Tv detectives

With such a vast pool of ideas to pull from, we decided to get out our TV detective badge and track down the best LAPD TV shows, both new and old.

The popular series Columbo was on the air from 1968 until 1978 and has become a real TV classic! How well do you remember the eccentric and neurotic detective?

John Nettles is perhaps best known for his role as TV detective Tom Barnaby in Midsomer...

Check out how to stream the best British detective shows on tv - using Netflix and Amazon, including Shetland, Broadchurch, Midsomer Murders, Sherlock, Marcella, Happy Valley, Endeavour, and The Fall

Gray sweaters and cunning sleuths abound

Touch of Frost

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Not everyone could be the next Columbo.

To British viewers, Raymond Burr was also the star of the popular detective series Ironside. But his private life was the antithesis of what his public life appeared to be.

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