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BEST TV DETECTIVE?

Columbo
Jim Rockford(Rockford Files)
Remington Steele(Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist)
McGarrett(Hawaii 5-0)
Barnaby Jones
Cannon
Thomas Magnum(Magnum P.I.)
 
Several years ago my local cable system carried a Canadian station that showed some great old American shows from the 50's & 60's in the middle of the night(the rest of the time they ran ethnic prgraming). One of the shows they ran was Peter Gunn. That was a very cool show. Directed by Blake Edwards, it was very stylish with it's in it's photography. A lot of dark wet streets. A lot of the scenes took place in a downtown jazz club. It's soundtrack was done by Henry Mancini. I would much more like to watch Peter Gunn again than Happy Days or The Brady Bunch.
 
How about ironside, or mannix.

Ironside had his own bodyguard to kick ass provided there was ass to be kicked,
and mannix had a hot secretary in peggy fair
 
-Jill Munroe, Kris Munroe, Kelly Garrett, Sabrina Duncan, Tiffany Welles, Julie Rogers....Charlie's Angels of course ;D

-Jim Rockford, naturally ($200/day plus expenses; plus, loved the theme song, loved the pickup truck, loved the trailer by the beach)
 
Add one more vote for Lee Marvin on "M Squad," but Craig Stevens as "Peter Gunn" was pretty slick too.
 
The jazz club in Peter Gunn was known as Mother's. One cut on the Peter Gunn/Mancini album was The Brothers Go to Mother's. The sound track was cut in
the then idiom of modern jazz.
 
WORST TV DETECTIVE?

toby said:
Detective Lennie Briscoe, Law & Order
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Are you kidding? Half the time, in the second half hour the junior assistant DA finds out the cops bagged the wrong guy. Maybe that's why SVI and CI get regular DAs (even for so-called "major cases"), while the number two guy and the number one guy have to keep tabs on Briscoe's cases (and now Green's).

I blame the double affirmative-action Lieutenant. The Two-Seven had a much better record of getting the right guy under Captain Cragen. Also notice that Briscoe and now Green seem to need Lt. Van Buren always to tell them what to do next, where to go next. The CI and SVU detectives figure stuff out themselves and then tell the boss what they did.

Jerry Orbach was a great actor. But Briscoe - forget it.
 
In terms of show quality (writing, budget, production values), Dragnet would rate near the bottom, but if you say "best" detective in terms of what fictional character had the biggest impact on popular culture - most copied, most quoted ("just the facts, ma'am", etc.), and most satirized (Dan Ackroyd among many others)- it would have to be Joe Friday (Jack Webb).
 
but if you say "best" detective in terms of what fictional character had the biggest impact on popular culture - most copied, most quoted...
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I like your logic here. However, my idea in starting the thread was if you needed to call on a tv detective to solve a crime/mystery...who would it be? Would you still vote for Joe Friday then?
 
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