Episode list

Barnaby Jones

Man on Fire

Wed, Sep 19, 1979
Barnaby grudgingly begins to suspect that an arson investigator that he has trusted for years is involved in setting fires and then ruling them as accidental in order to get a cut of the insurance money.
7.9 /10
Nightmare in Hawaii: Part 1
J.R. flies to Maui to visit a friend and is quickly arrested for stabbing a man to death. A crime he didn't commit. Barnaby and Betty fly out to help him and discover his friend's family is involved in marijuana harvesting.
7.9 /10
Nightmare in Hawaii: Part 2
J.R. gets into deeper trouble when he escapes from jail, gets blamed for the shooting death of his friend, and then gets seriously injured in a booby-trapped marijuana field. Barnaby risks his own life in order to save him.
7.8 /10
A Desperate Pursuit
Betty becomes a key witness after a boxing promoter she had just visited falls to death from his balcony, and it's ruled a murder. Betty is then stalked and threatened by a blonde woman, whom the prime suspect saw with the promoter.
7.2 /10
Design for Madness
After spending a year in a sanitarium Barnaby's niece is suspected of shooting and killing the family lawyer during a blackout episode. Barnaby suspects someone is giving her powerful hypnotic drugs to manipulate her behavior.
8.1 /10
Girl on the Road
J.R's ex-girlfriend asks him to try to convince her sister to get her act together and get away from the drug scene. At the same time a rock star's manager thinks her sister may have witnessed a murder committed by his star at a party.
7.2 /10
Indoctrination in Evil
Betty goes undercover to help Barnaby, J.R. search for a missing young girl. They soon find out that what they've stumbled onto it is a white slavery racket.
7.7 /10
Homecoming for a Dead Man
While attending a sporting event Barnaby thinks he's spotted a man who robbed over $500,000 in gold from the gold exchange nearly 10 years ago. He's also believed to have died in a plane crash over the ocean while making off with the loot.
7.8 /10
False Witness

Wed, Nov 28, 1979
A friend and fellow Community College instructor of Betty's is raped. Much to her dismay, Betty feels that her friend has wrongly identified her attacker and she refuses to reconsider. Barnaby and J.R. help to find the real rapist.
7.8 /10
School of Terror
A counselor at a Fresh Start program for kids with drug problems dies in an accident after allegedly getting high on drugs. J.R. goes undercover as his replacement to find out who has been smuggling those drugs into their school.
7 /10
Cry for Vengeance
An ex-cop and friend of Barnaby looks to even the score when his son is killed by a gang leader. Barnaby gets involved and learns that the gang is actually being used as muscle by a crooked businessman who wants the ex-cop out of the way.
6.8 /10
Run to Death

Wed, Jan 02, 1980
A friend of Betty's supposedly dies while going for a walk, but she uncovers evidence that he may have been murdered. The wife of her late friend hires her to further investigate and she soon believes embezzlement may be the motive.
7.5 /10
The Price of Anger
J.R.'s friend is wrongly accused of assaulting a man who later dies. Making matters worse, he ran from the scene of the crime making him look guilty. J.R. does every thing he possibly can to help his friend clear himself.
6.8 /10
The Killing Point
Barnaby is conned into helping another private investigator find a missing girl. But he's not honest with Barnaby about all that is involved with her disappearance or that he's tried to extort money from the people that are looking for her.
7.1 /10
Focus on Fear

Wed, Jan 30, 1980
J.R, poses as a photographer to find out why a man broke into the real photographers studio and was desperate enough to throw acid on her to get away with the negatives from her last photo shoot.
6.8 /10
Murder in the Key of C
A young up and coming singer hires Barnaby to find her manager after he disappears with money that she paid him to have a potential hit song produced and recorded. Together they discover the seamier side of the music business.
7.2 /10
Killer Without a Name
Betty meets a man on a cruise that she's interested in, but when she returns she discovers a murdered man in his motel room who's carrying his identification in his wallet. Barnaby gets involved to unravel the mystery behind the man.
7.2 /10
Death Is the Punchline
The prime suspect in the beating death of a nightclub owner is a stand-up comic who was fired the night of the murder. J.R. investigates on behalf of the comedian, who professes his innocence-and he also happens to be his good friend.
6.2 /10
The Final Victim
A hooker who saw a prominent judge pick-up a young girl in North Hollywood the night she died has blackmail in mind. Barnaby tries to clear the girls name because it looked like she was a working girl, and she wasn't.
7.1 /10
The Silent Accuser
A friend of Betty's, who volunteered at a school for autistic children is killed. Betty tries to get close to the only witness, a young girl who is almost totally non-verbal.
6.9 /10
Deadline for Murder
A writer for a publishing company is killed after he uncovers evidence that implicates the niece of the owners in criminal activities. Barnaby and J.R. investigate after they learn their names were used to dupe the writer before he died.
7.2 /10
The Killin' Cousin
When Barnaby and Jedediah go out of town a relative of Betty's calls her to ask for help. It seems he suspects that his father who supposedly died in an accident, was actually murdered. Betty agrees to meet him but when she arrives she finds him dead of an apparent suicide. But the police tell her, it appears that he was murdered. In the meantime, the Tarkington Detective Agency is called by the insurance company who had a policy on her cousin to investigate. Now the head of the Agency William Tarkington IV, who is a pompous twit thinks Betty killed him when clearly she didn't. But he pursues that avenue and Betty also tries to find out what happened and she discovers other relatives who died mysteriously. When Tarkington learns of this he investigates and discovers that Betty has an aging aunt who is rich and that someone is trying to make sure that they alone get the aunt's money. And he changes his mind about Betty when someone tries to kill her.
5.2 /10

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Yvonne und der Tod

Yvonne und der Tod

Yvonne Gaspers, 37 Jahre alt und ledig, ist seit zehn Tagen verschwunden. Sie arbeitet als Steuerprüferin beim Finanzamt, auch dort wundert man sich, wo sie steckt. Ihre Schwester alarmiert die Polizei Mönchengladbach. Lee Sooyoung von der Vermisstenstelle nimmt sich der Meldung an. Überraschenderweise findet sie Ingo Thiels Visitenkarte in der Manteltasche der Vermissten. Sooyoung zögert nicht lange und ruft den Kollegen hinzu. Er kenne sie, sagt Thiel, aber nur flüchtig. Er sei mit Yvonne auf ein Date gegangen, es sei jedoch bei nur einem Treffen geblieben. Als Thiel in der Wohnung der Vermissten steht, bemerkt er einen flüchtigen, aber dennoch unverwechselbaren Geruch. Sofort ruft er die Spurensicherung hinzu. Und sein Instinkt trügt keineswegs: Hier wurde akribisch und mit Hilfe von Chemikalien geputzt. Für Thiel scheint klar, dass hier jemand die Spuren eines Verbrechens verwischt hat. Trotzdem: Ohne Leiche und entsprechende Indizien fehlen die Voraussetzungen, eine Ermittlungsgruppe zusammenzustellen. Das sehen auch Thiels Kollegen so und werfen ihm vor, in diesem Fall keine emotionale Distanz zu haben. Offensichtlich hat es mindestens ein Abendessen zwischen Thiel und der Vermissten gegeben. Sie haben das Gefühl, ihr Chef verheimliche ihnen etwas, und warnen ihn, sich nicht zu verrennen. Doch er lässt nicht locker, vielleicht ist Yvonne noch am Leben. Entgegen den Mahnungen seines Teams nimmt Thiel die Ermittlungen auf eigene Faust auf. Für ihn ist es längst ein Fall. Und zwar einer, der ihn bis ans Mittelmeer treibt, um Antworten zu finden.

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