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?

Detective Vic Mackey from The Shield was somewhat morally dubious but annoyingly likable.

Always had a soft spot for John Nettles in Bergerac as well as Cagney and Lacey and let's not forget the lovely but badass Detective Lady Harriet "Harry" Makepeace.

Vera, Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher were just nosey medalsome cunts.

I like David Tennant in Broadchurch and Cormoran Strike of the same name.

dating myself here, but I dislike the sidekick in Wexford, and Inspector Lynley.

Oh, and John Hannah didn’t work as Rebus for me, but having seeen the trailer Rik Rankin looks intriguing

Vera, Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher were just nosey medalsome cunts.

That made me laugh. But for the most nosey, meddlesome cunts of all I give you…the Scooby Doo gang.

Rebus has not been well cast, they need John Hannah as he looks now and to start again.

Vera, WTF is her accent meant to be?

Morse, a favourite. Father Brown is good in a Sunday afternoon sort of way.

Sherlock, Vera, Merseyside, Miss Marple Joan H, Strike, Jimmy Perez

Sherlock
Luther
Vera
Strike
Perrez
Van Der Valk
Poirot

Love a detective show!

I love the Wallander books especially the last one the end made me cry and Krister Henriksson was amazing as Wallander he played him just as I imagined him, I sure I read somewhere that late Henning Mankell also thought the same thing. Kenneth Brannaghs portrayal of Wallander was at best second rate in comparison.

Favourite: Colombo. Peter Falk was perfect.

Least favourite: Inspector Frost. I always thought David Jason was miscast in that role.

Columbo. Beg pardon.

I like Poirot, Morse, Julien Baptiste, Wallander, Jim Barnaby.

Morse
Endeavour
Lewis
Joan Hickson’s Marple ( but she’s not a detective)
Van der Valk
Cormoran Strike

Saga Norén and Catherine Cawood. Soft spot for Jane Tennison too.

I really like Tosh from Shetland and Jackie Reid from Taggart.

Zen, Endeavour, Morse, Lewis, Father Brown (earlier series), Shakespeare and Hathaway, Poirot, Columbo, Sherlock - Benedict Cumberbatch, Elementary (Sherlock) - Johny Lee Miller and Bosch

Jessica Jones

Yes Miss Marple IS a detective!!
My favourite detectives are Morse and Miss Marple.
Can't stand Columbo... You know who the killer is all the time!!!

Jim Rockford from the Rockford Files because he looked just like my dad

Oh I forgot Bosch! How could I forget Harry.

Favourites - Frost, Luther, Father Brown, Poirot

Least favourites - Miss Marple, George Gently, Endeavour, Morse

Gene Hunt - I just can't help myself
The two women detectives from No Offence I really enjoyed that one!

Vera (obvs)
Kristen Simms

Yes! No Offence was fabulous.
Gene Hunt, Catherine Cawood, everyone and everything about Line of Duty is top notch. Cagney and Lacey I loved as a youngster. Do David Addison and Maddie Hayes count(Moonlighting)? I’d love to see that again but it’s only streaming in the US.

I forgot Jean Hunt and Saga Naren loved them both.
David Suchet as Poirot was also fab again the same thing can’t be said of Kenneth Branagh as Poirot bloody awful.

The whole point of Columbo wasn't a classic whodunit but rather observing our hero meticulously and artlessly destroying the perpetrator then pouncing after their final fatal mistake. That was what distinguished Columbo from its contemporaries.