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Buddy Ebsen starred as Barnaby Jones, a retired private
investigator who returns to the business after his son is murdered. The
series ran on CBS from January 1973 (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 Jedediah
Romano (J. R.) Jones, Barnaby's (much younger) cousin.
Early episodes of the series featured William Conrad as Frank Cannon
(who had his own series, Cannon). 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.
This series is not yet available on DVD.
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