Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) starred Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, starring William Conrad, the Barnaby Jones premiere episode "Requiem for a Son" found Jones coming out of retirement to find his son's killer. His widowed daughter-in-law helped him solve the case, and the two decided to keep the detective agency open. In 1976, Mark Shera joined the cast as J. R., a son of Barnaby's cousin. A different kind of private eye, Barnaby Jones was a milk-drinker who caught criminals with his brains rather than his fists: "To its credit, the producers didn't downplay Barnaby's age, nor did they get cute about it," notes Thrilling Detective. "They simply treated him with respect and dignity, made us aware of his limitations but focused on his strengths. Not for Barnaby, then, the routine TV fare of fisticuffs and car chases. Rather he relied on his keen intellect, his home crime lab and good old detective work (a real rarity on the tube) to get the goods on the bad guys." Buy DVDs at Amazon
Barnaby Jones TV show theme song
Barnaby Jones on Wikipedia
Barnaby Jones on Thrilling Detective
More themes:
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
THE EQUALIZER
HARDY BOYS / NANCY DREW MYSTERIES
HARRY O
MANNIX
NBC Mystery Movie (COLUMBO)
PETER GUNN
THE ROCKFORD FILES
QUINCY
SIMON & SIMON
From The Thrill of it All:
Retirement is Murder: 10 Senior Sleuths
Detectives: MURDER SHE WROTE: JESSICA FLETCHER
Detectives: Lee Goldberg: DR. MARK SLOANE (DIAGNOSIS: MURDER)
Mysteries: Lawrence Block: BERNIE RHODENBARR
Detectives: M.C. Beaton: AGATHA RAISIN
Detectives: Agatha Christie: MISS MARPLE
100 Mystery Series: 1887-2010
Murderous Beginnings: 40 Detective Fiction Firsts
NURSING A GRUDGE: Hometown Mysteries
NURSING A GRUDGE is "summer fresh"
Download the first chapter free!
No comments:
Post a Comment