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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is the BBC One crime drama (2001–2008, 24 episodes) adapting Elizabeth George's novels, starring Nathaniel Parker as DI Thomas Lynley and Sharon Small as DS Barbara Havers, later reimagined as Lynley.
The Loch (TV series)
The Loch (Loch Ness in the US) is a 2017 six-part ITV crime drama written by Stephen Brady, starring Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, and Don Gilet, set near Loch Ness; it topped the UK Netflix chart in 2025.
The Long Shadow (TV series)
The Long Shadow is a 2023 seven-part ITV1/ITVX true crime drama by George Kay and Lewis Arnold about the Yorkshire Ripper hunt, based on Michael Bilton's Wicked Beyond Belief, centering victims rather than Peter Sutcliffe.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
The Madame Blanc Mysteries is a British cosy crime drama created by Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent, starring Lindsay as antiques dealer Jean White in fictional Sainte Victoire, France, filmed on Gozo and Malta, airing on Channel 5 and Acorn TV since 2021.
The Mallorca Files
The Mallorca Files is a 2019 BBC/ZDF buddy-cop crime drama created by Dan Sefton, starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman as British and German detectives on Mallorca; three seasons (2019–2024), Season 3 on Prime Video.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NBC spy-adventure series 1964-1968 created by Norman Felton and Sam Rolfe with Ian Fleming's input, starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin of U.N.C.L.E. versus THRUSH; 105 episodes, Girl from U.N.C.L.E. spinoff, 1983 TV movie, 2015 Guy Ritchie film.
The Pembrokeshire Murders
The Pembrokeshire Murders is a 2021 three-part ITV true crime drama starring Luke Evans as Steve Wilkins and Keith Allen as serial killer John Cooper, adapted from Wilkins and Jonathan Hill's book Catching the Bullseye Killer.
The Professionals (TV series)
The Professionals is a British crime-action TV series (ITV, 1977-1983), created by Brian Clemens, about CI5 agents Bodie (Lewis Collins) and Doyle (Martin Shaw) under George Cowley (Gordon Jackson); 57 episodes, peak 17.6 million viewers.
The Red King (TV series)
The Red King is a 2024 British six-part crime thriller and folk-horror series created by Toby Whithouse, starring Anjli Mohindra as Sergeant Grace Narayan investigating a missing-boy cold case on the fictional Welsh island of St. Jory, home to the pagan cult of the True Way; aired on Alibi, later AMC+.
The Responder
The Responder: BBC One British police crime drama (2022-2024) created by ex-Merseyside officer Tony Schumacher, starring Martin Freeman as burnt-out Liverpool night-shift response officer Chris Carson; two five-part series, International Emmy for Freeman, followed by Schumacher's The Cage.
The Serpent (TV series)
The Serpent is a 2021 BBC One/Netflix eight-part true-crime drama by Mammoth Screen about Charles Sobhraj's 1970s hippie-trail murders and Herman Knippenberg's investigation, starring Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman and Billy Howle.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is Kate Summerscale's 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize-winning true-crime book on the 1860 Road Hill House murder of Saville Kent, Inspector Jonathan Whicher's failed investigation, and the case's influence on detective fiction; adapted for ITV (2011–2014) and stage (2023).
The Sweeney
The Sweeney: British ITV police drama (1975-1978), created by Ian Kennedy Martin, starring John Thaw as Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as George Carter of the Flying Squad; Euston Films 16mm production, two 1970s films and a 2012 remake.
The Tunnel (TV series)
The Tunnel is a British-French bilingual crime drama (2013-2017, Sky Atlantic/Canal+), adapted from Bron/Broen (The Bridge), starring Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy as detectives on the Channel Tunnel border, three series.
This City Is Ours
This City Is Ours is a British BBC One and iPlayer crime drama created by Stephen Butchard, produced by Left Bank Pictures, starring Sean Bean as Liverpool gang boss Ronnie Phelan in an eight-part succession saga, renewed for a second series in October 2026.
Time (2021 TV series)
Time is a BAFTA-winning BBC One prison-drama anthology created by Jimmy McGovern, first broadcast 6 June 2021. Three self-contained series cover a men's prison (Sean Bean, Stephen Graham), a women's prison (Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey), and a young offender institution (David Tennant).
Tin Star (TV series)
Tin Star, a British crime drama by Rowan Joffé for Sky Atlantic and Prime Video (2017-2020), stars Tim Roth as police chief Jim Worth in the Canadian Rockies town of Little Big Bear; three seasons, 25 episodes, ending with Tin Star: Liverpool.
Top Boy
Top Boy is a British crime drama created by Ronan Bennett, set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in Hackney, following Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kano). Two Channel 4 series (2011, 2013), then a Drake-backed Netflix revival (2019-2023), BAFTA-winning, with Jonny Boy and Jaq spin-offs announced.
Traces (TV series)
Traces is a British forensic crime drama (2019, 2022), written by Amelia Bullmore from Val McDermid's idea, set in Dundee's fictitious Scottish Institute of Forensic Science, produced by Red for UKTV's Alibi, advised by Dundee's LRCFS.
Treason (TV series)
Treason is a 2022 Netflix British spy thriller limited series, five episodes created by Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies), starring Charlie Cox as MI6 chief Adam Lawrence, with Olga Kurylenko and Oona Chaplin; released 26 December 2022, mixed reviews.
Trigger Point (TV series)
Trigger Point is a British ITV thriller created by Daniel Brierley, produced by Jed Mercurio's HTM Television, starring Vicky McClure as Met Police bomb disposal officer Lana Washington; four six-episode series (2022-2026), ITV's best performing 2022 drama, distributed internationally by All3Media International.
Under Salt Marsh
Under Salt Marsh: six-part 2026 Sky Original Welsh crime thriller created, written and directed by Claire Oakley, starring Kelly Reilly and Rafe Spall, set in fictional Morfa Halen, premiered 30 January 2026 on Sky and NOW, renewed for a Scottish-set series two.
Undercover (2016 TV series)
Undercover (2016) is a six-part BBC One crime drama by Peter Moffat. Sophie Okonedo plays barrister Maya Cobbina, set to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions, whose husband Adrian Lester is a former undercover police officer.
Unforgotten
Unforgotten: British ITV cold-case crime drama (2015– ) created by Chris Lang; Sanjeev Bhaskar's DI Sunny Khan with DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker), later DCI Jess James (Sinéad Keenan), solving one decades-old murder per six-episode series.
Untitled Charlie Brooker series
Untitled Charlie Brooker Project, later titled Charlie Brooker's Blackmere, is a Netflix crime spoof series created by Charlie Brooker, starring Paddy Considine, Georgina Campbell, and Lena Headey, debuting early 2027.
Van der Valk
Van der Valk is a British detective franchise about Amsterdam commissaris Piet van der Valk, created by novelist Nicolas Freeling. It spans the ITV original (1972–1992, Barry Foster, theme "Eye Level") and the 2020 reboot starring Marc Warren on ITV and PBS Masterpiece.
Vera (TV series)
Vera (ITV1, 2011–2025) is a British crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope, adapted from Ann Cleeves' novels and set in Northumberland and Newcastle; it ran 14 series and ended January 2025.
Vigil (TV series)
Vigil (BBC One, 2021–) is a British police thriller by Tom Edge starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie; series 1 investigates a death aboard a Trident Vanguard-class submarine, later series cover RAF drones and an Arctic station, drawing over 13 million UK viewers and an International Emmy.
Virdee
Virdee is a 2025 six-part BBC One British crime drama set in Bradford, adapted by A. A. Dhand from his novel City of Sinners. Staz Nair stars as DI Harry Virdee; the BBC cancelled it in February 2026 after averaging 3.3 million viewers.
Waking the Dead (TV series)
Waking the Dead: BBC One British police procedural crime drama (2000–2011) created by Barbara Machin; 92 episodes, 9 series; Trevor Eve as DSU Peter Boyd leading a London cold-case unit; spin-off The Body Farm.