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TV Thrillers

Collected here are the cops and robbers from our collective TV memory. So Peter Falk as the great 'Columbo' sits next to Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in '24'. 'Kojak' shares shelf space with 'Cracker' and 'MacGyver' meets 'Reilly: Ace of Spies'.

Catherine Cookson: A Dinner With Herbs (2000)

Director: Alan Grint
Starring: Tom Goodman-Hill, Billie Whitelaw, Tim Healy, Kate Magowan

A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware... Read more

Lewis: Series 2 (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Stuart Orme, Bill Anderson, Dan Reed
Starring: Clare Holman, Laurence Fox, Rebecca Front, Kevin Whately

This gripping sequel to "Inspector Morse" finds Lewis (Kevin Whately) returned from working in the British Virgin Isles to Oxford. The second series h... Read more

The Killing: Series 1, Volume 1 (2007)

8.2/10
Director: Birger Larsen
Starring: Sofie Grabol, Soren Malling

A.k.a. "Forbrydelsen". Acclaimed as one of the finest murder investigation series ever produced, "The Killing" is a riveting Danish TV thriller that t... Read more

Reilly - Ace of Spies (1983)

8.3/10
Director: Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Starring: Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson, Tom Bell, David Burke, Leo McKern, Kenneth...

The real inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond, Sam Neill is Sidney Reilly, true-life British spy. One heart-stopping mission after another tra... Read more

Taggart: Volume 2 (1986)

7.2/10
Starring: Mark McManus, Neil Duncan, Robert Robertson, Harriet Buchan

The Maryhill CID continues to investigate gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow, in volume two of the "Taggart Collection... Read more

Cracker: Nine Eleven (2006) / Lucky White Ghost (1996)

8.5/10
Director: Antonia Bird, Richard Standeven, Vernon Antcliff
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Ricky Tomlinson, Freda Foh Shen, Michael Pennington

Two feature length stories from Robbie Coltrane's sleuthing forensic psychologist. 'NineEleven' - Fitz returns to Manchester after ten years in Austr... Read more

Prison Break: Season 2 (2006)

7.2/10
Starring: Stacy Keach, Robert Knepper, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Dominic Purcell,...

Michael and co are now on the run, America's most wanted, and with the FBI on their tail, they are prepared to take desperate measures to stay free.... Read more

Wycliffe: Series 1 (1994)

7.1/10
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax, A J Quinn, Martyn Friend
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Bill Nighy, Aaron Harris, Tim Wylton, Helen Masters, Jimmy Yuill

Based on the novels by W.J. Burley and set against the windswept Cornish coast, this acclaimed detective series follows the exploits of the meticulous... Read more

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 (1955)

8.6/10
Starring: Lorne Greene, Cloris Leachman, Vera Miles, Claude Rains, Joanne Woodward, Charle...

Join the legendary Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock for all 39 episodes of the first season of the Emmy Award-winning murder mystery series that in... Read more

Invasion: The Complete Series (2005)

7.6/10
Starring: William Fichtner, Kari Matchett, Eddie Cibrian, Lisa Sheridan, Tyler Labine, Ale...

From creator Shaun Cassidy ('American Gothic') comes this supernatural horror/thriller series, set in a small Florida town in the wake of a devastatin... Read more