Shows Like The Old Fox

If you liked The Old Fox (1977), a crime and drama 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.

1
Hill Street Blues (1981)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
2
Baretta (1975)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
Baretta 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…
3
Leipzig Homicide (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November…
4
Kojak (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
5
T. J. Hooker (1982)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners…
6
Wilsberg (1995)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and crime
Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he…
7
Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Karl 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…
8
Grace (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
Brighton 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…
9
The Tower (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
A veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing…
10
77 Sunset Strip (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
Stu 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…
11
Dragnet (1967)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
12
Inspector George Gently (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also crime
Crime 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.
13
Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
14
Barnaby Jones (1973)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
Barnaby 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…
15
The Bill (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking…
16
Scene of the Crime (1970)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
17
Steal (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands. In the aftermath, conflicted detective Rhys races against time to find out who…
18
Prisoner (2026)
★ 6/10Also crime
A young and ambitious prison officer finds herself in the middle of a battle for the criminal underworld as crime lords try to evade justice. But in order to do that, she will have to learn quickly to put her faith in…
19
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
20
The Endgame (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
A high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner…