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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural set in Hawaii, starring Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980.
Heartbeat (British TV series)
Heartbeat is a British ITV police period drama set in 1960s Yorkshire, based on Nicholas Rhea's Constable novels, running 18 series and 372 episodes from 1992 to 2010, filmed mainly in Goathland.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a British crime comedy-drama starring Patricia Routledge as a 60-year-old Lancashire woman who becomes a private detective, airing on BBC One from 1996 to 1998.
Hidden Assets
Hidden Assets is an Irish-Belgian crime drama (RTÉ One, 2021–) following the Criminal Assets Bureau; created by Peter McKenna and Morna Regan, starring Angeline Ball and Wouter Hendrickx, three seasons, Acorn TV co-production.
High Potential
High Potential is an American crime drama on ABC starring Kaitlin Olson as a high-IQ single mother consulting for the Los Angeles police, adapted from the French series HPI.
Hightown (TV series)
Hightown is a Starz crime drama (2020–2024) created by Rebecca Perry Cutter, set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, starring Monica Raymund as fisheries agent Jackie Quiñones; three seasons, 25 episodes, later a Netflix Top 10 title.
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is an NBC ensemble police drama (1981–1987) created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll for MTM Enterprises. Set in an unnamed city precinct, it pioneered handheld realism, overlapping dialogue, and serialized ensemble storytelling despite low ratings, winning consecutive Outstanding Drama Series Emmys.
Hinterland (TV series)
Hinterland (Y Gwyll, 'the dusk') is a Welsh crime drama set in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, starring Richard Harrington as DCI Tom Mathias. Shot back-to-back in Welsh and English for S4C and BBC, it ran three series (2013-2016) and founded Welsh noir.
Hit Point (TV series)
Hit Point is a 2026 British six-part crime drama, U&Dave's first original scripted series, written by Howard Overman, directed by David Caffrey, starring Nick Blood and Saffron Hocking as detectives in London's underworld.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC, 1993–1999) is an American police procedural adapted from David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, created by Paul Attanasio with Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana; it won three Peabodys and four Emmys despite low ratings.
Hope Street (TV series)
Hope Street is a BBC cosy police drama set in fictional Port Devine, Northern Ireland, filmed in Donaghadee, County Down. Created by Paul Marquess and Susanne Farrell, first aired 2021; five series to date, led by Amara Karan as DC Leila Hussain.
Hudson & Rex
Hudson & Rex (also Hudson and Rex) is a Canadian Citytv police procedural filmed in St. John's, Newfoundland, the first English-language adaptation of Kommissar Rex, starring John Reardon as Detective Charlie Hudson with German Shepherd Rex, produced by Shaftesbury and Pope Productions.
Hunter (1984 American TV series)
Hunter (1984-1991) is an NBC police drama created by Frank Lupo, produced by Stephen J. Cannell, starring ex-NFL lineman Fred Dryer as LAPD detective Rick Hunter with Stepfanie Kramer as Dee Dee McCall, 153 episodes in seven seasons.
Hustle (TV series)
Hustle is a BBC One crime drama created by Tony Jordan about London con artists running long cons on greedy marks, airing 2004–2012 in eight series of six episodes, spun off into The Real Hustle.
I Fought the Law (TV series)
I Fought the Law is a 2025 four-part ITV true crime drama starring Sheridan Smith as Ann Ming, whose campaign overturned the UK double jeopardy law after her daughter Julie Hogg's 1989 murder and her killer's retrial.
In Flight (TV series)
In Flight is a 2025 six-part Channel 4 crime thriller starring Katherine Kelly as flight attendant Jo Conran, blackmailed into smuggling heroin after her son is jailed for murder in Bulgaria; created by Mike Walden and Adam Randall, produced by Buccaneer Media.
In the Dark (American TV series)
In the Dark is an American CW comedy-drama (2019-2022) created by Corinne Kingsbury, starring Perry Mattfeld as blind Murphy Mason investigating her friend's death; four seasons, 52 episodes, cancelled.
In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
In the Heat of the Night (TV series): American police drama based on the 1967 film and novel, set in Sparta, Mississippi, with Carroll O'Connor as Chief Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs; NBC 1988-1992, CBS 1992-1995.
Inside Man (2022 TV series)
Inside Man (2022) is a four-part BBC One psychological thriller written by Steven Moffat, directed by Paul McGuigan, starring David Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Dolly Wells, and Lydia West, streaming on Netflix from October 31, 2022.
Insomnia (TV series)
Insomnia (2024) is a six-part Paramount+ UK psychological thriller adapted by Sarah Pinborough from her 2022 novel, starring Vicky McClure as lawyer Emma Averill, who stops sleeping before her 40th birthday fearing her mother's psychotic breakdown; Left Bank Pictures, directed by Börkur Sigthorsson, premiered 23 May 2024.
Inspector Avinash
Inspector Avinash is a Hindi action crime thriller web series on JioCinema/JioHotstar, inspired by UP STF supercop Avinash Mishra, starring Randeep Hooda, directed by Neeraj Pathak; season 1 (8 episodes) premiered 18 May 2023, season 2 (10 episodes) on 15 May 2026, with a film adaptation confirmed.
Inspector George Gently
Inspector George Gently: BBC One British period crime drama (2007-2017, 8 seasons, 25 feature-length episodes) adapted by Peter Flannery from Alan Hunter's novels, starring Martin Shaw as an incorruptible 1960s North East England detective with Lee Ingleby as DS John Bacchus.
Inspector Montalbano (TV series)
Inspector Montalbano (Il commissario Montalbano) is RAI's Italian crime series (1999–2021, 37 episodes) adapted from Andrea Camilleri's novels, starring Luca Zingaretti as Commissioner Salvo Montalbano of the fictional Sicilian town of Vigàta, directed by Alberto Sironi.
Inspector Morse (TV series)
Inspector Morse (TV series): British ITV detective drama, 1987-2000, 33 two-hour films starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately, adapted from Colin Dexter's Oxford novels; spawned Lewis and Endeavour; peak audience 18.8 million in Britain, about 1 billion worldwide.
Inspector Rex
Inspector Rex (Kommissar Rex) is an Austrian police procedural about German Shepherd detective dog Reginald von Ravenhorst of the Vienna homicide squad, first broadcast November 1994, running 10 Austrian seasons plus Italian seasons, adapted internationally, and revived in 2026 with Maximilian Brückner.
Instinct (ИCT) (American TV series)
Instinct (CBS, 2018-2019), also known as ИCT, an American police procedural adapted from James Patterson's Murder Games, starring Alan Cumming as ex-CIA professor Dylan Reinhart; first hour-long US broadcast drama with a gay lead, canceled after two seasons.
Ironside (1967 TV series)
Ironside (1967 TV series), also A Man Called Ironside: NBC crime drama 1967–1975, eight seasons, 193 episodes, starring Raymond Burr as a wheelchair-using San Francisco police consultant; created by Collier Young, Quincy Jones theme.
Jack Irish
Jack Irish is the Melbourne private investigator created by Peter Temple and the ABC franchise adapted from him: four novels (Bad Debts, 1996 onward), three telemovies (2012-2014) and three Guy Pearce series (2016-2021), distinguished by Fitzroy pub settings, racing subplots and the 2018 AACTA Best Drama Series award.
Jack Taylor (TV series)
Jack Taylor: Irish crime drama TV series (2010-2016) adapted from Ken Bruen's novels, starring Iain Glen as a Galway ex-Garda turned private investigator; three seasons of nine 90-minute films, produced by Telegael with ZDF.
Jake and the Fatman
Jake and the Fatman is an American crime drama on CBS from 1987 to 1992, starring William Conrad as prosecutor J.L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.