The Best TV Thrillers from 2004


Below is our top ten list of the best TV Thrillers which first started broadcasting in 2004.

10. Salem’s Lot


Salem%27s%20LotFirst Aired: 20 June, 2004

Salem’s Lot is a TV mini-series starring Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, and Donald Sutherland. Writer Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires.


9. Lost


LostFirst Aired: 22 September, 2004

Lost is a TV series starring Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, and Yunjin Kim. The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.


8. CSI: NY


CSI%3A%20NYFirst Aired: 22 September, 2004

CSI: NY is a TV series starring Gary Sinise, Carmine Giovinazzo, and Hill Harper. CSI head Detective Mac Taylor and his team solve crimes using forensic science in New York City.


7. The 4400


The%204400First Aired: 11 July, 2004

The 4400 is a TV series starring Jacqueline McKenzie, Joel Gretsch, and Patrick John Flueger. As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover…


6. Gantz


GantzFirst Aired: 12 April, 2004

Gantz is a TV series starring Chris Ayres, Emily Carter-Essex, and Shannon Emerick. A group of people are resurrected from their deaths by a mysterious black ball called GANTZ to combat alien criminals hiding on Earth.


5. Erufen rîto


Erufen%20r%C3%AEtoFirst Aired: 25 July, 2004

Erufen rîto is a TV mini-series starring Sanae Kobayashi, Chihiro Suzuki, and Mamiko Noto. Two university students come across a seemingly harmless girl named Lucy, unaware that she’s actually a mutant serial killer with a split…



4. Bleach: Burîchi


Bleach%3A%20Bur%C3%AEchiFirst Aired: 05 October, 2004

Bleach: Burîchi is a TV series starring Johnny Yong Bosch, Michelle Ruff, and Stephanie Sheh. High school student Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the ability to see ghosts, gains soul reaper powers from Rukia Kuchiki and sets out to save…


3. Veronica Mars


Veronica%20MarsFirst Aired: 22 September, 2004

Veronica Mars is a TV series starring Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, and Enrico Colantoni. After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county Sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest…


2. Samurai chanpurû


Samurai%20chanpur%C3%BBFirst Aired: 19 May, 2004

Samurai chanpurû is a TV series starring Kazuya Nakai, Ginpei Sato, and Ayako Kawasumi. Fuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the “samurai who…


1. Monster


MonsterFirst Aired: 06 April, 2004

Monster is a TV series starring Hidenobu Kiuchi, Liam O’Brien, and Mamiko Noto. A brilliant neurosurgeon living in Germany finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.