The best British crime shows — ranked and reviewed
From Inspector Morse to Line of Duty — and the forgotten gems in between. One cup of tea at a time, one body at a time.
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Drama / Crime
7.5
A Touch of Frost
1992–2010
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.
Case file 01
Crime / Drama
7.0
Above Suspicion
2009–2012
A rookie London detective and her damaged boss work the cases Lynda La Plante wrote for her first heroine since Jane Tennison…
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Crime / Drama
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits…
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Drama
6.7
Bergerac
1981–1991
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way.
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Drama
5.2
Between the Lines
1992–1994
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of…
Case file 05
Crime / Drama
7.4
Blue Lights
2023
Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.
Case file 06
Crime / Drama
7.8
Bodyguard
2018
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
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Drama / Crime
6.7
Bulman
1985–1987
Bulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major character from the earlier XYY Man and Strangers series.
Case file 08
Drama
5.8
C.A.T.S. Eyes
1985–1987
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. A spin-off of the series The Gentle Touch, Maggie Forbes leads an…
Case file 09
Crime / Drama
6.6
Cracker
1993–1996
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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Crime / Drama
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996–2007
Yorkshire’s bluntest detective and his university-educated sergeant, filmed by the BBC two years after ITV’s attempt at the same novels went badly wrong.
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Action & Adventure / Drama
6.4
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985–1986
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham.
Case file 12
Crime / Drama
8.1
Endeavour
2012–2023
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Crime / Drama
7.9
Foyle's War
2002–2015
A widowed detective in wartime Hastings investigates murders the war has made almost irrelevant, then follows the Cold War into MI5.
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Crime / Drama
7.3
Grantchester
2014–2026
A 1950s Cambridgeshire vicar with a Military Cross and a police inspector with no time for church-going solve murders in the same village.
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Drama
7.5
Hamish Macbeth
1995–1997
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995.
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Crime / Drama
7.9
Happy Valley
2014–2023
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working…
Case file 17
Crime / Drama
6.7
Harry's Game
1982
A British officer goes undercover in the Falls Road to kill an IRA gunman, with his own army kept in the dark — three nights from Gerald Seymour’s novel.
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Crime / Drama
7.1
Heartbeat
1992–1998
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Crime / Drama
7.2
Hinterland
2013–2016
A London detective exiled to the west Wales coast, a children’s home no one will talk about, and a landscape that keeps its secrets…
Case file 20
Crime / Drama
7.8
Inspector Morse
1987–2000
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels.
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Drama / Mystery
7.1
Jack the Ripper
1988
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial…
Case file 22
Crime / Drama
5.8
Juliet Bravo
1980–1982
Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo!
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Crime / Drama
7.6
Kin
2021–2023
A Dublin crime family goes to war with an international cartel after a killing, in a fight it cannot win…
Case file 24
Crime / Drama
7.6
Lewis
2006–2015
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Case file 25
Crime / Drama
8.2
Line of Duty
2012–2021
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Case file 26
Crime / Drama
7.5
Love/Hate
2010–2014
Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin’s illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.
Case file 27
Comedy / Drama
7.3
Lovejoy
1986–1994
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia.
Case file 28
Crime / Drama
7.9
Luther
2010–2019
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved…
Case file 29
British Crime Drama
Messiah
2001–2005
For the first four serials, the series is anchored by Ken Stott's portrayal of DCI Red Metcalfe.
Case file 30
Crime / Drama
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997–2011
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young…
Case file 31
Comedy / Drama
6.8
Minder
1979–1994
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Case file 32
Crime / Mystery
8.5
Miss Marple
1984–1992
Miss Marple, an elderly lady and amateur detective whose sharp mind helps her solve a series of seemingly baffling cases.
Case file 33
Drama
5.0
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
1984
Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team…
Case file 34
Comedy / Drama
8.3
Pie in the Sky
1994–1997
A detective inspector who would rather be running his restaurant stays on the force under duress, solving cases between services.
Case file 35
Crime / Drama
7.7
Prime Suspect
1991–2006
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
Case file 36
Crime / Drama
6.9
Rebus
2006–2007
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland.
Case file 37
Crime / Drama
5.8
Rockliffe's Babies
1987–1988
A veteran detective is handed seven recruits fresh out of uniform and told to make detectives of them, in the BBC’s last attempt at a long-running London police series.
Case file 38
Crime / Drama
Rockliffe's Folly
1988
The BBC’s decision to move a London detective sergeant to a rural force, told in seven episodes — a hit series dismantled from the inside.
Case file 39
Crime / Drama
7.3
Scott & Bailey
2011–2016
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders…
Case file 40
Crime / Drama
8.5
Sherlock
2010–2017
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Case file 41
Crime / Drama
7.7
Shoestring
1979–1980
A disgraced computer analyst becomes the unpaid private ear of a Bristol radio station, solving listeners’ problems while holding himself together.
Case file 42
Drama
7.7
Smiley's People
1982
Retired intelligence officer George Smiley is called back to the Circus to tidy up the murder of an old asset, and finds a trail to his Soviet opposite number, Karla…
Case file 43
Crime / Drama
6.0
Softly Softly: Task Force
1969
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976.
Case file 44
Drama
4.3
Special Branch
1969
Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan…
Case file 45
Crime / Drama
7.0
Spender
1991–1993
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London.
Case file 46
Drama / Action & Adventure
7.7
Spooks
2001–2006
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation.
Case file 47
Crime / Drama
7.3
Strangers
1978–1982
A squad of detectives posted to Manchester because nobody there knows their faces, led by the most eccentric copper Granada ever put on screen.
Case file 48
Crime / Drama
6.3
Taggart
1983–1994
Taggart is a Scottish detective television program.
Case file 49
British Crime Drama
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984–1994
Jeremy Brett’s performance as Sherlock Holmes is the series’ cornerstone, a portrayal that has since become a benchmark.
Case file 50
Crime / Drama
6.7
The Bill
1984–1993
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London.
Case file 51
Drama
6.0
The Chief
1990–1995
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995.
Case file 52
Crime / Drama
7.2
The Chinese Detective
1981–1982
A British-born Chinese detective works the Limehouse docks in a police force that would rather he wasn’t there — the first East Asian lead in a British television drama.
Case file 53
Crime / Drama
7.7
The Fall
2013–2016
A Met detective is seconded to Belfast to review an unsolved murder and finds a serial killer hiding in plain sight as a grief counsellor…
Case file 54
Crime / Drama
6.9
The Gentle Touch
1980–1984
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984.
Case file 55
Drama / Crime
5.5
The Glory Boys
1984
Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel.
Case file 56
Drama / Crime
5.8
The Paradise Club
1989–1990
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane.
Case file 57
Drama
5.0
The Price
1985
English computer millionaire Geoffrey Carr and his wife have plans for a country house in Ireland.
Case file 58
Action & Adventure / Crime
7.5
The Professionals
1977–1983
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley.
Case file 59
Drama / Mystery
6.3
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987–2000
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Case file 60
Drama
8.1
The Sandbaggers
1978–1980
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War.
Case file 61
Action & Adventure / Drama
7.8
The Sweeney
1974–1978
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Case file 62
Drama
5.3
The Vice
1999
The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Unit.
Case file 63
Drama / Crime
6.0
The XYY Man
1976–1977
The XYY Man began life as a series of novels by Kenneth Royce, featuring the character of William 'Spider' Scott, a one-time cat-burglar who leaves prison…
Case file 64
Crime / Drama
7.0
Thief Takers
1996
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network.
Case file 65
War & Politics / Drama
7.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within…
Case file 66
Crime / Drama
7.6
Touching Evil
1997–1999
Shot in the line of duty and back at work, a detective joins a national unit hunting serial offenders, and finds the job costs more than he can pay…
Case file 67
Crime / Drama
6.8
Trial & Retribution
1997–2009
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997.
Case file 68
Crime / Drama
7.0
Trigger Point
2022–2025
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Case file 69
Crime / Drama
7.6
Unforgotten
2015–present
A cold case, a body that has waited decades, and the ordinary people whose lives will be dismantled when it is finally identified…
Case file 70
British Crime Drama
Van Der Valk
1972–1992
Barry Foster’s portrayal of the Amsterdam detective is the unshakeable centre of the series.
Case file 71
Crime / Drama
7.4
Vera
2011–2025
A scruffy, unsentimental detective in a battered Land Rover, working the Northumberland coast one murder at a time…
Case file 72
Crime / Mystery
7.2
Waking the Dead
2000–2011
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
Case file 73
Crime / Drama
7.4
Widows
1983
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in…
Case file 74
Crime / Drama
7.9
Wire in the Blood
2002–2008
A clinical psychologist who thinks like the people he hunts helps a Yorkshire police unit catch serial killers, in the grimmest crime drama ITV made this decade.
Case file 75
Crime / Drama
6.0
Wycliffe
1993–1998
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W.
Case file 76
The suspects
Profiles of the usual faces
01Adrian Dunbar
1980s–2020s
Adrian Dunbar holds still and lets the room do the talking, which makes men in authority feel like people rather than turns.
02Aidan Gillen
1990s–2020s
Aidan Gillen is the quietest dangerous man on television: John Boy in Love/Hate, Frank Kinsella in Kin, menace delivered as intimacy.
03Alec Guinness
1940s–1980s
Alec Guinness gave British television its definitive George Smiley: two BBC serials, a mole hunt conducted by a stooping man in a bad coat.
04Barry Foster
1970s–1990s
Barry Foster’s best work was the rumbustious charisma he brought to Van der Valk, a long-running lead that used his physicality and sardonic humour to anchor procedural realism.
05Benedict Cumberbatch
2000s–2020s
Benedict Cumberbatch’s strength is a precision that suits complicated, clever characters, from Sherlock Holmes to Patrick…
06Chris Ellison
1980s–2000s
Christopher Ellison's strength was a rare, authoritative presence that lent credibility to British television’s procedural landscape.
07Ciarán Hinds
1990s–2020s
Ciarán Hinds plays ambition and menace in the same murmur; Langton in Above Suspicion is the genre's best difficult boss.
08David Burke
1960s–2010s
David Burke’s defining achievement remains his Dr.
09David Hayman
1980s–2020s
David Hayman’s defining strength lies in his capacity for raw, uncompromising intensity, particularly evident in his commanding lead performance in A Sense of…
10David Jason
1970s–2010s
Sir David Jason’s defining achievement lies in his rare ability to fuse grotesque caricature with genuine pathos.
11David Suchet
1980s–2020s
David Suchet’s defining achievement, his Hercule Poirot, set a technical benchmark for literary adaptation.
12David Yip
1970s–2020s
David Yip’s lead role in The Chinese Detective made him a pioneer in British television history.
13Dennis Waterman
1960s–2020s
Dennis Waterman played the tough-guy lead with an instinctive grasp of working-class authenticity, an earthy charisma that distinguished him from more…
14Derek Thompson
1970s–2020s
Derek Thompson played the Troubles from both sides — the IRA gunman in Harry's Game, the institutions in Blue Lights — with Charlie Fairhead between.
15Diane Keen
1960s–2020s
She was Laura Dickens in The Sandbaggers and Bianca Hamilton in Sweeney!, the sitcom queen who crossed into crime drama and stayed there for four decades.
16Don Henderson
1960s–1990s
Don Henderson brought a rare authenticity to British crime drama, his gravelly gravitas grounded in real police experience.
17Edward Hardwicke
1970s–2000s
As Dr. Watson for a generation, his performance provided a necessary anchor of human warmth to Jeremy Brett’s mercurial Holmes. His solidity and…
18Francesca Annis
1960s–2000s
Francesca Annis possesses an enduring, aristocratic poise that made her the casting default for complex Edwardian women and 1990s crime matriarchs.
19George Baker
1940s–2000s
George Baker’s authoritative vocal command and classical poise secured his place in British drama, yet the shadow of his defining role often obscured his…
20George Cole
1940s–2000s
George Cole’s defining skill was the sly transactionalism he brought to roles like Arthur Daley, a character who felt less like a caricature and more like a working system of self-interest.
21Gillian Anderson
1990s–2020s
Gillian Anderson plays the smartest person in the room and never raises her voice to prove it; Stella Gibson made the case hers.
22Gordon Jackson
1940s–1990s
He spent thirty years as one of Britain’s most reliable film actors, became a household name as a butler, and then, at 54, turned himself into the hardest man in British television.
23Harriet Walter
1980s–2020s
Harriet Walter is the genre's senior woman in the room: Harriet Vane, DCI Natalie Chandler, a judge, an assassin — institutions made believable.
24Helen Mirren
1960s–2020s
Helen Mirren’s strength lies in her forensic precision. She gives even familiar parts a lived-in authority.
25Ian Hogg
1980s–2000s
Ian Hogg’s presence suited British crime drama, giving routine procedural scripts more weight than they had on the page.
26Ian McShane
1960s–2020s
McShane's defining authority is his velvet-and-iron charisma, a screen presence that elevates even derivative projects.
27Idris Elba
1990s–2020s
Idris Elba plays big men who are barely holding it together, and he never lets you look away.
28Jack Shepherd
1970s–1990s
Jack Shepherd possessed a rare scholarly gravitas, setting him apart from contemporaries who gravitated toward television’s more rugged leading men.
29Jamie Dornan
2010s–2020s
Jamie Dornan plays the hidden self: Paul Spector's domestic calm remains the benchmark for the charming predator on British television.
30Jeremy Brett
1950s–1990s
Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes remains a touchstone for its ferocious psychological precision.
31Jill Gascoine
1950s–2000s
Jill Gascoine was the first woman to head a British police drama, as DI Maggie Forbes in The Gentle Touch.
32Jimmy Nail
1980s–2020s
Jimmy Nail’s defining strength is the authenticity he brings, a quality that made Spender’s melancholy detective and Jed Shepperd’s dogged factory worker…
33Joan Hickson
1950s–1990s
Joan Hickson’s fidelity to Agatha Christie’s conception was total.
34John Nettles
1970s–2010s
From Jim Bergerac to Tom Barnaby, he led two long-running British detective series. Then he put away the leather jacket and wrote the history of the Channel Islands occupation.
35John Thaw
1960s–2000s
John Thaw’s defining strength was a formidable subtlety, a precision that underpinned both the bullish swagger of Jack Regan and the cerebral melancholy of…
36Keeley Hawes
1990s–2020s
Keeley Hawes has proven herself an indispensable figure in modern British television through commanding performances in acclaimed series such as Line of Duty…
37Kelly Reilly
1990s–2020s
Kelly Reilly acts openness — Anna Travis learns the job on screen, and the camera never leaves her face in Eden Lake.
38Ken Stott
1970s–2020s
Ken Stott’s defining strength was a volatile, earthy intensity that set him apart from the more patrician leads of his era.
39Kevin Whately
1970s–2020s
Kevin Whately’s biggest mark on British crime drama is the quiet decency of Detective Sergeant Lewis, a patient, grounded foil whose work in…
40Lesley Sharp
1980s–2020s
Lesley Sharp’s defining strength is a forensic intensity that grounds complex female roles in unshowy realism.
41Lewis Collins
1970s–2000s
He was Bodie of CI5, the ex-paratrooper hardman who gave British television its own action hero. The role’s shadow followed him to his death, aged 67.
42Mark McManus
1960s–1990s
Mark McManus was the blue-collar authority figure of British television, whose rugged physicality and gravel-voiced sincerity grounded procedural…
43Martin Freeman
1990s–2020s
Martin Freeman’s defining strength is his precise modulation of quiet exasperation, a trait that anchors the emotional realism of The Responder.
44Martin Shaw
1960s–2020s
Martin Shaw’s defining strength is a granite gravitas that lent credibility to every morally compromised authority figure he inhabited, from the cynical Doyle…
45Matthew Macfadyen
1990s–2020s
Matthew Macfadyen excels as the quietly devastating supporting player, providing the still, molten centre to sprawling ensemble dramas.
46Michael Brandon
1960s–2020s
Michael Brandon’s transatlantic presence hinges on a rugged yet vulnerable masculinity, best realised as the eponymous U.S. liaison in Dempsey and Makepeace.
47Michael Kitchen
1970s–2010s
Michael Kitchen wins scenes by waiting longer than the other man; Christopher Foyle made the quiet pause the whole method.
48Neil Pearson
1980s–2020s
Neil Pearson remains a distinctive figure in British drama, valued for a nimble intelligence that cuts through genre conventions.
49Nick Berry
1980s–2000s
Nick Berry possessed the quintessential leading-man charm of the 1990s, a reassuring presence that propelled Heartbeat to mainstream success.
50Nicola Walker
1990s–2020s
Nicola Walker’s defining skill is conveying deep intelligence beneath a shield of emotional restraint.
51Patrick Malahide
1970s–2010s
Malahide's strength is playing authority figures, from the roguish warmth of Minder’s ‘Cheerful Charlie’ to the grim menace of Balon Greyjoy.
52Ray Lonnen
1950s–2010s
Raymond Lonnen’s defining strength was his unshowy precision; in ‘The Sandbaggers’, his Willie Caine set the standard for weary professionalism.
53Richard Griffiths
1970s–2010s
Richard Griffiths spent years on the classical stage before British television cast him as DI Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky.
54Robbie Coltrane
1970s–2020s
Robbie Coltrane's defining strength was an intelligence worn lightly. As Fitz in Cracker he made a detective's brilliance inseparable from his self-destruction.
55Robert Carlyle
1990s–2020s
Robert Carlyle’s defining strength is a raw, transformative intensity that can render even genre material compelling.
56Robson Green
1980s–2020s
Robson Green’s defining screen strength is a coiled, working-class intensity.
57Roger Allam
1970s–2020s
Roger Allam’s defining authority is his gravitas, a trait that has anchored long-running dramas and punctured political satire with equal force.
58Roy Marsden
1960s–2020s
Roy Marsden carved his niche through an unwavering commitment to introspection and authority, qualities that defined his signature portrayal of Commander Adam…
59Rupert Penry-Jones
1990s–2020s
He was Adam Carter in Spooks, the MI5 section chief who held the Grid for four series — then showed, as Chandler in Whitechapel and Reader in Silk, what happens when authority starts to crack.
60Sarah Lancashire
1980s–2020s
Sarah Lancashire’s defining strength is an emotional unvarnishedness that elevates material from conventional drama to forensic character study.
61Shaun Evans
2000s–2020s
Shaun Evans’s career is a study in disciplined restraint.
62Siobhan Redmond
1980s–2020s
Tartan wit is her hallmark, yet Siobhan Redmond's brilliance in British crime drama lies in how she grounds acerbic humour with unshowy emotional clarity.
63Stephanie Turner
1967–2010
Stephanie Turner provided the procedural authenticity that British crime drama often lacked.
64Suranne Jones
1990s–2020s
Suranne Jones has established herself as a commanding anchor for contemporary British drama.
65Tim Pigott Smith
1970s–2010s
Tim Pigott-Smith’s granite composure and clipped authority made him the industry’s first choice for institutional power.
66Trevor Eve
1970s–2020s
He quit Shoestring and unwittingly created Bergerac; he stayed with Waking the Dead for 92 episodes.
67Vicky McClure
2000s–2020s
Vicky McClure possesses a commanding yet grounded screen presence that distinguishes her within contemporary British crime drama.
68Warren Clarke
1990s–2000s
Warren Clarke was a commanding screen presence whose burly frame and hangdog expression elevated supposedly robust character parts into memorably complex…
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Start here, not at the beginning
Forty years of British crime drama is a lot of murder to wade through. These three shows, top-rated on this site, will tell you everything you need to know — and nothing you don't.
- 01Miss Marple
8.5 · Start with The Body in the Library — This is where it all began, the template-setting adaptation that proved a novel-length, faithful Christie could be prestige television…
- 02Sherlock
8.5 · Start with A Study in Pink — This is where it all begins. The episode masterfully introduces Cumberbatch’s Sherlock and Freeman’s John, forcing them together as flatmates and partners to solve a series of mysterious suicides…
- 03Pie in the Sky
8.3 · Start with The Best of Both Worlds — Everything is set up in the first hour: the shooting, Hooperman’s escape, Fisher’s hold over him, the accounts book and the two-plotline machinery, with Michael Kitchen as the thief who ruins Crabbe’s retirement plan…