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The Most Brilliant TV Detectives
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Posted on 11/18/2018 7:23:00 AM PST by Leaning Right

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


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: detectives; tv
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To: yarddog
"I always liked Columbo and Peter Faulk until I heard Columbo say, “I don’t like guns”. Suddenly lost interest."

I recall one episode (could be that very same episode) in which columbo was reminded that he was required to show up at a police firing range for a regularly scheduled target practice test. He kept putting it off as he didnt want to have to shoot a gun. His supervisors were putting pressure on him to take this test. So columbo got a fellow cop to fraudulently go in his place and take the test for him.

61 posted on 11/18/2018 9:49:39 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: yarddog

Benton Fraser RCMP.


62 posted on 11/18/2018 10:01:28 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Radagast the Fool

Lenny was L&O.


63 posted on 11/18/2018 10:02:29 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: dfwgator

Tied for tops in my book.

Trust me, I know what I’m doing.


64 posted on 11/18/2018 10:03:15 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: moovova

Stavros, Crocker, Rizzo, Saperstein.


65 posted on 11/18/2018 10:04:29 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: DeFault User

No Barnaby Jones?

He was good too.


66 posted on 11/18/2018 10:05:20 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: ArtDodger

Chief Ironside was really good.


67 posted on 11/18/2018 10:06:23 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: ArtDodger

Some of the really early OTR Dragnet shows gad Raymond Burr as Ed Backstrand, the chief.

Ironside 1.0.


68 posted on 11/18/2018 10:08:03 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Leaning Right

Streets of San Francisco.
That was before they got covered in poo.


69 posted on 11/18/2018 10:10:44 AM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Leaning Right

Banacek

McCloud

Hec Ramsey

Monk

Ironside

Rockford

Nick Slaughter

Kojak

Benton Fraser


70 posted on 11/18/2018 10:11:25 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: GSWarrior

I like Bergerac, The Sweeney, Shoestring, and both with Gene Hunt.


71 posted on 11/18/2018 10:12:40 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Leaning Right

Few know of Sheriff Lobo.


72 posted on 11/18/2018 10:15:29 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: catman67

The original was best in black and white.

That 90s series was ok.


73 posted on 11/18/2018 10:16:30 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: sevlex

Honorable mention - Petrocelli.


74 posted on 11/18/2018 10:20:26 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Leep

Lenny Murchison might be able to figure out the psychological aspects of some SF freaks.


75 posted on 11/18/2018 10:24:42 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Leaning Right

1. Sherlock Holmes
2. Columbo
3. Adrian Monk
4. Olivia Benson
5. Fox Mulder & Dana Scully
6. Hercule Poirot
7. Leroy Jethro Gibbs
8. The Scooby Gang
9. Temperance “Bones” Brennan
10. Gil Grissom
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Wow.

Pretty much my Top Ten, though not in the order as listed.


76 posted on 11/18/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: Leep

Bert D’Angelo Superstar might have flown.

An episode was a backdoor pilot.


77 posted on 11/18/2018 10:31:47 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Leaning Right
Maybe not the best, but certainly the first detective:

Caveman Detective

78 posted on 11/18/2018 10:47:20 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: sevlex

Neither is Bones. She is an anthropologist.


79 posted on 11/18/2018 11:00:51 AM PST by ozaukeemom (9/11/01 Never Forget. Never.)
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To: Leaning Right

Bobby Goren from Law and Order


80 posted on 11/18/2018 11:05:05 AM PST by shotgun
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