Burke's Law
(1963)
Originaltitel: Burke's Law
Skapad av: Frank D. Gilroy
Release: 1963-09-20
TV-bolag: ABC
Längd per avsnitt: 60 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
Burkes Law, a Four Star-Barbety Production, depicted the crime-solving adventures of dashing, debonair swinger Amos Burke (Gene Barry), an L.A.P.D. homicide captain who just happened to also be a millionaire. Each week, Burke (a suave, and very eligible, womanizing bachelor) would be faced with a mysterious murder case involving an assortment of colorful suspects (each portrayed by a special guest star, often cast against type and getting a chance to ham shamelessly). Burke, upon... (TheTVDB)
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Who Killed Holly Howard?
1963-09-20
Who Killed Holly...
1963-09-20
A top fashion model is found at a construction site, apparently shot to death. When it is discovered that she was drowned before she was shot, Burke tracks the case back to her ditzy landlady, and then to the heads of the ad agency she was modeling for and the artist who was painting her likeness...
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Who Killed Mr. X?
1963-09-27
Who Killed Mr. X?
1963-09-27
When a body is discovered dumped alongside the merry-go-round at an amusement park, clues (including a phone number on an old matchbook cover) lead back to the elusive millionaire Emory Flood. Burke is thwarted in his attempts to speak to Flood by the top three men in the Flood empire. Meanwhile,...
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Who Killed Cable Roberts?
1963-10-04
Who Killed Cable...
1963-10-04
When big-game hunter Cable Roberts is found shot by one of his own rifles and mounted in his trophy room, the suspects include both Roberts current wife (a predatory animal herself), his ex, an angry taxidermist, another hunter, Roberts secretary, and his extremely sexy maid. Tim notices an...
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Who Killed Harris Crown?
1963-10-11
Who Killed Harris...
1963-10-11
Promoter Harris Crown is killed when the car he is driving goes off a cliff. Burke soon discovers that all the brake fluid had been drained and that the car belonged to Crowns wife (a race car enthusiast) who is involved in a charity benefit and involved with the benefits choreographer, who in...
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Who Killed Julian Buck?
1963-10-18
Who Killed Julian...
1963-10-18
Hemingwayesque novelist Julian Buck is found dead and Burke checks out the guests at his funeral: his publisher, a former boxer, an ex-lover (who he traded for a plot), a bartender, a crippled university professor, and a glamorous blonde, all of whom have been used in the past by Buck as fodder...
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Who Killed Alex Debbs?
1963-10-25
Who Killed Alex...
1963-10-25
At the opening of The Debonair Key Club, a Playboy-like nightclub/restaurant, Debonair Magazine founder Alex Debbs is found stabbed. The suspects are all connected in some way with the Debonair empire, both the club and the magazine: Debbs main business partner, an embittered cartoonist, a...
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Who Killed Sweet Betsy?
1963-11-01
Who Killed Sweet...
1963-11-01
Betsy Richards drinks a lethal martini and Burke investigates the Richards mansion, Betsys three identical sisters (who may look alike, but who have decidedly different personalities), her wheelchair-bound (and possibly psychotic) aunt, her current beach bum lover (who might have been about to...
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Who Killed Billy Jo?
1963-11-08
Who Killed Billy Jo?
1963-11-08
Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A good-ol boy, Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his best buddy, a smarmy astrologer, a jive arranger, Tates showgirl sister, the woman who discovered him, and...
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Who Killed Wade Walker?
1963-11-15
Who Killed Wade...
1963-11-15
When millionaire Wade Walkers plane explodes mid-air, Burke confronts Walkers business partner, secretary (whom Tim has an eye for), and the four women in his life (a model and beauty pageant queen, a society horse breeder, a starchy, sex-obsessed nurse, and a nightclub singer), one of whom Walker...
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Who Killed the Kind Doctor?
1963-11-29
Who Killed the Kind...
1963-11-29
Psychiatrist Eric Techman calls Burke to report that he fears one of his patients is a homicidal maniac who plans to kill him. Before he can identify the person in question, he is shot in the back. Burke convinces both Techmans secretary and his wife to not reveal the fact of the kind doctors...
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11
Who Killed Purity Mather?
1963-12-06
Who Killed Purity...
1963-12-06
A self-proclaimed witch sends Burke a record predicting her murder, along with a list of suspects. When her body is discovered after a fire, she has been disfigured by acid, leaving only a clue of a tattoo. The design of the tattoo matches that of an amulet carried by her pet raven. For likely...
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Who Killed Cynthia Royal?
1963-12-13
Who Killed Cynthia...
1963-12-13
A missing Siamese cat named Deborah is Burkes prime clue to the killing of Cynthia Royal. The murder victim had just arrived in town from Chicago trying to reunite with her estranged husband. The husband had been wooing a nightclub singer, which leads Burke also to suspect the nightclubs...
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Who Killed Eleanora Davis?
1963-12-20
Who Killed Eleanora...
1963-12-20
When an unidentified brunette is discovered in a fake electric chair at a run-down amusement park/sideshow run by Professor Kingston, Burke has to track several elusive clues back to a modeling agency and the three somewhat odd people who run it, a blackmail scheme, eloping tennis players, and a...
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Who Killed Beau Sparrow?
1963-12-27
Who Killed Beau...
1963-12-27
Burke is attending a pool party at tycoon Victor Haggertys mansion when dashing Beau Sparrow is thrown into the pool by a faulty diving apparatus and dies. The apparatus doesnt seem to have been tampered with and George McLeod cant determine the cause of death. Was it murder? If so, whos the...
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Who Killed Jason Shaw?
1964-01-03
Who Killed Jason...
1964-01-03
When a shady businessman is found dead, fully clothed, in a hotel shower, surrounded by burned thousand dollar bills, Burke is confronted with a group of men who seem to have absolutely nothing in common - a shipbuilder with a musical hobby, a haughty wine connoisseur, a loud-mouthed used-car...
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Who Killed Snookie Martinelli?
1964-01-10
Who Killed Snookie...
1964-01-10
At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar driver, a nightclub pianist, a professional houseguest, or a sexy barefoot angel? Or was it a...
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Who Killed What's His Name?
1964-01-17
Who Killed What's...
1964-01-17
When the president of a bank is shot during a robbery, the only description Burke can get of the killer is that he was just ordinary. Burke interviews a man who passed out during the robbery, and hunts for clues with a local bookie. After the two other bank robbers are slain, Burke investigates...
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Who Killed Madison Cooper?
1964-01-24
Who Killed Madison...
1964-01-24
Hotshot lawyer Madison Cooper calls Burke as he dies in a seedy part of town of stab wounds inflicted elsewhere. He had just put a large amount of cash into a newspaper vending booth and Burke finds that Cooper was dying and had been trying to contact former clients whom he had wronged in the...
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Who Killed April?
1964-01-31
Who Killed April?
1964-01-31
Tims mother is in town for a visit and provides several vital clues that solve the murder of April Adams. Tracking the victim to a carhop-style restaurant, Burke narrows the suspects to Aprils erratic brother, her cousin, her psychiatrist, the drive-in restaurants manager, and a hockey star and...
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Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
1964-02-14
Who Killed Carrie...
1964-02-14
A group of junior cadets discover the body of a bikini-clad girl wrapped in chains, lying in the surf. The victim, a singer and sometime model, has been linked to a oil tycoon, who is away on business, according to his alcoholic wife. While the tycoon is busy with young girls, his wife is...
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Who Killed His Royal Highness?
1964-02-21
Who Killed His...
1964-02-21
The Grand Duke, Maximilian Karol Alexandrei Kadarian, collapses at a banquet. The Grand Duke was famous locally as phony royalty, who owned a fabulous emerald necklace, now missing. The suspects include his former wife, his secretary, the owners of the banquet hall (two former vaudevillians), the...
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Who Killed Marty Kelso?
1964-02-28
Who Killed Marty...
1964-02-28
After a party celebrating his marriage to an Italian movie starlet, producer Marty Kelso falls down a flight of stairs and gets a letter opener stuck in his neck. His bodyguard/manservant calls the police and informs Burke that Kelsos three ex-wives (a former Olympic star, a screenwriter and a...
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Who Killed Avery Lord?
1964-03-06
Who Killed Avery...
1964-03-06
Burke follows a mournful song, an odd-looking key and an elusive young girl in white, after industrial designer Avery Lord is stabbed to death. The suspects are all his current clients: a playgirl whose compact is found at the crime scene, a hot-headed health food producer, a dishonest building...
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Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?
1964-03-13
Who Killed Andy...
1964-03-13
When pop artist Andy Zygmunt is discovered impaled on one of his works, Burke finds that several of Zygmunts paintings contain materials used in a blackmail scheme. A vicious practical joker, the victim was hated by one and all: his sexy assistant, a former girlfriend (and fellow artist), the...
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Who Killed the Paper Dragon?
1964-03-20
Who Killed the...
1964-03-20
During Chinese New Year celebrations, a car crashes into a street full of revelers. After the Chinese woman behind the wheel flees the scene with a little girl, leaving behind her shoe, a tourist discovers a dead body in the trunk. Tracking the case to the nearby nightclub The Paper Dragon, run...
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Who Killed Molly?
1964-03-27
Who Killed Molly?
1964-03-27
A rose-covered cottage is the scene for the death of a seemingly ordinary housewife. Burke and Tim (who is contemplating settling down with his current girlfriend) soon discover that all is not what it seems in suburbia. The dead womans husband, her totally gaga neighbor, a stripper with a boa...
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Who Killed WHO IV?
1964-04-03
Who Killed WHO IV?
1964-04-03
One of the riders at a fashionable fox hunt must have bludgeoned wealthy W. H. O. IV (pronounced Who Four) to death with a horseshoe. The suspects in the Hunt Club include an old flame of Burkes and her arrogant husband (who never stops needling Burke), a nouveau riche Texan, and a little old lady...
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Who Killed Annie Foran?
1964-04-10
Who Killed Annie...
1964-04-10
When Annie Forans body is discovered in the back seat of a car parked at a fashionable night spot, suspicion falls on baseball star Eddie Dineen. As evidence mounts against the man, Burke wonders if Eddie is really guilty. Perhaps he should pay more attention to the slimy gossip columnist and his...
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Who Killed My Girl?
1964-04-17
Who Killed My Girl?
1964-04-17
When an old flame of Burkes is gunned down, he uncovers the darker side of her relationship with several men. The former chauffeur for the victims father, an old friend of the family, an philandering astronomer and his embittered wife, a free-wheeling B-girl, a vulgar jazz trumpeter - any one...
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Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed...
1964-04-24
Who Killed the...
1964-04-24
A notorious homewrecker is discovered dead in a mud bath at a fashionable spa. Burke soon learns that every other guest at the spa, including the owner, had a strong motive for murder. The strongest case is against the woman whose husband might have been planning on divorcing her to marry the...
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Who Killed Don Pablo?
1964-05-01
Who Killed Don...
1964-05-01
Don Pablo Ortegas skewered corpse replaces the wax figure in a museum during a Spanish festival. The historic plaza is in danger of being demolished for progress and suspects (pro and con in the matter) include the guide at the museum, a fiery female matador, the head of the rival clan, Don Pablos...
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Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?
1964-05-08
Who Killed 1/2 of...
1964-05-08
The co-owner of a fashion house is killed in an elevator collapse that may not have been an accident. Les is convinced that it is the work of a madman, since no one could have determined who would be in the elevator. In the midst of battles between the other owner and the companys chief designer,...
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