Posted on 03/12/2019 7:13:19 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
All Detectives Sorted by Detective Last Name Adams detective of Coronado 9
Dan Adams – Portrayed by Rod Cameron
A former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective in the TV series Coronado 9. (Directed by Dann Cahn)
• TV series: 1960‑1961. Addison detective of Moonlighting (with Mattie Hayes)
David Addison – Portrayed by Bruce Willis
A fast-talking P.I. who partners with Mattie in the TV series Moonlighting. (Created by Glenn Gordon Caron)
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Columbo, Rockford...
With the Brits, Sherlock Holmes (books & tv), Rumpole, although he was a lawyer, he solved a lot of mysteries...
Sax Romers series of Dr. Fu Manchu mysteries are still fun. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie had to work hard to foil his plots.
I liked Colombo, Monk, Magnum. I did a quick scan through the comments and didn’t see a mention of another I liked from TV and that’s Kojak, “Who loves you, baby?”
And Clouseau’s ridiculous disguises (the humpback being my fave).
And though not a P.I., I loved the crime solving medical examiner Quincy.
My grandfather grew up with Jack Klugman (and Norman Fell).
None of these was really my favorite. You can only take so much 19th century grit - pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts. One season of Whitechapel was so bad it ruined the rest of the show for me. And Justified's plots could be confusing. Olyphant's Raylan could be annoying sometimes, too. But I loved the way the shows made use of setting to take viewers into a different world, either in the past or in a different part of the country.
My father loved Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian series with a similar 19th century setting, but that was always too tame for me. The Morse/Lewis/Endeavour epic was also enjoyable, particularly in the way they used Oxford to drag all kinds of other fields of human activity into the detective chronicles.
Nick and Nora Charles.
Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.
Brother Cadfael...Gideon Oliver...Benni Harper...Sebastian St. Cyr...
Yes, of course. I’d forgotten, so I got them crossed up.
I even remember the narrator, who sounded just like the Lone Ranger, signing off as Brace Beamer.
Thanks
William of Baskerville
Magnum premiered on one or two “Rockford Files” episodes.
He drove Jim crazy.
Yep...some of the best BS ever spewed came from Rockford, but Mannix was pretty cool as well!
Tyler Hudson on Matlock.
He reminded me a lot of my favorite uncle.
If my favorite uncle had been black.
Correction;
Just not under the name “Magnum”
The character was Lance White but in all other respects was an overblown Magnum.
Detective Harry Bosch series on Amazon. Season five comes mid April. The trailer is up at Amazon and it looks great.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NSFS72Z/ref=atv_dp_season_select_atf
I have also read many of the Bosch books.
Columbo, Seeley Booth (Bones), Lenny Briscoe and Mike Logan (Law and Order), Robert Goren and Zach Nichols (Law and Order, CI).
“i love true crime now as an adult.”
Me, too. I’m an official “ID Addict”. My favorite author is Ann Rule.
LOL that sold me on the show. We’ve watched all the episode 2 or 3 times.
May do it again.
Cannon
Cadael
SOLDIER: Good father, I've never seen a priest wield the quarterstaff like that!
CADFAEL: I am but a mere brother.
SOLDIER: Where did you serve?
CADFAEL: In the late Crusade.
SOLDIER: You were at the siege of Jerusalem?!!
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