The 50 Greatest TV and Movie Detectives...

[Shmoopy]

Originally Posted by Blansky

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.

I’d love to hear your recommendations, particularly French stuff.

[Mifune]

Eve Polastri

[Blansky]

These are a few of the ones I've watched.

Many have subtitles.

Britbox
The Bay
Shetland
Luther
Silent Witness
Poirot
Morse
Prime suspect
River
Murder in Suburbia
Line of Duty
Blue Murder
DCI Banks
Maigret
Scott and Bailey
Vera
Death in Paradise
Beyond Paradise
Midsomer Murders
Karen Pirie
Stonehouse
McDonald and Dodds
Murder in Provence
The Mallorca Files
New Tricks
The Coroner
Grace
Inspector Lynley
Bancroft
Dalziel and Pascoe

Acorn
Madame Blanc
Candice Renoir
Holding
Mystery Road
My Life is Murder
The Brokenwood Mysteries
Bloodlands
Dagliesh
Whitstable Pearl
Agatha Raison
Queens of Mystery
The Chelsea Detective
Backstrom
The Sommerdahl Murders
Darby and Joan
Manhunt
The Code
The Gulf

PBS/Masterpiece
Van Der Valk
Astrid
Endeavour
Volpe
Dicte
Luna and Sophie
The Paris Murders
The Tunnel
Ice Cold Murders
Inspector Lewis
Broadchurch
Wisting
One Lane Bridge


MHz Choice

Perfect Murders
Irish Crime
Money Murder Zurich
Murder in…
Tandem
Murder by the Lake
Wilder
Bukow and Konig
Tator Streets of Berlin
Beck
Captain Marleau
Deadly Tropics
The Sandhamn Murders
Detectives
The Art of Criime
Blood of the Vine
Alexandra Ehle



HBO
CB Strike

[Mifune]

take your pick...

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Shmoopy

I’d love to hear your recommendations, particularly French stuff.

If I remember correctly these are French

Candice Renoir

The Paris Murders

Murder in Provence

Perfect Murders

Captain Marlowe

Murder in.... is a compilation mainly in France I think, centered in various locales and I think there are a lot of them. Not it's original name.

[Mifune]

Joe Leland..

[Mifune]

Joe Friday...

[martinr]

Joe Mannix/Mike Connors and the opening theme music by Lalo Schifrin.
Currently Astrid on PBS

[Mifune]

LS was a great composer...

[Mifune]

Banachek...

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Mifune

LS was a great composer...

Yes, he IS!

[Black Bay Dan]

Tom Barnaby

Dan

[AzPaul]

Originally Posted by INC

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...

If it makes you feel any better, 'Sherlock and Watson' landed at #3 on the list.
As to Bond, at the top of the article, they set a few parameters for the list that disqualified 007.

"Now, before you get mad about someone we left off the list, allow us to explain a few rules we set for ourselves in the creation of this ranking: You will not find any spies, vigilantes, superheroes, monster hunters, or investigative journalists on this list."

[Shmoopy]

Originally Posted by Blansky

If I remember correctly these are French

Candice Renoir

The Paris Murders

Murder in Provence

Perfect Murders

Captain Marlowe

Murder in.... is a compilation mainly in France I think, centered in various locales and I think there are a lot of them. Not its original name.

Very nice! Thanks for the list, I’m going to find out what subscriptions my wife has and go from there.

[White Collar Boy]

‘Jonathan Ames’ in Bored To Death.

‘Rustin Cohle’ in True Detective (season one).

[Romeojk]

Columbo gets my vote


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[Speedbird-1]

Surely.....

[Razorsedge1]

Not sure about this list. Jim Rockford has to be top 5. I would have Crockett and Tubbs top 10. And leave off Murder She Wrote and In Heat of Night.

[OverGeared]

Like most lists, this one's based on the quality of the characters (how well they're written and performed, that is, not the quality of their "character") more than on the characters' actual detective skills.

If we're going on pure skill, then Holmes, Batman, and Columbo are your winners; with Marlowe, Fletcher, Blanc and Gunderson getting honorable mentions.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by OverGeared

Like most lists, this one's based on the quality of the characters (how well they're written and performed, that is, not the quality of their "character") more than on the characters' actual detective skills.

If we're going on pure skill, then Holmes, Batman, and Columbo are your winners; with Marlowe, Fletcher, Blanc and Gunderson getting honorable mentions.

Batman would be disqualified as per the criteria. No superheroes.

[OverGeared]

Originally Posted by Blansky

Batman would be disqualified as per the criteria. No superheroes.

Ah, I misread. OK, add Marlowe to the podium and bump up Nick Charles from "The Thin Man" to take Marlowe's place in Honorable Mentions.

[Mifune]

Marlow... already taken

[Cloudchaser]

Originally Posted by AzPaul

If it makes you feel any better, 'Sherlock and Watson' landed at #3 on the list.
As to Bond, at the top of the article, they set a few parameters for the list that disqualified 007.

"Now, before you get mad about someone we left off the list, allow us to explain a few rules we set for ourselves in the creation of this ranking: You will not find any spies, vigilantes, superheroes, monster hunters, or investigative journalists on this list."

Indeed. Otherwise I would have mic dropped Maxwell Smart.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by OverGeared

Ah, I misread. OK, add Marlowe to the podium and bump up Nick Charles from "The Thin Man" to take Marlowe's place in Honorable Mentions.

Loved the Thin Man movies. We even had a Wire Fox Terrier we named Asta.

[Boopie]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

Inspector Morse.

We are totally digging the prequel, “Endeavour.”

Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Magnum!

Just to be different, “House, M.D.” is a “medical mystery” show, with Hugh Laurie (House) = Holmes, and his best friend Dr. Wilson = Watson

[White Collar Boy]

Special Agent Holden Ford (‘Mindhunter’ series).

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by White Collar Boy

Special Agent Holden Ford (‘Mindhunter’ series).

LOL Jonathan Groff. Such a funny guy. (Hamilton)

[Mifune]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

Surely.....

Sure you jest!
Detective Comics... Batmans skill is his detective skills... and being rich