Psych
Comedy, Crime, Mystery year: 2006–2014 seasons: 8 creator: Steve Franks actors: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, Corbin Bernsen availability:
When a novice sleuth convinces the police he has psychic powers, he and his reluctant best friend are hired on as consultants to help solve complicated cases. wiki: Psych IMDB Psych
Psych is a fantastic crime procedural with clever writing interesting characters and great referential humor. The show centers around Shawn Spencer a super immature and aimless character with incredible abilities and eclectic knowledge base. Shawn gets forced into his natural calling as a crime solver using his amazing recall and keen observation skills to fake being a psychic. This is a modern day Sherlock Holmes. If this is one of the first shows you are choosing to watch understand that you will miss out on many of the references being made. As you watch more and more things you will remember them being referenced in this show. Since the show is fairly episodic it is not necessary to start with the first episode and push through. I say this in particular as the pilot is one of the weaker episodes and is longer than a normal episode. I highly recommend Season 3 Episode 16 “An evening with Mr. Yang”, Season 4 Episode 1 “Extradition: British Columbia” or one of the numerous themed episodes such as Season 6 Episode 2 “Last night Gus” based on “The Hangover”, Season 3 Episode 15 “Tuesday the 17th” based on “Friday the 13th”, or Season 4 Episode 15 “The Head, the Tail, the Whole Damn Episode” based on “Jaws”.
The show ran for 8 seasons with 120 hour long (42min) episodes and 3 movies.