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Best Mystery TV Series of 1957

8 Mystery series that started in 1957, ranked by popularity

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8 series

Perry Mason

★ 8.3
14K 271 1957–1966
Legal · Procedural · Episodic

Suspicion

★ 8.1
584 42 1957–1958
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Thin Man

★ 7.1
316 72 1957–1959
Mystery

The New Adventures of Charlie Chan

★ 7.5
156 39 1957–1958
Mystery

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm

★ 8.0
114 15 1957–1957
Adventure · Drama · Mystery

Official Detective

★ 7.3
33 40 1957–present
Adventure · Mystery

The George Sanders Mystery Theater

★ 7.7
33 13 1957–present
Mystery

Murder Bag

★ 5.4
7 69 1957–1959
Drama · Mystery
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