Can it be done? I'll start off with a few and update the list as we go along. Enjoy the ride. A mind to kill A Touch of Frost Accused Adam Adamant Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Advocate Ashes to Ashes Avengers Barlow at large Beiderbeck Tapes Bergerac Between the Lines Bill Blake's 7 Blue Murder Body Farm Broadchurch Budgie Bulman Burnside Cadfael Callan Campion Captain Scarlet Case Histories CATS eyes Champions Charles Endell Esq Chief Chinese detective Cold Blood Commander Cops Cracker Crimewatch Dalziel and Pascoe Danger Man Danger Mouse Dempsey and Makepeace Department S Dixon of Dock Green Double Deckers Dr Who Endeavour Famous Five Fireball XL5 Fox Foyle's War Gentle Touch Good cop Gumshoe Hamish MacBeth He kills coppers Heartbeat Hetty Wainthrop Holby Blue Identity Injustice Inside Men Inspector George Gently Inspector Lynley mysteries Jason King Jericho Joe 90 Jonathan Creek Judge John Deed Juliet Bravo Kavanagh QC Kidnap and Ransome Knock Last Detective Law and Order UK Lewis Life on Mars Line of Duty Liverpool 1 Lock, Stock Long firm Looking after Jo Jo Love/Hate Lovejoy Low winter sun Luther Maigret Maisie raine Mersey beat Messiah Midsommer Murders Minder Miss Marple Missing Morse Moses Jones Mr Benn Mrs Biggs Murder Most Horrid Murderland New Tricks No Hiding place No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Operation Good Guys Out of the Blue Paradise Club Persuaders Pie in the Sky Poirot Prime Suspect Professionals Protectors Quatermass Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) Rebus Red Hand Gang Redcaps Ripper Street Rockliffe's Babies Rose and Maloney Rosemary and thyme Saint Sapphire and Steel Sarah Jane adventures Scott and Bailey Shadow Line Sherlock Shoestring Singing detective Softly Softly Softly Softly Task force Special Branch Spender Stingray Strangers Supercar Sweeney Taggart Target Terrahawks Thin Blue Line Thunderbirds Tomorrow People Torchwood Touching Evil Trial and retribution Tunnel UFO Van der Valk Vera Vexed Vice Vincent Waking the Dead Whitechapel Wire in the Blood Wycliffe Z Cars (155)
The Chinese detective Rockliffe's Babes Juliette Bravo Cops Between the Lines Prime Suspect Shoestring Wycliffe Bergerac Softly Softly Ashes to Ashes Life on Mars Heartbeat 25 down
Wonder if some of our older members (Dev, ER, etc) who actually watched Dixon of Dock Green when it was first broadcast might know quite a few that we relative youngsters have never heard of.
Inspector George Gently No Hiding place (anybody else remember that) Jason King The Saint The Avengers The Persuaders Hetty Wainthrop CATS eyes
Of course - the world's most famous fictional detective. There have probably been a few series centered on him, there was that one with Jez Brett was it? I need names.
The Vice Liverpool 1 Holby Blue Good cop Inspector Lynley mysteries Barlow at large Miss Marple Low winter sun (originally set in Edinburgh now remade as a yank show) Budgie Broadchurch Rebus
Whitechapel Ripper Street I kill coppers Target The singing detective Trial and retribution. That's me all polissed out now I'm afraid.