CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a 2000 crime series created by Anthony E. Zuiker and Ann Donahue. It stars George Eads, Eric Szmanda and Robert David Hall.
In Las Vegas, a team of crime-scene investigators treats the evidence as the only witness that never lies. Gil Grissom, an entomologist with a cool head, leads them through blood spatter, fibers and trace under the microscope while the strip glitters overhead. The show built its style on the lab: slow-motion bullet paths, the swab, the match, the quiet moment the science pulls ahead of the suspect. William Petersen anchors the early seasons before Laurence Fishburne and Ted Danson step in. Fifteen seasons turned forensic procedure into household drama and launched a franchise that spread across the country.
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What is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation about?
In Las Vegas, a team of crime-scene investigators treats the evidence as the only witness that never lies. Gil Grissom, an entomologist with a cool head, leads them through blood spatter, fibers and trace under the microscope while the strip glitters overhead. The show built its style on the lab: slow-motion bullet paths, the swab, the match, the quiet moment the science pulls ahead of the suspect. William Petersen anchors the early seasons before Laurence Fishburne and Ted Danson step in. Fifteen seasons turned forensic procedure into household drama and launched a franchise that spread across the country.
When was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation released?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was released on 6 October 2000.
How many episodes does CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has 335 episodes across 15 seasons.
Who made CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was created by Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue and Carol Mendelsohn.
Where can I watch CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount+ (Via Apple TV), USA, Pluto TV and Google Play.
Where to watch CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Stream: Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount+ (Via Apple TV), USA
Watch free: Pluto TV
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Cast
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Robert David Hall as Al Robbins
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
- David Berman as David Phillips
- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows
- Wallace Langham as David Hodges
- William L. Petersen as Gil Grissom
- Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown
- Jon Wellner as Henry Andrews
- Archie Kao as Archie Johnson
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A few thoughts on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
For the same evidence-first detective work in a game, L.A. Noire puts you at Los Angeles crime scenes, clue by clue. Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, beginning with Postmortem, set the autopsy table at the center the way CSI sets the lab. Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books deliver the procedural grind in prose.
Forensic pathologists who let the body tell the story
CSI built its identity on the lab, treating blood spatter and trace evidence as the witness that never lies. Silent Witness and Harrow follow actual forensic pathologists at the slab, Waking the Dead and Cold Case reopen unsolved files once new science catches up, and CSI: NY carries Grissom's method east. Patricia Cornwell's Postmortem puts a medical examiner ahead of the case entirely.
Star profilers who read people better than evidence
Grissom solved cases by trusting the lab over instinct, but this angle runs the other way: investigators who read faces and habits like CSI reads a bloodstain. The Mentalist's Jane, Criminal Minds' profilers, The Closer's interrogation instincts, Bosch's intuition, and Poker Face's lie-detecting gift work the same room without a microscope. Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes chases a killer on pattern and pressure alone.
Detective games where you run the actual investigation
CSI turns the audience into a bystander watching Grissom draw conclusions from a swab; these games hand the magnifying glass over instead. L.A. Noire has you interrogate suspects and match evidence like a period-set CSI case file, Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human task you with piecing together a killer's trail, and Disco Elysium and The Wolf Among Us turn a murder into hours of your own detective work.