English TV series about former police officers

List of the best English TV series about former police officers according to viewers: Man in an Orange Shirt, Small Axe, Rellik, Wolfe, Great Expectations, The Honourable Woman, Chasing Shadows, The Young Offenders, The Cleaner, Poldark.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:30

A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:29

A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecrime
CountryUnited Kingdom

The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration03:00

The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Chasing Shadows' follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland

Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school.

Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:44

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:56

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration00:45

Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:59

Witty, heartfelt and unique interlinked stories covering different aspects of LGBT life, featuring the most exciting emerging talent.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary
CountryUnited Kingdom

Fry's Planet Word sees Stephen Fry finding out more about linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have changed. He dissects language in many of its guises.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:43

    A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Julien Baptiste delves into the criminal underworld of Amsterdam's red light district and uncovers a complex web of deceit and lies.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

    Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:58

    A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Longing for love, obsessed with sex, Linda is on the hunt for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than she thought.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:53

    A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:59

      An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:25

      Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:20

      The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:35

      Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      "The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5 as it battles to protect the nation from the threats of the Cold War.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:22

      Mr. Sloane's titular character is a buttoned-down 1960's man in crisis. Between his failed attempts at marriage, career success and even suicide, it's fair to say that 1969 isn't shaping up to be Watford-dweller Mr. Sloane's year. But with a potential job opportunity on the horizon and the phone number of a prospective new love interest following a chance encounter in his local hardware store, could Mr Sloane's luck be about to change?

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecrime, detective
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

      When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:00

      'Black Work' is the story of Jo Gillespie, a woman who's husband is shot dead in the line of action, in his job as a undercover cop. Jo, a police officer herself soon has to confront issues in her marriage and family life in order to discover who really killed her husband.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:59

      When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      It's Mayday in a small town steeped in pagan traditions where the crowning of the May Queen is the highlight of the day until suddenly she goes missing.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A devoted and mild-mannered British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in England.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:47

      Set during Christmas 1988, Lol is haunted by the devastating events that took place two and a half years before. She and Woody both find themselves struggling to cope with their lives without each other after he leaves the gang. Lol is carrying the burden of her guilt, whilst Woody is trying to build a domestic life with a new girlfriend and a potential promotion at work. Shaun has started drama college and, although still in a relationship with Smell, he has grown close to a girl performing in his Christmas play.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Each week, through their own selfishness and idiocy, we see Hannah and Dan — the worst brother and sister in the world — spectacularly wreck the lives of those around them — old friends, love interests, family members, and the unlucky individuals who just happen to cross their paths.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a close colleague, and chases a potential suspect across London - with tragic consequences. Now at odds with authorities both within and outside of the police service, River finds himself in a precarious position as he seeks to bring closure to the mother of murdered teenager Erin Fielding, who blames him for failing to keep his promise to bring her daughter back alive.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      As widespread power outages cause chaos and threaten lives across the country, the COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room) committee comprised of the UK’s leading experts and politicians, gathers to find a way to turn the lights back on.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

      Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:42

      When a teenage couple runs away to be together, the extraordinary gift they possess unleashes powerful forces intent on dividing them forever.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:43

        Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.‬

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers, city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers.




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