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

[Steff]

You're being a wee bit picky today PigDogg!!! What about Barney Miller? Does he qualify even though it was a sitcom?

[PigDogg]

(Steff @ Sep. 25 2010,06:10) You're being a wee bit picky today PigDogg!!! What about Barney Miller? Does he qualify even though it was a sitcom?

He qualifies if he is a Barnaby, same goes for Barney Fife.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

OK... Barney Miller was/is one of my faves.

[geezer]

Michael Chiklis - Vic Mackey

Can't work out if he was the hero or the villain but he was certainly a bad ass cop who you wouldn't want to get on the Bad side of. Was a brilliant series.

and there is always the immortal Harry Calahan, justice with a .44 magnum.

Don't like. well Hioratio is kind of a tosser isn't he. Fuck the sensitive carring side. Just be a hard bastard who catches bad guys, it's simple really.

[pacman]

OMG!! I don't know most of those American names...        

What cultural cul-der-sac have I been stuck in the past 30 years?      

When it comes to favourites, there's only one...   REBUS.

[Steff]

Pacman, he looks like you the night before you were admitted to the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.

[donnykey]

David Caruso who plays that cop in CSI Miami is no doubt the worst actor in the history of the acting profession.
FFS he talks to the floor.

Cheers DK

[PigDogg]

(donnykey @ Sep. 25 2010,20:14) David Caruso who plays that cop in CSI Miami is no doubt the worst actor in the history of the acting profession.
FFS he talks to the floor.

He played Kelly in the first season of NYPD Blue.  He figured he was the reason for the success of the shoiw and held out for more bucks.  So the producers replaced him with Jimmy Smits.

Now Caruso plays Fellatio and seems to be just about the same character as Kelly.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

He was in Rambo, too...

I think KL likes that show so be careful!

[guydesavoy]

Love :

Jack Regan (Sweeney)

Rrrrreeeeebus

Frost

CI Craven from Special Branch

Taggart the 1st, and his replacement DCI Bukkkkk

Those Miami Vice guys  

Barnaby and Hathaway (looks like a Cambridge version of a Football hooligan   )

Can't stand :

Most Yank crime series, except Barney (love that theme music) and the original Starsky & Hutch  

[El_hefe]

Only one, Barney Fife...

[PigDogg]

(El_hefe @ Sep. 25 2010,22:54) Barney Fife...

Barney Fife was an idiot for sure.

But Andy Taylor was an excellent sheriff. Calm and reasonable, the use of force was seldom nescessary.

[Chinaman]

(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)

Kurt Wallander?

I guess you are referring to Kenneth Branagh who played the character in the BBC-series as otherwise there have only been 2 or 3 Swedish actors playing the part. I definitely liked the character in Mankell's books, almost considering him an alter ego to some extent.

I don't know if guys from the US, Australia, etc. are even familiar with that Wallander-character although most of the books have been translated into English. Manarak should know him being European.

And as I am talking to Brit here, Helen Mirren has always been one of my favorite actresses and she starred in some police detective series. Just can't recall the title now.

[Ivor Biggun]

UK TV:
Regan and Carter

Ken Stott as Rebus and the cop in The Vice

Taggart

US TV

70-s McGarrett was a lousy cop Danno got all the bookings!!

80s Renko and Belker- Hill Street Blues (But Howard hunter was hilarious)

90s - Scipowitz NYPD Blue

20s- Mackey in The Shield

Current- ALL the cops on the surveillance team in The Wire- starting to watch Ser 4 tomorrow. Best TV series I've seen in a long time- makes SOA seem positivly Gay

[Lefty]

(PigDogg @ Sep. 26 2010,17:25)

(El_hefe @ Sep. 25 2010,22:54) Barney Fife...

Barney Fife was an idiot for sure.

But Andy Taylor was an excellent sheriff.  Calm and reasonable, the use of force was seldom nescessary.

Sheriff Andy Taylor was one of the best, that's for sure.

To me though the best TV cop was actually a US Marshall, Matt Dillon.