Shows like Sergeant Cork (1963)
Loved Sergeant Cork? Here are 24 shows with a similar feel, picked from what fans of Sergeant Cork watch next and from titles with the same mix of drama and crime. Sergeant Cork was created by Ted Willis.
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The Irregulars (2021)
In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge…
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Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Sherlock 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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Painkiller (2023)
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
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Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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The Essex Serpent (2022)
London widow Cora Seaborne moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local vicar—but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
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Burden of Truth (2018)
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
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Hightown (2020)
Amid the drug trade on Cape Cod, a body washes ashore and is discovered by an irreverent National Marine Fisheries Service officer, Jackie Quinones, who is determined to help solve the murder even if the state cops want her nowhere near the…
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The Bay (2019)
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
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Gosick (2011)
Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her brother, a detective, relies on her exceptional mind to solve difficult mysteries.
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T. J. Hooker (1982)
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 in blue, Hooker take…
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The Tower (2021)
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. Detective Sergeant Sarah…
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Murder in a Small Town (2024)
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 shore.
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This City Is Ours (2025)
After trying to leave a world of crime, Michael is dragged back into the fold to answer questions. Back in Liverpool tensions continue to bubble amongst the remaining members of the gang, and a gangster who's just been let out of prison…
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The Living and the Dead (2016)
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is…
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Dickensian (2015)
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to…
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Bad Girls (1999)
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run.…
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Daniel Deronda (2002)
In 1870s England, idealist Daniel Deronda seeks his mysterious origins and becomes entangled in the lives of the self-centered Gwendolen Harleth, who is trapped in a loveless marriage, and Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.
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Carl Weber's The Family Business (2018)
Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life.
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Baretta (1975)
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 Jersey police officer…
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Jack Irish (2016)
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete…
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Hidden Assets (2021)
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When…
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Dark Angel (2016)
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes.…
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London Kills (2019)
With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
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Five Days (2007)
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.