# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/81 "2006-11-10T01:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=malkavia] 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. 😃 [/QUOTE] Jebus, I’m a Stabler fan, and that’s the best picture I’ve ever seen of him. Rowr… But I’d take Goren and Eames if my life was on the line. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/82 "2006-11-10T03:56:55Z")
Put me down for Jim Rockford as well, but if I’ve got to be arrested I want [Sgt. Dee Dee McCall](http://huntertv.tripod.com/mccall80s.html) to cuff me. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/83 "2006-11-10T10:47:08Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Inspector Morse. First, he’d assume that Im guilty, and arrest me. Then he’d interrogate me for ten hours. Then he’d do a crossword Then he’d go to the pub. [/QUOTE] [hijack] Can I just mention I’ve been to the pub Morse goes to. And which also purports to be the one Clinton smoked pot at. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/84 "2006-11-10T11:56:13Z")
Was there ever a Father Brown TV series? Would he not count because he wasn’t officially a detective? If the Padre wouldn’t count because he wasn’t officially a detective but did have a TV series, may I take Flambeau please? But he’s got to come with short round English priest attached, s’il vous plait. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/85 "2006-11-10T12:41:38Z")
Well, if my life was on the line I’d have to go with Columbo. However, I’d like [Reagan & Carter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071059/) there for the takedown, and if the interrogation got sticky, Phil Cerretta should be brought in. Those cold fish eyes, they terrify me… mm ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-been-framed-for-murder-what-tv-cop-do-you-want-to-catch-the-case/379616/86 "2006-11-10T12:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Was there ever a Father Brown TV series?. [/QUOTE] There was a pilot TV Movie, but it didn’t become a series. Of course, it ignored the source material, making Brown an Irish priest in modern-day America. It wasn’t very good, for some reason. :rolleyes: [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=4)