Who are your favourite and least favourite TV detectives?

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I love Father Brown though I have to admit that he can be rather annoying at times. I also love Shakespeare and Hathaway and Poirot and really enjoyed Luther.

I’ve just started watching Vera and I can’t quite decide which category she’s going to fall into. I like the show so far but is she always so shouty and irritable?

Who are your favourite detectives?

Basil The Great Mouse Detective was awesome.

Morse (and/or Jessica Fletcher 😁)

Don’t like Rebus

Vera. I wish I could be that assertive.

Deborah Morgan from Dexter (seeing as I technically can't have the man himself )

Going back a bit, I always liked Cagney and Lacey. Quite an intelligent show for that sort of cop stuff.

Of the TV private/hobby detectives, I liked Jeremy Brett as Holmes and can’t bear Jessica Fletcher.

Jessica Fletcher as Angela Lansbury has some brillant facial expressions. Least would be Morse, very dull, though no doubt John Thaw was also a great actor

Dalziel from Dalziel and Pascoe, Colombo, Miss Marple (Joan Hickson), Taggart, Jane Tennison

Dislike Rebus, Vera

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellicott from Strike brilliant.

Love:
Sherlock
Dalziel & Pascoe
Morse

Can't get on with:
Shetland (can't even remember their names)

Another one for Joan Hickson as Miss Marple here. I've never seen Father Brown, I shall add that to my Christmas's telly list

Rebus (Ken Stott, not John Hannah)
Wallander (not Kenneth Branagh)
Morse
Kojack
Columbo
Rockford (played by James Garner)
Magnum

I was going to say cracker and the Robson green character from wite in the blood but neither are detectives. I liked Ken stott in messiah.

Didnt like David thingy in the mark billingham adaption, the whole show wasn't very good.

I don't seem to watch many detective things these days, anyone recommend any good ones?

My favourites are
Miss Marple but Joan Hickson only
A Touch of Frost
Vera
Morse
Dislike Taggart

I like Jimmy Perez from Shetland. Morse was a pompous, ill-tempered windbag.

Love Columbo

I preferred Endeavour to Morse. Haven’t watched Lewis yet but I really like the relevant character in Morse so will probably enjoy it.

I think that Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey are my ultimate favourites. Powerful, flawed, well-drawn characters. I also love Sarah Lund in The Killing. And the policewoman (not a detective though) in the first season of Fargo, the one who married and became pregnant at the end.

I agree that Miss Marple has to be Joan Hickson. No other will do.

Nicola Walker as DCI Cassie Stuart in Unforgotten (I have a huge girl crush on her!)

Dempsey and Makepeace

My favourite is Saga from The Bridge.

Happy Valley (terrible with names)
Sherlock
Cracker

I like Poirot and Sherlock.
Really dislike Vera - both the character and the plotline.

Morse
Cormoran Strike (and Robin Ellacott)
Luther
Piet Van der Valk (and Lucienne. In fact I think Lucienne is my favourite of all)

Another Cagney & Lacey fan - formative feminist viewing!

Also fond memories of Magnum PI and Gene Hunt in Life on Mars

Oh and Sherlock of course.