Can you recommend any UK Detective / police dramas?

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I've broken my 30-odd year habit of watching soaps thanks to the World Cup (yay) and Love Island and rather than go back to them, am trying to build up a list of Things to Watch on an evening although we only really have 2 hours to watch telly before bedtime. We've done Series 1 of Unforgotten and are half way through season 2 (and watching series 3 live time).

I've seen Line of Duty but DH didn't watch it at the time it was on, so I plan to re-visit those next - but these are the kind of things I like to watch. I prefer British made dramas to American.

Are there any other series you can think of that we might enjoy - we have Netflix and Virgin Media boxsets. I don't like anything grisly or gory tho'

TIA

Marcella
Happy valley
Luther
River
The unforgotten

Happy Valley
Marcella

Both on netflix

Maybe don't watch Luther. It's a bit gory as far as I can remember.

Scott and Bailey
Broadchurch (the first series)
Morse, Lewis and Endeavour - in that order
Inspector Foyle
Vera
Dalziel and Pascoe
Prime Suspect

Rebus. The ones with Ken Stott as the lead character.

The Missing

The Fall

Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes

Detective stories with a twist.

Sherlock!
Also another vote for The Fall and Happy Valley

Happy Valley.
Bletchley circle. Not strictly police but still crime.
Broadchurch.

YY Happy Valley

Law and Order UK (okay just because Bradders is in it )

Cuffs was good but I dont know if it's on any catch up anymore.
No Offence is amazing.

I really liked Shetland but i think they only made a couple of series.

Touching Cloth ...........very loosely Police based and I bloody loved it (bit stupid but clever)

Line of Duty - Netflix

A Touch of Cloth

No Offence

Endeavour - it's very much in the spirit of Colin Dexter, and much better than Lewis imo
Vera - also not quite as good as the books, but damn close

If you like crime/forensic stuff then Forensic Files on Netflix is fab, it’s not a drama or U.K. - sorry - but there’s 300 or so 20 minute episodes. I love binging it.

Marcella

Britain’s Darkest Taboos - Netflix - similar to forensic files

Happy Valley was fab

Hinterland's on iplayer at the moment

Nothing is as good as Line of Duty tbh, so you’ll be slightly disappointed by anything you watch after that .

But The Shadow Line and Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes were good in their very different ways.

If you don't mind subtitles, the Killing and the Bridge are brilliant.

Definitely Luther. It's fab!

Plus added bonus of Idris Elba

Agree with many of the pp,although definitely do watch Luther,it’s amazing! I’ve got Silent Witness to add and,of a far less gritty nature,The Coroner,which BBC1 broadcast on daytime sporadically.

Broadchurch and The Missing are both EXCELLENT.

Hinterland and Hidden are really good welsh crime dramas (available subtitled or in English).