Tv detectives

ITV have announced that Endeavour will be coming to an end as the show has been axed after 10 years.

Harold 1990s

John Nettles is perhaps best known for his role as TV detective Tom Barnaby in Midsomer...

Salon talks to series creator Russell Lewis about this season's sober view of Morse's love of whiskey and ale

Basil Rathbone as the great detective!

With such a vast pool of ideas to pull from, we decided to get out our TV detective badge and track down the best LAPD TV shows, both new and old.

Shamus, sleuth, gumshoe, P.I., private eye, private dick… We have so many names for detectives and so many great characters in literature, movies, television, and radio. Anne Iredale’s Top 10 Literary Detectives inspired this list. It made me think of all of the great TV detectives. According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the earliest TV detective shows were “Man Against Crime (1949-56, CBS, NBC, Dumont) and Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949-54, NBC).” They also classify TV…

George Gently (2007) Scotland Yard inspector George Gently (Martin Shaw) is a man who does things by his own book with the assistance of driven young detective John Bacchus (Lee Ingelby) in this BBC Detective Series set in the 1960s. On the eve of his retirement, Gently decides to pursue one more murder case, suspecting that it's the handiwork of a gangster who's already gotten away with the murder of Gently's own wife.

Model student: In the 1988 episode Last Seen Wearing, Morse (John Thaw) had to find out whether a girl missing from a boarding school was alive or dead. Liz Hurley, then aged 22, was a fellow pupil

So cute I could hug him! (The dog silly! But yes, I could probably easily hug Poirot too, he's so loveable.) Bob the Wire Fox Terrier. From the episode: The Dumb Witness.

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996 TV) Patricia Routledge as Hetty Wainthropp, Private Detective

As seen on TV!

Don't miss the premiere of Dublin Murders November 10 on STARZ.

Over 42K TV viewers have voted on the 105+ Best British Detective Series and TV Shows, Ranked. Current Top 3: Endeavour, Inspector Lewis, Unforgotten

The alarming news that MI6 plans to recruit 1,000 more staff makes me hanker for the days when they just kept things to themselves

Gray sweaters and cunning sleuths abound

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