best police/crime show
 

my top 5 is

1.nypd blue
2.miami vice
3.the shield
4.law and order
5.twin peaks

Old school Briscoe/Greene/McCoy/Carmichael Law and Order. Man, those were the days.

Monk comes in as a close second, because Tony Shalhoub is the pure essence of awesomeness.

In no particular order.

• CSI: I don't know what makes me watch the shows whenever they're on TV, but I always feel greatly entertained by Gil, Horatio and their teams.
• Monk: I started watching that show recently, because I thought that his ... uhm... let's call it "odd behaviour", would bother me. It would, if I was watching more than one episode in a row, but one episode a week is perfect. But sometimes, the cases are too easy to solve (guy in the fat-suit for example)
• Jonathan Creek; This series follows a guy who invents tricks for magicians. But in his freetime (of which he seems to have a lot) he solves mysterious crimes. And the way he does it, is just amazing. Oh, and the show is quite funny.
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent: The only Law and Order-show which has a good dub. The others are just terrible. Oh yeah, and they called SVU "Law and order: New York". Anyways, so I watch Bobby Goren and Eames solving crimes every week.
• NCIS: Take CSI, substract a little of that forensic talk and add more wit, et voilà, you get NCIS. Oh, and there's Abby...

21 Jump Street.

Cops, damn it!

Anyone remember "Police Squad?"

Do you get the dubbed version? Because an un-dubbed Horatio Caine is one of the more painful characters on TV to watch. Un-dubbed, he comes off as a self-important, portentously smarmy git. He broods, he draws his lines out, he saves the day, he singlehandedly apprehends suspects and I'm pretty sure he can fly and bite through steel cables with his bare teeth.

I can't watch that show anymore because of him and my growing detest for his his bloated Mary-Sueism. :(

What on earth is Mary-Sueism? (Here we go again, DH is teaching me English. :D )

Anyways, we get the dubbed version, and Horatio isn't that bad in German. They got a rather good dub for him. He still saves the day on his own (of course), but it doesn't seem so omnipotent.

I have seen some episodes in English and he really does have a sort of "I am God"-thing going on.

And the whole series really does focus too much on him. I mean, I don't even know Speed's name, Delko's first name and who all those sidecharacters are.

A Mary Sue (named after a character in a Star Trek fanfiction back in the 70s) is a character that's so supremely awesome, that all others pale in comparison to him/her. They save the day. They know the answer to all questions and people hang on their every word. They are usually stunningly beautiful. They are everything the author wishes they could be and more. Its mostly a term that's used in regards to fanfiction, but its being used elsewhere these days.

CSI: NY though. If you've not seen that, be sure to watch it if/when it gets there. Gary Sinise (who plays the head CSI in the show) is a shifty-eyed son of a bitch and I love him for it.

Ookay... yeah, sort of applies to Horation in English. I often asked myself what Calleigh and the rest of the gang were good for.

CSINY is going to start soon (it was supposed to air on VOX in January 2005 but it apparently hasn't) And I won't miss it, that's for sure. There's almost nothing better than CSI to keep me entertained (TV-wise that is).

Talking about bastard-cops:

The Shield: Great show that was cancelled here after a few episodes. I never knew why but it was so damn interesting and Vic Mackey is such an a**hole. A very good show.

Batman 1966. But I think that goes without saying.

There is one thing I noticed while watching that show: How many criminal activities does Gotham have at a time? And how useful is the GCP? But yeah, that was one great show.

And as for Mary Sue: For a good laugh

I haven't seen that show in years. If there was a DVD set, I'd buy it, the show was hilarious. Frank Drebin was the best cop ever.

:lol:

BTW - the male version of Mary Sue is called Gary Stu (yep, the educational aspects of The Technodrome Forums are difficult to overvalue :)).

I like CSI and CSI: Miami.

I prefer the latter because of the location and a little more emphasis on action than forensics. Also, Calleigh is hot and David Caruso has the coolest voice ever and he occasionally gets a good one-liner. Most the time they're lame.

One thing I don't like is how every 2 minutes there's a wisecrack about death or so. I understand working in the profession could do that too you but they're a bit too frequent and recycled.

I watched an episode of CSI: New York once and that was also quite good, but I always tend to forget it's on because it airs a different day to the rest.

I also used to like The Bill. Now, it's alright, I guess

In German, his jokes are about 50% good, so I can't say that. And Calleigh seems a bit pale as a character to be actually considered "hot". I mean, I know her first and last name, her profession and that's it.

Are you saying you like a lot of Caine's one-liners? I mean he does get some cool ones (the 'forced entry' one was morbid genius) but a lot of the time it's:

Criminal: You don't have enough evidence or motive to put me away! Ha!
Caine: Oh, I don't think so

or

Caine: You're evil, you enjoy death, and I hope you enjoy your own.


And, looks-wise Calleigh's hot. Plus, she has the feisty, southern girl 'vibe' going on.

Yes, I do. But it seems that they changed a lot in the dub. In German he is really witty half of the time.

Yeah, apparently she's from the south... another thing lost in translation.

Haha. D'oh. But on the plus side, her speech pattern and voice tone are odd

Whoa, that is one cool show. The first two episodes are just finished and I muist say, it finds a good balance between Las Vegas and Miami. Mac Taylor is a great inspector, but his dub is a bit messed up, he sounds rather monotone. Sort of "I am a Dalek... exterminate" ("Doctor Who" never was on German TV). But what I don't like about him, is that they made him the ultra-american. His motivation seems to be related to 9/11 and he is first seen inside a church. You couldn't put more cliché into him. Luckily, they dropped that stuff in the second episode. I understand that 9/11 had a huge impact on the US, but I'd feel offended if I get such a tragic event shoved down my throat over and over again.

Other than that: Great show!

Mine was New York Undercover.

I was watching Without a Trace today, and forgot how pretty damn cool it is. For those of you who've never heard of it, it's a show about the FBI Missing Persons unit, and focuses on one case at a time.

The characters are fantastic, primarily because they're so well written and the actors themselves are finally given a good bit to work with. Anthony LaPaglia is quiet, brooding and entirely awesome. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the classically trained Brit with the most dead-on American accent, is my favourite though. The show is about 75% case and 25% personal stories about the main characters, which I find makes for a better balance than CSI's 60% case, 20% cool music/science cut scenes and 20% "I've got a gambling problem!"/"I have the hots for my dead brother's wife!"/misc. drama.

I'm quite partial to the Law and Order series....as well as most CSI...and does Monk count?

I've always liked cops.

Hey, how about the A-Team? Does that one count? They rock.

They solve crimes and crack down on our nation's growing jibba jabba problem, so I'd say... yeah. The A-Team counts.

Law & Order:SVU love that Ice T

does OZ count as a "Crime" show? most of the people have commited crimes already in the show.