We certainly have our favourite Detectives from our favourite authors. Who are your favourite TV Detectives?
We certainly have our favourite Detectives from our favourite authors.
Who are your favourite TV Detectives?
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Moorse, Frost and the cast of The Bill ?
Fitz from Cracker. Technically not a detective but he did help the cops 🙂
All detectives in Major Crimes and all SSA in BAU, criminal minds.
I forgot oliva Benson haha
Vera, Strike, Foyle…
I haven’t watched Strike.
Guess I should give that a go, eh?
@Kristen I love it! It’s J.K. Rowling’s under her pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.
Crim minds
Morse.
Most of mine are older shows that I watched as a kid. Harry Orwell (David Janssen) from Harry O, Jim Rockford (James Garner) from The Rockford Files, and Rick Simon (Gerald McRaney) from Simon & Simon.
Callan, Kojak, The Fugitive , Starskey and Hutch?
@Susan Talking of Hutch, my new car is called Silver Lady 🙂
Luther/Rebus
Vera, Jimmy Perez(Shetland), Comeron Strike, Jane Marple, Wallander, Scott & Bailey
Has to be Luther,
Line of Duty cast for me
Ooh yes, they are good.
@Susan Ted Hastings, fella. And John Luther.
Endeavour
Kate Beckett
I am rediscovering Amos Burke on Talking Pictures TV (Freeview c81). The bit part actors are amazing – David Niven, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Caesar Romero.
Chicago pd cast but love Voight the most
I like Chicago Justice
I liked that shame there is only 1 season
@Sarah Ah that is why I was seeing the same series repeated.
@Susan it never got to season 2 for some reason
@Sarah Shame it was good
Tennison/Taggart
Jack Frost.
Endeavour
Luther
Jack Frost no question
Morse. (Young and old both.)
Foyle.
Sherlock Holmes (w/ Jeremy Brett)
Lewis Vera and Luther
Inspector Morse
Oh forgot Jane Tennison ..also Rebecka Martinsson(“The Artic Murders”) & Eva Thornblad ( “Jordskott” ). Love Scandi Noirs
There are so many: Morse, Jimmy Perez, Bosch, Wallender, Taggert, Rebus, Gibbs, – there are more.
Columbo?
Catherine Cawood, Scott & Bailey, Bosch, Saga Noren, Stella Gibson
Morse
Poirot
Endeavour. Vera. Poirot. Columbo.
Frost
Montalbano, Columbo, not sure if you can include Sherlock Holmes
Not DI Banks
Line of duty . Columbo and death in paradise
Columbo and Taggart ….
Dalziel and pascoe, and taggart
Scott and Bailey.
I loved the Canadian series of Nero Wolfe mysteries based on the Rex Stout books and back in the seventies, I loved the Australian series, ‘Boney’ starring James Lawrenson. Anyone else remember it?
Unfamiliar to me @Ron.
Rizzoli & isles
Bones ..
Kate Burkholder,
Inspector Wexford from Ruth Rendell, Saga Noren from the Bridge, Vera and Gibbs from NCIS.
Luther and Bosch (wow, that would be a great detective double act!).
Columbo and Humphrey Goodman
Jack Frost aka as David Jason
Sherlock (Jeremy Brett) & Watson (Edward Hardwicke)
There’ll never be another Regan and Carter – The Sweeney!!
I really enjoy watching Vera
Morse, Wexford, Frost, Poirot and Marple x
Gillian Anderson in The Fall (can’t remember her characters name)
Stella Gibson. Love her.
Vera and Gene Hunt.
Lewis
Vera
I love Law and Order SVU for authentic detectives.
Wallander
Alex Cross – James Patterson books – but I have others too
Morse and frost
David Suchet as poirot, Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez in Shetland x
Love Dougie henshall as jimmy Perez!
Chicago PD
Endeavour. Lewis. Bones. Midsomer Murders.
DCI Banks, Rebus
Robert Goren from Law and Order: Criminal Intent ?
Luther. Head and shoulders above the rest IMHO. Although not a detective, Robbie Coltrane’s Cracker from the nineties was also a favourite of mine. Thinking back on it, his character must have been a subconscious influence on my forensic psychiatrist, ‘Doc’, in Remorseless – and I’ve only just realised, thinking about TV series for this post!
my problem with Luther – and several other tv detectives of modern times – is that he is so damaged he’d have been pensioned off in real terms.
That’s true, Jan. Although it is all just fiction, innit?! 😉
True – but he is a tad OTT 🙂
Which is down to the scripts of course
I generally prefer realism too but, in his case, the acting and the scripts (despite your very accurate criticism) are well worth watching. Still my favourite despite having seen plenty of suggestions from others on here now. 🙂
to some extent – but there is a line. Loved the acting but had issues with the credibility. If it were Spooks or similar its easier for agents to have ‘issues’ and be permitted to go off on one without getting handed their P45 B|
Callan and Agatha christie Joan Hickson Ms Marple
I loved Callan too, Liz, and forgot all about that series. Having said that, he was a spook really rather than a detective so we’re both going a little off topic with our choices, I think! 😉
Yes but it was great acting and storylines.
Vera, Jeremy Brett’s Holmes, Joan Hickson’s Miss Marple, David Suchet’s Poirot, Lord PW, Callan (though was he really a detective? Wasn’t he really an Mi5 or similar agent?)
Scott and Bailey – until the last series which lost the plot
Catherine Cawood (Happy Valley)
Roy Grace by Peter James
He’s not a tv detective tho’ Linda! ??
Agatha Christie – Poirot and Miss Marple.
Tony Hill of Wire in the Blood, but he was really a dysfunctional psychologist, but a great detective all the same 🙂
I so really really loved the whole series (and books) and i’m still so very sad it got cancelled…
I did a lot of work on Wire in the Blood for Coastal Productions as a rigger 🙂 great fun