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Category: Television
Emerson Cod (Pushing Daisies)
Created by Bryan Fuller "In Cod We Trust." — advertising slogan on a billboard Hoo-boy. This one's a stretch, even on a site whose parameters are as elastic as this one. Sure, television's Pushing Daisies (2007-09, ABC) had a private eye as a regular character, but it was never really a PI show. What it … Continue reading Emerson Cod (Pushing Daisies)
Lee Raybon (The Lowdown)
Created by Sterlin Harjo "I'm a writer, huh? Most people call me an asshole, you know?" — Lee Raybon The 2025 TV series The Lowdown occupies the turf somewhere between Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, with a dash of the Coen Bros tossed in for good measure. It's a slapstick noir world of bad guys, … Continue reading Lee Raybon (The Lowdown)
Spider-Man Noir
Created by Stan Lee & Steve DitkoSpider-Man Noir created by David Hine & Fabrice Sapolsky In their endless battle to reel in more customers, it's long been an established practice in the comic book biz to take established superheroes and revamp, revise, reboot and regurgitate them. Pump some new air into tired lungs. Or just … Continue reading Spider-Man Noir
Keiichiro Nagumo (Detectives These Days Are Crazy!)
Created by Masakuni Igarashi KEIICHIRO NAGUMO used to be a somebody. He was once everybody's hero, a genius boy detective; a high school kid who could crack any problem that came his way. But that was then. Now he's just another grumpy, chain-smoking private eye, another professional struggling to scratch out a living. He's falling … Continue reading Keiichiro Nagumo (Detectives These Days Are Crazy!)
George Harmon Coxe
(1901-1984) George Harmon Coxe was a journalist, prolific pulp writer, and novelist; an early star of hard boiled crime fiction, and one of Cap Shaw's beloved Black Mask Boys. In a long and prolific career, Coxe put his name to over sixty novels, the last being published in 1975, and hundreds of short stories. His … Continue reading George Harmon Coxe
Sonny Spoon
Created by Michael Daly & Dinah Prince, and Stephen J. Cannell & Randall Wallace "He's a scam, he's a sham, he's a flim-flam man." — NBC trailer for the show "Fashion plate. Con artist. Public nuisance. Private eye." — tagline from a print ad Television's affable, street-smart, hip young Black private eye SONNY SPOON was … Continue reading Sonny Spoon
Alex Parker (Alex and the Doberman Gang)
Created by Richard Chapman & James D. Parriott Based on characters created by Louis Garfinkle & Frank Ray Perilli After a trio of low-budget, dumb-but-entertaining movies, The Doberman Gang (1972), The Daring Dobermans (1973) and The Amazing Dobermans (1976) scored surprisingly well at the box office, it was almost inevitable that TV would come sniffing … Continue reading Alex Parker (Alex and the Doberman Gang)
Parker Kane
Created by Peter M. Lenkov "Here. Hold my weiner." -- Parker displays some of his cutting-edge wit. Somebody somewhere must have made a checklist of every annoying, dumb-ass cliche and stereotype about American TV private eyes of the previous decade that was ever driven into the ground, and then put them all together in this … Continue reading Parker Kane
Lomax (Die Kinder)
Created by Paula Milne (1947--) Sorry, folks. Die Kinder is not yet another Bruce Willis movie — it's German for "the children." Instead, it's perhaps the most noir-ish thing PBS' MYSTERY! ever aired, a fondly-remembered (by the few who saw it) six-part BBC/PBS co-production that aired in 1990. Although the political thriller received zip attention … Continue reading Lomax (Die Kinder)