Who was/is the best tv Detective?

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone version.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone version.

Elementary !

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

They always managed to solve the case within the hour. Brilliant.

 

[worsleyweb]

Columbo

 

[malg]

Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Never been bettered.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Swallow

Aye

 

[City Hobgoblin]

 

[remember arthur mann]

Alastair Sim Inspector Poole in An Inpector calls, and as Inspector Cockrill in Green for Danger.

 

[The Chief]

Quite like Frost myself.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Already mentioned but Gene Hunt (and by association Sam Tyler in Life on Mars which I preferred to Ashes to Ashes) and Robbie Coltrane as Cracker.