Favourite TV detective?

Mine would be Maigret,Played by Rowan Atkinson. Also Pie in the Sky.

I agree Saggi Michael Kitchen is fantastic as Foyle. Also like others
Endeavour
Adrian Dunbar
Idris Elba

From the Antipodes, yes it's Morse, first and forever. He is so real, so conflicted but so lovely, so socially incompetant, so completely and utterly hopeless with women but honest and true as the day is long.

And I can't imagine anyone but John Thaw ever, ever playing him but I do acknowledge that the prequel series of 'Endeavour' has done a terrific job - and that is saying a lot for someone who generally doesn't like prequels/sequels etc.

I have also greatly enjoyed the Morse follow on 'Lewis'. I think they did a great job of continuing the very real and convoluted themes and conflicts of 'Morse' without it being a copybook sequel.

Vale Morse.

Rebus

Brunetti's wife and family are very good too, as are his assistant and the secretary.

James Garner in The Rockford Files ...

Lewis and the newer one in Midsommer, the one with the dog. Not sure how many grans will have seen the Italian Brunetti ones. They are available do download. They are set in Venice and the detective is lovely, there is the German detective Borwoski on Ch 4. And the original Miss Fisher

Inspector Montalbano (with Luca Zingaretti, not the young Montalbano)
Brother Cadfael
Poirot (David Suchet)
Morse/Endeavour (both are brilliant)

Shaun Evans as Endeavour for me.
I also like Morse, Vera and Frost (although David Jason was far too old for the role for any sense of reality).
In my younger days I loved The Sweeney but watching it now its far too aggressive and unrealistic.
I also like Hearbeat, it has lovely a sense of times past when life was more gentle - even the crime!
Does anyone actually watch Midsomer Murders, Murder She Wrote or the Miss Marple type of programs? To me they are absolute rubbish.

DCI Barnaby played by John Nettles - sorry Neil Dudgeon, I quite like you, but not in this :-( / DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) / Miss Marple (played by Geraldine McEwan or Julia McKenzie) / Hercule Poirot (David Suchet)

Father Brown played by Mark Williams.

Paddy Considine ( Mr Whicher series)
Colombo.
Vera.

Hahahaha, there seems to be a pattern going on here as they all appeared " down at heel ". I always did favour the underdog !

Commander Steve McGarrett, the new Hawaii Five-0 ❤️

All of the above.

DH and I both love a good detective story. I can't think of one I don't like.

Not strictly detectives but we love all the NCIS programs. Mark Harmon is an added bonus ?

Morse!!

Michael Kitchen in anything ...but in Foyles War , he is enigmatic. Casting just right. Love Frost... and adore Lewis , but I think that’s for the dishy Lawrence Fox as have never been big fan of Kevin Whately. Vera is so good as well. In fact detective shows are my go too programmes when I want cheering up.... all that murder and mayhem.... oh on that point I firgot the fabulous Midsommer and it’s glorious ‘body count’. Love em all.

I like Laure in Spiral, and her male assistant who my friend calls 'bull-dog man' - I can't recall his name, he's got that battered about look which can be attractive in a man.
Also Neil Dudgeon in Midsomer Murders.
I also like looking at the beautiful scenery of Paris and what we like to think of as typical British villages.

Miss Marple. Oh and Morse and Vera

Endeavour (Morse)
Cormoran Strike
Julien Baptiste
Vera

Columbo Ofcourse !!

Douglas Henshall in Shetland and Taggart.

George Gently, and Bergerac for the Jersey lifestyle.

Salvo Montalbano just for sexiness. And I don’t even prefer short men but he’s the exception.

Oh, so difficult! Montalbano, Morse, Foyle, Ted Hastings, (Adrian Dunbar) and the rest.

George Gently and Vera