Top twenty TV Lawmen ever?

My list?

Andy Griffth...the quintessential small town cop.
Bubba (Heat of the Night)
Columbo, a man that made you want to confess just to get him out of there.
Inspector Morse
Constable Fraser from "Due South" (corny humour based on picking on Canadian/American stereotypes...but the kind of cop you wish all cops could be!)
Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
Baretta (Robert Blake's best role)
Detective Beckett (Castle, the woman is HOT)
Lennie Briscoe and all the other cops on the original "Law and Order"
Ed Lane (one of the Special Response cops in "Flashpoint")
Barney Miller (a cop who also was a great guy and boss with humour)
Jethro Gibbs (NCIS's most interesting character)
Steve McGarrett (the new 5-0 and the old one)
Detective Belker (Hill St. Blues)
Patrolman Milloy (Adam 12)
Patrolman Baker (Chips)
Detective Ironside (Ironside)
Detective Becker (Rockford Files)
Chief Jesse Stone (Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone mysteries as portrayed by Tom Selleck, who plays a cop fighting booze in a small town and just is WAY cool)
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There..almost made 20 cops, and only one from the BBC (so fill in your best UK/European show characters)

All the cops I picked were/are on network TV in the US and are ranging from comedy to serious shows.......

An honorary member should be Hercule Poirot.

Constable Benton Fraser, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is top shout Mark. Really enjoyable show and a great theme tune.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

My list?


Constable Fraser from "Due South" (corny humour based on picking on Canadian/American stereotypes...but the kind of cop you wish all cops could be!)
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It was a BRILLIANT show. Loved everything about it. The theme song (Due south, that's the way I'm going...), the pet wolf, the whole times by 5 divide by 8 thing for miles to kilometres per hour. GENIUS!

The previous posts have covered most of the notables.
Tubbs and Crockett (Miami Vice original tv series)
Starsky and Hutch (original tv series)
Dukes of Hazzard (sp?) the blue uniformed poleece who crashed more than Rautenbach.
Boney (Australian 70s tv)
Blue Heelers (Aus TV)
Roderick Alleyn ( Ngaio Marsh's detective character book and tv)
Mortimer's Patch (NZTV series)

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Debate over!!!

i'd like to add Gösta Ekmans portrayal of "detective superintendent" Martin Beck and i also would like to add Per Oscarsson's role as police commissioner Gustav Jörgensen
in the Series about the police in the small Swedish west coast town Strömstad.