The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.
Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.
The Others is an American TV series created by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, and produced by Delusional Films, NBC and DreamWorks Television. It ran for 13 40-minute episodes from February 5, 2000 to June 10, 2000, airing on NBC in the US, Five in the UK and on Nine in Australia. It concerned a group of people with various psychic talents as they encountered different, and often evil, paranormal forces, Essentially an ensemble show.
The story follows a forensic examiner Ran Yan, as she investigates the truth around her mother's suicide and solves murder cases one at a time. Ran Yan is an eighteen year old destitute noblewoman who grew up learning about autopsies and finding clues through corpses. She encounters a judicial official and an assassin by chance and finds true love through the course of searching for the truth. (Source: DramaPanda)
~~ Adapted from the novel, The Tang Dynasty’s Female Forensic Doctor, by Xiu Tang
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
Mima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he inherited from his father in the mountainous Hayabusa. When he joins the fire brigade, he becomes involved in a series of arson cases and suspicious incidents. As Taro searches for the truth, a huge conspiracy comes to the surface.
A popular English teacher, Mizuguchi Risako has been kidnapped three days before the high school's graduation ceremony. Four high school seniors received a mysterious challenge letter, asking them to solve the mystery of the kidnapping case within 72 hours. The four students are Kurokawa Yoshiki, his childhood friend Takahata Ayane, sports all-rounder Ogita Junpei, and school's beauty contest winner Komatsu Mio. The four students were wondering why they're the only ones who received the letter, but later gradually found out the "other face" of Mizuguchi which she has been hiding.
A deadly virus known as "Algernon" has attacked humanity. At the forefront of the battle is the mysterious Akamatsu Industries, this undercover organization uses enhanced weapons known as NeuroNoids to battle Algernon. Also helping with their secret efforts is the mysterious mutant who is known as "Betterman."
Darius, lively, passionate, a bit of a schemer, is the boss of the "Invisibles," a marginal brigade that handles investigations into victims with no identity, no history, no past... His obsession? To restore their dignity, their humanity so that their families can grieve. His team? Marijo, a cheeky, big-hearted woman with a cigarette in her mouth, always complaining; Ben, a former boxing champion, a big teddy bear with sensitive fists; Duchesse, a 25-year-old petite bourgeois, brilliant but unaccustomed to the field, and Angie, who reconstructs the bodies with a mischievous pep. Their mission? To identify the victims before they end up in a mass grave and, above all, to arrest the murderers before they get away with it. A 75-year-old man dead in the middle of a rave party, bodies found in abandoned houses, victims with no identity left in front of a hospital... they are now mandated to reconstruct a life, a destiny, and deliver justice.
Sometime after the events of the first season, Ma Kwai the taxi driver has fully devoted himself in honoring Shek Kam Dong's destiny as an exorcist. Choosing to embrace his destiny, Ma is forced to choose between family and exorcism after he encounters the spirit of his childhood friend Mok Wai Ho, who comes to him facing a mysterious threat.
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
Aida Rintaro is a handsome teacher who is popular among the female students. Rintaro is the homeroom teacher of a class that has a student called Sakurai Sachiko, who constantly gets bullied by her classmates. With strong sense of justice, Rintaro is always there helping Sachiko whenever she gets bullied. To Sachiko, Rintaro is like a "hero" and she starts liking him.
However, unlike what's being shown, Rintaro is actually the person who planned all the bullying pranks. He pretended to be a "hero" and save Sachiko repeatedly in order to get liked by her.
At the end of the 19th century, a series of mysterious murders occur in the provincial city of N. Metropolitan investigator Goremykin arrives at the crime scene. The search for the perpetrators leads to an unexpected conclusion – a revolutionary circle within the city, which consists of two young men recently returned from Switzerland.
Luo Ran has been investigating the death of his wife with his best friend Ning Yu. They end up getting onto a train headed for C City in order to chase female suspect Jiang Xue. The train suddenly derails mid-journey, and the hundred or so survivors find themselves transported to a ruined city with no living soul in sight, cut off from the rest of the world. The city is filled with dangers on all sides and supplies are dwindling. The survivors start dying off or disappearing one by one—a brutal game of survival begins.
Guddada Bhootha is a thriller, Indian television mini-series which has a suspense storyline based on a Tulu drama shows the country life of Tulu Nadu region of India. The series was produced by popular director Girish Kasaravalli. It had Prakash Rai as the lead actor. The story of the serial is all about what happens when a retired father and his daughter from Mumbai move into a house in a village rumored to be haunted, where they face paranormal activities. And how they uncover the secrets with the help of Sreenivas, a friend of the daughter.
In Shanghai in 1941, a spy stationed at No. 76, the secret service during Wang Jing Wei's puppet regime, is in danger of being exposed. At this time, a woman barges into his life with two children, and they must pretend to be a family to keep up a front.
Fang Jia Shu and Tao Yu Ling, a woman who was meant to be his wife since childhood, are both agents of the Communist underground. They have to try everything they can to ensure that all the members of their little family "perform well" in their roles in order to keep their identities safe. It proves to be no easy task given the suspicions from Li Li Xing, the head of No. 76 and intelligence director Ye Xing Cheng.
Fang Jia Shu also has another identity as a Juntong agent, which is complicated by fellow agent Su Ya Lu who is in love with him and team leader "Silver Fox" who is secretly monitoring his every move. Even in such a situation, Fang Jia Shu skilfully navigates different interests to complete his mission.
Taxi driver Larisa Aidarova from a small seaside town is preparing for the wedding with her beloved Maksim, with whom she has been working and living together for more than a year. But all plans collapse when Maksim is detained on suspicion of murder.