Freeview is a haven for past detective and private eye series.
We take a look at some of the series still being shown - and those waiting for an outing.
Foyle's War was a British detective drama television series set during (and shortly after) the Second World War.
It starred Michael Kitchen as Foyle, Honeysuckle Weeks as his driver Sam Stewart and Anthony Powell as his sidekick sergeant Paul Milner
Banacek was an American detective TV series starring George Peppard.
Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts.
He then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property.
William Conrad played private detective Frank Cannon in the TV series.
Hamish Macbeth is a police constable in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, who occasionally bends the rules when it suits him or when it can help some of his fellow eccentric townsfolk.
Robert Carlyle played the title role.
McMillan and Wife revolved around a 40-ish San Francisco police commissioner, Stuart McMillan (Rock Hudson) and his attractive, bright and affable 20-something wife Sally (Susan Saint James).
Often, the storylines featured Mac and Sally attending fashionable parties and charity benefits before solving robberies and murders.
John Schuck appeared as McMillan's likeable, if somewhat bumbling aide Sgt Charles Enright and Nancy Walker was Mildred, the couple's sarcastic, hard-drinking maid, both characters serving as comic relief.
The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.
The programme's title derives from Sweeney Todd, which is Cockney rhyming slang for Flying Squad.
It starred John Thaw - who went on to play Morse - as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as his partner, Detective Sergeant George Carter.
Waterman played a retired detective - Jerry Standing - in New Tricks.
Such was its popularity in the UK thatThe Sweeny spawned two feature film spin-offs, Sweeney! and Sweeney 2.
Great quotes: Regan to two violent thugs in answer to their query: Who are you, Jack Regan says: We're the Sweeny son, and we haven't had any dinner
Shoestring was a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring, played by Trevor Eve, who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station.
