The Most Brilliant TV Detectives

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[Leaning Right]

Just for fun, here's a list of the top 100 TV detectives as determined by the Ranker community.

[Red in Blue PA]

[JoeSixPack1]

Very enjoyable!

[Savrola]

Thank you. Very kind of you to dig that out.

Yarddog wasn’t kidding. It was indeed good enough for the Royal Albert Hall.

[butlerweave]

It’s easy if you have the script ,LOL

[trisham]

No, but I have watched these British TV detective shows:

DCI Banks.. seasons 1-5
Grantchester 1-2
Endeavour 1-4
Inspector Lewis 1-7
Whitechapel 1-4
Scott & Bailey 1-5

I liked all of them.

[Radagast the Fool]

Lennie Briscoe on L&O
Jane Tennyson on Prime Suspect

[Leaning Right]

Longmire was a great show. And the deputy was girl-next-door pretty, as opposed to the unrealistic fashion models you see on most cop shows.

[Fightin Whitey]

Perry Mason wasn’t a detective.

Actually, he wasn't even real.

[dfwgator]

[moovova]

“Who loves ya, baby?”.

[DeFault User]

Somewhere on the list should be Frank Cannon played by William Conrad. It ran for 5 seasons in the early 70s.

Conrad was not type cast as he was a very big fellow. If you're old enough or into radio dramas, he was the voice of Matt Dillon on the Gunsmoke radio show.

[Henchster]

What about Dale Robertson as Detective Jim Hardy in "Tales of Wells Fargo" ???

[RooRoobird20]

I agree—Sheriff Longmire, Vic, and The Ferg were GREAT detectives.

The sweet and often timid The Ferg was always a very good forensic technician; but by the end of the series he was also a BAD@SS with a shotgun, I loved how his character grew!

[patriot08]

Aiden Turner

[Leaning Right]

> Somewhere on the list should be Frank Cannon played by William Conrad. <

Frank Cannon was an interesting character. But the scenes where he’d physically push around someone bigger and younger...that didn’t ring quite true.

But maybe Conrad was just summoning his inner Marshal Dillon.

[ArtDodger]

Amos Burke (Burke’s Law}
Honey West
Peter Gunn
Ironsides

[PhiloBedo]

Longmire’s pretty good.

[HBAR223]

I’ll always remember Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck but on the Free Republic 24 live threads she was “Man Hands”

[dsm69]

Or another famous 70’s TV Detective whose character was created on the “Cannon” show, “Barnaby Jones” starring Buddy Ebsen! (Decades TV is currently airing a weekend binge of “Barnaby Jones”!

[Leep]

But the Scooby Gang is number 8! ...?