Crime

Classic television’s L.A.-private detective show has this scene between two regulars: one of the PIs and the hipster valet attendant at the club next door to their office.

A low-budget TV movie co-written and starring Robert Blake as an L.A. private detective; in this early scene, he checks in with his office to learn about his next case.

A cat-and-mouse detective movie, Debra Winger’s on the trail of a woman she believes seduces rich men, marries them, and kills them.

Another “Vassar cracks the case,” here our heroes get the tip that leads them to realize the person they’re chasing, known as the Judge, who runs an underground operation dispensing “eye for an eye” justice on officials who have wrongly convicted people, is a Vassar grad.

This comedy-drama has father Nathan Fillion coming to terms with his daughter’s leaving for college.

This procedural investigates old cases and uses dramatic re-enactments.

Toward the end of the episode of this long-running FBI procedural show, the intrepid investigators discover the culprit behind this week’s kidnapping by realizing that her Vassar background makes her smart enough, and manipulative enough, to do e-e-e-e-e-vil.

Yet another cop show, this one set in DC, yet another Vassar girl tangled in a web of crime.

This was a popular, extremely 80s show of a rich, married couple trotting around the globe solving mysteries.

More iconic 70s television, here with a family of grifters who just made a big score.

In this mid-‘80’s detective show our leads are interviewing a crime victim who’s reminiscing about his day, amid his grief.

Here’s New York’s toughest cop from the iconic ’70s show first getting an assist from another intelligent and multilingual Vassar girl, and second making some gentle fun of Detective Crocker’s date.

There must have been some grads among the writers of this long-running NY-based show. Here’s a bunch of quick shots of the Vassar grads who have populated the L & O world…victims, friends, witnesses, and people of interest to the investigators.

A TV movie featuring Stacy Keach as hard-boiled New York City cop Mickey Spillane.

Another clip where Vassar is used as a class marker, and also to note a woman’s independence.

Here’s yet another criminal procedural show with yet another Vassar victim.

All these police procedural shows seem to bring in a Vassar character at some point. Our Vassar character is writing an article for an art magazine and has some information about the disappearance of the dealer who is the subject of her article.

A Vassar trustee is here the victim of harassment.

This long-running network police show finds our protagonist cops visiting a known sex offender when a child goes missing, with hilarious (for purposes of this site) results.

This is the fourth in the Thin Man series, the detective series featuring Myrna Loy and William Powell as Nick and Nora—and their terrier, Asta.

This hard-boiled L.A. neo-noir contemporary detective show from Apple has a couple of people trying to learn more about the titular detective, John Sugar, who has secrets of his own.

A twice-canceled police procedural about a woman with a perfect memory who helps the cops.

Investigators check into a suspect’s background, whose Vassar alumnus status is seen as enviable.