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Mad Doug Biker

Just a damaged guy.
Location
Craggy Island
Are you saying Sean Bean's range is so poor, he can't play a copper from Hull ?

I find him an excellent actor. He was even a bad guy in a James Bond movie - where his accent was so convin....

...oh, I see your point... :blush:

Written the other day there in the vein that films are actually real life:

Also, if you find yourself as the villain in a Bond Movie, just shoot the smug twat when you have the chance and stop fannying about, trying to show how clever you are or whatever.
 

captain nemo1701

Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
Location
Bristol
Written the other day there in the vein that films are actually real life:
Also, if you find yourself as the villain in a Bond Movie, just shoot the smug twat when you have the chance and stop fannying about, trying to show how clever you are or whatever.

In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, for me the best gag was when Dr Evil decides to have Austin & Co lowered slowly into the tank of mutant sea bass and his son pops the question about just shooting him. To which Dr Evil responds:

'No Scott, we're just going to walk away and assume he's dead'.

And in A bond documentrary, Jonathan Pryce (Tomorrow Never Dies) actually mentioned that he had a gun but didn't shoot Bond :laugh: .

In the Dr Who episode 'Blink', the two female characters are surnamed Sparrow & Nightingale.

'Very ITV' I recall one quips...

But back to the action....this whole drama has to be set in a sleepy fictional county with a population of about seven people and it has a murder rate outstripping LA & New York combined....Everyone in these shows always lives alone in huge mansions with massive gardens too.

Columbo is by far the best telly tech. At least you know who did it but the fun comes from the cat & mouse games Columbo has with them, despite probably figuring out the villain in the first ten minutes. Its always the guest star:okay:.

In the first story, the writer decided that he should nick the murderer in one scene rather than return later to nab him but in the days of typewriters, no Word etc, the scene was written with Columbo leaving the room. Rather than go back & re-write several pages, he just had Columbo stop in the doorway & the famous line 'Just one more thing' was born.

Fun pub quiz trivia: A now world-famous movie director did the first episode...Steven Spielberg.
 

mustang1

Legendary Member
Location
London, UK
And when the detective is having a casual conversation with the culprit, as the culprit says his goodbyes and is juuuust about to leave the room, the detective always says "and just one more thing..." Then he says his thing, sometimes followed by dramatic music and a quick change to.the.next scene.

Tossers.

Oh, and aren't they oftentimes drunk, divorced, don't look after their kids and so on?

Tossers (once again).
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
Another point to note is that whenever the detective is questioning a witness/suspect/red herring the questioned person rarely stops and pays attention to tje conversation. They get on with what they are doing (potting plants, doing the washing up, artificially inseminating llamas ... whatever) and just give the odd answer while the tec follows them around.
 
Another point to note is that whenever the detective is questioning a witness/suspect/red herring the questioned person rarely stops and pays attention to tje conversation. They get on with what they are doing (potting plants, doing the washing up, artificially inseminating llamas ... whatever) and just give the odd answer while the tec follows them around.

Usually tending to their rare orchid collection.
 
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Deleted member 26715

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Watched a couple of episodes of Will Trent last night a detective who has acute dyslexia so much so he couldn't read a note from a suspect, yet he must have been able to file his reports to get to the rank of detective Mmmm how does that work then?
 
Watched a couple of episodes of Will Trent last night a detective who has acute dyslexia so much so he couldn't read a note from a suspect, yet he must have been able to file his reports to get to the rank of detective Mmmm how does that work then?

Was it a period drama i.e. the boys in blue didn't have computers with modern speel-checkers and the like?
 
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