Favourite TV detective?

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

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

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

Montalbano
Morse
Endeavor
Jimmy Perez
Frost
Mr Whicher

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

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

Vera
Rebus
Young Morse in Endeavour

Dinahmo, you beat me to it. Aurelio Zen is my favourite too. I’ve read all Michael Dibdin’s books. Rufus Sewell wasn’t my idea of Zen at first, but he is so lovely I managed to watch it & very good he was too.
Layla, don’t worry about subtitles just enjoy watching Italians I love’em.
I cried when George Gently died.
I also enjoy,
Endeavor, Montalbano, Vera, and The Last Detective.
Would Dixon of Dock Green count?

Same as your list BonnieBlooming, plus Luther (Idris Elba) Ken Stott as Rebus is not exactly as my own picture when reading the books, but certainly good enough. I have "Vera" backed up on my recorder looking for a binge day.

Endeavour and Vera probably favourites, also like Jimmy Perez, and Alan Banks.

Prefer the new Barnaby to the old Barnaby

The Sergeant in Ripper Street is gorgeous

And the absolutely delicious James Hathaway

Vera Lewis Father Brown

Micheal Kitchen every time - Foyles's War
Endeavour
Lewis
Morse

Zen
Cormoran Strike
Viv Deering
George Gently
Hastings

Another one I used to like is Trevor Eve in Shoestring. It was on in the 80s and I don't think it's been repeated at all. Does anyone remember it?

Does Gibbs from NC IS count? ?

For me:-

Tom Burke - Cormaran Strike
Andri - (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson/Trapped)
Toby Stephens - Jack Armstrong in Vexed
Sofia Helin as Saga Norén in The Bridge

[EthelJ] I certainly do! Much less uptight than the character he played in Waking the Dead.

Yes EthelJ, I too was thinking of Shoestring. Wandering around Bristol looking vulnerable and solving crimes while doing a radio show. Think it started in the late 70’s.
Trevor Eve rather reminded me of an old boyfriend of mine but that’s for a different thread...

Miss Marple
Poirot
Morse/Endeavour
Vera
Lewis
Foyle’s War
Maigret (Rowan Atkinson).
There will be others, I’m sure, but these spring to mind first.

My very favourite? Henry Crabbe (Pie in the Sky).
Vera;
George Gently;
Father Brown;
Lewis;
Jimmy Perez.

Can't get him in TV but DVD - Montalbano

Ted Hastings, quickly followed by Kate and Steve, LOD much missed Sunday night viewing.

Miss Marple
Harry Bosch
Jackson Brodie ( He counts because he's ex police...)

I only like Jackson Brodie in the books though, as I pictured him differently?
A new book just out btw.

Davis Suchet - Poirot
Kenneth Branagh - Wallander
Ken Stott - Rebus
Joan Hickson - Miss Marple
Brenda Blethyn - Vera

I’m reading the latest Jackson Brodie, it’s a great read. I was delayed at a grim airport last week. Reading Kate Atkinson’s latest Brodie had me laughing out loud. It’s a real problem seeing our hero’s on screen but not in the image we’ve created. Brodie, Harry Bosch.
John Thaw’s Morse was perfection though