Who Was Your Favorite Private Detective, TV, Book, or Movies?

Linger & Look ^ | 03-12-2019 | Captain Peter Blood

[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)

[MrEdd]

In books it is Walter Gibson's Kent Allard (The Shadow).

For television it has to be this guy

Who always has to bail out a rash young newcomer...

[Captain Peter Blood]

As TC would call him, “Higgi Baby”!

[Dilbert San Diego]

I liked the old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. I also enjoyed the Charlie Chan movies.

[Rockingham]

Movie: Harper, as played by Paul Newman in the movie of that name.

TV show: Jim Rockford, as played by James Garner in The Rockford Files.

Book: Philip Marlowe, from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

[Publius]

“Quick, Watson, the needle!”

[hardspunned]

Drake drove some sweet cars, vettes and T birds.

[o-n-money]

My father always said, if Angela Lansbury comes to town, he was getting the hell out.

[Fiji Hill]

Jim McClain in the movie Big Jim McClain (1952). He was an agent of the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities chasing Communists through Hawaii. Can't get more politically incorrect.

I also like Herbert Philbrick of the TV show I Led Three Lives.

[wardaddy]

I was going to say Banacek too

Very cool

Movie

The Conversation Chinatown tie

Books

I read little fiction

[Equine1952]

Higgins didn’t drink beer very often but when he did he drank Dos Equis. I liked Magnum. Peter Gunn was pretty good in the day.

[Ransomed]

TV: Stu, Jeff, Kookie, Roscoe, and Suzanne from 77 Sunset Strip/Rust Cole from True Detective

Movies: That’s a hard one. I guess Sherlock Holmes for volume.

Books: Nero Wolfe

Freegards

[atc23]

Barnaby Jones? That is so gay with his glass of milk LOL

[G Larry]

Radio: Johnny Diamond

[Mears]

Don’t forget Lawrence Block—I mentioned him in an earlier post— the Matt Scudder series.

Also his Keller the hitman and Bernie Rhodenbarr,the book dealer/burglar. The latter two can be very humorous.

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[G Larry]

Ok.....so it was Johnny Dollar......

[P.O.E.]

Columbo

[Island Girl]

TV - Rockfish (and that lovable rogue Angel)
Books - Travis Mcgee!!! Read them multiple times...

[mountn man]

[Captain Peter Blood]

Now there was Richard Diamond on radio played by Dick Powell and on TV by David Jansen.

[Mears]

Columbo was a cop.