When I was a kid, I loved the show Vegas, I thought Dan Tanna was the coolest guy ever. I wanted to live in a flat like his, with the car, to a teenager, it was just so cool.
So I was wondering who, to you, is the coolest TV detective. I don’t mean just goodlooking, but has a total amount of “coolness,” in your opinion.
For the purposes of this thread I want to limit it to TV cops or detectives, that have their own show, not part of an ensamble cast.
Like Starsky and Hutch is OK, but not someone for instance in Hill Street Blues.
I am looking for someone who is basically the star. Like Heather Locklear wasn’t really the star or co-star of TJ Hooker, so I wouldn’t count her.
Coming in second is Christy Love of Get Christy Love, I loved the way she called people “Sugah”
Starsky and Hutch? You gotta’ be kidding me. They look like clowns next to Crockett and Tubbs of Miami Vice. (And don’t tell me that was an “ensemble” show just because it wasn’t named after the two leads).
David Soul had a #1 song “Don’t Give Up On Us,” while Don Johnson had to settle for a remake of an old Helen Reddy song called “Heartbeat,” which wasn’t nearly as good as hers.
I’m going cult on this one - my vote is for Ronnie Gardocki from The Shield. The beard, the peerless investigation skills, the beard, the shrewdly intelligent, secretive demeanor, the beard, the technical wizardry, the beard, all in one awesome, bearded package.
Jim Rockford. He was tough like Grendel, but when the bad guys were too tough for Jimmy, his Daddy, Rocky, came along and kicked ass. Stuart Margolin as Angel and Joe Santos as Dennis were great too.
Jim Rockford gets picked up by a couple of thugs and shoved, at gunpoint, into the back of a gray Chevy. He turns to one of the thugs, “does your mother know what you do for a living?”
