Mysteries on TV, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, is profiling two series that have season DVDs being released this week.
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Buddy Ebsen starred as Barnaby Jones, a retired private investigator who returns to the business after his son Hal is murdered. The series ran on CBS from January 1973 (as a mid-season replacement) to April 1980 and consisted of 178 episodes over 8 seasons.
Lee Meriwether played Barnaby's daughter-in-law and assistant, Betty Jones. Later in the series, Mark Shera joined the cast as Barnaby's cousin, Jedediah Romano (J. R.) Jones.
Early episodes of the series featured William Conrad as Frank Cannon (who had his own series, Cannon, see also below). The premiere of Barnaby Jones was originally intended as a 2-part episode of Cannon but when a mid-season replacement series was urgently needed, it was spun off into a separate series.
The Barnaby Jones: Season One DVD set of 4 discs contain the 13 episodes that aired on CBS during the spring of 1973.
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As mentioned above, William Conrad starred as Frank Cannon in Cannon, a crime drama that ran on CBS from September 1971 to March 1976 and consisted of 124 episodes over 5 seasons. A made-for-television movie based on the series, The Return of Frank Cannon, aired in 1980.
Cannon was a wealthy private investigator and gourmet chef who lived in a penthouse on the Sunset Strip. His services were expensive but he got results. The episodes of the series were beautifully filmed, having very high production values. Due to Conrad's rather large size, episodes relied more on plot than action.
The Cannon: Season Two (V2) DVD set of 3 discs contain the final 12 episodes of the second season that aired on CBS from late December 1972 through March 1973.
At least 9 book tie-ins were written by several authors over the series run, starting with Murder by Gemini (1971) by Richard Gallagher.
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