# You've been framed for murder. What TV cop do you want to catch the case? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616 "2006-11-08T22:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/21 "2006-11-08T23:27:42Z")
I want Inspector Sledge Hammer. Not only will the case be solved, but it’s highly likely that the person who framed me will wind up with an enormous hole where several important internal organs used to be. I don’t want to wait for a trial. I want justice now, now, now! ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/22 "2006-11-08T23:32:45Z")
Frank Pembleton of the Baltimore PD. Just cause he’s so frickin’ cool. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/23 "2006-11-08T23:33:08Z")
Barney Fife. No doubt I’ll get off then, even if I did commit the crime. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/24 "2006-11-08T23:36:06Z")
Well, to be _really_ different my convention is in 1890’s London, and I want Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to take the case. Oh, he’d be certain of my guilt, but confused by a few singular peculiarities of my case, he would call upon Sherlock Holmes to help clear up the finer points. After one searching look at me and commenting that I had been to China and my neighbor is an avid gardener, he would explain how every bit of evidence clearly shows that I couldn’t have done it, if only one were as practiced as him at observing. He would then be off, with the promise to call again tomorrow evening. Not a moment to lose since it’s Wednesday (which is an important fact) and it may be too late already. The real criminal might not be caught, but I’d at least be cleared. (_Sherlock Holmes_ counts, doesn’t he? His stories have been adapted to television, after all.) ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/25 "2006-11-08T23:44:03Z")
I’ll take [Stabler](http://www.aeonian.org/assorted/10+1/chris03.jpeg) with a side of [Benson](http://wolfstories2.tripod.com/35dbced0.jpg), please. If I’m going down, I’m going down swooning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/26 "2006-11-08T23:57:14Z")
Jerry Orbach. Ghosts would be kickass at getting info. Beat you all with the best, suckas 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/27 "2006-11-09T00:03:16Z")
Dexter this way the guy who framed me will get what he or she deserves. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/28 "2006-11-09T00:10:54Z")
I want Sam Beckett to jump into my body and set right things which once went wrong. Guard: “Don’t move an inch, murderer.” Me: “ohboy” ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/29 "2006-11-09T00:14:06Z")
I’d go with a team-up (if allowed), of Frank Cannon (tough ex-cop and superb P.I.), Sam McCloud (good-natured US Marshall who sees through deceptions), Kojak (ass-kickin’ city cop with connections and dirt on all the right people) and just in case there’s some supernatural element involved, some help from Carl Kolchak, The Night Stalker. **Tonight’s episode: The Gilded Suite Special guest star: Logan 5 and Joan Van Ark** ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/30 "2006-11-09T00:14:07Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] Can I have Monk and Columbo? [/QUOTE] How about Co-monk-bo, a hybrid of the two? “Oh, wait, one more thing. No, I mean, two more things. Three. Three more things. Hang on, I’ll start over.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/31 "2006-11-09T01:14:02Z")
[QUOTE=Hamlet] Frank Pembleton of the Baltimore PD. Just cause he’s so frickin’ cool. [/QUOTE] Well, that, and you know the real murderer will confess when Frank’s done with him. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/32 "2006-11-09T01:51:06Z")
**Veronica Mars** , no question. Now I know she isn’t the best detective to ever be on TV but I’d love to take a crack at getting her into bed. If she doesn’t solve the case and I end up in prison, eh, at least I got to have sex with Veronica Mars. Now if I want to actually get myself out of trouble, I’m going with either **Monk** or **Goren**. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/33 "2006-11-09T01:54:54Z")
Judge Dredd. He is the Law. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/34 "2006-11-09T02:21:11Z")
Give me Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle from CSI, and put Greg back in the lab to process the evidence - I don’t want an intern! ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/35 "2006-11-09T03:00:05Z")
I’ll go with **Poirot** (as played by David Suchet). He used to be a cop in Belgium so he qualifies. **Detective Vic Mackey** might solve the case but for some reason I don’t trust him. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/36 "2006-11-09T03:37:10Z")
You guys, remember that Columbo only does cases where the murderer is seen committing the crime during the first act. I don’t think the man does “falsely acused.” Me, I don’t care who investigates, just so long as Sam Gerard ( **The Fugitive** and **U. S. Marshals** ) escorts me to prison after I’m wrongly convicted. With him, I’m a shoo-in to escape and go on the run to prove my innocence. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/37 "2006-11-09T03:40:35Z")
Rabbi Small. (Yes, he was a character in one television series.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/38 "2006-11-09T03:48:47Z")
Oh! Can I have Lou Peckenpaugh from _The Cheap Detective_? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/39 "2006-11-09T06:39:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] You guys, remember that Columbo only does cases where the murderer is seen committing the crime during the first act. I don’t think the man does “falsely acused.” [/QUOTE] He does, actually. One of his earliest cases was called “Suitable for Framing,” after all, and in the OP’s scenario, it’s pretty obviously a deliberate frame job… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/40 "2006-11-09T08:02:26Z")
Columbo also let that one lady get off since she was so old and forgot she murdered whoever she did murder. But I’d still go for him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616.md?page=3)