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Sone fun picks there for sure. May I suggest as a Murder, She Wrote fan that you checkout the YT channel of Pushing Up Roses who does a very funny breakdown of episodes from a loving fans perspective.

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When I was a teenage boy, Columbo and Murder, She wrote were two of my favourite series and I never missed an episode. Those were different times, when we had to watch when it was on TV, there was no Netflix or other streaming platforms.

But the series I never missed, and my favourite one, was All in the Family. I loved watching Archie's bad temper. A while ago it was on Portuguese TV and I didn't miss the chance to watch all the episodes again

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You already hit my favorite TV sleuth, Columbo; I can't think if he has a helper, at least not that we see onscreen, unless you count his wife and the other host of family members that he mentions whenever he's talking to his suspect. "You know, my brother in law, he's a lawyer, and he tells me..."

I've never seen the one with Kate Mulgrew as Mrs. Columbo and refuse to acknowledge it; I like to think of Mrs. Columbo as one of those characters like Maris on "Frasier"; you shouldn't see them. It only detracts from the imagination.

Other favorite sleuths: I like Adrian Monk, and to a somewhat lesser extent Shawn Spencer on "Psych", although his shtick could get tiring. Monk was better, imho.

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