Shows Like A Touch of Frost
If you liked A Touch of Frost (1992), a drama and crime series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Grace (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaBrighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife…
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and dramaDS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Father Brown (2013)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and crimeFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Sherlock Holmes (1984)
★ 8.2/10Also crime and dramaSherlock Holmes, along with his friend Dr. Watson, uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve.
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Endeavour (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and dramaThe 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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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and crimeThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious…
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Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crimeKarl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
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Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and dramaAn American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
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Barnaby Jones (1973)
★ 7/10Also crime and dramaBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April…
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Baretta (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and dramaBaretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New…
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Harry Wild (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and crimeA recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.
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Perry Mason (1957)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and dramaThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Inspector George Gently (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also mystery and crimeCrime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
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Haven (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryFBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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Kojak (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and dramaA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Coroner (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crimeJenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
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Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
★ 8.2/10Also crime and dramaFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also mystery and dramaIn a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
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Banacek (1972)
★ 8.4/10Also crime and dramaBanacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time…
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77 Sunset Strip (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and dramaStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to…