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Bumping.
I remember a part of another episode (I think). The younger detective was shot and being hunted in a swamp.
Man - the 80s were good for Stephen J. Cannell shows. It doesnt sound like it was one of those shows with alot of action like Riptide, Hunter, or Hardcastle and Mc Cormick. If its straight up detective drama, and not Jake and the Fatman- Im lost. This used to be my wheelhouse too.
If knowledge is the key, then show me the lock, so I can ask someone to break it.
Nero Wolfe, maybe?
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!
Nero Wolfe? Not even close. I seem to remember that I recognized the older detective as a star from 50s or 60s tv "I haven't seen him in a while. He got old, but he's still got his looks."
I've been trying to find the name of this show for years. It was a drama. I remember 4 characters: an older distinguished detective, a new younger partner (in the first episode he was being shown around and introduced to the other characters), a perky young secretary/receptionist, and digital detective: he used a computer to do stuff like check credit records and do traces.
The episode I remember best went like this: A woman comes to the detectives - "My husband has disappeared and the police think I killed him. Our neighbor - his best friend - says he saw me stuff something large into the trunk of my husband's car and drive it away the night he disappeared". They go around interviewing friends, relatives, and co-workers and everybody says pretty much the same thing: they fought like cats and dogs, hated each other, but if he ever tried to leave her she said she'd kill him. There's a quick trial scene and she's convicted, then she's under house arrest awaiting sentencing or something. They're in the office lamenting how bad the case was and the computer guy comes out of his office and tells them that his computer has been down and he's just found credit receipts from the guy's credit card at a gas station in a small town a couple of hours away from the city. "Hey, the best friend has a cabin up near there! Ah ha!" So they rush to the woman's house to tell her the good news only to find she's committed suicide by sleeping pills and alcohol.
Please help. This has bugged me for years.