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TV Shows & Series: Best "mystery" TV Shows/Series

A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction. Mystery films include, but are not limited to, films in the genre of detective fiction. While cinema featured characters such as Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s, several other Sherlock Holmes likes characters appeared such as Boston Blackie and The Lone Wolf. Several series of mystery films started in the 1930s with major studios featuring detectives like Nick and Nora Charles, Perry Mason, Nancy Drew and Charlie Chan. While original mystery film series were based on novels, by the 1940s many were sourced from comics and radio series. Towards the 1940s these series were predominantly produced as b-movies, with nearly no mystery series being developed by the 1950s. Around the 2020s a wave of popular theatrical straight mystery films were released theatrically including Kenneth Brannagh's Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Rian Johnson's Knives Out (2019) as well as on streaming services with the parodic Murder Mystery (2019) starring Adam Sandler. ()
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True Detective(2014-)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 1,498 votes)

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga - With Matthew McConaughey, Adria Arjona

A Próxima Vítima(1995)

45min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next.

With José Wilker

Alma Gêmea(2005-2006)

40min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama, Comedy, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A young woman is fated to relive the love of an earlier life. Separated by time, young Serena and botanist Rafael surmount all obstacles as they live a love that is stronger than fate itself. These challenges include the lovely but ambitious Cristina, who is obsessed by the rich botanist and driven nearly mad by her attempts to shatter their great love. A romantic comedy set in the 1940s, Soul Mate underscores the importance of love, family values and the ties of affection with a light touch and plenty of humor.

With Priscila Fantin, Eduardo Moscovis, Flávia Alessandra

Climax!(1954-1958)

1h per episode | Drama, Mystery
1.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

Directed by John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson, Jack Smight, Don Medford

The Avengers(1961-1969)

TV-Y7
| 50min per episode | Action & Adventure, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 60 votes)

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.

With Patrick Macnee, Ian Hendry, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Patrick Newell, ...

Alert: Missing Persons Unit(2023-)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

When police officer Nikki Batista’s son goes missing, she joins the Philadelphia Police Department's Missing Person’s Unit (MPU) to help other people find their loved ones, even as she searches for her own. Six years later, her world is turned upside-down when her ex-husband, Jason Grant, a former police officer, shows up with a proof-of-life photo of their missing boy. Or is it?

A Touch of Frost(1992-2010)

2h per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 28 votes)

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

With David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White

Night and Day(2001-2003)

30min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Night and Day is a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.

House of Anubis (NL)(2006-2009)

25min per episode | Kids & Family, Mystery, Soap / Telenovela
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A group of boarding school students embark on the search for a treasure when one of them discovers a long hidden secret in the attic.

Directed by Bart Van Leemputten - With Loek Beernink, Achmed Akkabi

Mysteries at the Museum(2010-)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's most incredible triumphs, sensational crimes and bizarre encounters.

Gravity Falls(2012-2016)

TV-Y7
| 22min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
4.3/5 (with 1,326 votes)

Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Directed by Aaron Springer, Rob Renzetti, Stephen Sandoval, Matt Braly

iZombie(2015-2019)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 1,343 votes)

A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.

With Rose McIver, Malcolm Goodwin, Rahul Kohli, Robert Buckley, David Anders, Aly Michalka, ...
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo(1988-1991)

TV-G
| 23min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 131 votes)

The world's favorite chicken-hearted canine, as a puppy? That's right! And the old gang is back with him. Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Freddy are all here as gangly kids — goofing off, solving kid-size mysteries, and having run-ins with ghouls, ghosts, and goblins.

Merlin(2008-2012)

TV-PG
| 43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 426 votes)

The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.

With Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Richard Wilson, Nathaniel Parker, ...

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators(2018-)

TV-PG
| 45min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

With Jo Joyner, Mark Benton, Amber Agar, Roberta Taylor, Tomos Eames

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates(1996-1998)

TV-G
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

With Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham Davies, Suzanne Maddock

Agatha Raisin(2016-)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Comedy, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 20 votes)

Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.

With Ashley Jensen

Trickster(2016-2017)

TV-PG
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.

Secrets of the Dead(2000-)

NR
| 56min per episode | Documentary, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Part detective story, part true-life drama, long-running series explores some of the most iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new light on past events. Using the latest investigative techniques, forensic science and historical examination, it shatters accepted wisdom, challenges prevailing ideas, overturns existing hypotheses, spotlights forgotten mysteries, and ultimately rewrites history.

Nancy Drew(2019-2023)

NR
| 42min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 129 votes)

Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.

With Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon, Alvina August, ...

Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight(2009)

TV-Y7
| Action & Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 40 votes)

Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is an American science fiction superhero television series that originally aired on The CW, as part of the CW4Kids programming block, from December 13, 2008 to December 26, 2009. It is an adaptation of the Japanese tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Ryuki and is the second installment in the Kamen Rider franchise to be adapted for American audiences after Saban's Masked Rider in 1995. The series was developed for television by Steve and Michael Wang and produced by Jimmy Sprague through Adness Entertainment.

With Stephen Lunsford, Matt Mullins

GARO -VANISHING LINE-(2017-2018)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

In a prosperous city named Russell City, an omen that threatens to shake its world begins to move within it. A man named Sword is the first to hear the first stirrings of the plot, and throws himself into a shadow war in order to expose it. His only clue is the key word "El Dorado." He meets Sophie, a woman searching for her missing older brother who has only left her with the same words: "El Dorado." With Sword having also lost his younger sister in the past, both are drawn together by the words, and work together to find out its meaning.

TIGER & BUNNY(2011-2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

In an alternate New York City protected by a band of superheroes called NEXT, veteran Wild Tiger is forced to team up with rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr.

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Crimini(2006-2010)

1h 38min per episode | Crime, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends(1999-2003)

TV-Y7
| 30min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A group of allied intelligence agents discover that extraterrestrial beings arrived on Earth centuries ago and have been thriving through the exploitation of humans. Believed to be the origins of many of the creatures humans know from myth, folklore and legends, including vampires and werewolves, the group discovers that these aliens have now formed a sinister cadre bent on taking over the world for themselves. In response, the agents form a top-secret multinational agency known as The Global Alliance, charged with protecting the world from the alien threat and keeping it a secret from the public at any cost.

With Eli Gabay

Kindaichi Case Files(1997-2000)

25min per episode | Animation, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 8 votes)

High schooler Hajime Kindaichi is a brilliant detective beneath his slacker habits. With his old friend Miyuki, he solves cases the police can't.

The A List(2018-2021)

TV-PG
| 25min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 45 votes)

Romance, rivalry and radical mystery collide as a group of teens attend a remote island sleepaway camp in this suspenseful, supernatural drama.

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The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries(1984)

TV-Y7
| 30min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 46 votes)

Picking up where 'The New Scooby and Scappy Doo Show' left off. The main difference being that the team is now occasionally joined by Daphne Blake and friends to solve mysteries together.

The Spoils Before Dying(2015)

TV-14
| 23min per episode | Comedy, Crime
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Fictional author-filmmaker, Eric Jonrosh, adapts his epic tale of a pianist-turned-detective investigating a murder in the 1950s underground jazz scene.

With Will Ferrell

Kaal Bhairav Rahasya(2017-)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Mystery
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Kaal Bhairav Rahasya is an Indian mystery-thriller television series airing on Star Bharat since 30 October 2017. The show is shot in Bhopal and stars Rahul Sharma, Sargun Kaur, Chhavi Pandey and Ahwaan Kumar in lead roles.

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