Watching The Detectives

[Blue Cow]

I expect to be alone in this thread, but thought I would start it anyway :lol:

I think that I am addicted to TV detectives.

It all started from getting hooked on Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie when I was quite young (I think). And I'm an Edgar Wallace nut!

There's very few that I don't like, but my personal fave is Columbo (yes...I know :blush: ). I must have seen all of them by now (they are constantly repeated on Granada Plus).

I think Peter Falk is a real gem, and some of the Columbo films have had some real stars working on them (Steven Spielberg even directed one of them!).

Oh and one more thing....

[joke]

LOL

[hollygolightly]

Endeavour Morse
Hercule Poirot
Jane Tennison
Sam Ryan
All the CSI Team

They're my favourites :thumbs:

[mazza]

Ooh

I used to love Columbo when I was a young lass! Can't remember any of the stories though :lol:

Also Ironside - can't remember anything except a wheelchair :blink: .

Like Prime Suspect :thumbs:

Loads of people like all these telly tecs - Taggart's got a massive following round my way - streets are deserted when it's on B) .

ooh loads more, have to come back later :lol:

[Matthew]

Suchet as Poirot is great. :D

No one has mentioned Miss Marple? ;)

The Professionals - they qualify I think.... :D Good stuff.

[Annabel]

I used to like Columbo as well, quite underrated i feel

i dont watch many these days, but if Prime suspect is on i do try to make a point of watching it. i love linda la plante, i have lots fo her books. i think 'Widows' is one of my most favourite TV Programmes ever.

i was more into them when i was a kid, starsky and hutch being the most obvious and the professionals as matthew said

i have never bothered with any of the agatha christie things and i have never watched any inspector morse shows EVER...I know... scandalous isnt it!!

[Matthew]

I saw the first ever episode of 'Hetty Wainthrop Investigates' the other day, very good as I hadn't seen how it started. :D

I must admit I do like watching Patricia Routledge, aka 'The Bucket Woman' though. :)

[Blue Cow]

I saw the first ever episode of 'Hetty Wainthrop Investigates'

I saw that too, but wasn't going to admit it! :hihi:

[Beth]

I love the cold case lot!!

sorting out really old murders, makes me goosebumpy! :lol:

[goosegirl]

Well if your going to mention the P word, what about Starsky & Hutch. Starsky and his car. Not forgetting Huggy Bear. Why did the bad guys always end up at Huggys place.

GG. :lara: :lara:

[hollygolightly]

Have you read the Frost books April? :unsure: Even better than the programme :thumbs:

[mazza]

I really loved, adored, worshipped Bodie & Doyle in the Professionals! :D

So you can only imagine just how excited I was when they came to film at my junior school and I was picked to be an extra :wow:

It was ace!! I was fortunate to have a video recorder (only just came out in those days) and still have the tape to this day B) .

But not only that, they filmed in our back yard too (scungey urban-scape type place, London)...ohh I was the envy of everyone with my Halina Camera snaps of the 'stars'! :wow:

My opinion of Martin Shaw went down the pan though - he was really miserable and very reluctant to sign autographs, but Lewis Collins and Gordon Jackson were diamond geezers - oh and the stuntman Bronco McCall too :thumbs:

Wayhay!! :D

[Annabel]

OOh HN, You reminded me of Quincy!!!

My sister used to be in love with that man, she was quite young but still very shameful, having a crush on a middle aged old man :lol: har har :P

Oooh Mazza, I would have loved to have met the professionals when i was a kid, they were my absolute idols, pictures on me wall and everything!!!! Now they were worth having a crush on!!!! :lol: :D

[hollygolightly]

HN: That one about the WW2 policeman, 2 hour long episodes, just a few at a time, can't remember the name! (Memory loss?** )

Was it Foyle's War? :unsure:

April: Really Holly will get on to that**
Didn't even know there were books, I spend too much time here**

R D Wingfield - There's about 4-5 books in the Frost series, excellent books, a real laugh :D :rolleyes: :lol: .

[mazza]

Quincy ?? :blink:

That's nothing!! I Loved Marcus Wellby M.D :wub: :love: Was he a tec or just a doctor? I dunno, I was in love and only 4...He was a right old crinkly too. :lol:

I think I liked Van Der Valk too - not as much Lurrve going on as with Marcus, but I did like the music :)

[tristar]

I quite like Diagnosis Murder, I keep expecting ******** Van Dyke to burst out in song :lol:

My real passion is for those true story things

Forensic Detectives

Murder Detectives

Autopsy

But another favourite is the CSI programmes...they're so graphic, they make me cringe most of the time :lol:

[bulliedbutbolshieboutit!]

:D Oh yes - Van der Valk was great - I'd forgotten that one :D

Love Dalziel and Pascoe - Dalziel has such witty one liners :lol:

And Morse (OH's favourite - he's got loads of the episodes on tape and we watch them when there's nothing much on telly)

Frost, Poirot, Agatha Christie, oh, all the detectives. Yes, Quincy - but I was always a bit worried about Quincy - he used to get so angry about his cases, I always worried that he might have a coronary!

Liked Wycliffe too -set in the gorgeous Cornish countryside. And Wexford.