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[Happosai]

I nominate Columbo played by the late/great Peter Falk.
The series started from a late-60's movie and became a regular running series during most of the 70's. It fizzled out after the 7th season and was given a mini-series reboot in the late-80's which aired it's final episode (with a much older Peter Falk) in the early 2000's. Tact, humour, and an old Peugnot...that was Columbo.

What was your favourite TV detective series...etc?

 

[Meowzers]

A Touch of Frost. A UK TV detective show back in the early 90's to late 00's. Always kept you on your toes like a ballet, and had good humour too.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

 

[Birdo]

 

[pauljeremiah]

Frist season of True Detective and Zodiac.

Also speaking of Columbo, as most people know Peter Falk had a fake eye but did Columbo have one? Or is that fake eye playing a real eye in the series?

 

[teezzy]

Duckman!

 

[TheSadRanger]

I love S1 and S3 of True Detective but man the ending and plot holes of both seasons really sour my view on them. S3 in particular.

 

[Happosai]

That makes a third trail of skid marks.

 

[SpiceRacz]

 

[Happosai]

Frist season of True Detective and Zodiac.

Also speaking of Columbo, as most people know Peter Falk had a fake eye but did Columbo have one? Or is that fake eye playing a real eye in the series?

Columbo (the character) is never mentioned in any episode to have a fake eye (although, Peter Falk did have a glass eye). His first name is never revealed in the series either and the lack-of became a sort of running gag.

 

[pauljeremiah]

Columbo (the character) is never mentioned in any episode to have a fake eye (although, Peter Falk did have a glass eye). His first name is never revealed in the series either and the lack-of became a sort of running gag.

so you're saying that the fake eye was playing the part of a real eye in the series?

 

[Happosai]

so you're saying that the fake eye was playing the part of a real eye in the series?

Pretty much. It didn't work out well, though. I mean, with one real eye and look in any direction and one eye just stares.

 

[Tesseract]

 

[pauljeremiah]

Pretty much. It didn't work out well, though. I mean, with one real eye and look in any direction and one eye just stares.

didn't work out well? he always solved the case despite the shitty acting from his fake eye.

 

[-Arcadia-]

House.

Yeah, it's medically themed, but it's blatantly a detective show, with all kinds of Sherlock Holmes references and inspirations on top of it, including the main character's name.

 

[teezzy]

 

[Insane Metal]

Besides True Detective, I really, really liked these guys:

The Killing (Netflix)

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Bud White and Ed Exley (L.A. Confidential)

 

[Nymphae]

 

[jason10mm]

The best!

 

[jason10mm]

Second best!

 

[jason10mm]

Third best!

Damn, I am old

 

[jason10mm]

This was a popular genre in the 80s and 90s, I could go all day

 

[jason10mm]

And of course...

 

[teezzy]

Third best!

Damn, I am old

WHat is this?

 

[jason10mm]

WHat is this?

Alien Nation. TV spin off of the movie.

Had alien guys giving birth to their young....it was ahead of it's time

 

[Javthusiast]

 

[DrJohnGalt]

 

[Shizumapower]

Alien Nation. TV spin off of the movie.

Had alien guys giving birth to their young....it was ahead of it's time

Ha. Enemy Mine.

 

[Shizumapower]

Bosch.

 

[dorkimoe]

Besides True Detective, I really, really liked these guys:

The Killing (Netflix)

amazing duo. True detective was such a fucking bore

 

[Master Of Illusion]

I love S1 and S3 of True Detective but man the ending and plot holes of both seasons really sour my view on them. S3 in particular.

S3 bored me so shitless that I bailed after the 3rd episode.

He's F.B.I.

 

[GreyHorace]

No one's posted the granddaddy of fictional detectives?

You guys suck.

 

[Kagey K]

I’m going to a bit different.

1. The Wire

2. The Shield

3 Justified.

4. Longmire.

CSI & Law and Order somewhere under these.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Third best!

Damn, I am old

Alien Nation was awesome. I wish it had reruns, because I haven't watched it since the 90s.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Cumberbatch’s Sherlock is fantastic and my pick for best recent detective (well, kinda, since the character is one of the oldest in the genre, lol).

But in the heart of an Italian born in the 80s it’s hard to top Columbo. That series was constantly on air in Italy until the end of the 90s, and the character is unforgettable.

 

[Mistershine.]

In general list form:
Colombo
White collar
Magnum
Miami vice, series not film
Sherlock
Bergerac
Jonathan creek
Dirk gently
Twin peaks
Luther

Not sure if they count:
Person of interest
Lethal weapon TV series
X files

 

[Kadayi]

 

[-Arcadia-]

Cumberbatch Sherlock would be mentioned again and again in this thread, if Moffat hadn't utterly, thoroughly Moffated (tm) every season after 2. Right now, I get the feeling most people just want to forget all of the nonsense.

I don't understand why people do business with this man, without having an editor breathing down his neck. The slightest hint of success and creative freedom, and he flies off the rails.

I need to rewatch 1&2 and rediscover that love, though. What a show, while it lasted.

 

[nikolino840]

 

[nikolino840]

I nominate Columbo played by the late/great Peter Falk.
The series started from a late-60's movie and became a regular running series during most of the 70's. It fizzled out after the 7th season and was given a mini-series reboot in the late-80's which aired it's final episode (with a much older Peter Falk) in the early 2000's. Tact, humour, and an old Peugnot...that was Columbo.

What was your favourite TV detective series...etc?

Is the only TV shows that we saw the murderer in the beginning of the episode?

 

[DKehoe]

Cumberbatch Sherlock would be mentioned again and again in this thread, if Moffat hadn't utterly, thoroughly Moffated (tm) every season after 2. Right now, I get the feeling most people just want to forget all of the nonsense.

I don't understand why people do business with this man, without having an editor breathing down his neck. The slightest hint of success and creative freedom, and he flies off the rails.

I need to rewatch 1&2 and rediscover that love, though. What a show, while it lasted.

It’s crazy how that show flew off the rails after season 2. Those first two seasons are excellent though.

Spoilers for the show:

Spoiler: Sherlock spoilers

There’s something kind of appropriate about how Sherlock “dies” and then the show keeps going. It’s like how Doyle killed off Holmes and then had to bring him back because of his popularity.

After that you’ve just got weird shit like Watson’s wife being revealed to secretly be some sort of special forces assassin and that there was a secret Holmes sibling all along. Considering how rabid the fans of that show are there’s something funny about it turning into something that’s like fan fiction.

 

[-Arcadia-]

It’s crazy how that show flew off the rails after season 2. Those first two seasons are excellent though.

Spoilers for the show:

Spoiler: Sherlock spoilers

There’s something kind of appropriate about how Sherlock “dies” and then the show keeps going. It’s like how Doyle killed off Holmes and then had to bring him back because of his popularity.

After that you’ve just got weird shit like Watson’s wife being revealed to secretly be some sort of special forces assassin and that there was a secret Holmes sibling all along. Considering how rabid the fans of that show are there’s something funny about it turning into something that’s like fan fiction.

I don't know if you've ever watched the creator's run on Doctor Who, but the exact same happened there. Even the recent Dracula had an interesting first episode, and by the third, was an absolute mess.

Sherlock, and the stuff you mentioned, might be the worst example, though. Its amazing that somebody even committed this to paper, let alone decided to film it. And that multiple others agreed, and thought it was fine.

 

[DKehoe]

I don't know if you've ever watched the creator's run on Doctor Who, but the exact same happened there. Even the recent Dracula had an interesting first episode, and by the third, was an absolute mess.

Sherlock, and the stuff you mentioned, might be the worst example, though. Its amazing that somebody even committed this to paper, let alone decided to film it. And that multiple others agreed, and thought it was fine.

I think Doctor Who is a great example of how he’s a great ideas guy who needs someone reigning him in or filtering him. His episodes on Doctor Who before he took over as show runner are right up there among the very best the show has ever produced. But take the restrictions off so that he now has complete control of the show and it becomes directionless after a while.

The stuff I mentioned from Sherlock is something where I feel like I’m remembering it totally wrong and must be imagining it or mixing it up with some other show. It just feels so tonally disconnected from those first two seasons.

 

[Riastrad]

Monk is great, aside from your typical Hollywood politically correct BS (black suspect is always innocent, big bad is a white conservative, all killers are white males etc)

 

[Nymphae]

He's F.B.I.

Yeah thanks I'm familiar with the show. He's listed as a fictional detective on wikipedia, and routinely does detective work.

 

[Breakage]

Castle

It's easy to watch.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Castle

It's easy to watch.

Castle was good for the first few seasons. I really hated episodes about Beckett's past and big crisises in the city and how the writers didn't want Castle and Beckett to be together. Heck, original plans of removing Beckett from the show's final season were like the ultimate insult to the fans of the show.

 

[jason10mm]

Is the only TV shows that we saw the murderer in the beginning of the episode?

There was another cop show that did that, had Kristen Lehman and the Stargate Universe captain in it....ahhh yes. Called Motive.

 

[Breakage]

Castle was good for the first few seasons. I really hated episodes about Beckett's past and big crisises in the city and how the writers didn't want Castle and Beckett to be together. Heck, original plans of removing Beckett from the show's final season were like the ultimate insult to the fans of the show.

I haven't watched it consistently, but I enjoyed what I saw. I heard there were difficulties between Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic.