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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: April, the young woman who was with Rick Michaels when he fell off a diving board in "A Song Of Murder" (see NotTheFallThatKillsYou below) and who from the scene in a panic when she heard two people coming. While she's with Rick's managers (after covering up his mishap as a kidnapping[[note]]which she doesn't know about.[[/note]]) trying to find out how Rick's doing, the realizes ''they'' the people she heard....
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* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In "Sing A Song Of Murder," a singer falls off a diving board into an empty swimming pool and lands on his head, and his manager and her colleague decide to cover it up by burying his body and making it look like he was kidnapped for a $500,000 ransom. [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zagged somewhat]] as [[spoiler: the guy was still alive, and it was the asphyxiation that killed him.]]
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* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In "Sing A Song Of Murder," a singer falls off a diving board into an empty swimming pool and lands on his head, and his manager and her colleague managers decide to cover it up by burying his body and making it look like he was kidnapped for a $500,000 ransom. [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zagged somewhat]] as [[spoiler: the guy was still alive, and it was the asphyxiation that killed him.]]
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In "The Mercenaries", one of J.R.'s friends that served with him in Vietnam and has gone missing after joining a private army (to pay for his wife's medical bills.[[spoiler: his wife hasn't been able to contact him to let him know that she's fine now. So J.R.'s first case entails tracking him down... and discovering a planned political assassination.]]
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In "The Mercenaries", one of J.R.'s friends that served with him in Vietnam and has gone missing after joining a private army (to to pay for his wife's medical bills.[[spoiler: his wife hasn't been able to contact him to let him know that she's fine now. So J.R.'s first case entails tracking him down... and discovering a planned political assassination.]]
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In "The Mercenaries", one of J.R.'s friends that served with him in Vietnam and has gone missing after joining a private army (to pay for his wife's medical bills.[[spoiler: his wife hasn't been able to contact him to let him know that she's fine now. So J.R.'s first case entails tracking him down... and discovering a planned political assassination.]]
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* PornStache: Colby Lassiter (Laurence Luckinbill) sports one in "Time To Kill".
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** The homely and ''Series/{{Cannon}}''-esque in build small-town Sheriff Bradden in "Copy-cat Killing" is married to a much younger and much more attractive woman called Kitty [[spoiler: who used to be a prostitute when she arrived in town. She keeps in practice by [[ReallyGetsAround cheating on him with multiple men.]] Her husband finds out and is the murderer of the week.]]
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** The homely and ''Series/{{Cannon}}''-esque in build small-town Sheriff Bradden in "Copy-cat Killing" is married to a much younger and much more attractive woman called Kitty [[spoiler: who used to be a prostitute sex worker when she arrived in town. She keeps in practice by [[ReallyGetsAround cheating on him with multiple men.]] Her husband finds out and is the murderer of the week.]]
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: In "Time to Kill", Claire Lassiter's Swiss holiday fling Curt in ''supposed'' to be from UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}}. No one seems to have told this to Kaz Garas, who plays Curt.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Cam in "Blueprint For A Caper" is this in spades. The VictimOfTheWeek is Clete, an employee of an insurance company who's seeing his girlfriend Gina. [[spoiler: they're all part of a plan to rob a jewellers'. Cam's freshly out of prison and just after Clete's gotten the store's layout Cam beats him up and kicks him down an elevator shaft, after relieving him on the layout. In that climax, Cam finds out Gina ''really'' didn't care for losing Clete...even though he was married and a father.]]
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* NonIndicativeName: "A Frame For Murder"...perhaps Standards and Practices objected to the more accurate "A Frame For Rape" [[spoiler: this is an EverybodyLives episode.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Betty is incredibly prone to this, getting kidnapped in multiple episodes ("Sunday: Doomsday", "Hostage"...).
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** OK, ugly's pushing it, but the (considerable) gulf in attractiveness between Dick Van Patten's character and Jo Ann Harris' is even noticed ''in-universe'' in "The Odd Man Loses." [[spoiler: A nervous accountant (Van Patten) and two of his fellow and younger and better-looking carpoolers to carry out a robbery. Sadly for the accountant, his hot wife is cheating on him with one of the other carpoolers involved, who's ''also'' married. Sadly for ''him'', she's got a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder complicated with EvilIsSexy, you can guess this doesn't work out for anyone involved.]]
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** OK, ugly's pushing it, but the (considerable) gulf in attractiveness between Dick Van Patten's character and Jo Ann Harris' is even noticed ''in-universe'' in "The Odd Man Loses." [[spoiler: A nervous accountant (Van Patten) and two of his fellow and younger and better-looking carpoolers to carry out a robbery. Sadly for the accountant, his hot wife is cheating on him with one of the other carpoolers involved, who's ''also'' married. Sadly for ''him'', she's got a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder complicated with EvilIsSexy, ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, you can guess this doesn't work out for anyone involved.]]
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* DeadMansChest: At the beginning of "Image in a Cracked Mirror," one of the women Bradford Dillman fleeced confronts him in a hotel room. He brutally strangles her to death, then packs her body in a nearby steamer trunk.
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* DeadMansChest: At the beginning of "Image in a Cracked Mirror," one of the women Bradford Dillman Creator/BradfordDillman fleeced confronts him in a hotel room. He brutally strangles her to death, then packs her body in a nearby steamer trunk.
