best television Detectives
 

Anyone know if any of the Ian Rankin , John Rebus detective books have been filmed for television , the books are in a similar vein to Dalziel and Pascoe/ Morse /Insp. Lynley etc.
anyone not familiar with Ian Rankin and his John Rebus character and who enjoys a good crime fiction I urge you to give him a try .

my rankings for top TV detective

1, Morse
2, Dalziel
3, Jane Tennyson, Prime Suspect
4, Frost
5, Lynley
6, Adam Dalgliesh ( the bald guy, not Martin Shaw)
7, Hetty Waintripe (just for trying to spot the scenes shot around
Hyndburn/ Accrington & District. eg outside Palatine cafe in
Gt. Harwood.)

ok ....lets have your choices

maybe someone with better skills than me could set up a poll ;) ;)

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i have to say columbo:D
oh and hetty wainthrope, like you , i like to look where they are and see if i notice it;)
thats it really cant think

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Columbo, becase the true born and bred Yank cannot work a 'who dun it' out and needs to be told beforehand the perpertrator of the crime. Not a lot to be said for inbreeding the North ,South,East, and Western zones of the planet Earth.

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Ian rankin like most of the other writers mentioned here are very good read the first time, but begin to lack ideas and 'flog' the same plot spun a different way to compensate for lack of ideas, and become very predictable,if not downright boring.:cool:

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taggart ! wipes the floor with majority of those.. and what about Cracker ?....also quite good ..

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cracker, i just loved Robbie Coltrane

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I've read all the Rebus books, except the new one that came out this month. There was a TV programme made featuring the character called, surprisingly, Rebus.
I only saw about 5 minutes of it, but turned it off as soon as I saw the bloke playing Rebus. He was nothing like the book character, which ruined it completely for me.

I also think you're stretching it a bit to compare the Rebus novels to Morese, Insp. Lynley, etc. OK, so he's a policeman, but I think that's where it ends. ;)

See here for more information....
"Rebus" (2000)

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I used to like Sexton Blake

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Fabian of the yard... ,Jason King...but then i might be the only old codger to remember them:o

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Life on Mars
BBC - Drama - Life On Mars
I found this detective series absolutely riveting

PS a sequel on its way --yipee
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Life on Mars sequel jumps to '80s

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Morse
Frost
Jane Tennerson
Cracker
Life on Mars

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Unbeatable Morse! A respectable second Dalziel and Pascoe.
In the 70's I used to love Starsky and Hutch, remember watching Kojak too and then Cagney and Lacey.
Recently seen Rosemary and Thyme which I thought was a bit pathetic given that Felicity Kendal is generally such a good actress! Also on BBC prime they are re-running the old Miss Marple series - Kevin Whately (Sgt.Lewis in Morse) was a policeman in one of the episodes!
The top detective show on Italian TV is (unbelievably!) Murder She Wrote starring an Octogenarian Angela Lansbury -it has the highest ratings at prime time once a week! I quite like it, but with it not being on SKY I can't see it in English - the dubbed versions always lose such a lot of the original character.
Both Morse and Frost have terrible voices in the Italian versions...

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i loved watching miss marple ,

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Now you are talking. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D