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Best Mystery TV Series of the 1980s

195 Mystery series that started in the 1980s, ranked by popularity

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195 series

Vale Tudo

★ 9.1
694 204 1988–1989
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Röd snö

★ 7.6
630 6 1985–1985
Crime · Mystery · Thriller

Fox Mystery Theater

★ 7.1
601 13 1984–1984
Drama · Horror · Mystery

The Agatha Christie Hour

★ 7.1
529 10 1982–1982
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Atlanta Child Murders

★ 6.7
520 2 1985–1985
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Jack Holborn

★ 7.7
488 6 1982–1982
Action · Adventure · Mystery

Nero Wolfe

★ 7.2
478 14 1981–1981
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Protivostoyanie

★ 8.0
466 6 1985–1985
Crime · Drama · Mystery

B.L. Stryker

★ 6.2
444 12 1989–1990
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Death of an Expert Witness

★ 7.4
441 7 1983–1983
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Summer's Lease

★ 7.5
434 4 1989–present
Drama · Mystery

Shroud for a Nightingale

★ 7.5
430 5 1984–1984
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Cover Her Face

★ 7.5
424 6 1985–1985
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Dress Gray

★ 7.0
420 2 1986–1986
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Black Tower

★ 7.4
418 6 1985–1985
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Beiderbecke Tapes

★ 8.4
415 2 1987–1987
Drama · Music · Mystery

Beyond Westworld

★ 4.4
410 5 1980–1980
Action · Crime · Mystery

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

★ 8.2
408 10 1987–1987
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Vizit k Minotavru

★ 7.4
407 5 1987–1987
Adventure · Crime · Mystery

A Taste for Death

★ 7.7
395 6 1988–1988
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Seeing Things

★ 7.8
372 43 1981–1987
Comedy · Fantasy · Mystery

Juliet Bravo

★ 6.7
349 88 1980–1985
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Hound of the Baskervilles

★ 6.9
327 4 1982–1982
Crime · Horror · Mystery

Partners in Crime

★ 6.5
315 13 1984–1984
Crime · Drama · Mystery
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