
Sherlock Holmes(1984)
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.


“She may be wrong. But frankly, we doubt it.”
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Angela Lansbury
Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote is a mystery, crime, drama series that first aired in 1984 exploring themes of detective, maine, writer, investigator, elderly, mystery writer. Created by Richard Levinson, it stars Angela Lansbury. An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.

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