British detective shows(they seem the best IMO)

[hagios]

Looking for more detective shows from England, such as a Touch Of Frost, Rosemary & Thymes, Prime Suspect, Blue Murders, etc. any along these lines that you have come across, that are gripping & interesting!

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by luv-blu

Looking for more detective shows from England, such as a Touch Of Frost, Rosemary & Thymes, Prime Suspect, Blue Murders, etc. any along these lines that you have come across, that are gripping & interesting!

Ripper Streets is very good...set in 18 century England after Jack the Ripper just vanish...a really well produce show.

[hagios]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

Ripper Streets is very good...set in 18 century England after Jack the Ripper just vanish...a really well produce show.

I might have to take a look at that , but I prefer & I am looking for great shows from the 1970's through the 1990's.

[HotRats]

Ironically its European shows like The Killing, Wallander, Spiral, The Bridge and Montalbano that are currently popular in the UK but here's a few that come to mind:
Hazell, The Chinese Detective, The Beiderbecke Trilogy (one of the greatest TV series), Callan, Public Eye, The Sweeney. Network have issued quite a few of these on DVD

[sycro]

Originally Posted by luv-blu

Looking for more detective shows from England, such as a Touch Of Frost, Rosemary & Thymes, Prime Suspect, Blue Murders, etc. any along these lines that you have come across, that are gripping & interesting!

I'm assuming you've seen Sherlock.

[Jutty]

"Life on Mars",is also very good

[stevo4264]

My personal favourite "The Professionals"
Grew up with it

[HotRats]

Just remembered one of the very best, Between The Lines. The third series is a mess as BBC management were trying to kill the programme

[hagios]

Originally Posted by HotRats

Just remembered one of the very best, Between The Lines. The third series is a mess as BBC management were trying to kill the programme

Thanks for all your info, can I get all these shows for Region 1 or do I have to get a region free player, & if yes which one is the best? Can you get a region free player that plays both dvd & bd? but

[HotRats]

I don't know which have been released in America so you'd need a DVD or blu ray player that does multi region. DVD players are dirt cheap but multi region blu players are either top end mods like Oppo or cheap supermarket specials with handset hacks. Check the hardware forum for something that meets your needs and budget. Check your display can come with the European PAL signal or see if the player transcodes to NTSC.

If i had to pick one it'd be Between The Lines for its complex portrayal of police corruption

[hobgoblin]

Series 5 isn't quite as good as the others as it takes on a different cast altogether, but taken as a whole, a really good TV series.

[rikraq]

Rebus
Vera
Heat of the Sun
Waking The Dead
Midsomer Murders
Inspector Morse
Inspector Lewis
The Last Detective
Pie In The Sky with the now late Richard Griffiths.

[Tony208]

I'll have to give some of these a shot, US detective shows are a very predictable 3 acts.

someone gets killed, they get a list of suspects
they close on in their main suspect
shocker! it's not the person and through some stroke of luck they catch the real baddie

[rikraq]

I love British detective shows. The scenery alone is usually worth it.

[peter008]

i wonder if the bbc has any intention of producing a season 2 of the serie ZEN starring rufus sewell and catarina murino because i like season 1 very much.

anybody heard anything about its future?

[fergusor]

Another good show that is currently airing it's 3rd series is Scott & Bailey.

I was always a huge fan of Dempsey & Makepeace as a child (back in the 80's)... you can get all 4 series on DVD.

[hagios]

I know it is not set in England(Sweden I ) but has anyone checked out Wallander, this looks interesting to me? Give me a or a IYO!

Wanting to get all these detective shows brings up, I need a great, well $$, region free Blu-ray player that will play these shows on DVD & Blu-ray. Any ideas? Thanks!

[rikraq]

I liked Kenneth Branagh's Wallander. It's pretty dark and the scenery is very bleak. And it has Tom Hiddleston (Loki, from Thor) in it.

[hobgoblin]

Originally Posted by peter008

i wonder if the bbc has any intention of producing a season 2 of the serie ZEN starring rufus sewell and catarina murino because i like season 1 very much.

anybody heard anything about its future?

BBC axed it after one season, don't know if the show's producers are still looking to produce further seasons with a different channel.

From Wiki:

The series was canceled by BBC One in February 2011; BBC One controller Danny Cohen later said there were already enough male crime-fighters on TV. Left Bank, the show's producer, has been in discussions with other broadcasters about continuing the series elsewhere.

[HotRats]

Zen was a victim of management change at the BBC. I thought it was a failure due to short running times, Cabal was gutted and missed out much of the book. Dibdin's books use Zen as a way for an outsider to observe the diverse regions of Italy and faithful films would have required many locations at huge cost. Dead Lagoon is a brilliant book and I'd recommend it to anyone.

The Swedish Wallander is much better than the UK version, just compare the two versions of The Fifth Woman. Rolf Lassgard or Krister Henriksson are both equally good. Box sets are avilable from Arrow.

I also recommend the film of Jar City, the bleak Icelandic thriller. There's more than frozen gloom to Iceland, try comedy series The Night Shift, The Day Shift and The Prison Shift, all very funny

Tonight BBC4 starts a four part of Arne Dahl's The Blinded Man