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TV Shows & Series: Best "crime fighter" TV Shows/Series

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary.Chinatown would be an example of a film that is a drama (film type) crime film (super-genre) that is also a noir (pathway) mystery (macro-genre). ()

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The A-Team(1983-1987)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.7/5 (with 456 votes)

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

With George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T, Melinda Culea, Marla Heasley, ...

MacGyver(1985-1992)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family, Crime, Western
3.9/5 (with 382 votes)

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

With Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Michael Des Barres, Traci Lords, Clive Revill, ...

Hawkeye(2021)

TV-14
| Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure
4.0/5 (with 1,520 votes)

Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a superhero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit.

With Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Vera Farmiga, Fra Fee, Tony Dalton, Zahn McClarnon, ...

El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera(2007-2008)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

The daily adventures of a 12 year old Mexican superhero dealing with bizarre enemies, as well as his own superhero father and villain grandfather.

Directed by Dave Thomas

NTSF:SD:SUV::(2011-2013)

11min per episode | Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

NTSF:SD:SUV:: – meaning National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle:: – is a quarter-hour format American television comedy that parodies the police procedural and action film genres.

Directed by Eric Appel

Kim Possible(2002-2007)

TV-G
| 22min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 220 votes)

If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side.

Directed by Steve Loter, Chris Bailey, David Block

Thunderbirds Are Go!(2015-2020)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Kids & Family, Action & Adventure, Animation
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Remake of the hit 1960s television show. In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must use it to benefit others. His answer to this desire is to create International Rescue, a unique private emergency response service equipped with customized designed vehicles and equipment that enable the organization to react to any crisis whether it be in sea, air, land, or space. Jeff's five sons volunteer to operate as the pilots and field agents, as well "Brain" who acts as the teams engineer. In addition, Jeff's friend, Kyrano and his daughter Tanusha aka Kayo (based on the original series Tin-Tin character) agree to be the support staff. In addition to the field team, IR also maintains an intelligence network with Lady Penelope and her ex-con chauffeur, Parker as the chief agents in this arm.

The Roy Rogers Show(1951-1957)

30min per episode | Western
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend Pat Brady, is often helping the weakest usually threatened by cattle thieves, dishonest sheriffs and villains of various kinds. Pat Brady works as a cook at the Eureka Café, owned by Dale Evans.

Directed by John English, Leslie H. Martinson, Christian Nyby - With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Trigger

Baywatch Nights(1995-1997)

43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the popular television series, Baywatch.

With David Hasselhoff

18 Wheels of Justice(2000-2001)

1h per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Justice Department undercover agent Michael Cates’s family was killed after he testified against crime boss Jacob Calder. Now Cates is working out of an 18 Wheeler under another undercover identity, that of Chance Bowman. As Cates wanders America listening to country music and helping people he is also dodging hit-men and still trying to take down Calder.

With Lucky Vanous

The Secret Squirrel Show(1965-1966)

TV-G
| 6min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

The half-hour The Secret Squirrel Show included three individual cartoon segments: "Secret Squirrel", "Squiddly Diddly" and "Winsome Witch".

Directed by William Hanna

Totally Spies!(2001-2014)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.6/5 (with 95 votes)

Totally Spies! depicts three girlfriends 'with an attitude' who have to cope with their daily lives at high school as well as the unpredictable pressures of international espionage. They confront the most intimidating - and demented - of villains, each with their own special agenda for demonic, global rude behavior.

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Team Knight Rider(1997-1998)

43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Team Knight Rider is a syndicated television series that was adapted from the Knight Rider franchise and ran between 1997 and 1998. TKR was created by writer/producers Rick Copp and David A. Goodman, based on the original series created by Glen A. Larson, who was an executive producer. TKR was produced by Gil Wadsworth and Scott McAboy and was distributed by Universal Domestic Television and ran only a single season of 22 one-hour episodes before it was canceled due to poor ratings. The story is about a new team of high-tech crime fighters assembled by the Foundation for Law and Government who follow in the tracks of the legendary Michael Knight and his supercar KITT. Instead of "one man making a difference", there are now five team members who each has a computerized talking vehicle counterpart. Like the original duo, TKR goes after notorious criminals who operate "above the law" – from spies and assassins, to terrorists and drug dealers. The final episode of the season, and series, featured the reappearance of Michael Knight, seen only from behind, at the very end.

With Brixton Karnes

Sea Hunt(1958-1961)

NR
| 30min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

With Lloyd Bridges

True Justice(2011-2012)

TV-MA
| Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Elijah Kane leads a hardcore undercover team of Seattle based cops who take on the local criminal element with a high-octane style of enforcement.

With Steven Seagal

Counterstrike(1990-1993)

NR
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama

Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.

With Simon MacCorkindale, Christopher Plummer, Tom Kneebone, Cyrielle Clair, Stephen Shellen, James Purcell, ...

Charlie's Angels(2011)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Everyone deserves a second chance—even a thief, a street racer and a cop who got in a little too deep. After all, the three women who solve cases for their elusive boss, Charlie Townsend, are no saints. They're angels... Charlie's Angels.

With Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor, Ramón Rodríguez, Victor Garber, Isaiah Mustafa, ...

Thunder in Paradise(1994)

42min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Thunder in Paradise was a one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which starred Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt. This first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video feature film in September 1993, then ran for one season in 1994, before being cancelled. The series was later rebroadcast on the TNT cable network.

With Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, Carol Alt, Patrick Macnee

Marvel's Iron Fist(2017-2018)

TV-MA
| 55min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 1,132 votes)

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

With Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, David Wenham, Jessica Stroup, Tom Pelphrey, Ramón Rodríguez, ...
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The Cape(2011)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
2.4/5 (with 32 votes)

"The Cape" is a drama series following Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife Dana and son, Trip. Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes "The Cape" - his son's favorite comic book superhero - and takes the law into his own hands.

Directed by Paul Sirmons - With David Lyons

The Highwayman(1987-1988)

1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

The Highwaymen fight crime in the near future.

Directed by Douglas Heyes - With Sam J. Jones, Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Jane Badler, Tim Russ

Almost Paradise(2020-)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

A former DEA agent forced into early retirement runs a gift shop in in the Philippines. Despite his best efforts to begin a tranquil new life, he’s pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations, either through his friends in the local police department or running into people from his old life. And the problem is: he likes it.

Pole Position(1984)

NR
| 25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Dan Darret and his two sisters, Tess and Daisy, are left to run the The Pole Position Stunt Show after their parents disappear during a stunt race. When their uncle Zachary reveals that their parents were government agents using the stunt show as a cover for a secret crime-fighting organization, the kids vow to carry on their parents' work. Along with pet Kuma and two high-tech talking cars, Roadie and Wheels, they become the New Pole Position Force.

Broken Badges(1990-1991)

48min per episode | Drama

Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama

Directed by Kim Manners

Road Rovers(1996-1997)

TV-Y
| 30min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The Road Rovers are a team of five super-powered crime-fighting anthropomorphic dogs known as "cano-sapiens". Their leader is Hunter, a golden retriever mix from the United States. The Rovers' boss is a scientist known as The Master who oversees their operations and supplies them with equipment from their subterranean headquarters.

With Jess Harnell

City Hunter(2011)

TV-Y
| 1h 5min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

The story takes place in Seoul, 2011. Lee Yoon-sung is a talented MIT-graduate who's working on the international communications team at the Blue House. He encounters dangerous situations while solving a variety of cases, both big and small, for people who need his help, and eventually becomes a "city hunter."

Directed by Jin Hyuk - With Lee Min-ho, Park Min-young, Lee Joon-hyuk, Hwang Sun-hee, Goo Hara

The Kids From C.A.P.E.R.(1976-1977)

30min per episode | Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Kids From C.A.P.E.R. was a Saturday morning live action television comedy series for children, produced by NBC, that aired from September 11, 1976, to November 20, 1976, and resumed from April 9, 1977, to September 3, 1977. The 13 episodes were produced and directed by Stanley Z. Cherry; among the executive producers was rock impresario Don Kirshner. Both Cherry and Kirshner had worked for previous television series; Kirshner notably for the similairly-themed The Monkees. Although the show has not been released on video, there is an LP of most of the songs from the series, released by Kirshner Records and Tapes in 1977. One of the songs from the series, "When It Hit Me" was released as a single. In addition, it was recorded by Rob Hegel for his 1980 album released by RCA. "Tit For Tat," and "Baby Blue" had both been previously released by Neil Sedaka on his 1975 album "Hungry Years."

With Robert Emhardt

The Master(1984)

44min per episode | Action & Adventure
2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

An aging ninja master and his young pupil travel in a custom van helping people in need along the way.

Directed by Ray Austin, Robert Clouse, Sidney Hayers, Gordon Hessler, Bruce Kessler, Alan Myerson, ... - With Lee Van Cleef

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco(2018)

45min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

During the thrilling social change of the mid-1950s, four remarkable women who previously served secretly during WWII as code-breakers, turn their skills to solving murders overlooked by police. In the process they are plunged into fascinating corners of the city, forge powerful relationships, and rediscover their own powers and potential.

Anime Crimes Division(2017-2018)

10min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

When someone commits a crime against anime, they don't call the police; they call the Anime Crimes Division. Detective Furaya is here to kick ass and eat Pocky, and he's all out of Pocky.

Directed by Freddie Wong - With SungWon Cho, Riley Rose Critchlow
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