Last Installment of Awesome TV Detectives

Our last category is SOOOOOO COOOL.

Ed Lane, the bald guy from Flashpoint, is played by Hugh Dillon. Ed can talk anyone off a ledge at gun point with only four minutes left in the show. (Actually, I love the whole cast of FP.)

Seeley Booth played by David Borearaz (Bones) - What kind of name is Seeley, but who cares? The chemistry of the whole cast of this show is awesome.

Let's face it, David Caruso (above) is the King of Coolsville. He can't be left off my list because my girls love him as Heratio Caine. They don't know him as John Kelly from NYPD Blue. Check out this NYPD picture. I chose it because of Rick(y) Schroeder who I sat next to at a NY Yankees game in 1977. (That was the same game that Dave Winfield gave me a ball.)

Arron Hotchner: Thomas Gibson from Criminal Minds. More serious character, more serious show.

Anthony DiNozzo: Michael Weatherly from NCIS. You've gotta admit, as crass as he is, he is very funny. (No, Mark Harmon is not cooler.)

Hands Down, The Coolest TV Cop EVER is Elliot Stabler, Christopher Meloni from Law and Order SVU. I have Chris pegged to play Kelly Quinn's father in the movie...not that one is being made, but IF one were being made, it would be him....of course, he would play opposite moi as Mrs. Quinn.

My Favorite TV Detectives: Part 3 of 4

In the Oldies, But Goodies category:
Tom Hanson from 21 Jump Street played by Johnny Depp. Maybe this is what got me started on TV cops. This was an awesome TV show.
Christopher Lorenzo from Silk Stalkings played by Rob Estes. This show was on USA at like 10pm because it was racy. I saw Estes in the Women's Murder Club (from the James Paterson novels), and most recently on the new 90210.

What is very interesting about these two is that they look almost exactly the same today.

Stay tuned for the fourth and last installment of TV Detectives coming soon.

My Favorite TV Detectives Part 2 of 4

And in the category of TV Detectives that make Ultra-Geeky Things Look Cool we have:

Nick Stokes played by George Eads on CSI (Las Vegas). He's consistent and shows that you don't have to be a geek to be a scientist which is a good lesson for kids of all ages. It seems like he wants to be the "bug guy" to replace Grissom, which will now make bugs cool too. He's like one stop shopping.

Don Epps from Numb3rs: I remember reading that they originally had Rob Lowe ear-marked for this role. This show is so clever. It makes math cool. You can't say that about too many things. (Epps isn't actually the mathematician, but he'll accept this reward on the nerd's behalf.)

Tomorrow's category will be: Oldies, But Goodies:

List of My Favorite Detectives Part 1 of 4

I'm type A and I love crime drama. We type As love lists. As a writer I like characters. These many loves have driven me to make a list of some of my favorite TV detectives.
Since there are so many this may take several installments, which I'll do by category. Today's grouping is "TV Detectives Who Aren't Really Detectives".

Richard Castle from Castle. A new comer to the TV Detective block, but he's made an impressive start. One of the many things I love about him is that he's a writer...he's a writer doing field research with the cops and he gets to help solve the crimes. Move over Miley Sirus, because that's 'the best of both worlds.'


Shawn Spencer played by James Roday from Psych. This show was original, but now has many copy cats ie: Mentalist. Spencer is not a detective...actually, he's not even really a psychic, but he investigates crimes...really well.

Harm Rob from JAG, played by David James Elliott. Another show with really good chemistry. He's technically a lawyer, but he makes the list because in these shows lawyers have to do a lot of investigating.

Tomorrow's category will be: Detectives That Make Ultra-Geeky Things Look Cool.