Favourite TV detective?

Vera
Rebus
Young Morse in Endeavour

vera, george gently, oldies such as cagney and lacey, the gentle touch, mcmillan and wife, taggart.
Jeanlizzie, the channel is talking pictures and gideon was played by lovely john gregson

Trevor Eve (Peter Boyd) - Waking the dead
Gene Hunt Ashes to Ashes & Life on Mars
Joan Hickson - Miss Marple
Helen Hayes - Miss Marple
Richard Griffiths (Henry Crabb) - Pie in the sky
Ken Stott as Rebus
John Nettles - Tom Barnaby
John Nettles - Bergerac
Nathaniel Parker - Inspector Lyndley
and probably a few more

Montalbano
Morse
Endeavor
Jimmy Perez
Frost
Mr Whicher

Many of the above-mentioned. Plus:
Shakespeare and Hathaway
Rosemary and Thyme
Tommy and Tuppence

From the US there's Monk. Really querk and funny.

Bergerac
Vera
Jimmy Perez
Montalbano (when will this series be back?

I’d forgotten about Peter Davidson in The last Detective, that was a good series - I liked his friend Mog too.
There are loads I enjoy. I love Morse, I think he’s my favourite, and also Endeavour and Lewis - and the lovely Hathaway, I was hoping they might keep him in his own series. Vera is great too. She’s like a soft old granny and lulls in the suspects, then WHAM she has them in her jaws!

and Jimmy Perez - YES.

So many recent ones: Hastings, Vera and Luther. Past ones: Shoestring and Cracker

Adrian Monk - the defective detective. A very funny programme.
And I love Columbo.

Taggart, closely followed by Montalbano.
Vera

Peter Davison as Campion. Grantchester
Spiral
Wallender

Wallander and Jim Rockford.

Loved Mark McManus as Taggart too, and Frost, & Miss Marple ( Joan Hickson is the only good Miss M, totally irreplaceable)

Lots of you have mentioned Montalbano but I can only find it with sub titles - is that correct? Don’t think sub titles are for me...shame as I got all excited thinking there was a good series I hadn’t seen!

Morse: Endeavor:Vera : Foyle’s War: Joan Hickson Miss Marple: Dougie Henshall: Montebalno : Lewis.
Also loved all the Law & Order series

I used to like Quincy, although he wasn't a proper detective.

I am addicted to Killing Eve, so its Eve for me.
But I loved Robbie Coltrane in Cracker (I'm aware he was a psychologist in that).
Vera is good too ?

Shaun Evans as Endeavour, plus the lovely Roger Alam is Inspector Thursday.
Laure Berthoud, Tin tin and Gilou in Spiral (Engrenages).
Ioan Griffiths as Daniel Harrow in the Australian TV series.

Oh yes, Joanna Scanlon was excellent in No Offence, Wiltshiregrams

I liked Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek, although he wasn't a police employee, he was very good at solving murder mysteries. Wasn't so fond of it once Caroline Quenton left.

I also like Morse, Endeavour, and liked the relationship of the quirky Broadchurch detectives.

I do like Hastings too, in Line of Duty.

George gently
Rebus
And a really old black and white one called Gideon that i discovered on some strange freeview channel havent a clue who the actor is

Inspector Montablano (hope the spellings right)

Endeavour/Morse for me every time.