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Elsbeth is similar to many classic detective shows that aired from the 1950s to the early 2000s.

Emily Deschanel played Temperance Bones, a forensics expert and detective who like was on the autistic spectrum.

Hart to Hart was a popular 1980s series about a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife who traveled around the world solving murders, international espionage, and other serious mysteries.

Before A Million Little Things, James Roday played Shawn Spencer on Psych. Shawn was a psychic who helped solve mysteries.

The upcoming Kathy Bates role was originally played by Andy Griffith. Matlock was a gentle Southern lawyer who was a modern-day Perry Mason in the 1980s.

Raymond Burr was Perry Mason, the lawyer who always got the guilty party to confess on the stand, in the 1950s and in TV movies in the late 1980s.

Tom Selleck was the original Magnum PI on CBS in the 1980s. This iconic role launched his career.

Dick Van Dyke played Dr. Mark Sloan in the comedy/mystery series Diagnosis: Murder on CBS during the 1990s.

Angela Lansbury played Jessica Fletcher on the iconic Murder She Wrote series in the 1980s.

Jeremy Brett played Sherlock Holmes in a 1984 British series that ran on PBS in the United States.

Tony Shaloub as Adrian Monk in the popular series about a detective with OCD.

Peter Falk played Lieutenant Columbo on the classic series, which used a format similar to Elsbeth.