Jane Tennison, fresh from her disastrous stint as Detective Chief Inspector in the London Police precinct, is tranferred to the yet-more dour environs of industrial Manchester.

Jane Tennison, the first female Detective Chief Inspector in her London precinct, struggles with sexism, bureaucracy, and political corruption in her pursuit of justice.

Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.

The brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case in these episodes of the wildly popular British television adaptation, in which David Suchet stars as the foppish and downright vain sleuth who solves the thorniest of cases with his formidable intellect. Set in glittering 1930s Europe, these adaptations capture every splendid detail of the Art Deco era.