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A LighterAndSofter, slightly {{Camp}}y DetectiveDrama that ran for three seasons from 1963 to 1965 (sort of; see below) on Creator/{{ABC}}, ''Burke's Law'' followed the adventures of Amos Burke (Creator/GeneBarry), a snarky and debonaire LAPD captain who also happened to be a multimillionaire. Accompanied by his sidekicks, the youthful rookie Detective Tim Tilson (Creator/GaryConway) and the world-weary veteran Sergeant Les Hart (Creator/RegisToomey), Burke would ride between crime scenes in a Rolls Royce limo driven by his faithful chauffeur Henry (Creator/LeonLontoc) and investigate lurid murders among the Hollywood glitterati with his trademark wit and style.
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A LighterAndSofter, slightly {{Camp}}y DetectiveDrama that ran for three seasons from 1963 to 1965 (sort of; see below) on Creator/{{ABC}}, Creator/{{ABC|US}}, ''Burke's Law'' followed the adventures of Amos Burke (Creator/GeneBarry), a snarky and debonaire LAPD captain who also happened to be a multimillionaire. Accompanied by his sidekicks, the youthful rookie Detective Tim Tilson (Creator/GaryConway) and the world-weary veteran Sergeant Les Hart (Creator/RegisToomey), Burke would ride between crime scenes in a Rolls Royce limo driven by his faithful chauffeur Henry (Creator/LeonLontoc) and investigate lurid murders among the Hollywood glitterati with his trademark wit and style.
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** The original series episode "Who Killed Merlin the Great?" was remade for the revival as "Who Killed Alexander the Great?" In between those two episodes, original episode writers Richard Levinson and William Link remade it as the pilot for their short-lived Blacke's Magic series.
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** The original series episode "Who Killed Merlin the Great?" was remade for the revival as "Who Killed Alexander the Great?" In between those two episodes, original episode writers [[Creator/LevinsonAndLink Richard Levinson and William Link Link]] remade it as the pilot for their short-lived Blacke's Magic series.
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The character had originated in "Who Killed Julie Greer?", a 1961 episode of the anthology series ''The Creator/DickPowell Show'', with Powell himself playing Burke, and character actor John Damler playing Hart. Leon Lontoc was the only actor to reprise his role for the series. The episode boasted an all-star guest cast including Nick Adams, Creator/RalphBellamy, Creator/EdgarBergen, Creator/LloydBridges, Jack Carson, Creator/CarolynJones, future US president Creator/RonaldReagan, Creator/MickeyRooney and Kay Thompson.
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The character had originated in "Who Killed Julie Greer?", a 1961 episode of the anthology series ''The Creator/DickPowell Show'', with Powell himself playing Burke, and character actor John Damler playing Hart. Leon Lontoc was the only actor to reprise his role for the series. The episode boasted an all-star guest cast including Nick Adams, Creator/RalphBellamy, Creator/EdgarBergen, Creator/LloydBridges, Jack Carson, Creator/CarolynJones, Creator/DeanJones, Creator/EdwardPlatt, future US president Creator/RonaldReagan, Creator/MickeyRooney and Kay Thompson.
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The character had originated in "Who Killed Julie Greer?", a 1961 episode of the anthology series ''The Creator/DickPowell Show'', with Powell himself playing Burke, and character actor John Damler playing Hart. Leon Lontoc was the only actor to reprise his role for the series. The episode boasted an all-star guest cast including Nick Adams, Creator/RalphBellamy, Creator/EdgarBergen, Creator/LloydBridges, Jack Carson, Creator/CarolynJones, Creator/MickeyRooney, future US president Creator/RonaldReagan, Creator/MickeyRooney and Kay Thompson, and Creator/RonaldReagan.
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The character had originated in "Who Killed Julie Greer?", a 1961 episode of the anthology series ''The Creator/DickPowell Show'', with Powell himself playing Burke, and character actor John Damler playing Hart. Leon Lontoc was the only actor to reprise his role for the series. The episode boasted an all-star guest cast including Nick Adams, Creator/RalphBellamy, Creator/EdgarBergen, Creator/LloydBridges, Jack Carson, Creator/CarolynJones, Creator/MickeyRooney, Kay Thompson, and Creator/RonaldReagan.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Used in "Who Killed the Starlet?". A woman is in the bath while listening to some music, when a killer sneaks in and [[ElectrifiedBathtub drops her boombox into the bathtub]], killing her. It turns out that the killer and lady are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out [[NotSoFakePropWeapon the boombox had been plugged into a live outlet]] by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub really ''is'' dead. The special effects man is the first suspect, and protests that the voltage was kept too low to hurt anyone, as a [[TruthInTelevision matter of safety, which is standard procedure for filming this sort of thing in real life]]. It turns out that the water was poisoned with nicotine. [[spoiler:The special effects man did so believing that the non-lethal voltage would clear him of suspicion.]]
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** Creator/DavidNiven appeared as Harvey Cleeve, the World's Greatest Juggler, in "Who Killed Billy Jo?", making him the only one of the actors who founded Four Star Television to appear on Burke's Law.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: ''Amos Burke, Secret Agent'''s "Peace, It's A Gasser."
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: ''Amos Burke, Secret Agent'''s "Peace, It's A Gasser.""
* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In the premiere episode of the revived series, "Who Killed the Starlet?", Burke goes to visit rock singer Roger Rose (Bret Michaels) on the set of his band's video (the song for the video is Poison's "Unskinny Bop"). The video features a group of guys in suits dancing around, and Burke, who's wearing a suit, gets dragged into the video and is getting into the dancing when Rose notices him and has a freak-out.
* YouJustRuinedTheShot: In the premiere episode of the revived series, "Who Killed the Starlet?", Burke goes to visit rock singer Roger Rose (Bret Michaels) on the set of his band's video (the song for the video is Poison's "Unskinny Bop"). The video features a group of guys in suits dancing around, and Burke, who's wearing a suit, gets dragged into the video and is getting into the dancing when Rose notices him and has a freak-out.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: When Anne Francis guested on the revival as Honey West (whose series was spun off from an episode of the original), the character had to be called Honey ''Best'' since Spelling Entertainment didn't have the rights (unlike Capt. Burke, Honey came from a series of novels by Skip and Gloria Fickling).
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: When Anne Francis Creator/AnneFrancis guested on the revival as Honey West (whose series was spun off from an episode of the original), the character had to be called Honey ''Best'' since Spelling Entertainment didn't have the rights (unlike Capt. Burke, Honey came from a series of novels by Skip and Gloria Fickling).
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* TheGhost: We never find out anything about Mrs Burke, who Burke married, produced Peter with, and died between the original and revival. All we really know is that Burke and Peter adored her, and she died before Peter graduated high school.
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* TheGhost: We never find out anything about Mrs Mrs. Burke, who Burke married, produced Peter with, and died between the original and revival. All we really know is that Burke and Peter adored her, and she died before Peter graduated high school.school.
** One episode ends with Amos and Peter visiting her grave, and we see that her name was Sarah.
** One episode ends with Amos and Peter visiting her grave, and we see that her name was Sarah.
