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BEST TV DETECTIVE?

"...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? "

In that case...Joe would still be near the top of the list, but I'd have to go with either Columbo (tenacious), or Perry Mason (even though he wasn't technically a detective) because he could cut corners and verbally browbeat people until they confessed.
 
NOT REALLY TV DETECTIVES

Most of the names mentioned are TV Detectives?

Three originated in another medium:

Ellery Queen - books
Perry Mason - books
Joe Friday - radio

And really can't be considered TV detectives.

If you include them, you have to include all fictional detective who have ever appeared on TV. In that case, Sherlock Holmes wins - no contest.

If the criterion for great TV detectives is pure deductive ability, then the only ones in the running are:
Columbo
Monk
Goren
 
If you include them, you have to include all fictional detective who have ever appeared on TV. In that case, Sherlock Holmes wins - no contest.
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Fred,

Correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't Sherlock Holmes a detective who appeared in movies that were later shown on TV? I'm thinking of the ones with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce that I watched as a kid on Saturday mornings on Channel 5 in NYC. Perhaps there was another version made for TV.
 
I'm willing to except Sherlock into the club as long as we can excuse him for time travelling. The Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce film series started just before World War II, but took place in the ctorian England of the 1890s - faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle stories. But during the war, they wanted to make Sherlock part of the British war effort so he could use his deductive powers to fight Nazis. So in the later movies, Sherlock and Watson were suddently transported 50 years forward in time without aging a day.
 
Sherlock Holmes (Syndicated; 39 episodes) 1954-55
Holmes - Ronald Howard (not to be confused with Ron or Ronnie Howard)
Watson - Howard Marion-Crawford
Lestrade - Archie Duncan (Little John in The Adventures of Robin Hood)
 
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