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Watching the Detectives

My Top Five Television Crime Busting Duos

Mark Holburn
5 min readApr 19, 2024
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We all love them. Those hero crime TV detectives who have been providing entertainment to us for years. We love to watch them solving crimes and putting the world to right by catching those pesky criminals and bringing justice to the world.

They can’t do it on their own, so they need their partner to help solve the crime and save the day.

But who are your favourite dynamic duos? Below are my top five cop duos counting down from five. I am sticking purely to police television partnerships and not the movies so that rules out Riggs and Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, Tango and Cash, or if you prefer Man and Beast, Turner and Hooch!

Many of the television cop shows were turned into films with different actors and format but my pick is purely based on the television series. I think that’s a fair cop.

Just one more thing! Before I begin my countdown, I really wanted to include Columbo on the list. I love Columbo but as we all know he was so good he solved all his crimes on his own and let’s face it his dog was no help at all.

5. Batman and Robin from Batman

Well before Michael Keaton first donned the mask of the caped crusader this television dynamic duo were out on the…

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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