TV Detectives

[stephec]

I can watch The honourable Phyrne Fisher if I turn the sound off and just look at the picture. 😁😁

A flash of stocking top never fails.

 

[Mike Ayling]

You also need to know absolutely nothing about the law or legal procedure.

Being ex military and ex police, I am not quite sure which type of programme is worse to watch.

I enjoy them. But the errors are glaring.

I can watch The honourable Phyrne Fisher if I turn the sound off and just look at the picture. 😁😁

We have just been watching a Phhyrne Fisher DVD!
Edir:
The show is not entirely about Police procedures in Melbourne 100 years ago which may not have been up to the standard of The Met at the rime but also her interaction with the male establishment of the time who believed that a woman's place was in the home.
Worth watching with the sound on!

 

[steverob]

B. Dave "Colonel" Mustard is a hard boiled detective of the old school who breaks all the rules but gets the job done.

That sentence reminds me of a period in the late 90's / early 2000's where every new detective series had to have a either a copper with an unusual speciality role, or an ex-copper who had gone into a different line of business before coming back to solve crimes (that always had some vague connection to aformentioned job/role), but very soon they started running out of feasible job for these detectives to have and it got ever more desperate to come up with police links to use.

I believe it was then The Fast Show that did the best mickey take of it by running fake trailers for "a police 'X' who breaks all the rules..." where X was a police chef, a police hairdresser, a police tattoo artist, etc. And it was always said "Breaks. All. The. Rules" said with emphasis like each word was a separate sentence - they got the continutity announcer cadence spot on and everything.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Detective Eliot Vane

His colleagues know Eliot as a brilliant but emotionally distant investigator with an unusual talent for recognising crimes that have not been reported.

He keeps no photographs, never discusses his childhood, and wears an old silver watch that stopped at 3:17—the exact time his family supposedly died in a house fire.

He drives a bright yellow 1970s ice-cream van.

The title of the show is The Ice Cream Detective

 

[Drago]

The Ice Cream Detective

I expect the BBC to snap you up as a scriptwriter any day now!

 

[stephec]

Swallow. 😂

 

[Profpointy]

TV detectives. Its easy really. All you need is...

A. A quirky and memorable surname.

B. A mysterious backstory that emerges over serval episodes or, even better, over several series.

C. A unusual and totally unsuitable car.

D. A title for the show that is either just the detectives surname, or a pun, etc, based on the surname.

So what TV detectives can you come up with?

You forgot point E: driving a vintage car of some sort

 

[Drago]

You forgot point E: driving a vintage car of some sort

Sir, please see point C!

 

[Profpointy]

Sir, please see point C!

ah yes: must read all the words

 

[DRM]

I think Immight have stumbled on so,ething here, @Accy cyclist

A. Accrington.

B. Lord Accrington IV, a posh playboy dandy who when hes not smooching with supermodels, walking the catwalk, or writing tweed reviews for Country Life, spends his time solving murders. He covers up his crime fighting activities by pretending to volunteer at a charity shop, and thismis where he meets clients with mysteries or murders to solve. Think of him as like an upper crust British version of the Equalizer.

C. Vauxhall Adam, but modified by his ex SAS footman with an array of crime busting gadgets such as smoke stceen, M134 gatling gun, oil slick, cigar humidor, trouser press and fedora warmer.

D. ACCY!

Don't forget his faithful four legged assistant, who can sniff out a wrong un from a mile away !

 

[Drago]

Don't forget his faithful four legged assistant, who can sniff out a wrong un from a mile away !

Ah, his faithful mutt, Poirot!

 

[Beebo]

Does no one remember the classic 90s drama Detective in a Wheelbarrow?

View: https://youtu.be/80sSbLzSuak?si=yx6YdBNrKzo5fSB8