Old Mystery TV Shows

Columbo

Columbo was an American crime fiction Tv series that was aired on February 1, 1968 until january 1, 2002. William Link and Richard Levinson created the series starring Peter Falsk played the role of Lietenant Columbo, a homicide detective in Los Angeles Police Department.

Columbo was a often underestimate by many criminals because he acted as an incompetent bumbler. But he was nice to every suspect, he talked so much about his wife that he lulled even the shrewdest murderer into false sense of security. For the meantime he solved his cases by paying close attention to tiny inconsistencies of suspects by interrogating the suspects until she or he confessed. Columbo has a signature technique which is to exit the scene of an interview, continually stopping in the doorway or returning a moment to ask another question to the suspect. The one more thing phrase always brought to open the key inconsistency.

Murder She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote was aired on CBS from September 30, 1984 until May 19, 1996. It starred Angela Lanbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and aspirant detective.

The show revolved on Jessica Fletcher a former substitute teacher who has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems murder follows her, whether she's on her house with friends or relatives. Sometimes she was assisted by her friend Dr. Seth Hazelet or the local sheriff, Amos Tupper. In every episode Jessica would entangled in a murder investigation. She carefully putting the clues together and ask a question that no one else had thought of.

Dragnet

Dragnet was the aired on January 12, 1967 until April 16, 1970 on NBC. Jack Webb was the director and producer of the series, he also played the role of Sgt. Joe Friday. The series was about the cases handled by dedicated Los Angeles police detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon. They track down the criminals all over the city of Los Angeles, California. The partners were assigned to some very strange robberies. The thefts cases have one thing in common; the visits cards that contain the word PAGAN that was left at the crime scenes.