TV "cops" I like / don't like!

[manarak]

It's funny how I like some TV cops/investigators and some not.
I'll try to make a list based on current serials (current in Switzerland, anyway)

I like:
Grissom (CSI Las Vegas)
Gibbs and team (NCIS)
Patrick Jane (the Mentalist)

I don't like:
Horatio Caine (CSI Miami)
Mac Taylor (CSI NY)
Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds)


How about you?

[mardhi]

Steve McGarrett - Hawaii Five O - beats the rest by a mile and the one liner of "book em Danno" will surely go down in History along with great speaches by Churchill, Martin Luther King, Derek Trotter etc etc.

Cheers
Mardhi

[Jake_Sully]

Favorites:
Max Greevy & Mike Logan - Law & Order
Lenny Briscoe & Rey Curtis - Law & Order
Tortarella & Munch - Special Victims Unit
James McNulty - The Wire

Can't Stand:
Horatio Caine - CSI: Miami
Walker - Walker, Texas Ranger
Pembleton - Homicide, Life on the Street
Rabb - Jag

[manarak]

this is strictly about investigator's personalities!
not about the series

agreed, McGarret has got his entry in TV history books.
HFO looks a bit dated now though.

[PigDogg]

So many hard to think of them all.

Like Andy Sipowitz
Ladycop BYPD Blue forget name

Hate Phil Gerard (good acting though)
Hate Adam 12 asshole

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

Sargeant Joe Friday

"My name is Friday€”I'm a cop. I carry a badge"

[Steff]

Dragnet, right?

[Steff]

Kojak was one of the best.

[Snick]

The is only one
T.J. Hooker

[Snick]

Honorable mention to Kelly Hu in 'Martial Law'
I appreciate the way the writers contrived to have her infiltriate a triad gang as a pool babe...in almost every episode.

[Bobcat]

Steff you are so right the man with the lollipop.

John Thaw the Sweeny mind you his partner Waterman was a twat. Little Britain satired him well.

Columbo in his raincoat. Oh were showing our age.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

I Really Like...

DCI Barnaby (Midsomer Murders)
DCS Christopher Foyle (Foyle's War)
DS James Hathaway (Lewis)

There are plenty of TV coppers who fall in the middle... Frost, Allyn, Linley, Cracker,Taggart Bergerac, etc...

I really DON'T like...

All American cops... with the possible exception of Dexter
Inspector Morse
Wallander
Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect)

[Jake_Sully]

Haha you actually like Dexter huh? Guess my you're gonna hate it worked.

[manarak]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ Sep. 25 2010,18:53) I Really Like...

DCI Barnaby (Midsomer Murders)
DCS Christopher Foyle (Foyle's War)
DS James Hathaway (Lewis)

There are plenty of TV coppers who fall in the middle... Frost, Allyn, Linley, Cracker,Taggart Bergerac, etc...

I really DON'T like...

All American cops... with the possible exception of Dexter
Inspector Morse
Wallander
Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect)

You know what...
I only know Barnaby (zzzzzzzzzzz.) and Wallander (dito zzzzzzzz.) in your list!

[PigDogg]

Only Barnaby I know is Jones and he was a PI not a cop.