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Sherwood (2022 TV series)
Sherwood is a BBC One crime drama by James Graham set in a Nottinghamshire mining village, based on two 2004 murders including Keith Frogson's, exploring miners' strike divisions and spycops; two series, 2022 and 2024.
Shetland (TV series)
Shetland is a British crime drama series, first broadcast on BBC One in 2013, following Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team investigating crimes on the Shetland Islands.
Sight Unseen (TV series)
Sight Unseen is a Canadian CTV/CW crime drama (2024–2025) created by Karen and Nikolijne Troubetzkoy, starring Dolly Lewis as clinically blind detective Tess Avery and Agam Darshi as remote guide Sunny Patel; 20 episodes, two seasons, filmed in Vancouver.
Signal (시그널) (South Korean TV series)
Signal (시그널) is a 2016 South Korean fantasy police procedural drama on tvN, starring Lee Je-hoon, Kim Hye-soo, and Cho Jin-woong as detectives linked by a walkie-talkie across time.
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a long-running BBC crime drama created by Nigel McCrery, first broadcast 21 February 1996, following forensic pathologists; 29 seasons and 268 episodes, led in recent series by Emilia Fox as Dr Nikki Alexander.
Silk Stalkings
Silk Stalkings: Stephen J. Cannell's 1991–1999 American crime drama about Palm Beach, Florida homicide detectives, airing on CBS late night and USA Network, 176 episodes, cable's longest-running original drama at cancellation.
Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon: CBS detective series (1981–1989), created by Philip DeGuere Jr., starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as brother PIs Rick and A.J. Simon in San Diego; 156 episodes, saved by the Magnum, P.I. timeslot, 1995 reunion film.
Smoke (TV series)
Smoke is a 2025 Apple TV+ nine-episode crime drama created by Dennis Lehane, starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as investigators hunting two serial arsonists, loosely based on the Firebug podcast and the John Orr arson case.
Snatch (TV series)
Snatch (2017–2018) is a Crackle comedy-drama series loosely based on Guy Ritchie's 2000 film, created by Alex De Rakoff, starring Rupert Grint and Luke Pasqualino as hustlers entangled with stolen gold bullion in London's underworld; 20 episodes, two seasons, mixed reviews.
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy (SAMCRO) is Kurt Sutter's FX crime drama (2008–2014, 7 seasons, 92 episodes) about an outlaw motorcycle club in Charming, California, a Hamlet-inspired gunrunning saga starring Charlie Hunnam, with spin-off Mayans M.C.
Southland (TV series)
Southland is an American LAPD crime drama created by Ann Biderman, aired on NBC in 2009 and on TNT 2010-2013 across five seasons and 43 episodes, known for hand-held documentary realism and two stunt-coordination Emmys.
Spenser: For Hire
Spenser: For Hire is an American crime drama (1985–1988) adapted from Robert B. Parker's novels. It starred Robert Urich as a Boston private detective and Avery Brooks.
Spiral (TV series)
Spiral (Engrenages) is a French police and legal drama, Canal+'s first internationally successful crime series, running eight seasons (2005–2020, 86 episodes) about Paris's 2e DPJ unit, with Laure Berthaud, Joséphine Karlsson, and Judge Roban; International Emmy 2015.
Spooks (TV series)
Spooks (MI-5 in the US) is a BBC One spy drama about MI5's Counter-Terrorism section, created by David Wolstencroft, produced by Kudos, 2002–2011, 10 series, 86 episodes, Bafta-winning, famous for killing lead characters.
Stan Lee's Lucky Man
Stan Lee's Lucky Man: British Sky 1 crime drama (2016–2018) by Stan Lee and Neil Biswas. James Nesbitt plays DI Harry Clayton, a gambling-addicted Murder Squad detective whose ancient bracelet controls luck, at a price.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a Crackle crime drama created by Ben Ketai (2016-2018, 3 seasons, 30 episodes), starring Adam Brody, Edi Gathegi, Otmara Marrero, and Martin Freeman, about Miami founders funding the GenCoin cryptocurrency with dirty money.
Steal (2026 TV series)
Steal is a 2026 British heist thriller series on Prime Video, created by Sotiris Nikias, starring Sophie Turner as Zara Dunne, caught in a £4 billion pension-fund robbery at Lochmill Capital; six episodes premiered January 21, 2026.
Strike Back: Legacy
Strike Back: Legacy is the fifth series of the action drama Strike Back, airing 10 episodes on Sky One from 3 June to 29 July 2015. It stars Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, and Michelle Yeoh as villain Li-Na of North Korea's Office 39.
Stumptown (TV series)
Stumptown is a 2019–2020 American ABC crime drama based on Greg Rucka's graphic novels, starring Cobie Smulders as Portland PI Dex Parios; one 18-episode season, renewed then canceled in 2020 over COVID delays.
Suburra: Blood on Rome
Suburra: Blood on Rome is a 2017 Italian crime drama series on Netflix, Italy's first Netflix original, following a three-way war between the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and the Vatican.
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, a 2002–2005 Canadian-filmed crime drama on PAX and CTV, stars deaf actress Deanne Bray as real-life FBI lip reader Sue Thomas; 56 episodes, created by the Johnson brothers, originally titled Lip Service.
Superfakes
Superfakes is an upcoming A24/UCP crime drama series created by Alice Ju for Peacock, starring Lucy Liu as a Chinatown counterfeit dealer drawn into New York's black market; filming began January 2026, expected 2027, UK on Sky and NOW.
Suspects (TV series)
Suspects: British improvised police procedural on Channel 5, 2014-2016, five seasons and 23 episodes; created by Paul Marquess, Darren Fairhurst, and Steve Hughes; cast improvise all dialogue from story outlines in documentary style; starred Fay Ripley, Damien Molony, Clare-Hope Ashitey.
Suspicion (2022 TV series)
Suspicion (2022) is an eight-episode Apple TV+ thriller, also adapted from the Israeli series False Flag (Kfulim), starring Uma Thurman as Katherine Newman, whose son Leo is kidnapped in New York; four British suspects flee the FBI and National Crime Agency. Cancelled after one season in 2023; Metascore 49, RT 46%.
T. J. Hooker
T.J. Hooker (Thomas Jefferson Hooker) is a 1982-1986 ABC/CBS police drama starring William Shatner as a demoted detective training rookies, created by Rick Husky for Spelling-Goldberg, 92 episodes, later a planned Netflix reboot.
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish television detective drama created by Glenn Chandler for STV and ITV, set in Glasgow's Maryhill CID. It ran 1983 to 2010 across 27 series and 110 episodes, survived Mark McManus's 1994 death, and sold to over 140 territories.
Take Two (TV series)
Take Two is a 2018 ABC comedy-drama procedural created by Castle's Andrew W. Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller, starring Rachel Bilson as actress Sam Swift and Eddie Cibrian as PI Eddie Valetik; 13 episodes, canceled November 2018 after low 0.6 ratings.
Tatort
Tatort (crime scene) is the long-running German-language ARD crime series, first broadcast 29 November 1970 with "Taxi nach Leipzig", produced by regional broadcasters with ORF and SRF, over 1,200 episodes, about 20 rotating city teams, Sundays 8:15 p.m.
The Asset (TV series)
The Asset (Danish: Legenden) is a 2025 Danish Netflix crime thriller in which cadet Tea Lind goes undercover as a jeweler to befriend a cocaine trafficker's girlfriend; six episodes, renewed for a second season in January 2026.
The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers (TV series): British spy-fi series, ITV 1961–1969, created by Sydney Newman, starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed with partners Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, and Tara King; 161 episodes.