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What are your favorite private eye shows?

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mississippi fan

This is more or less about personal tastes. Not the best written, acted, etc. Just for fun.

My top 5.
1. The New Mike Hammer
2. Charlie's Angels
3. Peter Gunn
4. Rockford Files
5. Ve$as
 
Assuming we're talking current, as well as "classic:"

1. Rockford Files

2. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (current)

3. Banacek

4. Sherlock (Cumberbatch) (current)

5. Mannix

I would include Murder She Wrote, but Jessica Fletcher wasn't a detective, per se.

In compiling my list, I'm finding that most of my favorites of this genre (Columbo, Luther, Prime Suspect) are sworn police officers, not private detectives, so I guess we need another thread for that. :confused:
 
mississippi fan said:
This is more or less about personal tastes. Not the best written, acted, etc. Just for fun.

My top 5.
1. The New Mike Hammer
2. Charlie's Angels
3. Peter Gunn
4. Rockford Files
5. Ve$as
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Pardon my picky ways, but I had to correct: Vega$, not Ve$as :rolleyes:

And thinking of Robert Urich (RIP) reminded me of his most excellent detective show - Spenser for Hire adapted from the great books of Robert B. Parker. I'll add that to my list and delete Mannix.
 
1) Hawaii Five-O (the Original)
2) The Equalizer
3) Columbo
4) Hunter
5) Matlock

(yeah, I know, he was a lawyer, not a detective...humor me. Mainly I like looking at
Nancy Stafford's legs.) ;)
 
FreddyE1977 said:
1) Hawaii Five-O (the Original)
2) The Equalizer
3) Columbo
4) Hunter
5) Matlock

(yeah, I know, he was a lawyer, not a detective...humor me. Mainly I like looking at
Nancy Stafford's legs.) ;)
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Yeah - and McGarrett, Columbo,and Hunter were not "private eyes" - they were cops. Your list would be more appropriate for a "Five Favorite Cop Show" thread.
 
landtuna said:
Boston Blackie
Peter Gunn
Have Gun Will Travel
The Thin Man
Magnum
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Never got to see Boston Blackie, but I just noticed that there are full episodes on You Tube. I'll check it out. Another great noir-ish cop show of a few years later (1957-60) was M Squad, starring Lee Marvin. It was quite moody and dark, and had a great jazz soundtrack. I believe Count Basie did the theme song.

I loved Police Squad, and assumed that it was exclusively a send up of all the Quinn Martin cop shows from the 70s. But the opening theme is a straight-up parody of the M Squad opening, except for the QM announcer (Hank Sims) and the "Tonight's Episode" thing.
 
LKellerIII said:
Never got to see Boston Blackie, but I just noticed that there are full episodes on You Tube. I'll check it out.
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Boston Blackie was a short series of theater releases in the 30's and 40's and kind of paralleled The Thin Man (ex-con comes back as P.I. and has a good looking female assistant). The TV series was an early 1950's production and wasn't a great thing of beauty except it was perhaps the very first "adult" TV show I watched and I have always been a fan of Kent Taylor who played Blackie.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Giving some further thought to detective shows specifically:

Columbo
Rockford Files
Barnaby Jones
Dragnet
Banacek
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Dragnet? Really? Granted, it was a truly famous show with legs - popular in 2 decades. But it was shot on a tiny-budget with very little care...you could see the actors reading off cue-cards. The plots, and the attempts to "educate" the audience (about hippies, the evils of drugs, etc.) was laugh-out-loud ridiculous at times. Jack Webb liked to preach and sermonize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZo2hhvvlpw
 
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