TV’s greatest detectives
Posted on May 7th, 2009 – 5:37 PMBy Neal Justin
Can Kenneth Branagh’s Kurt Wallander become one of the top 10 TV detectives of all time? If so, he’d have to knock off someone from this class. In no particular order:
Lt. Columbo (”Columbo”)
Eddie Fitzgerald (”Cracker”)
James Rockford (”The Rockford Files”)
Mick Belker (”Hill Street Blues”)
Theo Kodak (”Kodak”)
Chris Cagney (”Cagney & Lacey”)
Mary Beth Lacey (”Cagney & Lacey”)
Bunk (”The Wire”)
Sony Crockett (”Miami Vice”)
Frank Pembleton (”Homicide: Life on the Street”)
13 Responses to "TV’s greatest detectives"
[…] Remote Island – […]
I’m disappointed to not see Andy Sipowicz on this list.
Lenny Briscoe (Law & Order)!!
Sipowicz came close - but I actually prefer Dennis Franz’s performance as Norman Buntz from “Hill Street Blues”
No Vic Mackey or Jack Bauer?
Agent Gibbs on NCIS (Mark Harmon)
Vic Mackey! Of course! (although I don’t really know if he’s a detective. I guess he is). I don’t see Bauer as a detective at all.
Kodak and Sony? Is this list being sponsored? Ooops….
Also Bobby Goren should have made the list for the first few seasons of “Criminal Intent.” Best ever? DCI Gene Hunt, the “real” one, (Phil Glenister, not Harvey Keitel).
Oh, and for Private Detectives, USA’s Shawn Spencer and Adrian Monk never fail to amuse and amaze.
Bunk but no McNulty?
Theo Kodak (”Kodak”)?!?
Either there’s a character that I’m not familiar with or you really mean Theo Kojak of the Kojak series played by Telly Savalas (and his lollipops).
Another MAJOR hole in this list… where’s the love for DCI Jane Tennison?
You remember Kodak. He’d blind bad guys with his flash camera.
It’s clear that I need a copy editor…
[…] bookmarks tagged homicide: life on the street TV’s greatest detectives saved by 6 others YaoiFanLover bookmarked on 05/24/09 | […]
