TV Detective or Police Procedural dramas where the main character ISN'T a "Defective Detective" trope

[A380]

I'm not sure that was to be taken as something which really happened.

Surely you’re not suggesting it wasn’t a documentary?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Rastamouse

 

[Idris2002]

Lewis was a copper in Miss Marple too.

He looks like Father Dougal there.

 

[Idris2002]

Sorry everyone, will leave this thread alone now.

And she looks like Angie Merkel

 

[two sheds]

I'm enjoying The Last Detective. UKTV you have to sign up but it's free.

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Not quite what was asked for in the OP but he's hated by his boss/other detectives and so is human. Peter Davison with Sean Hughes who's also good.

 

[quiet guy]

It was being shown on Drama - Freeview ch.20. Remember seeing it first time around and it came across very true to the books which I read in the mid nineties.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm enjoying The Last Detective. UKTV you have to sign up but it's free.

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Not quite what was asked for in the OP but he's hated by his boss/other detectives and so is human. Peter Davison with Sean Hughes who's also good.

Davison was also good as the 20s/30s detective Campion. Brian Glover played his sidekick iirc.

 

[T & P]

After several false starts ITT, I can finally suggest something nobody else has. Copying my post from the Disney+ thread to save writing it again:

Only Murders in the Building. A brand new dark comedy crime miniseries created and starring Steve Martin, with Martin Short and Selima Gomez as the other main leads. Very good and entertaining so far

Only Murders in the Building | Rotten Tomatoes

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Perhaps...

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