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Old 25 March 2023, 03:15 AM   #1
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The 50 Greatest TV and Movie Detectives...
This should give us something to chew on.....

Just watched Knives Out again last night for maybe the 5th time.

Loved Columbo, Rockford, Magnum, and some of the other classics here...in fact most of these are pretty good.

Chinatown and Maltese Falcon, Fargo, Pink Panthers were near the top of my list as well.

https://ew.com/tv/greatest-tv-movie-...b-c732d869bcbe
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Old 25 March 2023, 03:17 AM   #2
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Old 25 March 2023, 03:17 AM   #3
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They out the Professor… he was forever trying to unravel the mystery of Gilligan and the Skipper
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So many left out. Batman didn't make the cut?
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Id have Miami Vice easily in top 15.. Trend Setters!
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Old 25 March 2023, 04:49 AM   #9
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The 50 Greatest TV and Movie Detectives...

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Greatest on TV. Detective Vic Mackey. Arguably not so great of a human being, but what a terrific character
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Meh... what a funny "best" detective list which misses Sherlock Holmes(!), and in which the "creators" forgot about the David Suchet played Poirot. In this circumstances I also missed James Bond from the list...
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Indiana Jones is a Detective...
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Inspector Morse.
I don't think they covered Brit TV/movies all that well unless they showed up on PBS in the US.

Morse was a classic as was Midsomer for 24 seasons.

One of my favorites is Brokenwood from New Zealand. (Britbox)
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I don't think they covered Brit TV/movies all that well unless they showed up on PBS in the US.

Morse was a classic as was Midsomer for 24 seasons.

One of my favorites is Brokenwood from New Zealand. (Britbox)
If memory serves me right: Foyle’s War, Inspector Morse and Inspector Lynley all aired on PBS. Terrible omissions! But at least there is no Miss Marple on the list, she irritated me so much lol
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If memory serves me right: Foyle’s War, Inspector Morse and Inspector Lynley all aired on PBS. Terrible omissions! But at least there is no Miss Marple on the list, she irritated me so much lol
Entirely possible.

I watch mostly Prime with Britbox, Acorn, AMCplus, PBS/Masterpiece, MHzChoice and foreign stuff for the last few years, a lot of British, French, German, Aussie and NZ, as well as the dark stuff from Scandinavian countries like multiple versions of Beck and Wallander.

So many great detective shows.

If anybody is interested I could list a bunch of them.
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