1980s American mystery television series

Columbo

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdl...

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Unsolved Mysteries

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with...

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Unsolved Mysteries

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Real cases of perplexing disappearances, shocking murders and paranormal encounters fuel this gripping revival of the iconic documentary series.

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Spenser: For Hire

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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Murder, She Wrote

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.2

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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Remington Steele

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male sup...

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Kojak

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak investigates crimes in New York City.

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Hunter

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991....

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Cagney & Lacey

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of...

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