Who's Your All-Time Favorite TV Detective?

[Tom_Foolery]

I always enjoyed Buddy Ebsen as Barnaby Jones.

1. Rockfish

no contest in my opinion

[trumad]

3. Rockfish or Jim Rockford?

6. Isaac Hayes

guest starred on Rockford Files, but always called him Rockfish. It was a running gag.

[2bfree]

21. Jim Rockford!

What a show.......what a man! :)

[trumad]

2. Peter Falk

Columbo

[m-jean03]

12. Yah!

You guys even look a little alike:)

[gpandas]

18. double yah n/t

[wysimdnwyg]

4. I grew up with...

Jim Rockford. I always liked Fish on Barney Miller, too.

[WI_DEM]

5. its a tie

between James Garner's "Rockford" and Peter Falk's "Columbo" but the earlier Columbo's from the 70's not the more updated movies which I think have lost some of the flavor of the character.

[Bertha Venation]

7. tough one

Bensen & Stabler

Sipowitz

Joe Friday (the nostalgia vote)

Jim Rockford

Cagney & Lacey

I could go on . . .

[trumad]

8. Hercule wasn't too bad.....

[Bertha Venation]

9. omg, how could I forget . . .

MONK!

[m-jean03]

13. How COULD YOU forget him??

MONK< Yeah, baby!! When's the new season start, anyway?:)

[Bertha Venation]

25. June

I could be wrong now . . . but I don't think so!
:bounce:

[m-jean03]

26. Ha!

It's a jungle out there! :headbang:

[Bertha Venation]

28. It's a gift.

And a curse.

LOVE Tony Shaloub.

[m-jean03]

29. I hear he sends autographed pictures if you ask nicely,

And even occasionally answers letters! I've never been one to write to celebrities but I think I could send him some adulation. He gets two of these: :thumbsup:

[redqueen]

22. Monk would be my choice too

Before that, though, it would have been Matlock. *blush*

[Commendatori]

10. Rockford (n/t)

[NewHampster]

11. Chin Ho Kelly

Hawaii Five O's real brains

Played by Kam Fong Chun 1918 - 2002

[tjwash]

14. Cannon...

:silly:

[WillParkinson]

20. Second vote for Frank Cannon!

A plus size man who knew how to bring the bad guys down.

[livetohike]

15. Honey West

and then Jim Rockford.

[FDRrocks]

16. Bobby Goron

I like How D'Onofrio plays the role.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. Sledge Hammer

I loved the way he was so attached to his gun.

[Reader Rabbit]

19. Favorite TV Detective

Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren)

Prime Suspect on PBS

[deurbano]

32. Yes!

... and Inspector Morse. (John Thaw)

[Whitacre D_WI]

23. Carl Kolchak.

Yeah, he was a newspaper reporter.

But he was a badass.

[the Kelly Gang]

24. Inspector Rex ( an Alsation dog on German TV)

[bearfan454]

27. Joe Friday on Dragnet

.

[mac56]

30. Columbo, Rockford, and Monk, in order.

No one else comes close.

[bif]

31. Morse

Adam Dalgleish and Miss Marple come in second.

[Algorem]

33. Mannix.Noone could take a beating and keep investigeating like Mannix.

Pistol-whipped?Ha!Hit by car?Piece of cake.Shot in arm or shoulder?Happens all the time. http://www.jmannix.net/injury1.htm http://www.jumptheshark.com/m/mannix.htm