Best British crime dramas

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What is yours? And yes I know it's not an AIBU but posting for traffic is a crime I like committing.
Personally, I can't decide. Happy Valley was bloody brilliant and I loved Broadchurch, Shetland. I also love the more lighthearted Father Brown, Grantchester and Jonathan Creek. Scott and Bailey was binge watched with great joy.

Can you pick a favourite? Just one?

Midsomer Murders.

Cracker
Happy Valley
The Missing
Night manager
Line of Duty

In that order! If it hadn't have been for the abysmal last series of LoD it would've been higher. I've never been more disappointed with a TV programme as I was with that final episode!

Luther, The fall, Broadchurch, The bridge, Whitehouse farm, Peaky Blinders, all brilliant

New Tricks (when it was Sandra)
Scott and Bailey (love Amelia Bullmore)
Traces was also good on Alibi which I think she co wrote
Agree on later Rebus and on Hinterland and Hidden - some really great Welsh TV

No Offence went a bit under the radar and deserved more credit.

There was something on daytime TV with Sharon Small (think it had London in the title) which was excellent for the time slot

I usually watch shows on bbc Iplayer. So I may be a bit limited but there have been some brilliant ones:
Line of Duty (last season was a let down though)
Luther
The Missing
Baptiste
The Night Manager
The Responder
Time

I absolutely loved broadchurch

Whitechapel
Morse
Ashes to ashes
Unforgotten

I have watched Morse over and over. Except the last which I simply can't bring myself to watch at all. I bloody love John Thaw.

I adored all of those plus Above Suspicion

Oh yes!! How could I forget this.

Morse and Lewis, can’t beat ‘em.

I still love Jonathan creek !

It’s not fair, choosing one .

I’d have to choose between Poirot and Miss Marple, and I just can’t . May have shed a tear at the end of ‘Curtain’ though .

Dalziel and Pascoe?

Juliet Bravo - loved that

Love Spooks too!

Does Spooks count as crime drama? If so then that's a thumbs up from me, one of my favourite shows ever. Apart from series 9 which was total bollocks and I prefer to pretend it didn't happen.

Life on Mars also brilliant.

For light hearted stuff I have a very soft spot for Bergerac. Nostalgia for 80s and early 90s I suppose. Well and a young John Nettles obviously!

"The Victim" was brilliant I thought

I quote this every time Vera comes on

Line of duty for me. I enjoyed professor T a lot too.

The Tunnel was excellent!

When they came down in the lift and the entire country was like WHAT?! I was worried about the last episode of peaky blinders after the LOD fiasco but it was brilliant.

I always come back to the first series of the BBCs Messiah (the one actually based on the book) which was on in 2001. It seems like just nowhere legit to stream but this nice Daily Motion user has uploaded it and it starts here.

Shoestring
The Gentle Touch

Happy Valley (most tense)
Line of Duty (almost as tense I still fear black Range Rovers)
Prime Suspect (gritty and often feels like I am watching a documentary)
Taggert (when Taggert was in it)
Cracker (interesting the forensic psychology)
Missing (was the most heartbreaking)

sorry can’t pick one

Oh yes. So good.
And oddly the only book in that genre from the writer. His other books are completely different.

Another vote for the Sweeney-apart from anything else it contained the best single line of dialogue in any british tv drama, from the first episode-Regan has just collared some neer do well and says-"Were the Sweeney son, and we haven't had any dinner". I just love that.