Hard-Boiled Murder | |
Season 04, Episode 17 | |
Air Date | February 13, 1997 |
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Hard-Boiled Murder is the seventeenth episode of Diagnosis Murder's fourth season which was first broadcast on February 13, 1997.
Plot[]
Mark aids an old friend, Joe Mannix, in solving a 25-year-old, unsolved murder.
Summary[]
Private Investigator Joe Mannix (star of an eponymous detective series) is brought to friend Mark with a mild flesh wound after a shooting outside the Hall of Records, while re-investigating the Lou Reynolds murder (Mannix season seven, episode four, "Little Girl Lost", 1973), about incriminating tapes from twenty-five years ago. Unfortunately, Joe's X-rays show a life-threatening cardiac risk, so Mark decides to "help" his investigation. His client, Lou's daughter, television reporter Tina Reynolds, is determined to solve this case, now that she has moved back to Los Angeles from Florida, but the killer, who wears a police academy ring, proves quite deadly, fatal for witness Stella, who sold Lou the tapes, but possibly kept some back for blackmail, which would explain her apparent affluence without matching income.
Cast[]
- Dick Van Dyke as Mark Sloan
- Victoria Rowell as Amanda Bentley
- Charlie Schlatter as Jesse Travis
- Michael Tucci as Norman Briggs
- Barry Van Dyke as Steve Sloan Cathy sloan
- Mike Connors as Joe Mannix
- Julie Adams as Edie Fallon
- Beverly Garland as Stella
- Richard Gant as Deputy Chief Clark Nichols
- Pernell Roberts as George Fallon
- Susan Lee Hoffman as Deena Reynolds
- David Parker as Phil Eggers