prosecutor and an instinctive detective are forced together on a serial-murder case that unearths buried secrets and a complicated bond, in this moody 2023 Korean mystery-thriller.

mysterythrillerkorean
56
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Apple TV+ Released

Women in Blue

2024 · 1 Season

In 1971 Mexico City, the first women admitted to the police force as a publicity stunt quietly band together to crack a case their male colleagues ignore, in Apple TV+'s 2024 period drama Las Azules.

dramacrimeperiod
56
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ZEE5 Returning

Gyaarah Gyaarah

2024 · 1 Season

Across the years 1990, 2001, and 2016, a present-day officer and a detective from the past speak through a mysterious walkie-talkie at 11:11, reopening cold cases that a generation had given up on.

crimethrillermystery
56
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RAI 1 Returning

Blanca

2021-2024 · 2 Seasons

A resourceful blind police consultant with extraordinary hearing and a devoted guide dog cracks cases on the Ligurian coast, slowly winning over a skeptical inspector.

crimedramaprocedural
54
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RAI 1 Returning

Imma Tataranni - Sostituto procuratore

2019-2026 · 5 Seasons

A brilliant, blunt deputy prosecutor in the cave city of Matera chases down injustice with fierce determination, juggling stubborn casework, a crowded family life, and a charged partnership with a young Carabinieri marshal.

dramaitaliancrime
53
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Netflix Ended

Jamtara

2020-2022 · 2 Seasons

A gang of small-town young men runs a thriving phishing scam in Jharkhand until a greedy politician and a dogged cop upend their world.

crimedramaindian
55
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RAI 1 Ended

Inspector Montalbano

1999-2021 · 14 Seasons

A wry, food-loving police inspector solves crimes his own way in the sun-soaked fictional Sicilian town of Vigata, in a beloved RAI series adapted from Andrea Camilleri's novels.

crimedramaprocedural
58
Fuji TV Ended

Ichikei's Crown

2018 · 1 Season

An unconventional criminal-court judge abandons the bench's passivity to chase the truth himself, clashing with a by-the-book colleague over what justice really demands.

legaldramajapanese
54
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Amazon Prime Video Returning Series

Red Queen

2024 · 1 Season

A reclusive woman with the highest IQ ever recorded is drawn back into the world by a secret unit and paired with a haunted detective to solve crimes only she can crack, in this Spanish-language adaptation of Juan Gomez-Jurado's novels.

thrillercrimedrama
56
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Sky Italia Returning

Petra

2020-2023 · 3 Seasons

A prickly, independent woman inspector and her warm, old-school deputy form an unlikely partnership solving layered cases on the steep streets of Genoa.

crimedramaitalian
53
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RAI 1 Ongoing

Don Matteo

2000-2025 · 14 Seasons

A kindly small-town priest in Gubbio and later Spoleto solves crimes through compassion and insight, gently outpacing the local Carabinieri in RAI 1's beloved long-running cozy mystery.

crimedramacomedy
57
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Tokyo MX Ended

Hotel Inhumans

2025 · 1 Season

A discreet luxury hotel secretly caters only to the criminal underworld, run by a coolly professional manager who guarantees total discretion in this stylish 2025 anime thriller.

animeactionthriller
70
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NTV Ended

The Files of Young Kindaichi

2022 · 1 Season

A goofy Japanese high-schooler with his famous detective grandfather's gift unravels elaborate locked-room and island murders in this clean, classic NTV whodunit.

mysterycrimejapanese
54
TF1 Returning Series

Balthazar

2018-present · 5 Seasons

A brilliant, charismatic forensic pathologist who can make the dead speak teams with a police captain to solve murders across Paris, all while chasing the truth behind his own wife's death.

crimedramamystery
54
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France 2 Returning Series

Astrid et Raphaelle

2019-2025 · 5 Seasons

A warm French crime drama in which Astrid, a meticulous autistic judicial-records archivist with an encyclopedic memory, teams with impulsive police captain Raphaelle Coste to solve baffling cases.

crimedramafrench
55
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France 2 Ended

Candice Renoir

2013-2025 · 11 Seasons

A sharp policewoman returns to the force after years raising four children, blending maternal instinct and detective skill to crack cases in a sunny French Mediterranean town.

crimecomedydrama
53
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RAI 1 Ended

Provaci ancora prof!

2005-2017 · 7 Seasons

A witty Italian literature teacher cannot resist playing amateur detective, cracking cases while juggling family life and the patience of her police-officer partner in RAI 1's warm cozy mystery-comedy.

comedycrimedrama
51
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Canale 5 Ended

Carabinieri

2002-2008 · 7 Seasons

The officers of a small-town Carabinieri station in Umbria handle everyday cases and warm community life in Canale 5's beloved 2000s light police series.

comedycrimedrama
48
France 2 Ended

Cherif

2013-2019 · 6 Seasons

In sunny Lyon, film-buff police detective Kader Cherif cracks cases with unorthodox charm and movie smarts while juggling fatherhood in this warm France 2 dramedy.

crimecomedydrama
51
France 2 Ongoing

Tropiques Criminels

2019-2025 · 5 Seasons

A France 2 crime drama set in Martinique, pairing a sharp female police commander with her contrasting colleague and local detective to solve island cases against a Caribbean backdrop.

crimedramafrench
51
Gaddar title image
NOW Ended

Gaddar

2024 · 1 Season

A soldier returns home on leave to find his family fractured and is pulled into a local crime boss's world as he tries to protect the people he loves, in this 2024 Turkish drama led by Cagatay Ulusoy.

dramaturkishcrime
52
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Canale 5 Ended

Distretto di Polizia

2000-2012 · 11 Seasons

A long-running Italian police procedural on Canale 5 following the officers of Rome's fictional X Tuscolano precinct through their casework and personal lives across eleven seasons.

crimedramapolice
51
TF1 Ended

Section de Recherches

2006-2024 · 16 Seasons

Long-running French TF1 procedural following an elite Gendarmerie investigative unit, led for many seasons by Xavier Deluc as Martin Bernier, as they work demanding cases from Bordeaux to Nice.

crimedramapolice
51
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M6 ended

Lea Parker

2004-2006 · 2 Seasons

A French M6 action-crime series following Lea Parker, an elite undercover operative in a secret police unit led by her father, who hides her real job from everyone close to her while taking on a new mission each week.

actioncrimedrama
50
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France 3 Ongoing

Cassandre

2015-2025 · 8 Seasons

In the alpine Annecy region, methodical police commander Florence Cassandre solves self-contained mysteries with patience and instinct, leading a close team in this warm France 3 crime series.

crimedramafrench
51
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ZDF Ongoing

Notruf Hafenkante

2007-2025 · 19 Seasons

Long-running German police-and-clinic procedural on ZDF, set on the Hamburg waterfront, following the officers of a harbor police station and the doctors of a nearby hospital as they handle each call together.

crimedramapolice
50
Amazon Prime Video Ended

El Presidente

2020-2022 · 2 Seasons

A satirical Chilean-led drama on Amazon Prime Video that dramatizes the FIFAGate scandal through a small-club chairman swept into global football intrigue.

dramacomedysatire
50
VTV Ended

The Arbitrator (Nguoi Phan Xu)

2017 · 1 Season

A landmark 2017 VTV crime drama about an aging patriarch who rules a powerful family enterprise, told through loyalty, secrecy, and the moral cost of his decisions.

dramacrimefamily
82
Netflix Renewed

The Are Murders

2025- · 1 Season

A burned-out Stockholm officer retreats to the snowbound ski town of Are, only to be drawn into a missing-person case alongside a local detective in this atmospheric Swedish Nordic-noir whodunit adapted from Viveca Sten's novels.

crimedramathriller
78
Netflix Ended

The Glass Dome

2025 · 1 Season

A criminologist returns to her remote Swedish hometown for a funeral and is pulled into the search for a missing child, a case that echoes her own childhood abduction.

crimethrillernordic-noir
63
Mzansi Magic Ended

Gomora

2020-2023 · 3 Seasons

A Johannesburg township telenovela in which a privileged family and a struggling one are bound together after a fatal accident, anchored by a protective matriarch and a mother whose comfortable life unravels.

dramacrimetelenovela
78
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HBO Europe Ended

Success

2019 · 1 Season

An HBO crime thriller set in Zagreb in which four strangers from different walks of life are bound together by a single violent night and the cover-up that follows.

dramacrimethriller
71
Os Donos do Jogo title image
Netflix Returning

Os Donos do Jogo

2025- · 1 Season

A Brazilian crime drama set in the Rio de Janeiro underworld of the jogo do bicho betting game, following an ambitious newcomer named Profeta as rival families fight for control.

crimedramathriller
72

Top crime Characters (423)

Sofie Grabol as Sarah Lund
The Killing (Forbrydelsen)

Sarah Lund

Played by Sofie Grabol

Seasons 1-3 (2007-2012) 80
Lars Mikkelsen as Troels Hartmann
The Killing (Forbrydelsen)

Troels Hartmann

Played by Lars Mikkelsen

Season 1 (2007) 74
Soren Malling as Jan Meyer
The Killing (Forbrydelsen)

Jan Meyer

Played by Soren Malling

Season 1 (2007) 73
Eduard Fernandez as Joaquin Manchado
Iron Reign

Joaquin Manchado

Played by Eduard Fernandez

Season 1 66
Natalia de Molina as Rocio Manchado
Iron Reign

Rocio Manchado

Played by Natalia de Molina

Season 1 64
Chino Darin as Victor Julve
Iron Reign

Victor Julve

Played by Chino Darin

Season 1 63
Bruna Marquezine as Liz Lobato
Maldivas

Liz Lobato

Played by Bruna Marquezine

Season 1 63
Manu Gavassi as Milene Jardim
Maldivas

Milene Jardim

Played by Manu Gavassi

Season 1 62
Sheron Menezzes as Rayssa Velasquez
Maldivas

Rayssa Velasquez

Played by Sheron Menezzes

Season 1 60
Rana Daggubati as Rana Naidu
Rana Naidu

Rana Naidu

Played by Rana Daggubati

Seasons 1-2 60
Venkatesh Daggubati as Naga
Rana Naidu

Naga

Played by Venkatesh Daggubati

Seasons 1-2 58
Surveen Chawla as Naina Naidu
Rana Naidu

Naina Naidu

Played by Surveen Chawla

Seasons 1-2 54
Warrior

Ah Sahm

Played by Andrew Koji

2019-2023 (seasons 1-3) 0
Warrior

Young Jun

Played by Jason Tobin

2019-2023 (seasons 1-3) 0
Warrior

Ah Toy

Played by Olivia Cheng

2019-2023 (seasons 1-3) 0
Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron
Continuum

Kiera Cameron

Played by Rachel Nichols

2012-2015 0
Victor Webster as Carlos Fonnegra
Continuum

Carlos Fonnegra

Played by Victor Webster

2012-2015 0
Erik Knudsen as Alec Sadler
Continuum

Alec Sadler

Played by Erik Knudsen

2012-2015 0
Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum
Magnum, P.I.

Thomas Magnum

Played by Tom Selleck

Seasons 1-8 0
John Hillerman as Jonathan Higgins
Magnum, P.I.

Jonathan Higgins

Played by John Hillerman

Seasons 1-8 0
Roger E. Mosley as Theodore "TC" Calvin
Magnum, P.I.

Theodore "TC" Calvin

Played by Roger E. Mosley

Seasons 1-8 0
Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett
Miami Vice

Sonny Crockett

Played by Don Johnson

Seasons 1–5 (1984–1989) 0
Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs
Miami Vice

Ricardo Tubbs

Played by Philip Michael Thomas

Seasons 1–5 (1984–1989) 0
Edward James Olmos as Martin Castillo
Miami Vice

Martin Castillo

Played by Edward James Olmos

Seasons 1–5 (1984–1989) 0

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