Series

The First 48 2004

  • Documentary, Drama, Crime
  • 45 min episodes
  • 30 seasons
  • 610 episodes
  • Returning
  • TV-14

The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations.

DocumentaryDramaCrimetrue crimemurder investigationA&E

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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.

  • earnestironic
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • character-ledplot-driven

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