Can you name the crime TV show by similar description of premise?

Premise	TV Show Title	Year of Premiere
A man is underestimated and spurned by his partner for his hopeful belief in the paranormal, but it helps him solve crimes		1993
A man who works as a forensic crime-scene analyst for the Miami Police Department is secretly a serial killer, but it helps him solve crimes		2006
A man is a mathematical genius, and it helps him solve crimes		2005
A man has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but it helps him solve crimes		2002
An especially observant man feigns clairvoyance, and it helps him solve crimes		2006
A group of police officers are youthful in appearance allowing them to operate undercover at high schools and colleges, and it helps them solve crimes		1987
A man can't separate reality from dreams, but it helps him solve crimes		2012
A man is a former magician and con-artist whose arrogance leads to his downfall, but it helps him solve crimes		2008
A woman is cold and socially awkward, but this makes her an effective scientist which helps her solve crimes		2005
An ex-police officer returns to the force after being wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years, but it helps him solve crimes		2007
An ex-thief and con-man gets caught and turns C.I. to the FBI, but it helps him solve crimes		2009
A man is an author consulting for the NYPD, and it helps him solve crimes		2009
A man is a neuro-psychiatrist who experiences symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, but it helps him solve crimes		2012
An un-ethical surveillance-compilation machine is secretly built, but it helps two men solve crimes (before they happen!)		2011
A man devises scientific methods of detecting deception which has consequences in his personal life, but it helps him solve crimes		2009
A man is a former spy whose life and reputation are anonymously destroyed, but it helps him solve crimes		2007
A woman enlists the help of a disturbed genius in the field of paranormal science and his son, and it helps her solve crimes		2008
A man is the last in a bloodline of protectors sworn to defend the innocent from whimsical, fantasy creatures, and it helps him solve crimes		2011

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Criminal Activity Quiz

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	AracleMiraz:	May 4th, 2013 at 15:04 GMT		3 points
	Ah, Fringe. Such a wonderful show - too bad it ended this year.

	oklaclarinet:	May 4th, 2013 at 15:25 GMT		10 points
	Someone watches a lot of USA (not that that's a bad thing). Also, I was initially surprised by the lack of Law and Order's, CSI's, NCIS's, and Criminal Minds, but I guess those procedurals are more group efforts and wouldn't fit the wording of the quiz.

	pete32782:	May 4th, 2013 at 17:24 GMT		3 points
	An FBI criminal profiler empathizes with serial killers, and it helps him solve crimes. Hannibal is a pretty darn good show.

	Strummer174:	May 4th, 2013 at 17:35 GMT		2 points
	I realize Law & Order doesn't quite fit, but I was really hoping it would be here just so we could start a string of Lennie Briscoe's greatest hits in the Comments section. "If I was joking, I'd be wearing a Fez and no pants."

	Jules824:	May 4th, 2013 at 17:51 GMT		6 points
	Awake was a really good show with a great premise, I wish NBC had given it more time to find an audience.

	ReidLightFan:	May 4th, 2013 at 21:51 GMT		1 point
	Amen to Criminal Minds appearing on this quiz! :D Still, good quiz, I only know of Perception because of the endless adverts of said show.... Really good quiz again!

	mathdanmom:	May 4th, 2013 at 22:13 GMT		6 points
	I was hoping to see Elementary on this quiz, I think it fits the type quite well.

	Colmar:	May 4th, 2013 at 22:28 GMT		3 points
	I would imagine that Medium also fits this quiz well. Nonetheless, cool quiz!

	serf_in_USA:	May 4th, 2013 at 23:26 GMT		2 points
	I realize the premise of the quiz is about singular individuals solving crimes (Btw, where's Kojak? Where's Columbo? Wikipedia can be fun sometimes, you know ...), but still, it would have been kinda cool to have seen Charmed, The Dead Zone, Hannibal and The Following on here. At any rate, great quiz. Five stars.

	tvfan3:	May 4th, 2013 at 23:30 GMT		5 points
	@oklaclarinet. The common theme with all of these shows is that they're about some kind of crime solving (loosely defined) show with a hook. Monk is the show with the OCD crime solver. Numbers is the math crime solver etc etc. Law and Order and NCIS are more straightforward procedurals. They're not about people with some unusual quirk or insight, they're about law enforcement officers doing their jobs.

	gamer2000:	May 5th, 2013 at 00:48 GMT		3 points
	@tvfan3: SO right!! I'm so tired of the powers that be creating more and more of these shows that can all be described as: "Quirky Crime Fighter". And there's a ridiculous amount of them that weren't even in this quiz > as mentioned in commentary above

	iceman1731:	May 5th, 2013 at 04:31 GMT		4 points
	Will this quiz help me solve crimes?

	Blackbandana:	May 5th, 2013 at 19:59 GMT		2 points
	A lot of the shows mentioned (Elementary, Hannibal and the Following) which could have potentially been added had not yet debuted when I made the quiz about 8 months ago, but you guys are right they could have been good additions

	suzannebark:	May 5th, 2013 at 23:28 GMT		3 points
	Maybe this is only for American shows, but BBC's Sherlock seems like it would be perfect. He's an obsessive-compulsive, a self-described sociopath, socially inept, manic-depressive, analytical genius. And he's got Watson, so that would count as a duo. Oh well, can't have everything. Good quiz!

	TrojanHorse:	May 6th, 2013 at 15:45 GMT		1 point
	@suzannebark, he's really not obsessive-compulsive or manic-depressive. I agree that he's obsessive and may occasionally seem manic, but he's driven by his desire to catch a criminal and fend off boredom, and therefore not able to be diagnosed as either obsessive-compulsive or manic-depressive. It kind of sucks that people give characters diagnoses without actually looking into the disorders first. My two cents. --a guy with bipolar

	tjgolaso:	May 6th, 2013 at 17:25 GMT		2 points
	-it helps them solve crimes

	asylum31:	May 8th, 2013 at 19:04 GMT		1 point
	As I was reading the clue for Dexter, I was secretly hoping it was for CSI: Miami.

	SmokeMonster:	May 10th, 2013 at 02:34 GMT		2 points
	Person of Interest, Life, and Fringe own, in general, and are leaps and bounds superior to the others. Save of course, for The X-Files, which stands above them as one of the greatest shows of all time.

	suzannebark:	May 10th, 2013 at 23:20 GMT		1 point
	@TrojanHorse, I apologize if I offended you in any way. That was insensitive of me. Honestly, the manic-depressive thing came up because I saw an interview with some of the cast, and one of the cast members (I'm sorry, I can't remember who) described Holmes as depressive, so I kind of stole it from him. Sorry! Also, notice how I didn't say he has obsessive-compulsive disorder, I said he was obsessive compulsive. I normally make a distinction between the two, but I guess that doesn't come across in the text. I'll try to be more careful next time.