Guest Stars: Mitchell Whitfield (Arnold Baskin), Leah Remini (Agnes Benedetto), Kenneth Mars (Wallace Carstairs), Keith Coogan (Kenny), Mark Moses (Stuart Tyler), Vic Polizos (Union Boss), Lorna Scott (Nurse Janet Gronall) and Cliff DeYoung (Jeffrey T. Canfield)
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Starz Encore Suspense aired it weeknights at 10 pm ET and it aired weekdays at 11 am ET on MeTV. On September 12, 2006, CBS Home Entertainment (with distribution by Paramount Pictures) released the complete season one of Diagnosis: Murder on Region 1 DVD.
In a sense, this brought Diagnosis: Murder full circle, as its parent series, Jake and the Fatman, was inspired by an episode of Matlock in 1986. Barbara Bain reprised her role of Cinnamon Carter of Mission: Impossible in the season-five episode "Discards".
Diagnosis: Murder 's second season originally aired Fridays at 8:00-9:00 pm (EST). Sloan is faced with both a murder investigation and an audit from the IRS. Guest Star: Holland Taylor as IRS Agent Gretchen McCord. Briggs is a suspect in the deaths of a charity's chairman and many board members. Guest Star: Michelle Phillips.
Jack Stewart does reappear in a few of Lee Goldberg's Diagnosis Murder books, The Silent Partner and The Last Word. In the first three TV movies, his name was Jack Parker.
Arnold Baskin, Steve's timid evening law course professor, is suddenly the target of a hit and run. It's prevented by his law firm assistant and most zealous student Agnes Benedetto. At the firm, the commercially vital Orinsky case file Baskin is working on repeatedly disappears and reemerges, making senior partners Wallace Carstairs and Jeffrey T.
This episode, written by veteran TV writer Michael Gleason, was a back door pilot for a possible series.
Diagnosis of Murder, the first TV movie, aired before the regular series, January 5, 1992, on CBS. The House on Sycamore Street, the second TV movie, aired before the regular series, May 1, 1992, on CBS. A Twist of the Knife, the third TV movie, aired before the regular series, February 13, 1993, on CBS.
Diagnosis Murder: The Last Word. The Past Tense is a prequel to the episode "Voices Carry", which guest-starred Jack Klugman as Harry Trumble, and chronicles Dr. Mark Sloan's first homicide investigation.
Diagnosis: Murder is an American action-comedy-mystery-medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played by Van Dyke's real-life son Barry.
Andy Griffith reprised his titular role of Ben Matlock from Dean Hargrove 's Matlock series in Season 4 two-parter "Murder Two" (1997). In a sense, this brought Diagnosis: Murder full circle, as its parent series, Jake and the Fatman, was inspired by a Season 1 episode of Matlock in 1986.
Russell Havilland (was The Administrator at Clairemont Hospital in the Pilot of Diagnosis: Murder, "It Never Entered My Mind". He was murdered and Dr. Mark Sloan was framed for his murder.)