# Recommend a crime-of-the-week type show

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [July 3, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480 "2023-07-03T02:17:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480/21 "2023-07-04T14:43:12Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> you might also check out House. I think it comes close to what you’re looking for, except that they have a patient of the week instead of a crime of the week. Though once the patient of the week story gets predictable, you start focusing on some of the longer arcs that are woven into it. But the mystery part presents itself and gets solved in the same episode.

Helpful hint: It’s never lupus.

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480/22 "2023-10-07T01:24:40Z")

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> [@Askance](#):
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> [Vera is the best of these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_(TV_series)) currently IMO!

Watching season 12 now. Every episode is like a movie…such a great show.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480/23 "2023-10-07T15:55:21Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> We’re enjoying “Foyle’s War” on Acorn. Each episode is about 2 hours and is a complete story. Set in WWII England, Foyle is a Detective Chief Superintendent (DCS) in a small police district, dealing with both locals and with American soldiers. Eight seasons.

I just got finished watching the entire series for the second time. It’s one of my favorite shows. The setting during WWII in an English town makes it feel unique. I love how Michael Kitchen plays Foyle as if the usual British character is way over the top emotionally. He expresses everything with a pause, a raised eyebrow or a lip twitch.

It was made spread out over multiple years. The production quality goes up over those years. I believe it was 8 (short) seasons from 2002-2015. Some now stars can be seen as unknowns. David Tennant, Peter Capaldi and Emily Blunt can be seen in early episodes.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-crime-of-the-week-type-show/986480/24 "2023-10-07T17:19:28Z")

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Murdoch’s Mysteries.

Always good.

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